The WELL: deadsongs.vue.210: Victim Or The Crime

#27: William Jason Baggett (billybaggs) Wed 23 Jan 08 18:57

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:57:00 PST

that's a great essay!

apparently they both contributed to the lyrics.

interesting to me is the idea that gerrit didn't mean junkie in the sense that i took it. according to him, "Never mind that the line and the word had nothing to do with junk or junkies, much less Garcia..."

and i loved garcia's response regarding the subject..."i don't give a fuck, sing what you want."

regardless of what the original meaning or intention of the lyrics were, i still can't help but thing that it eventualy had some implication. after all, songs change and evolve over time and can end up meaning different things. maybe that's just me projecting though, i dunno! [Read entire topic]

#26: beneath the blue suburban skies (aud) Wed 23 Jan 08 08:43

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:43:00 PST

oops, meant to add this link to his essay <http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/AGDL/votc.html> [Read entire topic]

#25: beneath the blue suburban skies (aud) Wed 23 Jan 08 08:41

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:41:00 PST

bob didn't write the lyrics, gerrit graham did. [Read entire topic]

#24: William Jason Baggett (billybaggs) Wed 16 Jan 08 12:28

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:28:00 PST

i was listening to a version of this last night on the way home and i was just thinking about what the lyrics mean and what jerry may have been thinking or feeling while playing the song. wasn't jerry using pretty regularly in spring 90? i mean, it almost seemed to me in some way that bob was reaching out to jerry in some way. any thoughts? [Read entire topic]

#23: Lightning in a Box (unkljohn) Fri 18 Jun 04 16:59

Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:59:00 PDT

That's great stuff. Thanks David. [Read entire topic]

#22: Robin Russell (rrussell8) Thu 17 Jun 04 10:14

Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:14:00 PDT

Way to go, David, we need more of this. [Read entire topic]

#21: David Gans (tnf) Thu 17 Jun 04 09:03

Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:03:00 PDT

I've been going through various interview transcripts lately, for a couple of reasons. This and the "Fooliish Heart" comments are from interviews conducter in September 1989; I produced a "Built to Last" promotional CD for Arista. Bonnie Simmons and I did the Jerry interview extracted here.

I'll be posting more as time permits. [Read entire topic]

#20: AZanimal (zepezauer) Thu 17 Jun 04 08:15

Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:15:00 PDT

That's great. The great live versions really do seem to revel in their darkness and monstrosity. [Read entire topic]

#19: David Dodd (ddodd) Thu 17 Jun 04 08:10

Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:10:00 PDT

Wow. Great interview material! Is there more? [Read entire topic]

#18: They did the mash (comet) Wed 16 Jun 04 21:13

Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:13:00 PDT

Thanks for brightening my day, David. [Read entire topic]