The WELL: deadsongs.vue.37: Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)

#5: Alex Allan (alexallan) Tue 22 Jan 13 19:05

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:05:00 PST

Ah! I hadn't spotted that. [Read entire topic]

#4: David Gans (tnf) Mon 21 Jan 13 09:35

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:35:00 PST

Barry got that from McNally's book (p 92 of the hardcover), "A Long Strange Trip." [Read entire topic]

#3: David Dodd (ddodd) Thu 3 Jan 13 13:51

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:51:00 PST

Fantastic! I love that. [Read entire topic]

#2: Alex Allan (alexallan) Thu 3 Jan 13 10:54

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:54:00 PST

This is from Barry Barnes book "Everything I Know About Business I Learned From The Grateful Dead":

"As the band continued to play their grueling sets at the In Room, they noticed that the trains on nearby tracks rolled by at consistent times every night. Rather than waiting for the trains to pass, or trying to drown out the noise, they chose to play along with the rumble of the trains. Within a few nights, they took that train noise, combined it with a fragment of the song "Mystic Eyes," by Them (whose lead singer was Van Morrison) and created "Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)." (pp13-14)

The link to "Mystic Eyes" has been well documented, but I don't think I'd seen the reference to playing along with passing trains before. [Read entire topic]

#1: Alex Allan (alexallan) Thu 11 Sep 03 00:08

Thu, 11 Sep 2003 00:08:00 PDT

Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) Lyrics: Grateful Dead Music: Grateful Dead

Copyright Ice Nine Publishing; used by permission.

I went down one day I went down to see a gypsy woman just one day, yes I did I wanna find out What's wrong with me and my baby We ain't been getting down like we used to do I mean it's pretty good now But there was a time when it didn't work out too well I went down to see this gypsy woman, you understand And I told her my story I told her what was going on And she turned to me and she said All you need All you gotta have Just a touch, that's all you gotta have Just a touch of mojo hand And it feels pretty good [Read entire topic]

#0: (alexallan) Thu 11 Sep 03 00:07

Thu, 11 Sep 2003 00:07:00 PDT

Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) w&m: Grateful Dead AGDL: http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/caut.html LASF: http://www.whitegum.com/songfile/CAUTION.HTM [Read entire topic]