Dead lyricist Robert Hunter's a pretty interesting guy, too. I learned from Brian Doherty's piece in Reason that Hunter was a National Guardsman during the Watts riots.
Hunter was also one of the LSD test piglets at Stanford, I think around the time Ken Kesey was making beer money the same way. And he wrote all the Dead songs that mattered.
John Cole
· 6 years ago
Robert Hunter is simply a genius. Have you ever heard him sing any of the songs he wrote for the Dead?
Dean Esmay
· 6 years ago
No way, Ken. If nothing else, Barlow wrote "Cassidy" and that's one of the best Dead songs ever. In fact, it's one of the best pop songs ever written.
Barlow has a very interesting political view. He doesn't like Democrats, considers himself a sort-of Republican. At least, that's what he indicated to me in an email once, and it seemed to make sense. He's not a pure hippy freak, just someone with his feet in two worlds I think.
Richard Bennett
· 6 years ago
Cassidy's short, which is a virtue, but Barlow also wrote that "California" song and a bunch of other towering crap. I'll take the Hunter songs any day.
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Hunter was also one of the LSD test piglets at Stanford, I think around the time Ken Kesey was making beer money the same way. And he wrote all the Dead songs that mattered.
Barlow has a very interesting political view. He doesn't like Democrats, considers himself a sort-of Republican. At least, that's what he indicated to me in an email once, and it seemed to make sense. He's not a pure hippy freak, just someone with his feet in two worlds I think.
"Jack Straw."
If two words are not enough, how about three:
"Comes a Time"
I'll even spot you four:
"Eyes of the World"
I'm with Bennett on this one..