
Charlie, Sugaree, Black-Throated Wind, Chinatown Shuffle, China Cat Sunflower, I Know You Rider, Beat It On Down the Line, He's Gone, Next Time You See Me, Playing in the Band, Tennessee Jed, Good Lovin', Sing Me Back Home. L'Olympia Bruno Coquatrix, Paris, FR Set 1: Bertha, Me and My Uncle, Mr. I think these sequences serve to illustrate. below are links to stream the show(s) mentioned in your comment. It’s good that a few things in this world are clear to all of us.” But with lines like Krazy Kat peeking through a lace bandana/ like a one-eyed Cheshire/ like a diamond-eyed jack / A leaf of all colors plays / a golden string fiddle / to a double-e waterfall over my back, it may be wishful thinking to say that that the words were really “clear to all of us.” To this day, numerous faithful still debate the meaning of the lyric, as seen on a number of websites devoted to discussing the song. At times I got utterly lost as to what was happening in the dream sequences & often couldnt find their meaning. People seem to know exactly what I’m talking about. According to Robert Hunter, the song isn't really about anything. Sites like that are notoriously unreliable because they're generally run by people with no real drug knowledge or experience. In his outstanding anthology A Box of Rain, Hunter wrote, “Nobody ever asked me the meaning of. General Comment I'm not so sure that 'china cat' is actually a slang term for heroin. One of Hunter’s most abstruse pieces, which became a staple of the Grateful Dead’s legendary hours-long concerts, was “China Cat Sunflower.” It was recorded for the band’s 1969 studio album Aoxomoxoa, and later released on the live Europe ’72 triple album set in a mash-up with the old blues number “I Know You Rider.” The two songs segued together perfectly, and the Grateful Dead performed the combination well over 500 times in live performances. China Cat Sunflower is a song performed by the Grateful Dead which was first recorded for their third studio album Aoxomoxoa. Most of the band’s classics are songs that Hunter wrote the lyrics for, like “Truckin’” and “Friend of the Devil.” Even 1987’s “Touch of Grey” became part of the fabric of life for so many counter-culturalists, some of whom actually were grey by the time “Touch of Grey” was recorded.
