Terrapin station

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Terrapin station
Studio album by Grateful Dead

Publication
(s)

July 1977

Label (s) Arista Records

Genre (s)

Folk rock , country rock , rock

Title (number)

6 (LP), 12 (CD)

running time

35:38 (LP), 75:10 (CD)

occupation

production

Keith Olsen

chronology
Steal Your Face (1976) Terrapin station What a Long Strange Trip It's Been (1977)

Terrapin Station is the ninth studio album by the band Grateful Dead .

history

After the last studio and live albums were released under their own label Grateful Dead Records , this was the first album since Wake of the Flood , which was distributed with Arista Records under a professional label . In addition, Terrapin Station was the first album since Anthem of the Sun that neither Grateful Dead nor Owsley Bear appeared as a producer . Keith Olsen was hired for this project. Keith Olsen was a member of The Music Machine himself and produced with artists such as Whitesnake , Fleetwood Mac , Ozzy Osbourne and Scorpions . So Terrapin Station is only the second album after their debut album The Grateful Dead , the production of which the band did not have full control of.

Olsen's engagement is often seen as an attempt to operate more commercially. Jerry Garcia in particular said in an interview that it was a professional job, much more professional than they would have been able to do themselves.

The chart recorder David McNally wrote that Garcia the idea for the song Terrapin Station had when he talks about the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge in the San Francisco Bay was driving.

After the last albums rather approaches of Rock Jazz had were for with this album approaches Progressive Rock to recognize that at this time by bands like Genesis and Yes was played.

The criticism of the album was different. Many fans thought the album was over-produced, and it didn't fit into the previous style of Grateful Dead. This is especially true for the choir and orchestra on the A side. Others thought it was the band's greatest musical success. The band themselves joined the negative criticism in later years.

" Dancin 'in the Streets " and " Passenger " (each with " Terrapin Station " on the B-side) were released as singles.

Songs from Terrapin Station were played in live performances for the rest of the band's history from the late 1970s, especially Estimated Prophet and Samson and Delilah .

The album was first released on CD in 1990; In 2004, a revised version of the six songs with six additional songs by Rhino Records for the box set Beyond Description (1973-1989) was released , which was then released as a single CD in 2006.

successes

The album reached number 56 on the Billboard charts .

On September 4th, 1987 the album reached gold status .

Track list

1974 LP

page 1

  1. "Estimated Prophet" ( John Perry Barlow , Bob Weir ) - 5:37
  2. "Dancin 'in the Streets" ( Marvin Gaye , Ivy Jo Hunter, William Stevenson) - 3:16
  3. "Passenger" ( Phil Lesh , Peter Monk) - 2:48
  4. " Samson and Delilah " (traditional song) - 3:29
  5. "Sunrise" ( Donna Godchaux ) - 4:03

Page 2

  1. "Terrapin Station" - 16:17
  • "Lady With A Fan" ( Jerry Garcia , Robert Hunter )
  • "Terrapin Station" (Garcia, Hunter)
  • "Terrapin" (Garcia, Hunter)
  • "Terrapin Transit" ( Mickey Hart , Bill Kreutzmann )
  • "At a Siding" (Hart, Hunter)
  • "Terrapin Flyer" (Hart, Kreutzmann)
  • "Refrain" (Garcia, Hunter)

Bonus 2004

  1. "Peggy-O" (instrumental, traditional song) - 4:41
  2. "The Ascent" (instrumental) - 1:59
  3. "Catfish John" (Bob McDill, Allen Reynolds) - 4:43
  4. "Equinox" (Lesh) - 5:15
  5. "Fire on the Mountain" (Hart, Hunter) - 6:26
  6. "Dancin 'in the Streets" (Gaye, Hunter, Stevenson) - 16:17

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deaddisc.com
  2. ↑ McNally, Dennis. A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead . 2002
  3. ↑ Deaddisc.com
  4. ↑ Placement according to AMG

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