Grateful Dead
So Many Roads (1965-1995), 1999
30 Trips Around The Sun Box Set, 2015
Long Strange Trip (amazon edition), 2017
Ready Or Not, Grateful Dead, 2019
Fare Thee Well shows 2015
Fare Thee Well July 3, 4 & 5 2015 Complete Box, 2015
Fare Thee Well July 5, 2015
The Dead
Morrison, CO, July 6, 2003
Ft Lauderdale, FL, July 29, 2003
Darien Center, NY, August 8, 2003
Mountain View, CA, September 19, 2003
Morrison, CO, June 15, 2004
Detroit, MI, July 27, 2004
Holmdel, NJ, August 10, 2004
Dead '09: Worcester, MA April 18, 2009
Dead '09: E. Rutherford, NJ, April 29, 2009
Dead '09: Quincy, WA, May 16, 2009
Furthur
Dec 8, 2009, New York, NY, 2009
Feb 12, 2010, Hampton, VA, 2010
Feb 23, 2010, New York, NY, 2010
Mar 8, 2010, Portland, OR, 2010
July 4, 2010, Oxford, ME
July 10, 2010, Philadelphia, PA
September 20, 2010, Santa Barbara, CA
September 26, 2010, Morrison, CO
November 14, 2010, Cincinnati, OH
March 8, 2011, Wallingford, CT
March 27, 2011, New York, NY
July 29, 2011, Simpsonville, SC
Oct 5, 2011, Los Angeles, CA
Nov 10, 2011, New York, NY
April 14, 2012, New York, NY
July 11, 2012, Cary, NC
July 18, 2012, Rochester Hills, MI
September 29, 2012, Troutdale, OR
December 30, 2012, San Francisco, CA
January 18, 2013, Mill Valley, CA
February 24, 2013, Broomfield, CO
April 21, 2013, Port Chester, NY
April 27, 2013, Atlantic CIty, NJ
Sept 6, 2013, Arrington, VA
Sept 19, 2013, Morrison, CO
Sept 28, 2013, Berkeley, CA
Oct 6, 2013, Los Angeles, CA
Dead & Company
San Francisco, CA, 23 May, 2016
Saratoga Springs, NY, 21 June, 2016
Flushing, NY, 26 June, 2016
Boston, MA, 16 July, 2016
Mountain View, CA, 30 July, 2016
Atlanta, GA, 13 Jun, 2017
oston, MA, 18 Jun, 2017
Chicago, IL, 1 Jul, 2017
Washington, DC, 21 Nov, 2017
Sunrise, FL, 26 Feb, 2018
New York, NY, 15 Jun, 2018
Mountain View, CA, 3 July, 2018
Boulder, CO, 14 July, 2018
Chicago, IL, 14 Jun, 2019
Boulder, CO, 6 Jul, 2019
Hampton, VA, 8 Nov, 2019
Cancún, MX, 19 Jan, 2020
Saratoga Springs, NY, Aug 27, 2021
Chicago, IL, Sep 18, 2021
The Woodlands, TX, Oct 15, 2021
Los Angeles, CA, Oct 30, 2021
Chicago, IL, June 25, 2022
Philadelphia, PA, July 10, 2022
Bristow, VA, June 3, 2023
Saratoga Springs, NY, June 17, 2023
Boulder, CO, July 1, 2023
San Francisco, CA, July 16, 2023
Phil Lesh & Friends
March 17, 2016, Port Chester, NY, 2016
Ratdog
Albany, NY, November 3, 2007
Orlando FL, November 16, 2007
Royal Oak, MI, March 28, 2008
New York, NY, April 5, 2008
Quincy, CA, July 5, 2008
Holmdel, NJ, August 15, 2008
Atlantic City, NJ, July 11, 2009
Bridgeport, CT, July 25, 2009
New York, NY, October 23, 2009
Westbury, NY, February 22, 2014
Chicago, IL, March 7, 2014
Kansas City, MO, June 14, 2014
Bob Weir & Wolf Bros
Live In Colorado, Vol. 2, Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros, 2022
Weir/Robinson/Greene Trio
May 30, 2012, Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN, 2012
June 4, 2012, Chautauqua Auditorium, Boulder, CO, 2012
Other Dead related
Move Me Brightly performance/documentary, 2013
Other recordings
20° Of Solitude, Grass Is Dead, 2004
Our Trip Is Short Vol. 1, Your Trip Is Short, 2017
Cut The Dead Some Slack, Stephen Inglis, 2018
11/17/18, Fragile Thunder Duo, 2019
Alone Together, Vol 2, Holly Bowling, 2020
The Wilderness Sessions Vol. 8: Taos, Holly Bowling, 2021
Lovely View Of Heaven, Oteil Burbridge, 2023
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Genesis of the song
This was the last song written together by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia. The song looks back to the days and attitudes of the formative period (1960/61) in their lives that eventually gave rise to the Grateful Dead; There were days There were days And there were days I know When all we ever wanted Was to learn and love and grow
In an open letter to Garcia written in 1996, a year after Garcia's death, Robert Hunter wrote:Obviously, faith in the underlying vision which spawned the Grateful Dead might be hard to muster for those who weren't part of the all night rap sessions circa 1960-61 ... sessions that picked up the next morning at Kepler's bookstore then headed over to the Stanford cellar or St. Mike's to continue over coffee and guitars. There were no hippies in those days and the beats had bellied up. There was only us vs. 50's consciousness. There were no jobs to be had if we wanted them. Just folk music and tremendous dreams. Yeah, we dreamed our way here. I trust it. So did you. Not so long ago we wrote a song about all that, and you sang it like a prayer. The Days Between. Last song we ever wrote.
Hunter discussed the genesis of the song in an interview;
I wrote a verse while Jerry was working out something on piano. I gave it to him, he said he liked the rhyme scheme and idea, and began working out the melody. As he was doing that I wrote the rest of the verses. An hour's work.
In an interview in 1993 Garcia referred to Days Between whilst talking about working with Hunter;
... I feel like I can discuss anything with Hunter, any idea, without any difficulty at all. And we are both very comfortable with each other on the level of changing stuff. Sometimes I insist that he do something over and over ..... One of the songs we wrote recently was The Days Between. I had an idea there - it had to do with the length of the phrases and how I wanted the phrases to work. I had a hard time communicating it. But with Hunter it's a matter of finding the key. I'll sort of scat sing the way I want it to work.
Later in the interview he discusses the repetition of words in the song;
The phantom thing was funny, because the first line went, When ships with phantom sails set to sea on phantom tides. I said that I wanted it to be 'When something ships with phantom sails set to sea on phantom tides. I want another two syllables.' So Hunter came up with a bunch of things, but then he said, 'What about phantom, use phantom again.' Yeah, right, When phantom ships with phantom sails set to sea on phantom tides. It worked perfectly. It has this ghostly, hollow quality - it's skeletal. So singing that song is like, ooh, it works for me. I get chills. It's that happy marriage of setting and sense. Hunter - he's so good at that. We're really hitting some nice spaces lately.
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