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Standing On The Moon
Composer: Jerry Garcia / Robert Hunter

Standing On The Moon was first performed by the Grateful Dead on February 5, 1989. It was then played regularly through to the last performance of the song in June 1995. In total the song was played just over 50 times.

Robert Hunter commented on the creation of Standing On The Moon in an interview with Steve Silberman;

Standing On The Moon was one of those neat, sweet, quick things, like It Must Have Been The Roses, where the whole picture just came to me, and I grabbed a piece of paper and got it down. No changes, no nothin'. Out of the head of Zeus, full-born and clad in armor.
Jerry Garcia spoke about Standing On The Moon in an interview with Blair Jackson in 1989;

.... it's one of those thing where I don't know what it is I like about it, but there's something I like about it very much. It's an emotional reality; it isn't linguistics. It's something about that moment of the soul. To have those words coming out of my mouth puts me in a very specific place, and there's a certain authenticity there that I didn't want to disturb. By keeping it simple it allows what actually produced the song to be visible as possible to the listener, so just the song is there.


Grateful Dead

info Built To Last, 1989
info The Arista Years, 1996
info Downhill from Here (video), 1997
info Dick's Picks, Vol. 9, 1997
info View From The Vault, 2000
info View From The Vault (DVD), 2000
info Beyond Description, 2004
info Grateful Dead Download Vol 11, 6/20/91, 2006
info Crimson, White and Indigo, 2010
info Flashback With The Grateful Dead, 2011
info Spring 1990 (box set), 2012
info Complete Studio Albums Collection, 2013
info Spring 1990 (The Other One), 2014
info The Best Of The Grateful Dead, 2015
info 30 Trips Around The Sun Box Set, 2015

Fare Thee Well shows 2015

info Fare Thee Well July 3, 4 & 5 2015 Complete Box, 2015

Robert Hunter

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info Sacramento, CA, June 27, 2004
info Holmdel, NJ, August 10, 2004

The Dead

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info Dead '09: Charlottesville, VA, April 15, 2009
info Dead '09: Chicago, IL, May 4, 2009
info Dead '09: Mountain View, CA, May 14, 2009

Furthur

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Billy & The Kids

info 4/27/23, New Orleans, LA, Billy & The Kids, 2023

 
Other recordings

info Built To Grass (Grass Is Dead, Vol. 2), Grass Is Dead (Crazy Fingers), 2001
info Jerry Jams, Jerry Cares, Various Artists, 2005
info Bruce Hornsby Live: December 3, 2005, Williamsburg, VA, Bruce Hornsby, 2006
info Bruce Hornsby Live: August 9, 2008, Buffalo, NY, Bruce Hornsby, 2008
info Acoustic Sessions, Vol. 1, Real Eyes, 2009
info Songs of the Grateful Dead: A Tribute to Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter, Jesse McReynolds & Friends, 2010
info Bride Of The Noisemakers, Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers, 2011
info The Wheel: A Musical Celebration of Jerry Garcia, Various Artists, 2011
info Jerry Jams For Rex, Vol. Two, Various Artists (Bruce Hornsby), 2011
info Songs Of Their Own, Various Artists, 2015
info Day Of The Dead, Various Artists (Phosphorescent & Friends), 2016
info Grateful Dub, Roots Of Creation, 2017
info Cut The Dead Some Slack, Stephen Inglis, 2018
info ... But I'd Rather Be With You, Molly Tuttle, 2020

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