''Terrapin Station'' is the ninth
studio album
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by the
Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. The band is known for its eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, country, jazz, bluegrass, blues, rock and roll, gospel, reggae, world music, ...
, released July 27, 1977. It was the first Grateful Dead album on
Arista Records
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and the first studio album after the band returned to live touring, following a nearly two-year hiatus.
The album reached 28 on the ''Billboard'' Album Chart and achieved
gold album
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status in 1987, after being released for the first time on CD (by
Arista Records
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) following the release of that year's ''
In the Dark''. ''Terrapin Station'' was remastered and expanded for the ''
Beyond Description (1973–1989)
''Beyond Description (1973–1989)'' is the second twelve- CD box set retrospective of the Grateful Dead's studio and live albums. A companion to '' The Golden Road (1965–1973)'' box set, it covers their time on the Grateful Dead Records and A ...
''
box set
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Music
Artists and bands ...
in October 2004.
It was voted number 848 in the third edition of
Colin Larkin
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Along w ...
's ''
All Time Top 1000 Albums
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'' (2000).
Recording
With the folding of their own record label and a change in management, the Grateful Dead signed with recently founded Arista Records. Label head
Clive Davis
Clive Jay Davis (born April 4, 1932) is an American record producer, A&R executive, record executive, and lawyer. He has won five Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer, in 2000.
From 1967 to 19 ...
had been interested in working with the band since his time at
Columbia Records
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and had previously signed their colleagues
New Riders of the Purple Sage
New Riders of the Purple Sage is an American country rock band. The group emerged from the psychedelic rock scene in San Francisco in 1969 and its original lineup included several members of the Grateful Dead. The band is sometimes referred t ...
. He added the Dead to the label with the agreement that they work under an outside producersomething they had not tried on a studio album since 1968's ''
Anthem of the Sun'' (though 1970's ''
American Beauty'' had been co-produced by engineer
Stephen Barncard
Stephen Quinn Barncard (born January 24, 1947) is an American record producer and sound engineer. He is best known for his work producing rock albums of the 1970s, including the Grateful Dead's '' American Beauty'' and David Crosby's ''If I Could O ...
).
Keith Olsen
Keith Alan Olsen (May 12, 1945 – March 9, 2020) was an American record producer and sound engineer, who worked with Magnum, Rick Springfield, Fleetwood Mac, Ozzy Osbourne, the Grateful Dead, Whitesnake, Pat Benatar, Heart, Santana, Saga, ...
was chosen to produce and the band temporarily moved to Los Angeles, as Olsen preferred to work at
Sound City, where he had recently achieved success producing
Fleetwood Mac
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's 1975
comeback album.
Lyricist
Robert Hunter wrote the lyrics for the first part of the "Terrapin Station" suite in a single sitting, during a rare
Bay Area
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lightning storm. On the same day, driving across the
Richmond–San Rafael Bridge
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, lead guitarist
Jerry Garcia
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was struck by the idea for a singular melodic line. He turned his car around and hurried home to set it down in notation before it escaped him. Hunter said "When we met the next day, I showed him the words and he said, 'I've got the music.' They dovetailed perfectly and Terrapin edged into this dimension."
He based the lyrics for the "Lady with a Fan" section on a traditional English folk song known variously as "The Lady of Carlisle", "The Bold Lieutenant" and "The Lion's Den". The ballad is
No. 396 on the
Roud Folk Song Index
The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is compiled by Steve Roud (born 1949), a former librarian in the Londo ...
. It is also O 25 on the
Laws
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list, which synopsizes "The lady decides to choose between two brothers who love her by determining which is braver. She tosses her fan into a lion's den and asks them to retrieve it." Hunter, who was also influenced by
Sir Walter Scott
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, had composed "Terrapin Station" in two parts, the second never recorded or performed by the Grateful Dead.
Drummer
Bill Kreutzmann
William Kreutzmann Jr. ( ; born May 7, 1946) is an American drummer and founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead. He played with the band for its entire thirty-year career, usually alongside fellow drummer Mickey Hart, and has continued to ...
ironed out the arrangement, explaining "We sat down and mapped it out. I said, 'This is how the song goes.' I showed
ickeyall the parts that I felt worked really well, he added a couple, and that's what the song is today. We went back into the studio the next night and got it right. With the drum parts worked out, everything else snapped together like puzzle pieces."
Rhythm guitarist
Bob Weir
Robert Hall Weir ( ; né Parber, born October 16, 1947) is an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the group disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead ...
's "Estimated Prophet" was written in
septuple time. His lyrics for the song (finished with writing partner
John Barlow) examine a character's delusions of grandeur and California's propensity for false prophets. The song also quotes "
Ezekiel Saw the Wheel".
Drummer
Bill Kreutzmann
William Kreutzmann Jr. ( ; born May 7, 1946) is an American drummer and founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead. He played with the band for its entire thirty-year career, usually alongside fellow drummer Mickey Hart, and has continued to ...
said "It's a great song but when
eir
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brought it to us, something was off. It needed a groove. It was in quick but it didn't swing. Yet. For my homework that night, I combined two fast sevens and played
half-time
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over it. The two sevens brought the time around to an even numberthe phrasing is in two bars of seven, so technically the time signature is in . But that's getting technical. In layman's terms, 'Estimated Prophet' suddenly grooved."
"Dancin' in the Streets" is a cover of
Martha & the Vandellas' "
Dancing in the Street
"Dancing in the Street" is a song written by Marvin Gaye, William "Mickey" Stevenson and Ivy Jo Hunter. It first became popular in 1964 when recorded by Martha Reeves & The Vandellas whose version reached No. 2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 ...
" from the early days of the band, given a new arrangement that prominently features singer
Donna Godchaux
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People
*Donna (given name); includes name origin and list of people and characters with the name
* Roberto Di Donna (born 1968), Ita ...
. For the studio version, a
funk-influenced guitar figure was added to a
four-on-the-floor
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disco beat and polished with a commercial production contemporary to the era. The highly orchestrated "Sunrise" was Donna's first singing-songwriting effort for the Grateful Dead. (She and band pianist
Keith Godchaux
Keith Richard Godchaux (July 19, 1948 – July 23, 1980) was a pianist best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1979.
Biography
Godchaux was born in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in Concord, California ...
had written the songs for their duo effort ''
Keith & Donna'' two years prior, on Dead spin-off label Round Records.) The song has been acknowledged as a tribute to the band's recently deceased road manager, Rex Jackson, for whom the Dead's charitable
Rex Foundation
The Rex Foundation was created by "members of the Grateful Dead and Friends" in 1983 as a charitable non-profit organization to "proactively provide extensive community support to creative endeavors in the arts, sciences, and education." The organ ...
was later named.
Bassist
Phil Lesh
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After the band's disbanding in 1995, Lesh continued the tradition of ...
's "Passenger" was inspired by Fleetwood Mac's "
Station Man". The lyrics were written by ordained Buddhist monk Peter Zimels. However, as Lesh had stopped singing during this period due to vocal cord damage from improper singing technique, Weir and Donna Godchaux sang lead for both the recording and when it was later added to live
set list
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A setlist can be made of nearly any materi ...
s. Weir's "Samson & Delilah" was a new arrangement of
Reverend Gary Davis's traditional song, retelling the
story from the
Tanakh
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;["Tanach"](_blank)
'' Queens, New York
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, home prior to his death in 1972.
Olsen had a method for reining in the Dead: "During the cutting of the basic tracks it was pretty hard to get every member of the band in the studio at the same time ... so
teveParish went out to the hardware store and got these giant nails and a great big hammer and as soon as everybody was in, he hammered the door shut from the inside ... we didn't have drifters from the other studios coming in to listen. We didn't have people leaving to go screw around elsewhere. We started getting work done."
With Fleetwood Mac, Olsen had a hands-on approach, orchestrating the addition of
Lindsey Buckingham
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and
Stevie Nicks
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After starting her career as a duo with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham, releasi ...
and influencing song choice, arrangements and sequencing. He entered the Grateful Dead project with similar expectations, imagining a concept album or song cycle. Olsen said that Davis told him "I need a commercial record out of them."
This caused some friction during the sessions as well as with the end results. Kreutzmann said "He'd have us play the same thing over and over again, and we're not really the type of band that can put up with that. ... Our very identity is based on the opposite principle."
Production
The final overdubs were recorded at Automated Sound in New York City while the Dead toured the region. Olsen then added strings, horns and choirs to the tracks at studios in London, unrequested by the band. For "Estimated Prophet", Donna's vocals were multi-tracked and he had
Tom Scott add
lyricon and saxophone. In a further quest for commercial potential, he ignored other contributions. Kreutzmann commented
Weir likewise felt "All the orchestration and choral stuff was given too much prominence ... so we began this long negotiation, as it were, to put it in a more reasonable perspective. Keith was real stokedhe'd gone over to England and gotten these parts ... I thought it had to be backpedaled considerably. Keith said 'I'm going to bring Tom Scott in' ... I didn't know there was going to be anything added on "Estimated Prophet".
Nonetheless, Weir worked with the producer that summer, taking advantage of an offer by Davis to record his second solo album, ''
Heaven Help the Fool'', for Arista.
Release
The cover artwork was produced by
Kelley/
Mouse
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Studios, who had created several previous works for the band. Though a
terrapin
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The name ...
appears in the lyrics only as a place name, dancing terrapins feature prominently in the artwork and afterward became part of the large
iconography associated with the Grateful Dead. The front cover image takes the idea of a "terrapin station" literally. The back cover features a stylized, one-eyed skull with a crossed bone, feathers and roses, in keeping with the imagery that had evolved around the Dead.
Though the heavy sound production was of its time, it was unusual for a Grateful Dead album and a departure from their earlier, edgier psychedelic albums or their more recent
americana or jazz-blues efforts. Garcia said Olsen had "put the Grateful Dead in a dress". Unhappy with the string sections and choirs on the title suite, he complained "It made me mad. He and
Paul Buckmaster
Paul John Buckmaster (13 June 1946 – 7 November 2017) was a Grammy Award-winning British cellist, arranger, conductor and composer, with a career spanning five decades.
He is best known for his orchestral collaborations with David Bowie, Sha ...
had an erroneous rhythmic sense; they changed it from a
dotted shuffle to a marching time."
Lesh said "The orchestral and choral sweeteners added to the title sequence by Olsen and Buckmaster were a classic example of gilding the lily."
Reaction to the production from both fans and critics was similar, with a more positive response to the songs themselves.
A vehicular accident involving drummer
Mickey Hart
Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman, September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 until February 19 ...
prevented a summer tour supporting the release of ''Terrapin Station'', and while Weir returned to the studio with Olsen, Garcia focused on exhibiting ''
The Grateful Dead Movie
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'', and the
Jerry Garcia Band
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and ''
Cats Under the Stars
''Cats Under the Stars'' is the only studio album by the American rock band the Jerry Garcia Band. Released in 1978 on Arista Records, the album was the first release by the group, which was a long-running side project of Grateful Dead singer and g ...
''. All of the songs on the album were played live, with "Terrapin Station", "Estimated Prophet" and "Samson and Delilah" staying in concert rotation until the dissolution of the band, usually as part of the second set. After its reappearance, "Dancin' in the Street" was played frequently while Donna Godchaux remained in the band, after which it was performed sporadically until 1987. She also sang "Sunrise" during the rest of her tenure. "Terrapin Station Part 1" was never performed live in full. The first three sections (known live as "Terrapin Station") remained on set lists, with the third generally extended into a climactic focus of the second set. The most complete performance included versions of the "Terrapin Transit", "At a Siding" (without lyrics), and "Terrapin Flyer" sections. It was performed only once (March 18, 1977, at
Winterland
Winterland Ballroom (more commonly known as Winterland Arena or simply Winterland) was an ice skating rink and music venue in San Francisco, California. The arena was located at the corner of Post Street and Steiner Street. It was converted for ...
, San Francisco). Conversely, one performance skipped the "Lady with a Fan" sectionthat of May 22, 1977, at
Hollywood Sportatorium in
Pembroke Pines
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(see ''
Dick's Picks Volume 3'').
Two singles were released from the album. Davis selected "Dancin' in the Streets" as the first, in a different mix featuring a horn section that Olsen had wanted to add to the album mix. The second single featured "Passenger". Both singles were backed with "Terrapin Station", an excerpt of the album's "Terrapin Part 1" featuring the second section and part of the third (i.e. "Terrapin Station>Terrapin"). Domestic CD copies substitute the album version of "Dancin' in the Streets" with the single mix.
''Terrapin Station'' was first released on CD in 1986. In 2004 it was expanded and remastered for the ''
Beyond Description'' box set. This version was released individually in 2006. Initial releases did not list time lengths for individual sections of "Terrapin Part 1", though the sections were apparent by style and authorship. Various CD releases break the song down into individual track sections, albeit some with nebulous track boundaries.
Track listing
Personnel
Grateful Dead
*
Jerry Garcia
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–
guitar
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,
vocals
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*
Donna Jean Godchaux
Donna Jean Thatcher Godchaux-MacKay (born August 22, 1947) is an American singer who was a member of the Grateful Dead from 1972 until 1979.
Biography
Donna Jean Thatcher was born in Florence, Alabama. Prior to 1970, she had worked as a sessi ...
– vocals
*
Keith Godchaux
Keith Richard Godchaux (July 19, 1948 – July 23, 1980) was a pianist best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1979.
Biography
Godchaux was born in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in Concord, California ...
–
keyboards, pianos, synthesizers, vocals
*
Mickey Hart
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–
drums
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, vibes
*
Bill Kreutzmann
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– drums
*
Phil Lesh
Philip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940) is an American musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career.
After the band's disbanding in 1995, Lesh continued the tradition of ...
–
bass guitar
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*
Bob Weir
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– guitar, vocals
Additional performers
*
Paul Buckmaster
Paul John Buckmaster (13 June 1946 – 7 November 2017) was a Grammy Award-winning British cellist, arranger, conductor and composer, with a career spanning five decades.
He is best known for his orchestral collaborations with David Bowie, Sha ...
– orchestral
arrangement
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s
*The English Choral
*The
Martyn Ford
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Born in Rugby, Warwickshire,Lebanon, Ford was originally classically trained; he studied French ho ...
Orchestra
*
Tom Scott –
lyricon,
saxophone
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s on "Estimated Prophet"
Technical personnel
*Rick Collins –
mastering
*
Greg Fulginiti
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Fulginiti grew up in Wildwood, New Jersey and graduated from Wildwood High School in 1969 ...
– mastering
*
Keith Olsen
Keith Alan Olsen (May 12, 1945 – March 9, 2020) was an American record producer and sound engineer, who worked with Magnum, Rick Springfield, Fleetwood Mac, Ozzy Osbourne, the Grateful Dead, Whitesnake, Pat Benatar, Heart, Santana, Saga, ...
–
production
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* Production, in the outline of industrial organization, the act of making products (goods and services)
* Production as a stati ...
,
engineering
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Reissue production credits
*James Austin – production
*Hugh Brown – design,
art direction
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*Reggie Collins – annotation
*Dave Devore – engineering
*Jimmy Edwards – associate production
*Sheryl Farber – editorial supervision
*Tom Flye –
mixing
*Cornelius "Snookey" Flowers – photography
*David Gans –
liner notes
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Origin
Liner notes are desce ...
*Joe Gastwirt – mastering, production consultancy
*Robert Gatley – mixing assistance
*Robin Hurley – associate production
*Eileen Law – research
*
David Lemieux – production
*Mary Ann Mayer – art coordination
*Richard McCaffrey – photography
*Hale Milgrim – associate production
*Robert Minkin – photography
*Scott Pascucci – associate production
*Ed Perlstein – photography
*Cameron Sears –
executive production
*Peter Simon – photography
*Steve Vance – design,
art direction
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the visi ...
Charts and certifications
''
Billboard
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''
RIAA Certification
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References
External links
The annotated "Terrapin Station"
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1977 albums
Albums produced by Keith Olsen
Arista Records albums
Blues rock albums by American artists
Grateful Dead albums
Rhino Records albums
Albums recorded at Trident Studios
Albums arranged by Paul Buckmaster
Albums recorded at Sound City Studios