Talk:Terrapin Station

message: At least one vinyl pressing had the following handwritten text pressed into the vinyl between the song tracks and the label: "where's my stereo, Jer?".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.234.123.226 (talk) 21:35, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: trivia

message: The following text, taken from the article has absolutely nothing to do with the Terrapin Station song:
"Rhythm guitarist Bob Weir'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 said "It's a great song but when [Weir] brought it to us, something was off. It needed a groove. It was in quick 7
4 but it didn't swing. Yet. For my homework that night, I combined two fast sevens and played half-time over it. The two sevens brought the time around to an even number – the phrasing is in two bars of seven, so technically the time signature is in 14
8. 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" from the early days of the band, given a new arrangement that prominently features singer Donna Godchaux. For the studio version, a funk-influenced guitar figure was added to a four-on-the-floor 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 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 was later named.Fortunately we had a chance to play [Estimated Prophet and Terrapin Part I] three times onstage and it made a huge difference ... Then we came back and we knew what the songs were about.
Bassist Phil Lesh'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 lists. Weir's "Samson & Delilah" was a new arrangement of Reverend Gary Davis's traditional song, retelling the story from the Tanakh. Weir had taken several guitar lessons from Davis at his Queens, New York, home prior to his death in 1972." 87.208.172.162 (talk) 18:21, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nothing to do with the song 

message: I came to this article after seeing Template_talk:Track_listing#Removing_auto-quotes_from_track_titles. While the formatting for the multi-part song in side two is clever, it still won't work. On mobile view, the text in the title, writer(s) and length column wouldn't match up. I suggest using a regular table like the one seen in The_Atomic_Cafe#Track_listing to fix this problem. FunnyMath (talk) 05:57, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe we can also suggest that the template be edited. We have three articles (Terrapin Station, Foxtrot, and The Atomic Cafe) that can't use the track listing template properly. FunnyMath (talk) 09:43, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

text: I totally agree. I think the template looks nicer than the table. I forgot to say this, but I was the one who made the tables in The Atomic Cafe article. I wanted to use the template, but I couldn't include multiple tracks in one row (like 3a, 3b, 3c, etc.). I ended up just using a table because it gets the job done. A numbered list wouldn't work for me either because of the large amount of information per row. FunnyMath (talk) 17:47, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

text: Here we go:
Side one                 	Side one                                      	Side one                                      	Side one                               	Side one                 	Side one
No.                      	Title                                         	Title                                         	Writer(s)                              	Lead vocals              	Length
1                        	"Estimated Prophet"                           	"Estimated Prophet"                           	                                       	Weir                     	5:35
2                        	"Dancin' in the Streets"                      	"Dancin' in the Streets"                      	                                       	                         	3:30
3                        	"Passenger"                                   	"Passenger"                                   	                                       	                         	2:48
4                        	"Samson & Delilah"                            	"Samson & Delilah"                            	traditional (arranged by Weir)         	Weir                     	3:30
5                        	"Sunrise"                                     	"Sunrise"                                     	Donna Godchaux                         	D. Godchaux              	4:05
Side two                 	Side two                                      	Side two                                      	Side two                               	Side two                 	Side two
No.                      	Title                                         	Title                                         	Writer(s)                              	Lead vocals              	Length
1                        	"Terrapin Part 1"                             	"Lady with a Fan"                             	                                       	Garcia                   	4:20
1                        	"Terrapin Part 1"                             	"Terrapin Station"                            	                                       	Garcia                   	2:12
1                        	"Terrapin Part 1"                             	"Terrapin"                                    	                                       	Garcia                   	2:12
1                        	"Terrapin Part 1"                             	"Terrapin Transit"                            	                                       	instrumental             	0:35
1                        	"Terrapin Part 1"                             	"At a Siding"                                 	                                       	Garcia                   	1:43
1                        	"Terrapin Part 1"                             	"Terrapin Flyer"                              	                                       	instrumental             	2:56
1                        	"Terrapin Part 1"                             	"Refrain"                                     	Garcia                                 	The English Choral       	2:18
2006 reissue bonus tracks	2006 reissue bonus tracks                     	2006 reissue bonus tracks                     	2006 reissue bonus tracks              	2006 reissue bonus tracks	2006 reissue bonus tracks
No.                      	Title                                         	Title                                         	Writer(s)                              	Lead vocals              	Length
7                        	"Peggy-O" (instrumental studio outtake)       	"Peggy-O" (instrumental studio outtake)       	traditional (arranged by Grateful Dead)	instrumental             	4:41
8                        	"The Ascent" (instrumental studio outtake)    	"The Ascent" (instrumental studio outtake)    	Grateful Dead                          	instrumental             	1:59
9                        	"Catfish John" (studio outtake)               	"Catfish John" (studio outtake)               	                                       	Garcia                   	4:43
10                       	"Equinox" (studio outtake)                    	"Equinox" (studio outtake)                    	Lesh                                   	Garcia                   	5:15
11                       	"Fire on the Mountain" (studio outtake)       	"Fire on the Mountain" (studio outtake)       	                                       	Garcia                   	6:26
12                       	"Dancin' in the Streets" (live on May 8, 1977)	"Dancin' in the Streets" (live on May 8, 1977)	                                       	                         	16:17
Elephantranges (talk) 23:56, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

text: I like it a lot.  Although, according to Terrapin_Part_1#Structure, "Terrapin" -- the third sub-track of "Terrapin Part 1" -- is instrumental.  I got that wrong when I posted the partially completed example. — Mudwater (Talk) 00:05, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

text: Thanks for the feedback.  The Atomic Cafe track listing looks good, nice work. — Mudwater (Talk) 10:45, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Track listing