Fire on the Mountain (Grateful Dead song)
- Fire on the Mountain (Grateful Dead song)
Song infobox
Name = Fire on the Mountain
Artist = the Grateful Dead
Background = darkseagreen
Album = Shakedown Street
Released = November 15, 1978
track_no = 5
Recorded = 1978
Genre = Jam
Length = 3:46
Label = Arista
Producer = Lowell George
Writer = Robert Hunter
Composer = Mickey Hart
prev = "Serengetti"
prev_no = 4
next = "I Need a Miracle"
next_no = 6
"Fire on the Mountain" is a song by the Grateful Dead. It was written by lyricist Robert Hunter and composed by drummer Mickey Hart.[Cite web|url=http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/fire.html|title=The Annotated "Fire on the Mountain"|accessdate=2007-01-31|author=Dodd, David|work=The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics|format=html] It was commercially released on the album "Shakedown Street" in November of 1978.]Prior to the recording, the song premiered at a concert on March 18, 1977 at the Winterland Arena in San Francisco.[Cite web|url=http://www.archive.org/details/gd1977-05-08.aud.moore.cribbs.28301.shnf] The song would often be paired with "Scarlet Begonias" during live performances, producing lengthy musical excursions. The paired songs were soon nicknamed "Scarlet Fire" ]Always a fan favorite, "Fire on the Mountain" was played by the Grateful Dead 254 times between 1977 and 1995.Fact|date=May 2008
An outtake of the song also appeared as a bonus track on the 2004 reissue of Terrapin Station.
This song has been rumored to have been played by the Grateful Dead during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
Cover Versions
*In 2008, Keller Williams released a bluegrass version of the song on the album Rex (Live at the Fillmore). [ [http://news.jamradio.org/824-keller-williams-new-album-2008.php Keller Williams album for REX charity] , "news.jamradio.org", May 7, 2008, Retrieved May 15, 2008.]
ee also
* Dark Star
* Musical improvisation
External links
* [http://dead.net/ Dead.net] , the official site of the Grateful Dead
References
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