Grateful Dead Family Discography: Mountains Of The Moon

Mountains Of The Moon

Composer: Jerry Garcia / Robert Hunter

Mountains Of The Moon is one of the few tracks on Aoxomoxoa that was not recorded using the then new 16-track technology. This perhaps explains it sparse compared when compared to some of the denser tracks on the album. Garcia spoke about the song in an interview after remixing the album in 1971;

Mountains Of The Moon is still one of my favorite ones I've ever written. I thought it came off like a little gem. On the record as it is now, I've dropped a lot of the junk off it. It sounds more like I hoped it would when we recorded it.

Mountains Of The Moon was only performed about a dozen times between December 1968 and July 1969.

Grateful Dead recordings

Aoxomoxoa, 1969
Fillmore East 2.11.69, 1997
The Golden Road (1965-1973), 2001
Dick's Picks, Vol. 26, 2002
Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings, 2005
Fillmore West 1969: Compilation, 2005

The Dead

Virginia Beach, VA, June 17, 2003
Millwaukee, WI, July 1, 2003
Tampa, FL, July 30, 2003
Wantagh, NY, August 10, 2003
Irvine, CA, September 18, 2003
Oakland, CA, December 31, 2004
Mountain View, CA, June 26, 2004
Boston, MA, July 30, 2004
Dead ’09: Worcester, MA April 18, 2009

Robert Hunter

Morrison, CO - June 20, 2004

Other recordings

Morning Dew, Tom Constanten, 1993
Dead Ringers, Dead Ringers, 1994
Relix Bay Record Shop : Tribute To Jerry Garcia, Various Artists, 1997
The Strange Remain, The Other Ones, 1999
Grateful Dreams, Tom Constanten, 2000
Yuletide, Iditarod, 2003
20° Of Solitude, Grass Is Dead, 2004
Dead Symphony No. 6, Lee Johnson/Russian National Orchestra, 2007
Mick's Picks, Volume 3: Substage, Karlsruhe June 16, 2004, Jefferson Starship, 2008 *