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Standing On The Moon

Composer: Jerry Garcia / Robert Hunter

Grateful Dead

info Built To Last, Grateful Dead, 1989
info The Arista Years, Grateful Dead, 1996
info Dick's Picks, Vol. 9, Grateful Dead, 1997
info View From The Vault, Grateful Dead, 2000
info Beyond Description, Grateful Dead, 2004

Live performances on official download releases
info Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 11 - 6/20/91, Grateful Dead, 2006

Live performances on video/DVD
info Downhill from Here, Grateful Dead, 1997
info View From The Vault, Grateful Dead, 2000
Robert Hunter live show CDs

info Morrison, CO, June 19, 2004
info Sacramento, CA, June 27, 2004
info Holmdel, NJ, August 10, 2004

The Dead

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info Somerset,WI, August 3, 2003
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info San Diego, CA, June 23, 2004
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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

Ratdog

info Cleveland OH: October 31, 2003
info Pittsburgh PA: November 7, 2003
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info Memphis TN: November 21, 2003
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info Milwaukee WI, July 5, 2007
info Morrison CO, July 24, 2007
info Wantagh NY, August 21, 2007
info Hampton Beach NH, October 26, 2007
info Raleigh, NC, November 11, 2007
info St. Paul, MN, March 21, 2008
info Baltimore, MD, April 8, 2008
info Seattle, WA, June 21, 2008
info Hiram, ME, August 10, 2008
info Munhall, PA, November 1, 2008
info Clearwater, FL, November 18, 2008
info San Francisco, CA, December 31, 2008
info Negril, Jamaica, January 29, 2009

Others

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

Notes

Hunter commented on the creation of Standing On The Moon in an interview;

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.
Garcia spoke about Standing On The Moon in an interview with Blair Jackson in 1989;

For, 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.