Talk:Truckin'

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"Sweet Jane" is not a band member, as written on the main page, but rather (as explained on David Dodd's Annotated "Truckin'" page) "[...]marijuana. Pot was all the rage for a while, but then it lost its allure, and a lot of people (especially in the early '70s) moved to pills and coke and other harder, more dangerous stuff. Somehow simple, innocent pot lost its sparkle for many. Thus you could read the whole stanza as, "Whatever became of marijuana? It used to be so much fun. Living on the hard stuff, it's such a shame to see your friends go that way." [1]

[edit] First time

I have removed the following:

• At a time when the Grateful Dead were already an underground legend, "Truckin'" was the first time many in the general rock audience actually heard the band's music.^[1]

Because of the following from Garcia: An American Life by Blair Jackson on page 188:

• "Uncle John's Band" and "Casey Jones" were the tracks that made the initial splash -- they were many the mainstreams first introduction to the music of the Gateful Dead"

And also on 190, it discusses how big the song was to the mainstream because of first using the word "Goddamn" in the unedited single (which many radio stations played instead of the edited version) and of the reference to cocaine (making the band a "thorn in the side of Nixon that became a badge of honor to the masses"). -- moe.RON ^{talk | done | doing} 16:49, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm. Maybe "Uncle John's Band" was indeed first in the role I'm describing. I'll save my words for the article on it then. Wasted Time R 16:58, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cover versions

There should be something on cover versions, the 1980's punk parody version, etc... AnonMoos 17:21, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Refer to the subject "Keep on Truckin' (comic)" elsewhere in Wikipedia. The "DooDah Man" was a character drawn by the underground comic artist R Crumb. A picture of the DooDah man is shown to the right side, but not identified as such. R Crumb's DooDah man was a popular counter-cultural icon in the late 60s and early 70s. One meaning of "Truckin" was to walk in the manner shown, with the leading foot and leg extended unusually far forward. (usually just for amusement of oneself or others, rather than for any serious purpose) It could also be done as a sort of dance. This is from my personal knowlege; I did a brief search on Google, and was unable to come up with any stronger documentation. I'll let the original author do the formal reasearch and add it to the page, if anything more definite can be found. However, the DooDah man was a popular counter-culture image in the 60s, and almost anyone who "was there" and still has any brain cells left would remember him. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.165.119.85 (talk) 20:36, 24 January 2008 (UTC)