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As is the case with others in the band......Hunter had lost his fastball or clearly mailed it in when he came up with Samba in the Rain lyrics. These lyrics are cliche, elementary, and an appeal to the least common denominator. Velnick was clearly not a good choice to replace Brent. His songs were horrible and his vice was awful. Luckily, history has not judged the Grateful Dead on their efforts such as Samba In the Rain, Long Way to Go Home, Eternity, Easy Answers, and Wave to the Wind. New songs in the mid 90's were tough to endure. Interestingly......as the story goes, Jerry was the member who was most disinterested in the mid 90's. Yet, in my opinion, he seemed to be the only one introducing music with some level of integrity and awareness of the standards that had been established over previous decades. So Many Roads is a classic. I think Days Between holds up as a solid Jerry ballad. Given more time, I think Lazy River Road would have developed into a great first set song. While I never preferred Liberty, it certainly sounds and feels like Grateful Dead music, which is a lot more than can be said of Eternity and Easy Answers! Ten and ten is thirty, if you tell me it is so Let's get down and dirty, baby. Let's get sweet and low Any way you call the shot, That's how it's gonna be You can serve it cold or hot, It's all okay by me Tie me with a ribbon bow, Wrap me in cellophane Send me out to steal the show or Samba in the Rain Samba in the rain oh baby, Samba in the rain Let's get down and dirty, Don't bother to explain Don't care if they call a cop and say we are insane We'll keep goin' til we drop. Samba in the rain

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