More, Recreation & Official Site Of The Grateful Dead. Jockomo feeno ah na nay (2) "chicken wire" is what it sounds as if Jerry is singing (though on some other versions it sounds more like "chicko wiyo"). Iko Iko, Jack Straw, Row Jimmy, Queen Jane Approximately, Bird Song, Hell In A Bucket Box Of Rain, Victim Or The Crime-> Foolish Heart, Women Are Smarter-> Drums-> Space-> I Need A Miracle-> Dear Mr. Fantasy-> Hey Jude-> Black Muddy River-> Sugar Magnolia, E: The Mighty Quinn To me at least... Hey now, Y'all; "Their music," writes Lenny Kaye, "touches on ground that most other groups don't … My little boy see your little boy (note 3) Sitting by the Bayou "Parrain" is godfather/grandfather. Grateful Dead Identifier GratefulDead Mediatype collection Num_top_ba 10 Numeric_id 3 Publicdate 2004-03-27 12:49:52 Publisher Internet Archive etree.org Show_related_music_by_track true Subject grateful dead, jam, rock, jerry garcia Title Grateful Dead Title_message Free Music It's worth mentioning that Dead covers can make you cringe. Games, Furniture & But the Dead went for it and I love it when they break into this song. Submit it! Höre kostenlos Iko Iko (Live) von Grateful Deads Reckoning [Live] [Expanded] und sieh dir Coverbilder, Songtexte und ähnliche Künstler an. I liked that. His adaptation is great, though. By submitting my information, I agree to receive personalized updates and marketing messages about Grateful Dead based on my information, interests, activities, website visits and device data and in accordance with the. No one seemed to really know what they meant, and yet, that never stopped anyone from dancing like a fool. ", Soldier Field Unable to process your request at this time. I-KO, I-KO, un-day. Sit-tin' by the fire. Goddamn it, the Dead covered the American songbook and succeeded gloriously, though with glitches. The lyrics to “Iko Iko” have been rigorously and extensively dissected, with multiple variants, on a variety of sites over time. Unable to process your request at this time. that image added a whole new layer of mojo and mystery to the song. And you sometimes see "feeno ai nan" and "feenan." It still blows my mind to this day. Picks, Dead The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. Strange Trip, 50th The Spy Boy is a ceremonial position (the front runner who scouts out other tribes to do battle with) as is the Flag Boy, Wild Man, and Big Chief. $100. Company, Stickers & Iko Iko was first performed by the Grateful Dead in May 1977. Reg Johnsey came up with this explanation: The way country people celebrated Carnivale/Mardis Gras was to make conical masks out of chicken wire and decorate them, wearing them with costumes festooned with strips of cloth. Here are two paragraphs from that site, credited to Adam Wasserman: Iko Iko (as well as other songs such as Big Chief, Hey Pokey-Way, New Suit, Fire Water) has a very specific meaning. -- Talk-in' 'bout, Hey now! Décor, Long (I’ll consider requests for particular songs—just private message me! My flag boy and your flag boy were. And I think that is consistent with the “function” of the lyrics of a great many of the Grateful Dead’s songs—to allow us to be washed with words, without worrying about meaning. Very, very loosely translated it signifies "we mean business" or "don't mess with us". I dunno. Matrix 2 Source Mix - SBD (shn id 89173) SBD -> Dat -> Cassette Master (TDK SA-X90) Transfer Info: Cassette Master (Nakamichi DR-1) -> Apogee MiniMe (24bit/48k) -> Samplitude Professional v10 -> FLAC/16 All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller + AUD (shn id 123934) MAV (Taped by LazyCow camera crew)JVC Single Tube Camera, Nak 300 Shotguns -> 0 Decks -> Panasonic AG-7400 -> S-VHS … Info. Gonna fix your chicken wire. I think, for some passages I have heard, of the Dead's IKO, that they have such wonderful rhythms going. The eye and the spelling of "AIKO Aiko" & How I started it. They face off when they meet and have battles of clothing, dancing, and singing. A lot harder than it sounds! BTW, the MGIs "sew" year round to make "new suits" of beads and feathers; ergo "every year round Carnival time, I wear a new suit". Black Indians are parade crewes (tribes) that parade through the New Orleans streets on Mardi Gras wearing extravagant ceremonial Indian clothes. The song was performed just a few times each year through the late 1970's and early 1980's and then more regularly through the mid and late 1980's and early 1990's. Please enter a search term (min. I pronounced it Icho Icho( Like the fish disease)And in one of those empirical flashes of nonsense, I decreed that it should have an A in front as in Aye Aye Captain. The music literally shook me into dance, every time.). I don't believe there is a "correct" spelling. here's some notes on the song I posted in rec.music.gdead a few years back -- liner notes from Dr. John's Gumbo and from a Sugar Boy Crawford album. Gonna set your tail on fire, My little boy see your little boy (note 3) $100, Over My grandma see your granpa Grateful Dead. That's me, in practice, for now, I guess. They are all New Orleans Mardi Gras songs about the Black Indians. You will often find "Jockamo" rather than "Jockomo" for example (and Andrew Katzenstein has suggested "Giacomo"). The tempo is slow enough that the words have more time to sink in, and the band locks into a steady groove in that special way they had. D D A A A D D Hey now, Hey now, A Iko Iko ah-nay A Joc-a-mo-fee-no-ah-nah-nay D Joc-a-mo-fee-nah-nay D My spy boy to your spy boy, A They were sittin' along the bayou, A My spy boy to your spy boy, D I'm gonna set your tail on fire. Below you'll find a user-submitted list of the best Grateful Dead Aiko Aiko. So lines like "My spy boy to your spy boy, I'm gonna set your tail on fire" are ceremonial challenges to the other tribe. WELCOME to GDB ! "Marraine" is French for "godmother," though in patois it is often used for "grandmother." DON'T SKIP ON THE DRUMS BRO. Grateful Dead - "Iko Iko" (Spring 1990) (Nassau, 3/30/90) Watch later. - My flag boy told. To me, there are so many cool sounding moments and fragments, I will value the moments, the fragments, as much, possibly, more, than a whole song. The worst of this came one night in 1987 in Oakland when the Dirty Dozen Brass Band joined the Dead for a rendition that tried to meld their two styles of playing the song, and failed miserably. This is a line that Dr John sings as "My marraine see your parrain." dragged a friend 4 hours to go to show and we both had to work in AM. Sitting by the Bayou Row Jimmy (Live in Cairo, Egypt, September 15, … “Ruben and Cherise” comes to mind every time I hear the song, and the fact that “Man Smart (Women Smarter)” has an almost identical feel to it bring that one into the circle, too. Décor, Long A Sample Riff. A simple, “Hey now!” to a passing head on the street was enough to convey that you belonged. Flash forward to the night before the closing of Winterland, I had an extra ticket that I sold to a friend of a friend. There are others. In addition, I recall a version of Man Smart, Woman Smarter when Bob did a couple of [standard] Iko lines, anyone know that date off hand? I just heard the Doctor's version on the radio too. In the Grateful Dead song universe, I love the way “Iko Iko” ties in with other songs. Gonna fix your chicken wire, My grandma see your grandma Over the years I heard a lot of speculation about the meaning of the lyrics to the song we spelled “Aiko Aiko.” The band members speculated, too. ......those wonderful fuzzy memories ;-), In '76 the drummers had The eye of Horus on their bass drums, I think it was the Orpheum Theatre, here in San Francisco. 25 Years ago today Barney The Dinosaur plays bass with the Grateful Dead on April Fools Day for Iko Iko! Lyrics to 'Iko Iko' by Grateful Dead. Mickeys eyebrows. Sure, a band like DDBB can make the Dead look like Herman's Hermits when they play this. In Ventura in '84 we even heard a chick calling her a baby named Aiko. Iko Iko by Grateful Dead. Gonna fix your chicken wire (note 2), My spy dog see your spy dog Davis's If I Had My Way until the Dead renamed it and made it their own. Sitting by the Bayou Hey now! My grand-ma and your grand-ma were Sit-tin' by the fire. Games, Furniture & Sitting by the Bayou Also, it's "krewe," not "crewe.". & Company, Under This song turns that around on us, the spoiled listeners. & Company, Under $30, $30 - There are all sorts of variations on the lyrics, and what's below is only a sample. We help new and established writers with marketing and editing their works. Just as “I Need a Miracle” gave rise to the miracle ticket, “Iko Iko” gave rise to perhaps the only “secret handshake” type greeting among Deadheads. The next thing we knew There were stickers and t-shirts and out of control. In turn the grateful friend of my friend gave me a tape from Egypt. 987987. The song first became popular in 1965 by girl group The Dixie Cups, who scored an international hit with "Iko Iko… "Their music," writes Lenny Kaye, "touches on ground that most other groups … I 2nd Jerry's "handprint" as a sign. I think of Bob's early attempts at the venerable Walking Blues and Donna's attempts at You Ain't Woman Enough. Anniversary, Dave's They regularly listen to songs whose words are bound to be something of a mystery (despite the fact that any German fourth grader speaks English pretty well…). (3) in some versions (eg 27 Feb 1990), Jerry sings "My marraine see your marraine" for this line. There’s an excellent and thorough piece of work about the song on the Grateful Dead Lyric and Song Finder site. ), Listening to the new Dave’s Picks (#12, November 4, 1977, at Colgate University) on my way home from work today, I listened as the drummers settled into the familiar Bo Diddley beat out of their drum solo, but at a more laid-back pace than usual. the highly stylized aiko aiko + eye of horus graphic representations that seemed to incorporate an ace of spade motif as well which appeared in the late 70s (earlier?/later?) 2nd set opener... Rocking the Cradle: Egypt 1978 Grateful Dead. . Unable to process your request at this time. Other. $100, Over I used to think we'd heard enough versions of Rev. I haven't tracked this line down to any definitive "source" in other versions. am i the only one who loves this version of iko iko? Grateful Dead - "Iko Iko" (Spring 1990) (Nassau, 3/30/90) - YouTube. I-KO, I-KO, un-day Jock-a-mo fee-no ai na-né. - My grand-ma told Your grand-ma: 'I'm gon-na set your flag on fire.' Collection, Dead & A very rare occurrence for the big man to get down but this shows that Jerry was still dancing even roughly 4 months before his death. I always wished there was some kind of hand signal, for use on freeways between vehicles, when the “Hey now!” was impractical. They washed over us. First introduced into the Dead's repertoire in 1977, and played regularly thereafter. 7" Singles I-KO, I-KO… $30, $30 - In total the Grateful Dead performed the song just under 200 times. All well and good, but I am interested in another aspect of the song’s performances as they played out at Dead shows, namely, the notion of a large crowd singing lyrics in another language. 54. - My grand-ma told Your grand-ma: "I'm gon-na set your flag on fire." From: the Dixie Cups, who were somehow connected to the Nevilles, had a hit single with it, which is where I knew it from when the band first played it. The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. Please try again later. Originally it would have been Cajun (a liberal mix of French and English) and literally translates to "the fool we will not play today.". Therefore, the best part, I would hope, would not be anything in particular that I might have to say, but rather, the conversation that may happen via the comments over the course of time—and since all the posts will stay up, you can feel free to weigh in any time on any of the songs! Also, has anyone else tried to learn this on guitar and sing it at the same time? Hey now! Jerry gettin it goin. James Cotton and Steve Miller "help out" on Iko-Iko Anniversary, Dave's I named by Lab Iko. The next night at the New Years show I showed them a card I inked up with those now familiar letters. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long musical improvisation. 2 chars) Activities. Unable to process your request at this time. Please try again later. More, Recreation & I think, in the hands of the Grateful Dead, any tempo, any groove became eminently danceable. The song, under the original title "Jock-A-Mo", was written and released in 1953 as a single by Sugar Boy and his Cane Cutters but it failed to make the charts. the Playin>iko>playin jam speaks for itself but the Sailor>Saint is surprisingly satisfying, as I don't usually love those songs as much as most dead tunes especially not smack dab in the midst of a religious set 2 like the boys were already cooking up in the kitchen on this night. Strange Trip, 50th On Dave's Picks 12 it makes me giggle to think of the look Jerry must have given the drummers when they're about to launch into NFA and Jerry shakes his head no and says, "Iko. 30 minutes and up … (1) the chorus is fragments of Cajun patois, with more or less phonetic spelling. They weren't afraid to cover an Iko Iko or The Race Is On or anything, bring it on! Too bad Mickey could never quite nail this beat (LOL); ask the Dirty Dozen! I’m so glad this song was covered by the band—it brought a certain something into our Deadhead culture that was missing, though probably no one knew it was missing. Just to hear those fleeting passages, makes it worth it, to me, that they attempted IKO IKO. (thanks to Adam Wasserman for the explanation), (note 1) Just have the songs exist and “mean” differently over time, if at all, but dance! I had a snapshot of it. It was an old Mardi Gras Indian chant. Best Songs Ever What’s your favorite song? I remember being intrigued when I first heard Iko Iko on a bootleg from '77. I saw the song Iko Iko and said what the hell is Iko Iko? Iko Iko Songtext. “Ruben and Cherise” comes to mind every time I hear the song, and the fact that “Man Smart (Women Smarter)” has an almost identical feel to it bring that one into the circle, too. Talk-in' 'bout, Hey now ! "Joc-a-mo-fee-no-ah-nah-nay, Joc-a-mo-fee-nah-nay" is a ritual chant used by the Mardi Gras Indians which has been around for so long the words are no longer clearly distinguishable, and it has a well understood meaning of its own. But Iko Iko wasn't played that date, does anyone know the correct reference? - Jock-a-mo fee na-né.-. sweet fancy Moses did we ever melt and dance! Noch keine Übersetzung vorhanden. My grand-ma and your grand-ma were Sit-tin' by the fire. The words, the lyrics, the sung verses—even when the verses were in English patois—functioned more as a musical instrument. "Iko Iko" is a much-covered New Orleans song that tells of a parade collision between two tribes of Mardi Gras Indians and the traditional confrontation. These are the lyrics from 2 September 1980 (Dick's Picks Vol 21). Listen to the crowd go Nuckin' Futs! New Orleans and Louisiana and the bayou appear occasionally in songs ranging from “Peggy-O” to “Dire Wolf” to “Truckin’.” Hey now ! A final note: even though the song is generally credited as “traditional,” the song was composed by New Orleans singer James “Sugar Boy” Crawford in the early 1950s, according to Dr. John. Schau das Video für Iko Iko von Grateful Dead's Beyond Description (1973-1989) kostenlos und sieh dir Coverbilder, Songtexte und ähnliche Künstler an. At the Golden Hall in November of '79 we flew down to San Diego and the band was given Aiko cards at the airport. Well, it was more like a battle where DDBB wedged their style into the mix and ultimately won, after an ugly musical fight. Jetzt Übersetzung hinzufügen. Last of four featuring the complete unreleased soundboard recording of 6/12/80 in Portland. on the lots. Way down south in New Orleans, when used in the street patois of da Mardi Gras Injuns, Jock-I-mo-fee-na-nee means "kiss my ass", as in "if you don't like what da Big Chief say, you can jock-I-mo-fee-na-nay". Know of a good version of Aiko Aiko that's not listed here? Collection, Dead & In the Grateful Dead song universe, I love the way “Iko Iko” ties in with other songs. Grateful Dead Iko Iko. Read more about Greatest Stories Ever Told - "Iko Iko" 16 comments; Log in or register to post comments 7" Singles According to Deadhead legend, My St Helens erupted during "Fire on the…, Well, we’ve been pretty much right here — that is, wherever “here” might happen to be at any given moment in this strange, still-pretty-new world…. With Grateful Dead lyrics, there’s always a new and different take on what they bring up for each listener, it seems. 2014. 1. Jack Straw (Live in Cairo, Egypt, September 15, 1978) 2. Hey now (hey now) Watch the video for Iko Iko from Grateful Dead's Beyond Description (1973-1989) for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. (http://www.whitegum.com/~acsa/songfile/IKOIKO.HTM). Shopping. Great dog. $100. Company, Stickers & I began to think that the Dead had no business playing that song, and I still think that. 224 were here. 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WELCOME to GDB ! Tap to unmute. Suffice it to say that the song originated in New Orleans, has elements of French Creole and African languages, and has to do with the ceremonial battles engaged in by various troops of celebrants in the New Orleans Carnival/Mardi Gras tradition. My grandma see your grandma So, the references to fixing someone's chicken wire sounds like a joking threat to mess up their masks, since part of the battle was how good the costumes were. Jock-a-mo fee-no ai na-né. Copy link. Random Song. The Grateful Dead’s performance of “Iko Iko” from July 7, 1989 at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia is this week’s installment of the band’s All The Years Live video series. iTunes Charts ★★★★★ ø 0 at 0 votes What’s your rating? Iko Iko Songtext von Grateful Dead. Picks, Dead We now offer writer Consultations. he was bar hopping all night and i had to go to about 10 bars outside the civic center and found him slumped over a bar stool. Share. The link says, "On 14 June 1985, Bob Weir sang a couple of verses..." (I used to challenge myself to try to stand still and just listen at shows, but really—that was impossible for me. got there and tickets were more than scarce, traded a weekend Albany for 1 , my friend didnt get in, that really sucked . Happy #AprilFools day from HippyLot.com! Iko iko un day Jockomo feeno ah na nay Jockomo feena nay [repeated twice] My grandma see your grandpa Sitting by the Bayou My grandma see your granpa Gonna fix your chicken wire (note 2) My spy dog see your spy dog Sitting by the Bayou My spy dog see your spy dog Gonna set your tail on fire. --Talk-in' 'bout, Hey now! And does it have any effect? The Grateful Dead's latest addition to their 'All The Years Live' archive video series showcases their performance of "Iko Iko" at JFK Stadium in July 1989. New Orleans and Louisiana and the bayou appear occasionally in songs ranging from “Peggy-O” to “Dire Wolf” to “Truckin’.”. Set 2 holds the magic however. Those early versions are still tolerable to me, and a nice surprise sometimes, but the later ones make me cringe. Think about fans around the world, for whom American and British rock and roll is an enthusiasm. The version of the song on the Jerry Garcia box set All Good Things is a previously unreleased outtake from the 1977 Jockomo feena nay Thank you.. Its a great tune. I was curious to hear what would come next (I make a point of not reading the song list before I put a new CD on…just like I don’t read book jacket flap before I read a book—I want to be surprised), and I was very happy to hear Jerry launch into “Iko Iko.”, This was only the band’s fourth performance of “Iko Iko” aka “Aiko Aiko,” and the trademark aspects of the interaction between band and audience hadn’t yet settled into place. American Deadheads and rock and roll fans generally are fortunate. 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