Origin and Influences
The song is based on Donovan's 1967 hit-single "There Is a Mountain" (Jimi Hendrix's "Third Stone from the Sun" is also quoted musically in the piece, roughly 22 minutes in). On albums, the song first appeared on Donovan in Concert (1968) and then later on Donovan's Greatest Hits.
The Grateful Dead performed a 22:57 minute version of Mountain Jam on July 28, 1973 at Grand Prix Racecourse in Watkins Glen, NY. They also played a 55 second version of Mountain Jam to transition between "Going Down The Road Feeling Bad" and "Not Fade Away" on November 6, 1970 at Capitol Theater in Port Chester, NY.
Read more about this topic: Mountain Jam
Famous quotes containing the words origin and, origin and/or influences:
“We have got rid of the fetish of the divine right of kings, and that slavery is of divine origin and authority. But the divine right of property has taken its place. The tendency plainly is towards ... “a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.””
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed,—a, to me, equally mysterious origin for it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I am fooling only myself when I say my mother exists now only in the photograph on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. She lives on in everything I do. Her presence influenced who I was, and her absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide.”
—Hope Edelman (20th century)