He had been in the East Bay and he's driving home on the Richmond San Rafael Bridge, and there's a wild storm out to his right on the Northern end of the bay - lightning and just a great, wonderful storm and suddenly he hears a tune in his head, and it's the basic riff of 'Terrapin.' He hears the whole tune in his head," he said. "Jerry lived in Marin, which is to the west. Dennis McNally, the Dead's publicist and biographer, told the story in a 2021 episode of the Songfacts Podcast. Unbeknownst to the other, the musicians were both inspired by a rare lightning storm that lit up the San Francisco Bay Area one evening.
Robert Hunter wrote the words, Jerry Garcia wrote the music.
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