Throwing Stones

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Rock throwing (weapon)
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"Throwing Stones"
Single by Grateful Dead
from the album In the Dark
B-side"When Push Comes To Shove"
ReleasedJuly 6, 1987 (1987-07-06)
GenreRock
Length7:21
LabelArista
Songwriter(s)Composer: Bob Weir
Lyricist: John Perry Barlow
Producer(s)Jerry Garcia, John Cutler

"Throwing Stones" is a song by the Grateful Dead. It appears on their 1987 album In the Dark.[1] It was also released as a single, with a B-side of "When Push Comes to Shove".[2]

The song is based loosely on the nursery rhyme

Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down!
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The first live performance of "Throwing Stones" was on September 17, 1982, at the

Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland, Maine.[3]

References

  1. ^ Connolly, Dave. "In the Dark". AllMusic. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  2. ^ "Throwing Stones/When Push Comes to Shove". Grateful Dead Family Discography. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  3. ISBN 1-877657-22-0
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