"Confusion's prince is at my door..."

The Annotated "Mindbender"

An installment in The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics.
By David Dodd
Library, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (The opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the University of Colorado.) Copyright notice; © 1995,1996, David Dodd
"Mindbender"
Words and music by Jerry Garcia and/or Phil Lesh
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing; used by permission.

Lyrics omitted. The annotations below are reproduced by permission of David Dodd; the song lyrics themselves are copyrighted and are not reproduced here. Read them at the official source: dead.net/songs.

"Mindbender"

 Also known as "Confusion's Prince."

Recorded on

First verified performance: January 7, 1966, at The Matrix, in San Francisco. "Mindbender" followed "Sick and Tired," and preceded "On the Road Again." The only other known performance was on February 23, 1966, at an unknown location.

It's bending my mind

See the line "his mind remained unbended" in "That's It For the Other One."
Keywords:
DeadBase code: [BEND]
First posted: August 16, 1996
Last revised: