Aoxomoxoa

The title Aoxomoxoa (explored later), is very possibly pronounced with the 'x' as an alliterative 'z', and thus "... zoa"; or Latin, for "life" ... as in

Larbear's Aoxomoxoa Thesis 1001

(a) in outtakes from "Aoxomoxoa", Garcia sings the lines "Five men writing ..." and "Four men tracking ..." but not "Six proud walkers ..."

The Eleven Robert Hunter 1968

(a) in outtakes from "Aoxomoxoa", Garcia sings the lines "Five men writing ..." and "Four men tracking ..." but not "Six proud walkers ..."

The Eleven Robert Hunter 1968

Album covers became generational touchstones, with iconic images like the "family portrait" of famous people rendered as cardboard cutouts and waxworks on the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , the Day-Glo colors and trippy starburst ornamentation on Cream's Disraeli Gears , and the extravagantly Gothic lettering on the Grateful Dead's Aoxomoxoa .

Design Artwork for a Shrinking Album Cover Steven Heller 2009

"One man gathers what another man spills," the Grateful Dead used to sing in "St. Stephen," from the group's 1969 album Aoxomoxoa.

Buzzword: Foreclosure Vulture 2009

"One man gathers what another man spills," the Grateful Dead used to sing in "St. Stephen," from the group's 1969 album Aoxomoxoa.

Buzzword: Foreclosure Vulture 2009

I'll send more about this later if I find out (more like when, because I know it'll botehr me until I do!), but I just found my dad's copy of Aoxomoxoa, and decided that I needed to know what it meant.

The AOXOMOXOA song cycle David Dodd 2005

Turn up Aoxomoxoa and catch the words: "Heigh, ho, the carrion crow, folderolderiddle" from "Mountains of the Moon;" "Is it all fall down, is it all go under?" from "Doin 'That Rag."

Grateful Dead & Nursery Rhymes David Dodd 2005

American Beauty is easily one of my desert island discs, with Aoxomoxoa narrowly missing the cut only one record is allowed from each band, unfortunately.

WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: July 2003 Archives 2003

I think someone asked this already, but is there any chance "Barbed Wire Whipping Party" could be a bonus track on the Aoxomoxoa remix that will be coming out?

Barbed Wire Whipping Party Robert Hunter/Grateful Dead 1996