Garcia became involved with bluegrass groups in the area such as the Thunder Mountain Tub Thumpers and the Wildwood Boys Hunter sometimes played the mandolin with these groups, but was more interested in writing. According to McNally, the group did not last because of "Hunter's limits as a guitarist and Garcia's ravenous drive to get better," but the two remained friendly. They formed a short-lived duo called "Bob and Jerry" that debuted at the graduation ceremony of the Quaker Peninsula School on May 5, 1961. The duo began to perform together, spending their time in "what passed for Palo Alto's 1961 bohemian community", including a bookstore run by Roy Kepler. Upon his return to Palo Alto, he was introduced to Jerry Garcia by Garcia's then-girlfriend, who had previously been in a relationship with Hunter. He enlisted in the National Guard, and spent six months training, before doing a six-month tour of duty. Hunter left the university after a year, and returned to Palo Alto. He played trumpet in a band called the Crescents. His family moved to Connecticut, where he attended the University of Connecticut. Hunter attended high school in Palo Alto, learning to play several instruments as a teenager. The elder Hunter was a publisher, who gave Robert lessons in writing. His mother married again, to Norman Hunter, whose last name Robert took. These experiences drove him to seek refuge in books, and he wrote a 50-page fairy tale before he was 11.
Hunter spent the next few years in foster homes before returning to live with his mother. Hunter's father was an alcoholic, who deserted the family when Hunter was seven, according to Grateful Dead chronicler Dennis McNally. He was a great-great grandson of the Romantic poet Robert Burns, according to Charles Perry. Hunter was born Robert Burns on Jin Arroyo Grande, California, near San Luis Obispo. Upon his death, Rolling Stone described him as "one of rock's most ambitious and dazzling lyricists".
Hunter was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Grateful Dead in 1994, and is the only non-performer to be inducted as a member of a band. Over the years Hunter wrote lyrics to a number of the band's signature pieces, including " Dark Star", " Ripple", " Truckin'", " China Cat Sunflower", and " Terrapin Station". Garcia invited him to join the band as a lyricist, and Hunter contributed substantially to many of their albums, beginning with Aoxomoxoa in 1969. Garcia and others formed the Grateful Dead in 1965, and some time later began working with lyrics that Hunter had written. Garcia and Hunter began a collaboration that lasted through the remainder of Garcia's life.
He attended the University of Connecticut for a year before returning to Palo Alto, where he became friends with Jerry Garcia. Born near San Luis Obispo, California, Hunter spent some time in his childhood in foster homes, as a result of his father's abandoning his family, and took refuge in reading and writing. Christie Hunter (born Robert Burns J– September 23, 2019) was an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator, and poet, best known for his work with the Grateful Dead.
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