Steven, drifting through psychedelic phrase and spring board onslaughts before launching into The Eleven. Famed for their complex passages, this galloping blues roots jam is in 11/4 giving it the presence of a cavorting train. Side 2 opens with the comparatively ramshackle, upbeat guillotine that is St. That in itself is, I think, really a score, considering how derivative almost all electric guitar playing is.” “I don’t know anyone else who plays guitar the way he does, with the kind of approach he has to it. “He’s an extraordinarily original player in a world full of people who sound like each other,” Garcia said of Weir in a 1982. His quirky motifs and ever changing chordal counterpoints to Jerry Garcia’s lead meant they were always switching between who was steering the ship. One of the most important things to arise from Live/Dead is the emergence of Bob Weir as a musical visionary. Sometimes it would drop into a black hole at the start of a set only to seamlessly reappear five songs later deeper and stronger than the cosmos. Sometimes it was dark and brutal, other times angelic and transcendent. I have fervently hunted down every version of Dark Star that I can get my hands on before it was more or less cut from the set in 1974 as cocaine replaced acid as the band’s drug of choice.ĭue to the veritable monopoly of live Grateful Dead recordings and fans bootlegging every show and I have never heard the song played remotely the same way twice. The Live/Dead version of Dark Star is assuredly the most accessible and mind blowing introduction to the band’s sonic capabilities, and is the closest thing to a living, breathing song. Lady in velvet recedes in the nights of good-bye Glass hand dissolving in ice, petal flowers revolving Mirror shatters in formless reflections of matter Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds? Searchlight casting for faults in the clouds of delusion Reason tatters, the forces tear loose from the axis Built upon two simple major chords, Dark Star remains the bands most complex passage requiring a superhuman amount of telekinesis, trust and, yes, LSD.Īt their most indulgent the Dead could play Dark Star for literally hours, divulging into walls of feedback, avant garde exploration, and modal interchange before drawing it back to two elusive verses from Robert Hunter and a melodic motif loosely tethered the tune:ĭark star crashes, pouring its light into ashes Get it now! You won’t be disappointed, whatsoever!ĭanny from Northern Virginia outside of Washington, D.C.Album opener, the 23 minute mixolydian monster Dark Star, soon became a holy grail for ‘DeadHeads’ and is the moment improvisation became an art form in rock. This show is definitely a keeper! Don’t pass it up! The 2nd set is absolutely ridiculous! NFA > GDTRFB > NFA is off-the-hook! The guitar and keyboards rule this medley, as do the vocals. Absolutely incomparable!! Check out his vocals on Casey Jones to end the first set – pure and sweet! Not only was he one of the greatest guitar players of “ALL TIME,” but his voice has been truly missed. And check out his vocals in Next Time You See Me. When you have El Paso, Big Railroad Blues, and Mexicali Blues in a ’72 show, you know it’s going to be good! This Mexicali Blues absolutely jams! Pigpen was on, as were the rest of the boys. This show is worth downloading for the Lovin’ > China > Lovin’ alone! But everything else is solid. Not quite sure why Chris U stated that China Cat was a misfire, though. The Good Lovin’ > China Cat > Good Lovin’ is certainly one of the highlights of this show. But this one smokes! Same with Sugar Magnolia… Too many Playin’ in the Bands were drawn out in the ‘80s & ‘90s. Bobby’s voice was completely “on” back then! These songs sound so clear, plus they were never drawn out. Look at the way they ended ’71 and started ’72! Loser and Jack Straw are awesome! Certainly one of the better jack Straw’s out there. This entire show is amazing! No wonder 1972 was such an incredible year. What a marthon performance! Wasted the whole weekend. No one had endurance like the Dead and Allman Brothers back in the day! I know…I saw them on 6-9-73 and 6-10-73 at RFK Stadium. I think opening the show up with Truckin’ sums up the endurance this band was blessed with. Maybe he downloaded a crappy aud, and not this board? After doing the New Year’s show at Winterland from 2 days before, they come back and do this killer show! What other band could do that? Even Bill Graham says that in his Intro. Okay, I hate to rain on tommytomato’s parade from more than 2 years ago, but rating this show only “3 stars”? Give me a break!! I don’t think this show is incomplete at all, and there certainly isn’t any tape hiss.
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