I saw 2: Deer Creek 6-23-93 & MSG 9-22-93. They were both one verse darkstars, although the one in nyc teased verse 2 coming out of space going into wharf rat. Neither had the traditional intro instead arriving at the song coming out of a jam. 9-22 was less a surprise. ..the Deer Creek was shorter but coming out of space after a really long intense terrapin jam.
I also saw 9-6-91 Richfield there was a more developed darkstar jam no lyrics but full instrumental verse.
A couple I just missed were 3-20-92, darkstar jam 6-22-91 Chicago, 6-8-92 Richfield and 3-16-94 Rosemont darkstar.
I chased the darkstar during my early phil years..seeming to just miss...I had to drive out to denver/vail spring 02 finally got it 4-4-02 sweet shows.
It was a slow winter day, and I had just left the Anthology Film Archives in New York after a screening of “Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein.” It had seemed like a long afternoon, what with the beheadings and the orgies and whatnot. Curiously, Baron von Frankenstein insisted on calling his creature’s nose its “nasum.” Also, he observed that “in order to know death, you have to” — let’s paraphrase here — “know life in the gallbladder.”
I stood there on Second Avenue, more than a little discombobulated.
Wow, 22 years after Jerry passed, The New York Times permits an Opinion Piece truly capturing the essence of the improvisational masterpiece known as Dark Star. Gotta love it! The only thing I would add to it if I could would be to describe the amazing 1990 Summer Tour in which Dark Star cropped up and percolated over the course of a dozen different shows across the landscape of the American continent, driving touring fans to unprecented levels of delight, confusion and even consternation, as the band teased the tune and closing 2nd verse ad infinitum until they finally closed it out at Shoreline Ampitheatre, having begun the epic journey back at Giants Stadium a couple of weeks earlier.
What a fuckin’ band!!!
The 10-9-89 return of Dark Star in Hampton has to make any top 10 list. It's impossible for me not to get a bit of a chill hearing the crowd reaction after the opening notes, and I've heard that version countless times.
And what that list fails to mention about the 10-26-89 Dark Star in Miami is that it's most fucked up, scariest music the Dead ever played. Years ago someone on the Archive compared it to being trapped inside a pinball machine on acid. Seems like a pretty apt comparison, imo.
10/16/89 was my first dark star, amazing second set, Bobs bday, and both a playing and a dark star sandwich. Also Attics was making a comeback, crowd went wild.
Grateful Dead - 30 Dark Star performances from 1972 mixed into a single recording!
Length: 11hrs 42min
My goal was to merge all Dark Star performances from 1972 as if it was one very long performance with a marathon jam in the middle. For many Grateful Dead fans, experiencing a near 12hr jam like this would be a dream come true.
My process:
Drop all Dark Star recordings into software
Locate all vocal sections and remove them - except the first 1st verse vocal section and the last 2nd verse vocal section
Taking all jam parts and mixing them together - in some cases minutes were cut to get to a location that would cross fade well
Keep it as pure as possible - no remixing/re-arrangements
The band rarely sang the 2nd verse in 1972, and the last performance of the year did not include a 2nd verse. In order to close out the recording as I planned, I used the last 2nd verse at the end, which is from 7/26/1972.
I left one Dark Star out, which is from 10/23/1972. The quality was very poor. It was a boomy audience recording. If anyone can find a good recording of this Dark Star, please let me know, and I'll update the mix
Version 2: This is V2 of the 1972 Dark Star mix. It has the following benefits over the V1 mix:
better mixing - I reviewed every cross fade and adjusted many
correct order - a listener pointed out that the V1 had some out of order
added missing Dark Stars - added 4 of the 5, one was very poor in quality and not included
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Cool thnx
Cool thnx
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Went to at least two of those
Went to at least two of those top 10 performances
it kind of changed my life No not being on tour or a big druggie just kind of a nice form of enlightenment and belonging
star Stephen eleven Lovelight = mind blown
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Nice article. Took me 18
Nice article. Took me 18 years to get my first Dark Star. Started at Baltimore1972 and it took until RFK 1990 (79 shows later) to hear Dark Star live.
But, I got some grate Other Ones and the only Dew of 1978 (William and Mary) and 1979 (Cap Centre).
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I never saw the dead do dark
I never saw the dead do dark star. I've seen Phil do it once or twice, and maybe furthur. Like those old 70's jams, anything from Fillmore west .
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Eddie
Eddie
My first Dark Star as well.... long wait as got on the bus in 1980 on the east coast
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I saw 2: Deer Creek 6-23-93 &
I saw 2: Deer Creek 6-23-93 & MSG 9-22-93. They were both one verse darkstars, although the one in nyc teased verse 2 coming out of space going into wharf rat. Neither had the traditional intro instead arriving at the song coming out of a jam. 9-22 was less a surprise. ..the Deer Creek was shorter but coming out of space after a really long intense terrapin jam.
I also saw 9-6-91 Richfield there was a more developed darkstar jam no lyrics but full instrumental verse.
A couple I just missed were 3-20-92, darkstar jam 6-22-91 Chicago, 6-8-92 Richfield and 3-16-94 Rosemont darkstar.
I chased the darkstar during my early phil years..seeming to just miss...I had to drive out to denver/vail spring 02 finally got it 4-4-02 sweet shows.
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The only one I saw by the
The only one I saw by the actual GD that I remember was 7.13.84 @ the Greek.
BTW Eddie-I was at William and Mary for that show. Good times. We had a big jam going on the steps outside in the afternoon.
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It was a slow winter day, and
It was a slow winter day, and I had just left the Anthology Film Archives in New York after a screening of “Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein.” It had seemed like a long afternoon, what with the beheadings and the orgies and whatnot. Curiously, Baron von Frankenstein insisted on calling his creature’s nose its “nasum.” Also, he observed that “in order to know death, you have to” — let’s paraphrase here — “know life in the gallbladder.”
I stood there on Second Avenue, more than a little discombobulated.
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That's terrible writing.
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Yesterday was the 50th
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the Fillmore West performance of Dark Star and Stephen that are on the Live Dead album.
Finally got one at the Nightfall of Diamonds 10/16/89 and 5 more.
RFK '90 was my favorite of those, probably the best I've heard since 10/18/74 at Winterland.
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Wow, 22 years after Jerry
Wow, 22 years after Jerry passed, The New York Times permits an Opinion Piece truly capturing the essence of the improvisational masterpiece known as Dark Star. Gotta love it! The only thing I would add to it if I could would be to describe the amazing 1990 Summer Tour in which Dark Star cropped up and percolated over the course of a dozen different shows across the landscape of the American continent, driving touring fans to unprecented levels of delight, confusion and even consternation, as the band teased the tune and closing 2nd verse ad infinitum until they finally closed it out at Shoreline Ampitheatre, having begun the epic journey back at Giants Stadium a couple of weeks earlier.
What a fuckin’ band!!!
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The 10-9-89 return of Dark
The 10-9-89 return of Dark Star in Hampton has to make any top 10 list. It's impossible for me not to get a bit of a chill hearing the crowd reaction after the opening notes, and I've heard that version countless times.
And what that list fails to mention about the 10-26-89 Dark Star in Miami is that it's most fucked up, scariest music the Dead ever played. Years ago someone on the Archive compared it to being trapped inside a pinball machine on acid. Seems like a pretty apt comparison, imo.
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My first was The Warlocks one
My first was The Warlocks one at Hampton, and I think I ended up seeing a dozen or so. It became almost commonplace.
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That was 1991 ezwind...but
That was 1991 ezwind...but the shoreline, 8-16-91 was verse one only. Plus they kept teasing it fall 91e.g 9-6-91, 9-8-91...
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Ha ha, oops, g-reg! Ah well,
Ha ha, oops, g-reg! Ah well, never let the truth get in the way of a good story !
Damn fried synapses!
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>RFK '90 was my favorite of
>RFK '90 was my favorite of those<
that one was killer in the pouring rain.
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That one went on and on and
That one went on and on and on.
I remember a Dark Star fakeout in Cleveland.
They played it too much. It stopped being that special.
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7-12-90 is my favorite late
7-12-90 is my favorite late era version. .
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10/26/1989
10/26/1989
WOW
Fish and I were deciding to dose or go booming
I suggested both that night
Wise move
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I would have traded 5 Dark
I would have traded 5 Dark Stars for 1 St. Stephen>The Eleven with Jerry.
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Darkstar basher :)
Darkstar basher :)
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7-12-90 proshot video
7-12-90 proshot video
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vvCqhyYlo0k
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Only saw two. Both with
Only saw two. Both with Branford.
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12/31/81 was fun...not only
12/31/81 was fun...not only did they play a 4th set, but opened it with Dark Star...smiles all around!!
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10/16/89 was my first dark
10/16/89 was my first dark star, amazing second set, Bobs bday, and both a playing and a dark star sandwich. Also Attics was making a comeback, crowd went wild.
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Enjoy your next dose with (nearly) every Dark Star jam from 1972 melded into one 10-hour song.
https://archive.org/details/DarkStar1972
0:00:00 - 4/8/1972 London
0:27:55 - 4/14/1972 Copenhagen
0:55:10 - 4/17/1972 Copenhagen
1:23:46 - 4/24/1972 Dusseldorf
2:01:03 - 4/29/1972 Hamburg
2:28:54 - 5/4/1972 Paris
3:00:00 - 5/7/1972 Wigan
3:16:13 - 5/11/1972 Rotterdam
3:28:45 - 5/18/1972 Munich
3:42:25 - 3/23/1972 New York
4:01:25 - 7/18/1972 Jersey City
4:26:00 - 7/26/1972 Portland
4:57:00 - 8/21/1972 Berkeley
5:11:45 - 8/24/1972 Berkeley
5:34:45 - 8/27/1972 Veneta
6:03:50 - 9/10/1972 Hollywood
6:33:03 - 9/21/1972 Philadelphia
7:07:20 - 9/27/1972 Jersey City
7:30:11 - 10/18/1972 St. Louis
7:45:42 - 10/26/1972 Cincinnati
8:04:27 - 10/28/1972 Cleveland
8:26:10 - 11/13/1972 Kansas City
8:42:35 - 11/19/1972 Houston
8:52:57 - 11/26/1972 San Antonio
9:07:31 - 12/11/1972 San Francisco
9:39:42 - 12/15/1972 Long Beach
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I didn't realize there was an
I didn't realize there was an updated version. This was truly a labor of love.
https://archive.org/details/DarkStar_1972
Grateful Dead - 30 Dark Star performances from 1972 mixed into a single recording!
Length: 11hrs 42min
My goal was to merge all Dark Star performances from 1972 as if it was one very long performance with a marathon jam in the middle. For many Grateful Dead fans, experiencing a near 12hr jam like this would be a dream come true.
My process:
Drop all Dark Star recordings into software
Locate all vocal sections and remove them - except the first 1st verse vocal section and the last 2nd verse vocal section
Taking all jam parts and mixing them together - in some cases minutes were cut to get to a location that would cross fade well
Keep it as pure as possible - no remixing/re-arrangements
The band rarely sang the 2nd verse in 1972, and the last performance of the year did not include a 2nd verse. In order to close out the recording as I planned, I used the last 2nd verse at the end, which is from 7/26/1972.
I left one Dark Star out, which is from 10/23/1972. The quality was very poor. It was a boomy audience recording. If anyone can find a good recording of this Dark Star, please let me know, and I'll update the mix
Version 2: This is V2 of the 1972 Dark Star mix. It has the following benefits over the V1 mix:
better mixing - I reviewed every cross fade and adjusted many
correct order - a listener pointed out that the V1 had some out of order
added missing Dark Stars - added 4 of the 5, one was very poor in quality and not included
includes Verse 2 vocals
1hr 42min longer!
Playlist:
3/23/1972 New York [includes Verse 1]
4/8/1972 London
4/14/1972 Copenhagen
4/17/1972 Copenhagen
4/24/1972 Dusseldorf
4/29/1972 Hamburg
5/4/1972 Paris
5/7/1972 Wigan
5/11/1972 Rotterdam
5/18/1972 Munich
5/23/1972 - London
5/25/1972 - London
7/18/1972 Jersey City
7/26/1972 Portland
8/21/1972 Berkeley
8/24/1972 Berkeley
8/27/1972 Veneta
9/10/1972 Hollywood
9/16/1972 - Boston
9/21/1972 Philadelphia
9/24/1972 - Waterbury
9/27/1972 Jersey City
10/18/1972 St. Louis
10/26/1972 Cincinnati
10/28/1972 Cleveland
11/13/1972 Kansas City
11/19/1972 Houston
11/26/1972 San Antonio
12/11/1972 San Francisco
12/15/1972 Long Beach
7/26/1972 Portland [includes Verse 2]
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3-23-72 nyc and 5-4 Paris
3-23-72 nyc and 5-4 Paris both include verse2.
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Here is a version played in
Here is a version played in Detroit with BOTH verses...its up there and considered on of the best.
https://archive.org/details/gd1971-10-24.sbd.miller.125887.flac16
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VV3kKZvuFT0
Here is a cool one coming out of space
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I only got through about half
I only got through about half of it and plan to finish later. Digging it thus far.
Who considers St Stephen a ballad though?