Dead-A-Day: On This Day in GD-Land

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Got to have love for 4/15/78 at William & Mary!

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4/16/78 in Huntington WV is a sweet magnolia daydream.

I: Jack Straw, Dire Wolf, Cassidy, Peggy-O, Mexicali Blues-> Mama Tried, They Love Each Other, Minglewood Blues, Scarlet Begonias-> Fire On The Mountain
II: Samson & Delilah, Ship of Fools, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Iko Iko > Sugar Magnolia, E: U.S. Blues

[Tone Weaver]

Lucky Danes could catch three shows and two Dark Stars those four nights in April 1972.

This time the band launches into a gentle and floral jam, blossoming like flowers of sound into an easy, floating space jam. This contrasted with the roiling vortex feel of the Other One three days earlier.

Slowly Jerry loops a melody into the verse almost ten minutes in. They return to their quieter levels with some tentative explorations that lead to more beautiful swirling soundscapes.

The pulse deepens and the pace quicken into a brisker, yet angular jam pushing into radiant peaks. Then down to the softer earlier domain, that quickly spreads to outer dimensions.

Keith's cascading chords and sprinkling melodies take us to a jam that evolves into Bobby’s chording that hints at the gestation of Let it Grow, which eventually would arrive on 9-7-73 at Nassau. (He’s Gone made ITS debut earlier in the first set, before this Dark Star.)

The band jams out a bit more before Jerry plays a repetitive bend into a single note to signal the segue into Sugar Magnolia.

If you listen to the Copenhagen Dark Stars in sequence they form the contrasting and complementary movements of a psychedelic symphony. Trust me. It's an hour well spent and a journey worth taking, in headphones or at volume with speakers.

It refreshes the body and neural pathways with movement, beauty and spectacle. It restores the body and mind with a positive energy of the universe, the cosmic experience that Hendrix might call "Electric Sky Church".

The next Dark Star would crash into Dusseldorf on April 24. It would go for 40 minutes, minus the Me and My Uncle wedged inside.

4-17-72: Dark Star, Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen.

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Listening to this for the first time, I'm pretty sure. JGB at the Pauley Pavilion in LA, 4/17/93 (audio-only):

I: Cats Under The Stars, And It Stoned Me, Run For The Roses, Simple Twist Of Fate, Tore Up Over You, Lay Down Sally, My Sisters And Brothers, Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
II: The Way You Do The Things You Do, The Maker, Mission In The Rain, Think, Waiting For A Miracle, Tangled Up In Blue

[patchthenation]

Happy 4/20!! get down to Providence 4/20/83 with a nice fatty

[Tone Weaver]

Belated review of the Dusseldorf Dark Star on April 24, 1972:

On April 24, 1972, Dark Star finally reached Germany for it’s first of three visits on the tour. It would be the longest venture so far, coming in at 40 minutes and 40 seconds, wrapped around an intermezzo appearance of Me And My Uncle.

I have only two sentences to convey my impressions of this longer version, one for each section.

It takes off with a vibrant swirling space-jazz with a softer-edged Other One dimension, slowly building tension with a florid piano embellishment, settling into the opening theme and first verse, before pouring its light back into a feedback-drenched rumbling Phil Zone that evolves into a brisk and energetic intensity of simultaneous group expansion into a gravity-defying maelstrom that returns to an earthbound respite with Me and My Uncle.

After high tailing it down to Mexico, it’s back to a warp speed tour of the solar system, eventually circling back in a descending orbit of the planet, taking us way down, down, down by the docks of the city.

Part One:


Part Two:

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It's been nice to listen to a year I don't hear often. Happy 40th to 4/26/83 at the Philly Spectrum (Dave's Picks 39). Fantastic Shakedown opener and keeps the heat goin from there!



P.S. There's a Women Are Smarter in this second set. Did you know Harry Belafonte recorded it? RIP.

[strangerinboulder]

It's been nice to listen to a year I don't hear often. Happy 40th to 4/26/83 at the Philly Spectrum (Dave's Picks 39). Fantastic Shakedown opener and keeps the heat goin from there!



P.S. There's a Women Are Smarter in this second set. Did you know Harry Belafonte recorded it? RIP.

Indeed I did, but a great trivia question as it were. One of the better '83 shows in my books. Pretty nifty first set. Outstanding work as usual laddy.

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"The triumphant return of Bob Weir." IYKYK. Furthur 4/27/13 at the Atlantic City Boardwalk was 10 years ago tonight:



Now that I've listened to the first set and look ahead to set 2, not a lot of Bob songs. Phil and John K handled most of the lead vocals. Interesting. This was the spring tour closer.

[Tone Weaver]

On April 29, 1972, a lucky Hamburg Germany audience would encounter their fantastic experience of a Dark Star.
It took off with a gentle launch into a breezy space jam that was soon transformed by Phil’s trademark descending baseline from D, through major chords A and G , back to A and D. (Da, da, dada, dada. You’ll know it when you hear it).
The band congealed around the rocking feel for as long as it took Keith to add some mojo.
His piano keys would roll and splash like waves over Jerry, Phil and Bobby’s cosmic whirlpool of vibrating electric strings.
This would settle into the first verse vocals at 14 minutes and 15 seconds.
As the lyrics receded through the transitive nightfall of diamonds, the band took a tour through a jazzy fusion jam.
Once more they floated into deep space, to ultimately ride winding and cascading melodic lines to the transition into Sugar Magnolia.



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