Dark Star

A good one, from 8-27-72!

(Grateful Dead, of course.)

Explanation (well, sort of, if you really must):

In Garcia, Charles Reich questions Garcia about "Dark Star.":

REICH: Well then if we wanted to talk about "Dark Star," uh, could you say anything about where it comes from?
[GARCIA]: You gotta remember that you and I are talking about two different "Dark Stars." You're talking about the "Dark Star" which you have heard formalized on a record, and I'm talking about the "Dark Star" which I have heard in each performance as a completely improvised piece over a long period of time. So I have a long continuum of "Dark Star" which range in character from each other to real different extremes. "Dark Star" has meant, while I'm playing it, almost as many things as I can sit here and imagine, so all I can do is talk about "Dark Star" as a playing experience.
REICH: Well, yeah, talk about it a little.
[GARCIA]: I can't. It talks about itself.
(pp. 84, 85.)

It also talks about some kind of weird extraterrestrial energy that no one in the band could explain. So they just reflected on it.

"Sometimes I just count the scales of the dragon," said Garcia, in apparent agreement.

Sometimes I could see the dragon breathe. But maybe I was only feeling it move and maybe my senses were crossed.

posted by Eric on 10.15.07 at 12:06 AM





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That's a great version, from the unreleased film "Sunshine Daydream".

I've found a good list of live performances of Dark Star on tape to be:

Dark Star

It's a little out of date (it has some dates listed as unavailable that are now available).

Kevin   ·  October 15, 2007 08:47 AM
Kevin   ·  October 15, 2007 08:48 AM

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