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Grateful Dead - Dark Star (Beautiful Jam) Feb 18, 1971 (Remastered)

Grateful Dead - Dark Star (Beautiful Jam) Feb 18, 1971 (Remastered)

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TitleGrateful Dead - Dark Star (Beautiful Jam) Feb 18, 1971 (Remastered)
AuthorCubensis Records
Duration10:58
File FormatMP3 / MP4
Original URL https://youtube.com/watch?v=xdY0fjiti7I

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At first, the Grateful Dead envisioned “Dark Star” as a taut, rather briskly played tune structured around a rather seductive repeating guitar figure from Garcia. They first recorded it in late 1967 as a studio single, running around two minutes, that sold a whopping 500 copies. But the song took on new life as the group began performing it in concert in early 1968, ultimately elongating it into an improvisatory masterpiece—often lasting beyond 20 minutes—that incorporated stunning interplay between Garcia and the other musicians, as well as experimental flights of fancy that often took them far beyond the song’s root melody.

“Dark Star,” elusive, mysterious and glorious beyond description, is a cornerstone of Grateful Dead music.

Many have pondered the meaning of “Dark Star”—there was even a seminar to examine it—but there’s one person who admittedly never figured out what the song was actually about—the guy who sang it. Said Jerry Garcia once when asked, “‘Dark Star’ has meant, while I’m playing it, almost as many things as I can sit here and imagine.”

'Wharf Rat' cut from this edit.

Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
Robert Hunter – lyricist
Phil Lesh – bass guitar
Bill Kreutzmann – drums
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan – harmonica, vocals, percussion
Bob Weir – guitar, vocals

Grateful Dead Animated Record Graphics by Drew Tetz
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