Dark Star
May 7, 1972
Bickershaw Festival
Listen immediately. essential DS the playing on this is so impeccable, gorgeous and beautiful. The dead's beautiful jamming on classics such as meat grinder versions of DS, other one, PITB, truckin', and love light inspired a couple of British antecedents in musical spirit that you would not expect from their genre - Elvis costello and Joe strummer. (Ok well if you've followed costellos' records into the 80s and 90's or further, you know he would appreciate garcia and hunter's way around shaping a modern standard. And turns out they actually jammed in mill valley in 89, Jer strapping on the jazzmaster, Anyways Nothing really new to say about this chunky astral DS, dive in. take the forays into deep crystal lit caves