Jerry and Bobby create a beautiful space before TOO. A conversation in strings. Billy and Mickey create primal, carnivorous music. Hunting music.

What a crown jewel Pretty Peggy O can be. A truly tender version that washes away all my worries. These 74 versions are quite special.

The Dead take the Parisians through a cowboys surrealist day dream. Check out how both Keith and Jerry are utterly locked into the music.

Blossoms and blooms like a shining red rose. I really love the energy for this show.

1974 and Ship of Fools go together like peanut butter and jelly. Full of emotion. They're really giving their all in this.

If you’re reading this, give this a relisten. It gets deep, cosmic ooze all over this version yet no matter how far they go into outer reaches of the cosmos, it truly never loses character and the boys really catch on to some energy here. Criminally underrated good lovin’ might be best of all time, for sure top 3 of all time. Great interplay with the band, check out pigpen and Phil later in the jam and Phil interpreting his words through his playing, brilliant stuff. Overall a fun, adventurous, and jazzy good lovin! VERY HEADY

So this, is to me, the best Dark Star they ever played. The way the express themselves on this track is beyond words. All is conveyed through this symphonic Dark Star. Incredibly jazzy and a very stream of consciousness kind of performance. They really tap into something deep in this version and this entire performance feels astoundingly profound. I literally made an account just to upvote this dark star and get it higher because I think it is that good. Even the way it starts it feels like we’re entering back into this familiar place that’s always so comforting and Jerry, leading the way, explores different rhythms and scales almost putting the band through a jazz clinic at the half note. This whole performance is probably one of if not the jazziest Dark Star ever played. It has such an elegance and a beautiful feminine energy that makes the song feel so light at times while you’re entering these spaces along with them. Jerry’s playing is so sharp and witty, dripping with psychedelia he makes incredibly profound statements with his instrument throughout this entire Dark Star. I love how the band dances in and out of so many of these spaces with so much ease. It's easy to get lost in the beauty of it all. After the first verse the band travels into deep, DEEP space encountering dark matter and conveying to the audience that there’s absolutely no turning back, but no matter what happens, they got you. Drum solo enters which feels like an Olympic Workout, It feels Herculean, and ancient. Part II of this Dark star and Jerry stars speaking in tongues through his guitar. a short but jazzy and elegant Tiger riff ensues and while it’s short, you really feel the intensity of that tiger for its energy can be felt even for a microsecond, that feeling of total ego disillusion. From the Ashes we dive back into the Dark Star Theme and Jerry starts to let his soul shine a little by playing some brilliant themes that the band just fades into completely. I tend to think of great pantheon like halls as the music intensifies. So much intent. This whole Dark Star feels like the band is pondering Philosophical ideas and coming to their own truth. If there was one word to describe this Dark Star, it would be epiphany. The ending jam always makes me emotional the way Jerry riffs around the Dark Star theme and the band falls in and out of Feelin' Groovy jam so gracefully. It was the end of the Dark Star that had me curious to seek this out. I was listening to Europe 72 and when Sugar Magnolia came on, I had to hear the Dark Star that came before it. That ending to me is one of the most elegant things the Dead have ever done. The Dead reached new heights that night in France. Nothing was ever really the same after this.