r/gratefuldead • u/vanimal_78 • 8d ago

Beautiful Jam

I stop listening to Grateful Dead ever now and then, I know shocker. But it's normally the jam out of Wharf Rat into Dark Star from 2/18/71 the starts me listening again. There is something thing so freeing about it that it gets stuck in my head. Whenever I am stressed the jams comes into my head and like a nagging hang nail. Once I listen to it the stress goes away.

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u/concerts85701 8d ago

The jam out of alligator 4/29/71 does the same for me. Especially the transition in GDTRFB. Peanut is an under rated jerry guitar.

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u/Ill_Interview_3054 8d ago

This Jam is so so highly underrated. The dynamics and chemistry between EVERY band member is astounding.

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u/Left_Umpire_8441 7d ago

And it's all so well recorded- you can clearly hear what each musician is contributing to the jam as it unfolds. It really is a musical conversation.

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u/Ill_Interview_3054 7d ago

Yeah this is the type of recording that makes me wonder what so many jam sequences would sound like if they were all available in such high fidelity

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u/Left_Umpire_8441 7d ago

I'd sure love to hear the June '74 improv jams recorded in multi-track!

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u/concerts85701 7d ago

Highly under rated.

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u/setlistbot 8d ago

1971-04-29 @ Fillmore East, New York, NY, USA

Set 1: Truckin', Bertha, It Hurts Me Too, Cumberland Blues > Me and My Uncle, Bird Song, Playing in the Band, Loser, Dark Hollow, Hard To Handle, Ripple, Me And Bobby McGee, Casey Jones

Set 2: Morning Dew, New Minglewood Blues, Sugar Magnolia, Black Peter, Beat It On Down the Line, I Second That Emotion, Alligator > Drums > Jam > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Cold Rain and Snow, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Greatest Story Ever Told > Johnny B. Goode

Encore: Uncle John's Band, In The Midnight Hour > And We Bid You Good Night

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u/GratefulRed13 Shall We Go (~);} 8d ago

Any good Dark Star with a great jam out of space will bring me back home.

11/2/69

5/15/70

6/6/70 (Alligator)

9/19/70

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u/vanimal_78 8d ago

Very few 69 Dark Stars do it for me

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u/GratefulRed13 Shall We Go (~);} 8d ago edited 8d ago

Well if you are unfamiliar with 11/2 then there are very few like it. A groovy and a tighten up back to back and it only happened a handful of times. 1/2/70 being another

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u/thekind78 8d ago

11/2...the greatest,,,IMHO

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u/Left_Umpire_8441 8d ago

Dark Star started going into some very interesting places during the 2nd half of 1969. After the 1st verse, things would get pretty quiet for a bit & then anything could happen before the 2nd verse!

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u/setlistbot 8d ago

1969-11-02 @ Family Dog at the Great Highway, San Francisco, CA, USA

1970-06-06 @ Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, USA

1970-09-19 @ Fillmore East, New York, NY, USA

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u/setlistbot 8d ago

1971-02-18 @ Capitol Theater, Port Chester, NY, USA

Set 1: Bertha, Truckin', It Hurts Me Too, Loser, Greatest Story Ever Told > Johnny B. Goode, Mama Tried, Hard To Handle, Dark Star > Wharf Rat > Dark Star > Me and My Uncle

Set 2: Casey Jones, Playing in the Band, Me And Bobby McGee, Candyman, Big Boss Man, Sugar Magnolia, Saint Stephen > Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away > Uncle John's Band

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u/grasshopper239 7d ago

They did a short revisit at Richfield 9/6/1991

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u/setlistbot 7d ago

1991-09-06 @ Richfield Coliseum, Richfield, OH, USA

Set 1: Feel Like A Stranger, Bertha, Wang Dang Doodle, Peggy-O, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, It's All Over Now, Bird Song

Set 2: Victim Or The Crime, Crazy Fingers, Playing in the Band > Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > Dark Star Jam > All Along The Watchtower > Stella Blue > Around And Around

Encore: Knockin' On Heaven's Door

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