Bobby's genius rhythm was tha backbone of the band in the early 70's. They all just melted into one jazzy,hypnotic groove that no other band of that era could TOUCH!!!!!!They all brought the sound of "The good ol' GratefulDead" to life, and without one of them, they wouldnt have been the same band we all love so much.love em till the day i die...... literally ✌️🇺🇸🍄🌞
@@paulferranti8536 Young 20 yrs old but no drugs that weekend slept in my car and enjoyed the great weekend. Was in the Air Force so big trouble if I missed work.
This show may be my favorite. I used to work at a gas station from the end of high school through college, and I'd have my laptop playing a Grateful Dead show pretty much each shift. One day a regular customer handed me a copy of 11/11/73, and I've never recovered : ) This little 55 minute diddy is just flippin amazing.
@@vegan4theanimals A buddy had lent me his Deadbase book, and this show is reviewed. Someone referred to this Dark Star as "the thinking man's Dark Star". Really takes you on a trip.
Happy belated birthday! It's still this good cause it's never been done like this. "The music, The Sound System, & Jerry Garcia." Let's not forget The Grateful Dead! God Bless.
April 74 i had just finished college and was taken from Eugene to Portland with 30 free tickets and picking up every hitchhiker on the way and never sat down once but danced the fears into the ground and watched these wizards of sound vibrations change emotions of whole crowd ...tripping 9f course on little pure yellow microdots. Right after i wound up with a ride to Spokane Worlds Fair and my journey began...
To me, '73-'74 is the peak. The jams were tight AND long and went interesting places, but as important: the band had lived and matured enough so that the ballads and slow songs were highlights, too.
Greg Lytle absolutely agree...the addition of Keith and in my opinion the subtraction of Mickey who was out of the band from 71-74 made Billy a better player and he swung more when it’s just him. 72-74 for me is as good as a band ever got. They were a deadly improvisational group with the incredible songs to back it up...throw in the best live sound system in the world at that time with the Wall and it’s a juggernaut....I was born too late! Seeing them during this timeframe must have been otherworldly
yes, I think so, too....I listen to 68 to 78 Dead as a matter of preference...and in that timeframe I prefer the songs without Mickey and with Keith 71 to about 77 before he got all sullen and smacked, Weir did not spittle and scream on the outros of every song nor did he practice slide onstage......the sound is clean, the drugs were not overwhelming, they had written a batch of soon to be legendary tunes and also perfected (well, almost, hehehe) the craft of the jam....any band that had Garcia in it had an automatic advantage, like having Steph Curry or Michael Jordan as the basis of your team..
74 is amazing. This sounds like a 74 show right before the China Doll. I resisted being a Deadhead for the longest time, but if I heard these late 73-74 jams I would have been a fan much sooner.
I get stuck on they 7-19-74 show. They jam from eyes to China Doll is something that Miles Davis might have played and that is where my head was at when I was supposed to be getting into the Dead
best Dark Star of 1973 for me- most sublime jazz improv .Other bands went on tour playing the same rehearsed show every night but the Dead did it all off the cuff- amazing!
I love this Eyes. At this point, they really had it down. But, I gotta take the first 2 played(2/973, 2/15/73), over this one. There’s such a raw, newness in the early ones. Quicker paced, etc. Not starting an argument, just being a deadhead. Either way, ‘73 kicked ass!!
@@morningdewstone2704 Agreed! That Truckin'/Eyes/ China form Palo Alto is straight ear honey..the jam out of Truckin' into the first Eyes ever is magic. But, it's all the bee's knee's to me! Peace freakies!
Age 60, Dead fan, 38 shows in 44 years. So, I see ‘em when they come to town. Listened every day for 4 decades. Recently introduced to a couple of new jam bands by a co-worker. Really like this new music. But ? Nothing even F’n CLOSE to the boys from the Winterland Ballroom. Organic, special, and TRUE TRUE jam. Love our Grateful Dead.
I got on the bus in late 72- early 73. First show at Harding Theater S.F. Started playing guitar. Moved to Boston. Help start band called ( ONE) Played many shows at MIT. And all around Boston with Light shows. Got to see all the 70's shows in New England. Especially Music Hall in Boston. Even had Keith pass out in our Hotel room. Before the Springfield show. We found lots of Live Gig Tapes. Working on making a Album. I hope it happens. Bring you all some new music. Ps. Anyone at the famous Bong Party at MIT. ? Or the China Town Party. We where told Timothy Leary was there. PEACE!
I didn't realize I was on the bus until I started getting into late '73 shows. 12/12 at the Omni in Atlanta was the one that got me. 73-74 they evolved into something otherworldly that they never recaptured after the hiatus. More than anything, I love hearing Billy open up on the skins. The man was an absolute beast in this run, and I feel when Mickey came back, he sort of slinked back into foundation beats for Mick to noodle over.
You said what I've been feeling and unable to articulate! To me, it just sounded better when Bill alone was on drums...The groove got too bloated too easily with two drummers. Much harder to take it to these interesting interstellar spaces. Discovering this era has been a huge turning point in my Grateful Dead journey. This is just an absolute peak of improvisation that I have not really heard the likes of from 1976 onward.
I won't say they never recaptured it, just that the amount of time they recaptured it for was reduced, so instead of a 55 minute space jam it would be more like a 25 minute dance jam. Which reflected the psychedelics they were taking at the time, since it was acid at the beginning then that became too much to handle all the time (obviously lol) thus the switch to shrooms in the 70s and predominantly DMT in the 80s. Jerry talks about it in Portrait of an Artist and Tripper
I’m playing eyes back to back here on the mountain on this wonderful Valentine’s Day with my cat Luna and I especially like the 75 thru 77 intros and epilogues and not because I was at the cow palace on new years 76 but the eyes then well after the last verse the music launches into a staccato ,rhythm and time jump.... with a conversation..... an almost blatant flirtation between the lead guitar and the bass posing answers with no questions landing one gently at the stoic tale of a man at the dock in the city ... now orange sunshine was involved as it was a national holiday and I thought as much to tuck away 2 fresh lemon 714 s for the taxi back to the hotel but not before mr graham served us breakfast just as the third set ended with we bid you good night
1972-1974 has the deepest and jazziest jams. If that's what you're into, it's the absolute zenith. I originally fell in love with the Anthem of the Sun/Live Dead era band, but 1972-1974 has such a high percentage of mind melting jams. Jerry's improvisation and the collective aesthetic of the band was really peaking in 72-73. So many of my favorite shows are from '72-'74
@@thebreathalyzer Agreed. Definitely the best era for jams. With only one drummer, especially one as perceptive as Billy, the whole band could turn direction in a beat or two. I'm waiting for the 6 show box set from Pacific Northwest runs in '73/'74 to show up in my mailbox. Hoping before Xmas because I can't think of much better way to navigate the holidays during these crazy times. ✌🇨🇦
@@thebreathalyzer Bill was just about as sophisticated and jazzy as a drummer can get during this period. Very brainy stuff, too. Thinking man's music.
Way to go, Kyle. You've uploaded a most wonderful sequence of music. And that, that, made my day. I thank you, and wish you much love and light. So good!
it was music driven... not song driven.. back then... jerry and phil would just take off... fearless... without a care... lets see where we can go... great sound . thank you...
I know you’re not supposed to have a “favorite show” but if I was marooned on mars and could only take one - easy, it would be this one! Triple encore to boot!
BoBBy :"Smaller ship, easier to turn." and they sure could turn on a dime. Micky definitely adds a rhythmic density but he and Billy had to sync properly and change course, involving eye contact and gestures indicating both are ready to move in different direction. Takes more time for both to maintain sync and transition
@@adamjacobrogers9155 Totally agree. Forgive me for saying, but adding the second drummer changed the band in not a great way. Can you imagine 76, 77, 78, 79 and the 80s with just Billy? It would have been much more epic.Still, I love it all (except 95).
Yeah I think I agree about 73 and 74 being the peak at least of the jams but there's highlights in every year at least up to 89. But they were just real consistent in those two years as far as going interesting places and sticking together as a unit while they did so.
Agree, but I would add that there are magical moments that happen through to the fall of 1991. Check out set 2 of 9/26/91, one of my favorite of the last dark stars. 1990 is a pretty sweet year, also.
The good ones actually leave me BREATHLESS and STUNNED. If I die and go to Heaven and they DON'T have "Dark Star" on tap =- ALL of 'em - I'm gonna call Coach and DEMAND a trade to the other team.
I love the 72-74 that's the Golden Era for me the dark stars and the other ones were ear candy and good medicine for the mind I wonder if Mickey was playing with the band at this time what the music would sound like don't get me wrong I love Uncle Mickey but I do believe this is my opinion this is the best ERA no doubt I love the late sixties stuff too it was more powerful and raw sounding the 60s stuff but this era 72 73 74 is about clean pristine sound and they took the music out Outer Space all different levels of pieces of music you can think of I can sit and talk about this stuff all day long but God bless the Grateful Dead!!!!
Billy's jazz drumming is spellbinding! Very similar to Playin' jams from this era: cymbal ride, snare pops and fill ins. As a flailing drummer, I have tried so many times to replicate it, but can't even come close!
Yup Yup Yup, Yeah Yeah Yeah! Garcia, Weir, Lesh, Godchaux, Kreutzmann. Undeniably the greatest incarnation of the fucking band. All their best work to follow is based in these years. God Bless.
The first time I listened to the dead was in 74 on my college radio !! way back in kent state U. I was part of a commune out by Kent state U, and there were sweet under-aged girls !!! man the 70s were just different times for 14-year-olds & the dead am I right?
Dark Star never disappoints - but agree with prev posts - Jerry riffs and Bobby’s rhythm bar chords - so tight - makes me weep - Born too late to see live - Appreciate the post. -
First time I saw the Dead was 73 with Watkins Glen and the Nassau Coliseum.They were both great shows but I would have to go with the Deadhead tour of 76 and 77 as their peak.Weir had reached the top of his game and Lesh and Garcia were both just as great as they had been in 72 or 73. Still we are squabbling over nothing. A Dead show in the 70s was a reason to celebrate regardless of what year it happened
I agree with ‘73 as mountaintop. To Harlan, I think 77, was bubblegum music, compared to 73. But, it was the Dead. And I’ll take the Dead, of any era, any day
nothin likke the first note of a Dark star. Im mean wowwiee. Dark star coming in hot. Like I mean Dark star crashes, pouring its light into ashes vibes ya know what I'm saying? -pc
A lot of comments of this being their best incarnation/era (and this is a great DStar->run no doubt about that) but seriously you HAVE to back up at least a year or two or three or four or more to get the man who's idea it was to get this band together in the first place. Pig was a CRUCIAL and ASTOUNDING presence in the line up. Provided the dirt-neath-the-nails working man blues stank that made it the full bore AMERICAN band it was.
My wife was gifted a CD of this show when she was on tour with the Other Ones in 2003 and it was lost. It is her birthday show and it means alot. Anyway we could obtain a copy of this show? Thank you
