saw them in '69 (in Austin TX) after returning from Viet Nam. After so much death and blood got lost in their music, LSD, and the terrible memories that still hover just above the little steel roof here in rural Maine. Music has the power to heal. Jerry lives in our hearts and minds.
@@robertlepper5460 thanks for your reply, believe me not a day goes by that I don't recall the bullshit that rained down on the innocent silent people of Viet Nam. In the words given to the actor in Coppolas magnum opus "the bullshit in Viet Nam piled up so high and deep you needed wings to stay above it". For myself. I was young (21) had never been away from home. We were caught up in a situation beyond our understanding or, well nothing I can say here will change anything, I was "called" by my country to go and kill people I'd never met, far to many black men served with me. I do agree however that there is a black wall in DC that lists 56000 plus or minus names who died for NOTHING, nothing was advanced, nothing was.........oh well, nothing is what we all get in the end. Sorry I may have, well you know. Peace, it's all we have left.
I first started properly listening to the dead about 3 years ago but in the last six months I have (mostly) stopped listening to anything but the dead. I feel blessed to have finally realised the true depth of their musical genius, and the brother/sisterhood of my fellow devotees 🙏❤️
I was 13 (maybe 14) when some friends asked me to go to a free concert. It was the Grateful Dead. I'd heard of them but didn't know much about them. The concert made an addict out of me. Over 50 years later l still love them. Saw them many times and so many memories.
Growing up in the '70's I have to admit I was just a mild fan of the Dead as I was in the harder rock and prog bands of that era. But rediscovering their music now that I'm 62 gives me a true sense of solace in these scary, uncertain times. Thanks, Jerry, Pigpen, Phil, Bill, Mickey and Bob.
Same here. Friend gave me my 1st tape in 94. Cow Palace show from 72 or 73. I was hooked. I kick myself that I never got to see them. 50 year old fart here.
This is the very first performance of Wharf Rat. This is the show that busted out Wharf, Greatest Story Ever Told, Bertha, Loser and Playing in the Band!! I envy anyone who was there to hear all these soon to be classic Dead songs played live for the very first time. Good 'ol Grateful Dead forever! ✌🇨🇦
As a 14 year old runaway driven there by a friend's sister's boyfriend (who had a ticket) the parking lot was as far as we got but you could often hear the sounds from those "Theaters" the east coast had then.
@@j.pederzane9692That's a bit extreme bud. if anything the Dead were the American Beatles of the stage/road. But studio output/songwriting doesn't even compare a little. What the Beatles achieved in the studio in such a short time is unparalleled...certainly by the dead. However what the dead achieved on the road the Beatles couldn't/wouldn't come close to know matter what history might have been. my two cents. hope I'm not being rude. Healthy disagreement if anything
@@josephfinkelstein5979 It's all good. We all know de gustibus non disputandum but it's so much fun to pretend our personal tastes are stone cold truths.
If anyone is unaware. You can listen w/out being interrupted by ads(a crime in this case!) by just letting the first ad play, then slide the time indicator to the end until you see the circular "refresh" icon. Hit that & listen to this masterpiece the way it was intended. Of all the jams this is the one nobody should've cut to bits the way they have. I'm sure most know that little trick but hopefully someone will be spared that craziness. ✌🏽✌🏽 Masterpiece!
Robert Hunter passed away Monday 9/23/2019 in the night. RIP you amazing wordsmith and cosmic traveler. Sure he got on the bus but he was also smart enough to know where the best bus stop was and when to get off. He was 78 years old and survived by Maureen his long time wife.
Along w/Dylan...Iconic writer/chronicler/Observer of Americana covering the last 100yrs..So many memorable lines..Hunter was good.. I got no dime....but i got some time .. To hear your story...... Oh the humanity..RIP Robt.
The Dead would have never made it without Hunter. A genuine genius in my mind and with Jerry Garcia the best composers of popular music in the last half of the 20th century.
The often invisible but clearly not silent member of the band. RIP Robert Hunter. Your words and their imagery have brought untold richness to uncountable ears and minds, changing many, many lives for the better. I hope you're in a special place for those gifts you provided to all.
What's beautiful to me about this is how so many people can find relations to their personal lives in the lyrics and sounds, and come together to love one another purely through the grateful dead. That is beautiful. If we had more of this in the world maybe it would clean up a bit
Agree Bobby Z wake up to the boys every morning, took years to figure that on out on the old alarm clock. There is still something about Jerry's guitar filling a whole valley with pure magic. Haven't found that wake up clock yet.
Easily my favourite Darkstar. The transition after Wharf Rat is the most phenomenally beautiful piece of music I’ve ever heard. The Mikaela Davis version is absolutely on par with it though. This music is magical in every way🌼🌺🌻🌸🙏☮️❤️🍄🌈
@@lizlalove6171 Yes. I come to this every time I walk. The transition at exactly when you mention literally makes tears come to my eyes every time. It is so profoundly emotionally intense it is unreal.
Listened to this for the first time after hours at a radio station with my one of my good friends. Undoubtedly one of the most moving experiences of my life so far. We were swearing, yelling, lying on the floor, dancing, and by the end we were silent. According to my friend, Phil Lesh had no memory of this performance, but cried upon listening back to it, and I can see why. So grateful to have this band in my life!
Not really even a song. More like an experiment. Auditory alchemy. Ritualistic magic with a 5-8 person covenant including also audiences of millions eventually. Mass hypnosis, hysteria, and massively heavy.
Mr. Garcia was that crazy cool guy that took tickets on the roller coaster and let you ride again & again for free... How I loved that guy! We miss you so much dude! Always a hoot captain!
@@NowhereMan7 Uh, yeah...about that. They said the same thing about the Buddha, Nikola Tesla, Jesus, Einstien and Jonas Salk, Marconi, and Beethoven, Da Vinci, Socrates. And Stephen Hawking. Too mention only a few individuals who have changed the course of history. Some in their selected field. And others whose influence is felt every single day by the same 7 or 8 billion hunans that you mentioned. All of us roaming our small blue-green oasis in this vast mysterious universe. Like the others mentioned Jerry Garcia brought not only the gift of his virtuosity playing the guitar. But he brought out of us our own humanity. Which many of us would have never experienced without him. You may not see the light. But we do. Peace.
@@NowhereMan7 Yeah, that's an oddly negative thing to say about a comment that was full of warm sentiment and sadness. Just for a second, imagine if someone said something like that to you after your mother died or something. "Dude, there's plenty of old ladies around. What's the big deal?" Lol. And the comment wasn't about his personal loneliness. It was about what Jerry brought to the world. When Jerry died, a part of all of his fans died too. Some of us spent years following him around from city to city living on Ramen noodles and grilled cheeses. Jerry was literally a HUGE part of some people's life. And it was all cut short so abruptly. He was only 53 years old. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you were just having a bad day or something when you wrote that. I'm sure we've all made similar mistakes. I know I have. So, peace to you and yours.
Been stuck on Morning Dew for my latest Dead obsession, playing and watching all the versions I can find, no new music can make me feel emotions like this, true beauty
@@lloydclaussen9132 exactly,,For about 4 years straight now I have listened to the dead everyday ...Got into collecting vinyl and I have 28 pieces of dead vinyl now....The music never stops here..
This is the song that plays eternally in the universe, and every time we hear it is just the moment when we happen to be tuning in to the song that never ends.
@@janeseamore1370 Yes, Jane, I've been a pastor of Lutheran congregations in Montana and Alaska for the last 25 years. I know it freaks some people out a little when a pastor loves the Grateful Dead, but both are a part of who I truly am.
Interesting thought. Reminds me of a 'vision' I had one afternoon I've not told many people while listening to plenty of Dead as I was generally inclined to do on such occasions. It's theme was 'how stars are made'. It was the end of earth history (however far into the future it took to get there wasn't clear) and everyone was of one heart/mind and 'ready'. The bands all over the world took the stage and began to play .. each taking breaks as necessary but 'the music never stopped' right? At one point I was able to fly across from one scene to the next and all the bands were actually playing the same song but I'd catch them at different points of the various improvisations of the theme. And finally .. it could have been days ... they/we all reached that moment when it all just came together .. and then like a massive bolt of lightening coming out from within .. we, and the earth, gently burst into a star!
I was SO sure Jer was going to lift me right off my feet at StLouisFox during an early '70s DarkStar I began picturing the mildly surprised faces of those around me. Truly sublime ...phew
Rumor has it that he levitated during all dark stars, but maybe it was just me to the time he was twisting all of our minds into one whirled peas in unison
they played Bertha, Playing in the Band, and Loser for the first time that night as well. Sometime in that run, they also did a smoking Here Comes Sunshine, with a jazzy galloping beat I haven't heard since. Songs for the ages!
Listening to this on the day of Mr Robert Hunter's passing. Two songs with absolutely timeless lyrics that feel as though they're from another era, and yet still contemporary as hell. Dark Star, of course, was the first song he wrote for the band. "Shall we go, while we can, through the transitive nighfall of diamonds?" And indeed go they did. Bless the Dead!
Jerry sounds high af starting the lyrics to DS... Then, he gets focused. The whole thing is just amazing as hell. All cylinders firing -an early taste of my favorite span of years for this band: '69-'78. The excesses began catching up with them. Rough patches, then the mid-late 80s were solid but never as good as the early stuff. When the Dead is mentioned, a lot of people think of the crummy stuff and never bother to look a little deeper. Such quality music, being composed as a group with the audience's energy creating it as well in a weird symbiosis of sharing an experience. It's where music becomes vessel for everyone's moment; potentiating the whole thing to unbelievable spaces. I remember when I got this recording on a Maxell XL290. Wore it out. This much emotion and power just by improvising with a little structure to leap from and hop back to.
I think this is really their best. 71 was when they were really at the peak of their creativity and I never get tired of listening to the way Garcia would just soar and play with so much emotion. I feel really sad that he lost this in later years but I think thats what heroin does to people. I think he knew it too and was embarrassed by all the adulation that came later. He didn't want to rest on his laurels.
And when, in the bye and bye, time begins and ends, and the squirrels scurry up an oak tree, and the rabbits glance here and there, and the soft breezes blow and smiles summon all that is s good and pure, there you will be and they will be, too!
The Beautiful jam as its called coming out of WR and going backinto DS is one the most amazing jerry solos u will ever know.i keep listening to it over and over. It truly is beautiful
doesnt matter what its called. It is from Energy and perhaps God. I dunno , brother. But I am alive and breathing. and hoping for you. And everybody else. My gawd I am.
A masterpiece. It almost hurts to listen because of how deep the memories of my youth go. I loved a girl named Sandy who will always be my link to those days.
The beat goes on and on.... there are lots of awesome bands still touring that have spun off the Dead and who have collaborated with various members and many who’ve been heavily influenced by them. Don’t worry it ain’t going away. Keep on truckin’
This concert was one week before I was born! Happy to live at a time when we can have such unrestricted access to this inventive, freeing, beautiful music. Thanks for posting, @mrmusicneverstopped
Bobby had a way of creating such beautiful harmonic undertones back in the day. Somewhere along the way he changed to a more tinny sound that isn’t quite as nice IMHO.
He had his best sound, imo, when he used his Gibson sem-hollows-the ES-335 and 345. Then he switched to solid-body guitars around 74 or 75 somewhere. An Ibanez Artist (Japanese)first and then the Modulus Graphite and some other high-tech Strat style.
You know, given the fact that the Dead play songs in a way that they're more or less never the same twice and the fact that they allow tapers, that must mean that The Grateful Dead has produced more original music than anyone else. Is that right? I know there are jazz bands that play music like that but they don't record every show for years. And even if they did, who tours as much as the Dead? The other thing I wanted to say is that Warf Rat has some amazing lyrics.
@@joshkarosis132 so true. once you've seen behind the veil so many times, the thing you were searching for and lost the answer for becomes clear again.
It's my birthday in a couple days. I am 28 years young. And, I've got all my teeth, family by my side, a lovely caring independent women to call my own . . . it's my life :) Maybe if people stopped comparing themselves to one another, that would be enough for all of us to be who we are . . . I really just want to be happy and that's about it. I'm glad you're here to read this, that means we're both aLLive -- Nick
LSD TEARS...BUT GRATEFUL DEAD BROTHERS ARE CALLED "BROTHERS"....."BROTHA"......IS a rap/hip hop form of 'brother".....which is yo yo what's up brotha....lol
I am blessed to enjoy this fantastic band with their unique sound. I am gratefully alive with their music. It is in fact a beautiful star in my life. Old Hippy from Cape Town.
There has never been a band able to put an LSD PERMAGRIN on my face and reduce me me to tears in a few short minutes.They say music evokes emotion well Jerry and the boys were absolute masters of this ..China cat Rider from Alpine always makes me smile Happy Jerry does it every time
. I was 18 and my 2nd show. Exactly 5 months after my 1st show. This certainly cemented my relationship with the band. Forever and always. RIP John Perry Barlow, who I passed outside the Cap that night.
Read that Phil Lesh,when played this set years later was reduced to tears by it.. i know why, the post Wharfrat jam is aptly named.. Beautiful improv. guys.
I just assented to another Level. Mind you, I've been listening to this version for about 2 years. And try and play through it regularly. Jerry does a fine Keith Jarrett and Phil weeps. Yup, a keeper..
It's inspired. Check out a video called "Save Your Face Dark Starlets". It's a compilation of some incredible Dark Star jams. There's one from 4/8/72 that starts at around the 47 minute mark and it simply blows me away.
After spending some wonderfully enjoyable time with Ken Burns's Country Music over the past two weeks, I come back to this chestnut and now see parallels to country music I hadn't seen before. 400 years from now they'll be playing this sequence and the world, whatever it is at that point, will stand in awe and connect back to Mother Maybelle, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank, Johnny Cash, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, Marty Stuart and more. Of course, Ives will appear. 'Trane and Miles. Wolfie. It's all here. IT'S ALL HERE! Sorry, crystal ear vision stream appeared.....Whew....
The Capital in Port Chester. Yeah man! I was there. 17 years old and in a groove that only The Dead could provide. The music, The people, The venue, The times. Always brings a smile and happy feeling. Believe it if you need it. If you don’t just pass it on.
First saw the Dead in 1985. My life was never the same since that day. The world would be a much better place if Jerry was still alive, certainly more bearable.
If you meet a potential lover, better see if they like this. Could mean it's a one-time thing as opposed to a lifetime. This is experience talking. Get high and listen to Tom Jones?!? Buhbye.
While this music is beautiful Lesh was in the throws of depression caused by Jerry’s death at the time. I’ve heard Billy & Bobby talk about past concerts specifically fan favorites & they have almost zero memory of any eras. Everything pre 1985 (when they’d finally had enough of Jerry’s self destructive behavior followed by his coma in ‘86) blends together which makes sense I guess. Neither Billy nor Bobby say 1977 stands out to them in any way despite it being their best year + 1974 only stands out to them bc they were so worn out which is also crazy bc that’s their “other” top year.
pardon my redundant redundancy, but the words is poetry beyond compare ... 🤙 --- Dark star crashes pouring its light into ashes Reason tatters the forces tear loose from the axis Searchlight casting for faults in the clouds of delusion shall we go, you and I While we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds Mirror shatters in formless reflections of matter Glass hand dissolving to ice petal flowers revolving Lady in velvet recedes in the nights of goodbye Shall we go, you and I While we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds spinning a set the stars through which the tattered tales of axis roll about the waxen wind of never set to motion in the unbecoming round about the reason hardly matters nor the wise through which the stars were set in spin 💙
I'm so glad I am lucky to have been old enough in 1971 to have seen The Grateful Dead along with so many other amazing bands then. I feel sorry for anyone who never saw the real Grateful Dead around this time; luckily, there are many recordings for them to listen to and a few films from that amazing era as well. The audiences were much different then, too. Thanks for posting this.
I was just listening to Dead & Company and thinking how good they were. I got to admit I passed over the John Mayer trio. but then this Dark Star, Warfrat, at Dark Star comes on, and I can't stop the tears from pouring down my face! God I miss you Jerry! I never did listen to one of these RUclips mixes before, they're not so bad!!! (~);}♥️💀🐊⚡🐢🌹🎶✌️
Thank you for posting this show. I am not sure if I was at this particular show but I may have been. I went to all the Port Chester runs and would go to one show every time they played there. Always a guessing game which would be the best show to get tickets for. It is so great for me to be able to hear recordings of the Dead made when I was still a teenager living in NY and then recordings of the shows from Winterland after moving to SF
In mid60s. I listened to so much different music then and now, from hard Country to psychedelic. But I never got into the Dead. This is one far out tune though. I'll give them a 🎶 listen now. Clarity to confusion is just what I'm diggin now.
I always like to say that folks do not discover liking Grateful Dead but instead the Dead finds them. In the right place, when the timing is perfectly in the moment, then a song just takes you to a special state of mind. The music is a journey, an opening and a revelation. Because somewhere between the compositions, the lyrics, and the improvisation lies a sacred place where something so universal and complete overwhelms one with that divine sense of "ahhh" followed by a "wow, this is pretty _______________..."
![Grateful Dead - Dark Star ]] Wharf Rat ]] Dark Star (1971-02-18: Beautiful Jam)](/img/1.gif)
Cheers to all the Deadheads who found, and are listening to this song right now!
Cheers and a hardy Woohoo! unto you as well my friend 🐔🎶🎵🎶😎
Cheers! Never had such a good time!
Rit on back at tha 🙏
@Karma Mechanic nah weir every where. They're still playing in stadiums. Nfa fam!
Yup
saw them in '69 (in Austin TX) after returning from Viet Nam. After so much death and blood got lost in their music, LSD, and the terrible memories that still hover just above the little steel roof here in rural Maine. Music has the power to heal. Jerry lives in our hearts and minds.
peace Brother
I hope you spare a thought for those you killed in the name of American imperialism
@@robertlepper5460 oh stop that. It's not like many of them had a choice to go to war. We don't need your hate here.
@@robertlepper5460 thanks for your reply, believe me not a day goes by that I don't recall the bullshit that rained down on the innocent silent people of Viet Nam. In the words given to the actor in Coppolas magnum opus "the bullshit in Viet Nam piled up so high and deep you needed wings to stay above it". For myself. I was young (21) had never been away from home. We were caught up in a situation beyond our understanding or, well nothing I can say here will change anything, I was "called" by my country to go and kill people I'd never met, far to many black men served with me. I do agree however that there is a black wall in DC that lists 56000 plus or minus names who died for NOTHING, nothing was advanced, nothing was.........oh well, nothing is what we all get in the end. Sorry I may have, well you know. Peace, it's all we have left.
@@michaelmorrison8261 never forgotten. Glad you made it home...it gets me when I read comments as if you started the war...peace brother
Grateful not to be Dead, so I can listen to this. Proud to be a member of a species that can get this cosmic.
Michael Trigoboff Very well said.
Primal Headin' For Cosmic!
One more day I find myself alive!
You can listen to this on the other side. I will be jammi9ng with Jerry in a few years!!! Praise JESUS!!
No diggity no doubt
I first started properly listening to the dead about 3 years ago but in the last six months I have (mostly) stopped listening to anything but the dead. I feel blessed to have finally realised the true depth of their musical genius, and the brother/sisterhood of my fellow devotees 🙏❤️
Welcome to it, amigo. My first show was 35 years ago...today.
And I've listened to them pretty much every day since~
No violence no exploitation no Bullshit
Just Jam that is the Dead
Careful... Next they'll start callin' you a Deadhead, which you had become.
I was 13 (maybe 14) when some friends asked me to go to a free concert. It was the Grateful Dead. I'd heard of them but didn't know much about them. The concert made an addict out of me. Over 50 years later l still love them. Saw them many times and so many memories.
face stole
Growing up in the '70's I have to admit I was just a mild fan of the Dead as I was in the harder rock and prog bands of that era. But rediscovering their music now that I'm 62 gives me a true sense of solace in these scary, uncertain times. Thanks, Jerry, Pigpen, Phil, Bill, Mickey and Bob.
Same here, although I did attend a couple of Dead shows while in college. Enjoying it now in my "old age" more than ever.
Robert Hunter. ✌️
Same here. Friend gave me my 1st tape in 94. Cow Palace show from 72 or 73. I was hooked. I kick myself that I never got to see them. 50 year old fart here.
Welcome home brother. Be well and stay safe.
Hey, nothing wrong with KC.
This is the very first performance of Wharf Rat. This is the show that busted out Wharf, Greatest Story Ever Told, Bertha, Loser and Playing in the Band!! I envy anyone who was there to hear all these soon to be classic Dead songs played live for the very first time. Good 'ol Grateful Dead forever! ✌🇨🇦
As a 14 year old runaway driven there by a friend's sister's boyfriend (who had a ticket) the parking lot was as far as we got but you could often hear the sounds from those "Theaters" the east coast had then.
Ridiculous. Their run of songs 69-74, geez Marie. The Beatles, with depth.
They were probably "I wish they would stop playing all this new shit and get to 'St. Stephen'!"
@@j.pederzane9692That's a bit extreme bud. if anything the Dead were the American Beatles of the stage/road. But studio output/songwriting doesn't even compare a little. What the Beatles achieved in the studio in such a short time is unparalleled...certainly by the dead. However what the dead achieved on the road the Beatles couldn't/wouldn't come close to know matter what history might have been. my two cents. hope I'm not being rude. Healthy disagreement if anything
@@josephfinkelstein5979 It's all good. We all know de gustibus non disputandum but it's so much fun to pretend our personal tastes are stone cold truths.
If anyone is unaware. You can listen w/out being interrupted by ads(a crime in this case!) by just letting the first ad play, then slide the time indicator to the end until you see the circular "refresh" icon. Hit that & listen to this masterpiece the way it was intended. Of all the jams this is the one nobody should've cut to bits the way they have. I'm sure most know that little trick but hopefully someone will be spared that craziness. ✌🏽✌🏽 Masterpiece!
Adblock plus too! for computer users
@@Magumba_State there are plenty of ways to listen without ads if you have an Android phone
It's a travesty. Thanks.
Depends on how much RUclips u do. Personally it's worth the $11 per month as I listen to at least 2 h per day of music
Brave browser app. Thank me later.
The Dead werent just a band: They were an entire GENRE...
Psychedelic Americana.
Ya sure got that right !
They are Eternal. ॐ
No a Gift !!!
They're not just a band. They're an environment. Bill Graham
Robert Hunter passed away Monday 9/23/2019 in the night. RIP you amazing wordsmith and cosmic traveler. Sure he got on the bus but he was also smart enough to know where the best bus stop was and when to get off. He was 78 years old and survived by Maureen his long time wife.
shit i didnt know. bloody hell. no mercy.
Aw, man! He was amazing. Thank you for posting!!
Along w/Dylan...Iconic writer/chronicler/Observer of Americana covering the last 100yrs..So many memorable lines..Hunter was good..
I got no dime....but i got some time ..
To hear your story......
Oh the humanity..RIP Robt.
The Dead would have never made it without Hunter. A genuine genius in my mind and with Jerry Garcia the best composers of popular music in the last half of the 20th century.
The often invisible but clearly not silent member of the band.
RIP Robert Hunter. Your words and their imagery have brought untold richness to uncountable ears and minds, changing many, many lives for the better. I hope you're in a special place for those gifts you provided to all.
What's beautiful to me about this is how so many people can find relations to their personal lives in the lyrics and sounds, and come together to love one another purely through the grateful dead. That is beautiful. If we had more of this in the world maybe it would clean up a bit
Bobby Zimmerman zimmy!
Agree Bobby Z wake up to the boys every morning, took years to figure that on out on the old alarm clock. There is still something about Jerry's guitar filling a whole valley with pure magic. Haven't found that wake up clock yet.
Bring me back
Wonderfully put Bobby.
A simply yet wonderful sense of community
Started age 11, just passed 50 and still here. Music will never stop being music, to me.
Started at 14, still obsessed at 61. Still finding surprises.
Easily my favourite Darkstar. The transition after Wharf Rat is the most phenomenally beautiful piece of music I’ve ever heard. The Mikaela Davis version is absolutely on par with it though. This music is magical in every way🌼🌺🌻🌸🙏☮️❤️🍄🌈
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musical transition is what the Grateful Dead do better than anyone
@river-jordan612 , at 15:33, this is one of the most devastatingly beautiful things I've ever heard. I actually cried. 100% right
@@lizlalove6171 Yes. I come to this every time I walk. The transition at exactly when you mention literally makes tears come to my eyes every time. It is so profoundly emotionally intense it is unreal.
That may be why it's called "Beautiful Jam"!
Listened to this for the first time after hours at a radio station with my one of my good friends. Undoubtedly one of the most moving experiences of my life so far. We were swearing, yelling, lying on the floor, dancing, and by the end we were silent. According to my friend, Phil Lesh had no memory of this performance, but cried upon listening back to it, and I can see why. So grateful to have this band in my life!
Cried??? Probably all the cocaine clogging his sinuses
Dark Star was always a living song, never the same twice
same as shakedown, same as help>slip>frank, same as scarlet>fire. never the same. that's why we love these fuckers.
Interesting Thank you
@@charlie.something Charlie something... something foggy
You might say the same of any Dead song.
Not really even a song. More like an experiment. Auditory alchemy. Ritualistic magic with a 5-8 person covenant including also audiences of millions eventually. Mass hypnosis, hysteria, and massively heavy.
I was there. My second Dead show. Words can't say.
17 years old and no clue what was ahead. This music was my comfort zone in a turbulent time.
Mr. Garcia was that crazy cool guy that took tickets on the roller coaster
and let you ride again & again for free...
How I loved that guy! We miss you so much dude!
Always a hoot captain!
"Always a hoot" Much love
All Aboard !! ❤ 🐈 💀
Strangest captain I could find
Mr. Garcia was the guy who took ufw's ticket and then stared him in the eye and said no ticket, no ride
jerrys playing is so beautiful
The best rat sandwich I ever ate! R.I.P. Jerry! Its such a cold, dead and lonely world without you!
Jason R His music lives on, and we'll keep it alive
There are 7 billion people on earth - If you really feel lonely, I dont think one more guy existing would tip the balance
@@NowhereMan7 Uh, yeah...about that. They said the same thing about the Buddha, Nikola Tesla, Jesus, Einstien and Jonas Salk, Marconi, and Beethoven, Da Vinci, Socrates. And Stephen Hawking. Too mention only a few individuals who have changed the course of history. Some in their selected field. And others whose influence is felt every single day by the same 7 or 8 billion hunans that you mentioned. All of us roaming our small blue-green oasis in this vast mysterious universe. Like the others mentioned Jerry Garcia brought not only the gift of his virtuosity playing the guitar. But he brought out of us our own humanity. Which many of us would have never experienced without him. You may not see the light. But we do.
Peace.
@@NowhereMan7 Yeah, that's an oddly negative thing to say about a comment that was full of warm sentiment and sadness. Just for a second, imagine if someone said something like that to you after your mother died or something. "Dude, there's plenty of old ladies around. What's the big deal?" Lol.
And the comment wasn't about his personal loneliness. It was about what Jerry brought to the world. When Jerry died, a part of all of his fans died too. Some of us spent years following him around from city to city living on Ramen noodles and grilled cheeses. Jerry was literally a HUGE part of some people's life. And it was all cut short so abruptly. He was only 53 years old.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you were just having a bad day or something when you wrote that. I'm sure we've all made similar mistakes. I know I have. So, peace to you and yours.
@@NowhereMan7 He was number 1!!! Spongebob reference in a Dead chain, love it!!!!
This has to be a soundboard. Sounds crystal clear.
Most Cosmic Darkstar\Wharf Rat I have ever heard..This is a "must listen " at least once a week...love it!
every time I listen to the Dead, it does something to my soul that I have no words for...So love it!
Been stuck on Morning Dew for my latest Dead obsession, playing and watching all the versions I can find, no new music can make me feel emotions like this, true beauty
@@lloydclaussen9132 exactly,,For about 4 years straight now I have listened to the dead everyday ...Got into collecting vinyl and I have 28 pieces of dead vinyl now....The music never stops here..
that's why they're A Band beyond description ⚡💀⚡🎸🎶🎼🎶🎹🎵😊😊😊😊
It awakens your soul.
I hear ya' (~);}
Glad you enjoyed the music, we enjoyed being able to record this and all the other gems we can now listen to over and over and on and on.
Ken Lee ...who’s we?
Thanks for your work brother
This is an amazing recording. I am truly... Grateful
Thanks for all the recordings..
Kevin Barry... Ken and Judy
I've got goosebumps man, they are just playing so together, complementing each other perfectly and meeting at the same points. Absolutely on fire.
This is the song that plays eternally in the universe, and every time we hear it is just the moment when we happen to be tuning in to the song that never ends.
That is an amazing comment. Forgive me
For asking but the internet you know- are you really a priest, Father?
@@janeseamore1370 Yes, Jane, I've been a pastor of Lutheran congregations in Montana and Alaska for the last 25 years. I know it freaks some people out a little when a pastor loves the Grateful Dead, but both are a part of who I truly am.
Very astute comment. I often think "it" is always there. Takes the right group of people to merge into it and open it up for us all. Always there.
Interesting thought. Reminds me of a 'vision' I had one afternoon I've not told many people while listening to plenty of Dead as I was generally inclined to do on such occasions. It's theme was 'how stars are made'. It was the end of earth history (however far into the future it took to get there wasn't clear) and everyone was of one heart/mind and 'ready'. The bands all over the world took the stage and began to play .. each taking breaks as necessary but 'the music never stopped' right? At one point I was able to fly across from one scene to the next and all the bands were actually playing the same song but I'd catch them at different points of the various improvisations of the theme. And finally .. it could have been days ... they/we all reached that moment when it all just came together .. and then like a massive bolt of lightening coming out from within .. we, and the earth, gently burst into a star!
Legend has it Jerry levitated slightly during this Dark Star.
I dig
I was SO sure Jer was going to lift me right off my feet at StLouisFox during an early '70s DarkStar I began picturing the mildly surprised faces of those around me. Truly sublime ...phew
Lmao, fuckin hippies xD
Not sure if Jer was levitating or he was on the ground making everyone else levitate. But yes Sir, in 2020 still going strong.. :-)
Rumor has it that he levitated during all dark stars, but maybe it was just me to the time he was twisting all of our minds into one whirled peas in unison
This is one of the most beautiful versions of these songs I've ever heard. Brings peace and tranquility to me every time I listen to it.
in the top three best renditions of Dark Star without a shadow of doubt
they played Bertha, Playing in the Band, and Loser for the first time that night as well. Sometime in that run, they also did a smoking Here Comes Sunshine, with a jazzy galloping beat I haven't heard since. Songs for the ages!
+sugarhollowdaddy1 are you sure about Here Comes Sunshine being played in 1971?
"Sometime in that run, they also did a smoking Here Comes Sunshine." Nope. "Here Comes Sunshine" didn't debut until 1973.
the first greatest story ever told was in this show
Some songs don't get recorded at first. I know Zeppelin played songs that appeared on later albums live in their early concerts
That's common knowledge. And common practice.
Listening to this on the day of Mr Robert Hunter's passing. Two songs with absolutely timeless lyrics that feel as though they're from another era, and yet still contemporary as hell. Dark Star, of course, was the first song he wrote for the band. "Shall we go, while we can, through the transitive nighfall of diamonds?" And indeed go they did. Bless the Dead!
Jerry sounds high af starting the lyrics to DS... Then, he gets focused.
The whole thing is just amazing as hell. All cylinders firing -an early taste of my favorite span of years for this band: '69-'78. The excesses began catching up with them. Rough patches, then the mid-late 80s were solid but never as good as the early stuff.
When the Dead is mentioned, a lot of people think of the crummy stuff and never bother to look a little deeper. Such quality music, being composed as a group with the audience's energy creating it as well in a weird symbiosis of sharing an experience.
It's where music becomes vessel for everyone's moment; potentiating the whole thing to unbelievable spaces.
I remember when I got this recording on a Maxell XL290. Wore it out.
This much emotion and power just by improvising with a little structure to leap from and hop back to.
Scott Roy 👍 know how you feel here.✌️
I think this is really their best. 71 was when they were really at the peak of their creativity and I never get tired of listening to the way Garcia would just soar and play with so much emotion. I feel really sad that he lost this in later years but I think thats what heroin does to people. I think he knew it too and was embarrassed by all the adulation that came later. He didn't want to rest on his laurels.
And when, in the bye and bye, time begins and ends, and the squirrels scurry up an oak tree, and the rabbits glance here and there, and the soft breezes blow and smiles summon all that is s good and pure, there you will be and they will be, too!
The Beautiful jam as its called coming out of WR and going backinto DS is one the most amazing jerry solos u will ever know.i keep listening to it over and over. It truly is beautiful
Absolutely my friend!
Truer words and all that
who said, "I never met a Dark Star that I didn't like..." (?) David Gans? I think..me too
doesnt matter what its called. It is from Energy and perhaps God.
I dunno , brother.
But I am alive and breathing. and hoping for you. And everybody else.
My gawd I am.
It really is brother man, I don't understand how people can't tune into this beauty
A masterpiece. It almost hurts to listen because of how deep the memories of my youth go. I loved a girl named Sandy who will always be my link to those days.
damn this is where all the last hippies are! hello dead heads
Grayson Gabriel Indeed. Hello right back at ya ⚡️💀🌹
Hey, man! Yes we are...I learned everything I know from the Grateful Deas!
yee haw!
@Tuomas Vohlonen you ever try the grateful dead's coffee though? Lol
The beat goes on and on.... there are lots of awesome bands still touring that have spun off the Dead and who have collaborated with various members and many who’ve been heavily influenced by them. Don’t worry it ain’t going away. Keep on truckin’
WOW! I have listened to many a dark star in my life.....but this one is really special.
This concert was one week before I was born! Happy to live at a time when we can have such unrestricted access to this inventive, freeing, beautiful music. Thanks for posting, @mrmusicneverstopped
Happy belated birthday.
I got no dime but i got some time to hear your story...
It's 2022 and this is as good as the moment the strings were played.
This might be my all time favorite Wharf Rat. Totally righteous post. Thanks Mr. MNS.
Definitely mine also, just the whole package here man!
Dennis Campbell yes, sharing this with a friend for whp
I was gonna comment the same. Wow, first time I hear it.
Agree
I believe this is the very first Warf Rat
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Beautiful Jam is magical. The Star is interstellar. Rat is moving. Words are inadequate.
Beautiful... This was the year I was born and still listening after 31 shows..
Bobby had a way of creating such beautiful harmonic undertones back in the day. Somewhere along the way he changed to a more tinny sound that isn’t quite as nice IMHO.
That is him screaming in St Stephen!
He had his best sound, imo, when he used his Gibson sem-hollows-the ES-335 and 345. Then he switched to solid-body guitars around 74 or 75 somewhere. An Ibanez Artist (Japanese)first and then the Modulus Graphite and some other high-tech Strat style.
The Gibson SG Jerry Garcia era was king.
…Bobby is playing stadiums full of thousands ✌🏽
@@emakelley6807 Including me.
This was one of Ned Lagin's first times sitting in with the band. That's him playing the clavichord (the harpsichord-sounding keyboard instrument).
You know, given the fact that the Dead play songs in a way that they're more or less never the same twice and the fact that they allow tapers, that must mean that The Grateful Dead has produced more original music than anyone else. Is that right? I know there are jazz bands that play music like that but they don't record every show for years. And even if they did, who tours as much as the Dead?
The other thing I wanted to say is that Warf Rat has some amazing lyrics.
I think when you've done so much lsd back in the day ya just don't need it anymore..
Just a clear night plenty of stars an some grateful dead ..
You said it brother
Yea I'll never stop trippin.but I do still see trails from the 80s-90s...lol...
You can only gain so much from lsd. Once you've got it, you don't need L anymore to own the mental benefits
The long strange trip never ends
@@joshkarosis132 so true. once you've seen behind the veil so many times, the thing you were searching for and lost the answer for becomes clear again.
I listen to the jam over and over.... ahhhhhh.. thanks for sharing!!!
They're truly in a class all their own...beautiful.
It's my birthday in a couple days. I am 28 years young. And, I've got all my teeth, family by my side, a lovely caring independent women to call my own . . . it's my life :) Maybe if people stopped comparing themselves to one another, that would be enough for all of us to be who we are . . . I really just want to be happy and that's about it. I'm glad you're here to read this, that means we're both aLLive -- Nick
Just got done at Jerrys 75th birthday party!! Happy Birthday Jerry!! What a gift you have left upon the world!! THANK YOU !!! Red rocks 2017
I broke down crying during this one in such a good way, beautiful Grateful Dead that is all...
+Zen Grohman WOW FAR OUT MAN...LSD
+MERRYJERRYL Furthur out every time I listen, cried like a baby. A BIG TRIPPING BABYYY!!
_Grateful_Zen_ surely something to cry about in a joyful blissful cosmic psychedelic hallucinogenic way!.,,
LSD TEARS...BUT GRATEFUL DEAD BROTHERS ARE CALLED "BROTHERS"....."BROTHA"......IS a rap/hip hop form of 'brother".....which is yo yo what's up brotha....lol
+MERRYJERRYL Brother man, brother.
Hey Now, It doesn't get better then this...Music to set your soul on fire.....
That's how I feel right right now, high as fuck!
fire!!
The music never will stop. A monstrous Dead Playlist plays through my head daily. Such a soothing groove for the daily life.
I am blessed to enjoy this fantastic band with their unique sound. I am gratefully alive with their music. It is in fact a beautiful star in my life. Old Hippy from Cape Town.
I love many if not all genres of music, but this piece blows me away in it's beauty. And to think it happened spontaneously takes it beyond ..
There has never been a band able to put an LSD PERMAGRIN on my face and reduce me me to tears in a few short minutes.They say music evokes emotion well Jerry and the boys were absolute masters of this ..China cat Rider from Alpine always makes me smile Happy Jerry does it every time
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I was 18 and my 2nd show. Exactly 5 months after my 1st show. This certainly cemented my relationship with the band. Forever and always. RIP John Perry Barlow, who I passed outside the Cap that night.
bob vienckowski what sate is this from?
Read that Phil Lesh,when played this set years later was reduced to tears by it.. i know why, the post Wharfrat jam is aptly named.. Beautiful improv. guys.
Not many bands can evoke such feelings, enjoy the music man...Im gonna give it another spin,now youve mentioned it.
Amazin Wharf Rat !, so clean and tight
I just assented to another Level. Mind you, I've been listening to this version for about 2 years. And try and play through it regularly. Jerry does a fine Keith Jarrett and Phil weeps. Yup, a keeper..
ruclips.net/video/7hzZc8-s4So/видео.html
Not reduced, elevated to tears, Yasss!!!
The solo at the climax in dark star is simply interdimensional
Most of the time I believe the post Wharf Rat jam is the most beautiful music the Grateful Dead ever played.
It's inspired. Check out a video called "Save Your Face Dark Starlets". It's a compilation of some incredible Dark Star jams. There's one from 4/8/72 that starts at around the 47 minute mark and it simply blows me away.
After spending some wonderfully enjoyable time with Ken Burns's Country Music over the past two weeks, I come back to this chestnut and now see parallels to country music I hadn't seen before. 400 years from now they'll be playing this sequence and the world, whatever it is at that point, will stand in awe and connect back to Mother Maybelle, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank, Johnny Cash, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, Marty Stuart and more. Of course, Ives will appear. 'Trane and Miles. Wolfie. It's all here. IT'S ALL HERE! Sorry, crystal ear vision stream appeared.....Whew....
Heaven. My captain of musical bliss
First ever wharf rat, they also did a few other first time played. Beautiful jam is also in this medley. One of my favorite shows.
listened to a lot of wharf rat, this specific transition had me in a magical daze, my goodness.
I was so fortunate to have been at this concert I remember wondering at the time about the combination of Dark Star & Wharf Rat
So worth it to get the headphones out for this excellent recording and beautiful selection.
This is my favorite era of the Dead. I love these early 70's Dark Stars.
The Capital in Port Chester. Yeah man! I was there. 17 years old and in a groove that only The Dead could provide. The music, The people, The venue, The times. Always brings a smile and happy feeling.
Believe it if you need it. If you don’t just pass it on.
First saw the Dead in 1985. My life was never the same since that day. The world would be a much better place if Jerry was still alive, certainly more bearable.
Totally precious and kind. Thank you for posting.
My Dad's birthday was Feb. 18th 1920. He would have liked this.
Who thumbs this down?...what a world !
I'll kick their arse
If you meet a potential lover, better see if they like this. Could mean it's a one-time thing as opposed to a lifetime. This is experience talking. Get high and listen to Tom Jones?!? Buhbye.
They were stoned and couldn’t figure out how to fix their screw up, ran away screaming
I know I've listened to this at least a few hundred times. And I swear it gets better Everytime I hear it!!
This is aptly named….Beautiful jam…..when Phil heard this 40 yrs later he cried…..
While this music is beautiful Lesh was in the throws of depression caused by Jerry’s death at the time. I’ve heard Billy & Bobby talk about past concerts specifically fan favorites & they have almost zero memory of any eras. Everything pre 1985 (when they’d finally had enough of Jerry’s self destructive behavior followed by his coma in ‘86) blends together which makes sense I guess. Neither Billy nor Bobby say 1977 stands out to them in any way despite it being their best year + 1974 only stands out to them bc they were so worn out which is also crazy bc that’s their “other” top year.
This song was my intro to the Dead 40+yrs ago. The hook that landed me is 2 minutes in.
So pretty. Jerry and Phil really shine here. So nice.
Bobby’s rhythm parts 👌
Beautiful atmospherics with those octaves on Wharf Rat
We're all here. Together, separate but here. Open your mind, fist and perception. The new age has arrived. Live it
this song was their canvas on which to create beautiful masterpieces.
I dreamt I was at a Dead show asking people if they dreamt about being at Dead shows
Far out Robert!
The Beautiful Jam is transcendent beyond description.
Best guitar/amp tones during thus period, IMO
pardon my redundant redundancy, but the words is poetry beyond compare ... 🤙
--- Dark star crashes
pouring its light
into ashes
Reason tatters
the forces tear loose
from the axis
Searchlight casting
for faults in the
clouds of delusion
shall we go,
you and I
While we can?
Through
the transitive nightfall
of diamonds
Mirror shatters
in formless reflections
of matter
Glass hand dissolving
to ice petal flowers
revolving
Lady in velvet
recedes
in the nights of goodbye
Shall we go,
you and I
While we can?
Through
the transitive nightfall
of diamonds
spinning a set the stars through which the tattered tales of axis roll about the waxen wind of never set to motion in the unbecoming round about the reason hardly matters nor the wise through which the stars were set in spin
💙
Thanks bro
Breathtaking
I'm so glad I am lucky to have been old enough in 1971 to have seen The Grateful Dead along with so many other amazing bands then. I feel sorry for anyone who never saw the real Grateful Dead around this time; luckily, there are many recordings for them to listen to and a few films from that amazing era as well. The audiences were much different then, too. Thanks for posting this.
I was just listening to Dead & Company and thinking how good they were. I got to admit I passed over the John Mayer trio. but then this Dark Star, Warfrat, at Dark Star comes on, and I can't stop the tears from pouring down my face! God I miss you Jerry! I never did listen to one of these RUclips mixes before, they're not so bad!!! (~);}♥️💀🐊⚡🐢🌹🎶✌️
I really have to listen to more of 71...wow.
Beautiful! When I get stressed I smoke a bowl with the Dead on headphones, everything melting in nothingness. 🍄
AHH! It's not nothingness it's "be here, be now" a la Timmy Leary and the, well you know
That's what it's all about at the end of the live long day
'71, my first year on the bus. I missed my stop and never got off. Grate Days indeed.
so emotional, i cried my tears
What a fantastic cut! Thanks for the upload
Thank you for posting this show. I am not sure if I was at this particular show but I may have been. I went to all the Port Chester runs and would go to one show every time they played there. Always a guessing game which would be the best show to get tickets for. It is so great for me to be able to hear recordings of the Dead made when I was still a teenager living in NY and then recordings of the shows from Winterland after moving to SF
Exquisite
Tears of love and joy
Magic is what they do
Music is how they do it
Rhythm cures fear
Easily one of their 10 best jams
Superb. So thankful to have this band and their music to absorb on a daily basis.
Wonderful!!!!!!!!!! Thanks
impossible music...its just perfect...i get goose bumps everytime i listen to it...and ive been listening to it for over 20 years...
Priceless. Thanks for sharing. Joe
In mid60s. I listened to so much different music then and now, from hard Country to psychedelic. But I never got into the Dead. This is one far out tune though. I'll give them a 🎶 listen now. Clarity to confusion is just what I'm diggin now.
I always like to say that folks do not discover liking Grateful Dead but instead the Dead finds them. In the right place, when the timing is perfectly in the moment, then a song just takes you to a special state of mind. The music is a journey, an opening and a revelation. Because somewhere between the compositions, the lyrics, and the improvisation lies a sacred place where something so universal and complete overwhelms one with that divine sense of "ahhh" followed by a "wow, this is pretty _______________..."