The feedback is positive as you are left on a new potato caboose of graceful instuments where your love has become a toothless crone.įive stars on this one and thanks to Pete for dropping this nugg upon us. Then Pig takes over and provides a history lesson in the blues involving a gypsy woman who schools him on the aspect that all one really needs is just a touch.of mojo hand. A young Phillip Chapman Lesh unleashes his mighty bass as the Rhythm Devils pound away setting you off on a rocket ship to a higher existence. Pig calls for his whiskey as the boys tear down the Fillmore, gas the Avalon and build a Shrine to mind-bending expansiveness. The meat is the Alligator > Drumz > Alligator > Caution. Can you pass the acid test? Let's just say I graduated magna cum laude and was ready to pursue a master's degree. The bus came by and our next stop was late summer '68 on the West Coast for an ivy league education in the Psychedelic Blues from Professor Pigpen. When Pete unearthed this gem we could not believe our ears or our minds. We were all searching for the sound in those days and the score was a crispy lo-gen SBD. It was circa 1994 when my boy Pete's Dank rolled into town like a runaway freight train with this dirty nugg he had brought with him from Madtown. Steven is at the end of Dark Star and Drums>Gator>Caution are all one track kind of annoying. The only negative I could muster here (and this is nothing against the show itself) is the tracking is really poor. That cut is a total bummer though.Īnd Alligator>Caution - well, all I can say is there's a reason they included as a the Anthem bonus track this is one of the best versions they ever did.
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Just when you think they're running out of gas, it picks up a full head of steam during the transition to Death Don't. The speed and intensity of this version is unbelievable. The Eleven - damn, the night after is great, but this trumps it easily.
'68 Dark Stars may be seen by some as more "one dimensional" but not me. My new favorite of '68 - Jerry's range of tone, color and emotion is just mesmerizing. Listening to this Dark Star again, man this is just great stuff. Just sheer balls during TOO, Cryptical is gorgeously jammed out, rising to a wonderful peak and then quietly gliding to a halt. The Other One/Cryptical is fully formed by these shows and I think this could be my favorite of the four. It's been said before but Fall '68 (starting here) thru April '69 has got to be one of the most consistently excellent and exciting periods of the band's history. This whole run of 8/21-24 is just mind-blowing stuff.
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