ccxlv. GRATEFUL DEAD: Dark Star

ccxlv. GRATEFUL DEAD

Dark Star (1969)
Tom Constanten, organ
Jerry Garcia, guitar, vocals
Mickey Hart, drums, percussion
Bill Kreutzmann, drums, percussion
Phil Lesh, bass, vocals
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, vocals, congas
Bob Weir, guitar, vocals
(23:07)

from: Live/Dead.

February 27, 1969, Fillmore West. Tickets were $3.75 ...

Out of nothingness, Garcia's guitar worms its way through the haze of the sonic vibrations of the atmosphere ... and

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
Shal we go you and I while we can
Through the TRANSITIVE nightfall of diamonds?

Garcia finds a riff, the rest of the band latches on and off they go, until ...

Mirror shatters
In formless reflections of matter
Glass hand dissolving in 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 ...