![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What makes the version of 'Dark Star' from Miami worthy of review is its wealth of new exploratory ideas unearthed do to the advent of a new sound arsenal and confidence. The tour was brimming with song breakouts and extended improvisations none more impressive than the return of 'Dark Star' The version on October 26th the final of three, is arguably the best and the one I am enjoying, although all of them offer unique moments deserving of inspection. Garcia also returned to his beloved 1970's guitar, 'The Wolf', outfitted with a full MIDI exploration hook up. Multiple factors including but not limited to Garcia's renewed health, the bands new found popularity, as well a new found camaraderie and consistency in the band equated to a tour that reached new and exciting heights. There is a consensus that from Spring 1989 until Brent Mydland's untimely death after the 1990 Summer tour that the Grateful Dead had a achieved a renaissance, never again to be reached before Jerry Garcia's death in 1995. The Fall 1989 versions initiated by the new MIDI effects units that the group had introduced in the Spring revealed an enlivened and refueled 'Dark Star' with fresh avenues for exploration. From 1978 to the 'Dark Star' breakout in 1989, the band would only play the song three times, with the three versions in my opinion paling in comparison to the versions preceding it. The song could no longer offer the transformational doorways so accessible to the musicians in the past. ![]() After years of mind expanding and boundary stretching versions from 1968-1974 of 'Dark Star', the band found that their glorious tool to access secret realms of improvisation had become stale. ![]()
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