If you’ve been a fan of HT for awhile you know about our love for the National Pastime. With spring in the air (although it did snow in NYC the
The Disco Biscuits performing at the Crystal Bay Club Casino in Crystal Bay, NV on April 4th, 2009 – and the Eureka Theater in Eureka, CA on April 5th, 2009.
Fiona Apple – Not About Love
In November 2007, everyone’s favorite traveling NYC chef & food personality Anthony Bourdain was the subject of an interview with Google’s Chef Nate Keller. It is a no holds barred
Tonight’s quite the night for music in the Big Apple. Umphrey’s returns to New York City for a pair of shows at the Nokia, The McLovins make their NYC debut
In the tradition of welcoming our favorite bloggers to contribute to Hidden Track, I’ve asked Don de Leaumont of The Great Southern Brainfart to help revive the long dormant Grousing
New York City’s own Yeah Yeah Yeahs the musical guests on this weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live. The trio will play a few tunes off their new album, It’s
In what seems to be the hot thing to do among indie acts these days (for examples see Jenny Lewis and Arcade Fire) – Conor Oberst is set to release
We’re passing this along from Umphrey’s McGee’s blog The Floor. When 18 year old Derrick Meade was diagnosed with level IV lymphoma he could of asked for anything from the
[Originally Published: September 27, 2007] When San Francisco’s Grateful Dead first played the song Dark Star in 1967, it signaled a major change in the both the band’s songwriting and the way they approached improvisation. What had been a jug band two years earlier was now revolutionizing rock by combining aspects of psychedlia, jazz and classical music into their songs.
The Dead played 232 versions of Dark Star between 1967 to 1994, according to Deadbase, and each one sounds completely different from the others (there’s a snowflakes and fingerprints joke here, but we’re not quite that lame). Over the years we’ve listened to many of these 232 versions, and we’ve come up with a special B List of our 10 favorites, including a link to streams of each show.
1. 9/21/72 – Jerry and the boys do a nice job of keeping things interesting throughout 37 glorious minutes of improvisation
2. 2/15/73 – Great cohesive jamming throughout the entire song
3. 2/27/69 – This version of Dark Star, which was released as part of Live/Dead, was the first version I ever heard and helped me get into the music of Dead. It still stands up today as an incredible example of how ferociously the Dead used to jam in the early days. Read on for seven more classic Dark Stars…
