Stormy Mondays: Wave That Flag

For the third annual Stormy Mondays Fourth of July episode we have a monster Grateful Dead show closer from the very beginning of the legendary Europe ‘72 tour (4/8/72 at the Wembley Empire Pool in London), a weighty piece of psychedelic fogginess close to an hour long. An ethereal Dark Star stretches across a vast terrain, loaded with distinct segments, screaming guitar work along with some really fantastic playing from Keith.

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It’s an odyssey to undertake, delving into deep, deep caverns of frightening emptiness and space, but eventually the band works through a maddening meltdown and eases into that gorgeous GDTRFB passage that shows up periodically in early ’70s GD in any number of places, and it glows. The jam bounds upward, and the group tears into Sugar Magnolia and then surprisingly into the first Caution in a year and a half. Phil and Jerry pound into the final train wreck with stunning, evil grin eliciting force. Enjoy!

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