Dark Star [Grayfolded]… Forever
The Grateful Dead playing Dark Star forever and ever and ever… Or. Are. They?
[Dark Star] Grayfolded 1 & 2 – John Oswald Grateful Dead. As CDs or as 3-LP 180-gram set
Let me pull some quotes from the Amazon comments:
“What Oswald did was use parts of the Dead playing “Dark Star” to create his own piece.”
“In some pressings of [CD] disc 2, there are three minutes of extra music hidden before the Multiple Garcias shout “transitive nightfall of diamonds”.
“He has taken over a hundred hours of tapes from the Dead Vaults ,all of performances of Dark Star and compiled ,segued and overdubbed a symphony of the Dead.”
“…as we hear Jerry Garcia in 1971 duelling with Jerry Garcia in 1991”
Part of “The Dark Star” effect, for me, is that we could listen as they actually had the guts to subject unwary crowds to this kind of “This is how your thoughts sound on Pluto. Say Hello’ music. And how much the crowds [and me!] liked it.
This is not that.
That said, this album sounds like it would be very … uh…. inspiring. Yeah. That’s it. I bet they sell a lot in Boulder. It’s on my list [have to see if Neli will… uh…. not like…. them tampering with perfection by remixing the Dead like this. 🙂 ]
[Thanks to TwoGoodEars for posting about this album. Wow.]
OK. Neli tells me we have this album. That we have had it for years.
I kind of find this somewhat annoying. I mean… cool. I want to hear it. But….
Then she tells me that I HAVE heard it.
*sigh*
Hmmm… not to seem like a total space case I can say in my defense that she often puts on CDs or LPs while I am in my office and she doesn’t necessarily (ever 🙂 ) tell me what it is that we all are listening to
Glad I got that off my chest. Sure, I’m a space cadet, but not THAT far gone yet. [I am hoping] 🙂
Ah ha!
Now she says she “can’t find it”.
Now one has to wonder who is the REAL space case and do we really have this album or did she just THINK about getting this album and it is sitting on page 65 in her Amazon cart or something…
😉