The band had just returned from their spring jaunt across Europe that would produce the legendary live album Europe ’72, and new pianist Keith Godchaux had been fully integrated into the group’s jam style. One version that frequently gets brought up in conversations of the best ‘Dark Star’ performances is August 27th, 1972, in Veneta, Oregon. While the performance captured on February 27th, 1969, at the Fillmore East in San Francisco is probably the most widely-distributed version of the track thanks to its appearance on the 1969 live album Live/Dead, there are literally hundreds of ‘Dark Star’ performances for fans to parse through and defend across the band’s extended live catalogue. ![]() ![]() So that brings us back to the best version of the song. It took a one-off appearance in 1978 for fans to restart their calls for the song, and with only six performances total in the 1980s, ‘Dark Star’ quickly gained a reputation as the rarest and most exciting of Dead breakouts at any particular concert. ![]() Between 1973 and the band’s hiatus from touring starting in late 1974, ‘Dark Star’ was played less and less frequently.
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