TnJ 1039 (5/29/25)
Five deep pocket jams over two hours;
mostly recent and all from April with one outlier:
a 1989 Grateful Dead Halloween week classic
that's been hailed as the "scariest Dark Star ever."
-HOUR ONE-
BILLY STRINGS
Turmoil and Tinfoil
(Apr 19, 2025 - Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary, NC)
EGGY
Sweaters For Strawmen >
Tomorrow Never Knows (Beatles cover) >
Island Afterlife
(Apr 29, 2023 - Wonder Bar, Asbury Park, NJ)
-HOUR TWO-
SPAFFORD
Money For Nothing
DIRE STRAIGHTS cover
(Apr 19, 2025 - Pisgah Brewing Company, Black Mountain, NC)
PHISH
Get Back On the Train
(Apr 18, 2025 - Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, WA)
GRATEFUL DEAD
Dark Star
(10/26/89, Miami Arena, FL)
EastCoastDave on Archive.org: “This Dark Star just destroys everything in its path... Jerry's voice is still a little froggy, but the jamming makes up for it.”
ConstipatedCowboy on r/gratefuldead: “This was the second show -actually the second event of any kind - at the Miami Arena. It was brand spanking new. The first event was Julio Iglesias I think the previous night. There were heavy glass tiles all around the concourse and the sunset was distorted through the glass tiles and amplified / illuminated weirdly all over the concourse like staring at a sunset through a million prisms."
Enlightened_deadhead: “If you want to take a journey into your psyche and see what associations lie in wait - fear not for the whole world is in this one Dark Star...tv static, racquetball courts, time-machines, medieval torture, insect communication, funeral horns of new orleans, buddhist scripture, worldbeat, witches incantations, ice-ages, wars, raga, muzak, volcanoes, black holes, peruvian indigenous sounds, crawling, creeping, gliding, seething ends, beginnings, and tight rope walking over some huge abyss.”
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