Introduced to listeners via a short and far-out 7" in early 1968 and the standard side-long take of Live/Dead in 1969, the April 8th, 1972 version is not a “Dark Star” of gaping existential canyons jagged with feedback.
Elongated fast ’n’ furious blues jams and Wild West saloon swagger were dosed with jazzier, subtler improvisations, the Dead’s musical shorthand cribbed from the simultaneous soloing of Dixieland music.
In April of 1972, the Dead commenced a major European tour, almost two months long and a definitive musical turning point. The band’s definitive psychedelic jam epic, with wondrous versions in nearly every era it appeared. Written by: Grateful Dead and Robert Hunter
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