“Dark Star” was the song that sums up everything the Grateful Dead ever set out to be. “If it were possible for us to be able to survive playing music that was as potentially free and open as ‘Dark Star,’ it’s likely that we would do that,” Jerry Garcia told Rolling Stone in 1971. “We’re trying to guide ourselves into a place where we can become more music, where we can play more music and have it get to higher places and express finer and subtler things.” Robert Hunter wrote the poetry, and the untamed minds of the Grateful Dead turned it into a long-running conversation that they stretched out for 25 years, from the Sixties to the Nineties. They began playing it at the end of 1967, and kept at it until 1994, with long stretches of time where they didn’t go near it at all.

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