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  • The Worst "Dark Star" is Grayfolded

    From Pluted Pup@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 16 10:45:45 2022
    I've been told that the 2 CD set Grayfolded is "Dark Stars strung
    together" but it isn't, it's a bunch of butchered excerpts in a
    careless random collage that has no musical flow, unlike a real Dark
    Star, it even edits in vocal repeats with abrasive results. That was
    my impression. The best part is on the second CD where an actual
    Dark Star is allowed to flow for 15 minutes, but the full Dark Star
    it's taken from would be perhaps better than just a lengthy excerpt.

    Has there been strung together and/or edited lengthy Dark Star
    compilations that have a musical flow and are not mockeries like
    Grayfolded?

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  • From Rick Wolfish@21:1/5 to Pluted Pup on Tue Aug 16 11:05:21 2022
    On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 1:45:51 PM UTC-4, Pluted Pup wrote:
    I've been told that the 2 CD set Grayfolded is "Dark Stars strung
    together" but it isn't, it's a bunch of butchered excerpts in a
    careless random collage that has no musical flow, unlike a real Dark
    Star, it even edits in vocal repeats with abrasive results. That was
    my impression. The best part is on the second CD where an actual
    Dark Star is allowed to flow for 15 minutes, but the full Dark Star
    it's taken from would be perhaps better than just a lengthy excerpt.

    Has there been strung together and/or edited lengthy Dark Star
    compilations that have a musical flow and are not mockeries like
    Grayfolded?
    This does not answer your question but many years ago when I was in college in SF a friend asked me to make a cassette tape of lots of versions of Eyes Of The World, his favorite song. If I say so myself it was pretty cool.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Rick Wolfish on Wed Aug 17 11:07:01 2022
    Rick Wolfish <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:

    On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 1:45:51 PM UTC-4, Pluted Pup
    wrote:
    I've been told that the 2 CD set Grayfolded is "Dark Stars
    strung together" but it isn't, it's a bunch of butchered
    excerpts in a careless random collage that has no musical
    flow, unlike a real Dark Star, it even edits in vocal
    repeats with abrasive results. That was my impression. The
    best part is on the second CD where an actual Dark Star is
    allowed to flow for 15 minutes, but the full Dark Star
    it's taken from would be perhaps better than just a
    lengthy excerpt.

    Has there been strung together and/or edited lengthy Dark
    Star compilations that have a musical flow and are not
    mockeries like Grayfolded?
    This does not answer your question but many years ago when
    I was in college in SF a friend asked me to make a cassette
    tape of lots of versions of Eyes Of The World, his
    favorite song. If I say so myself it was pretty cool.


    https://archive.org/details/gd1977-12-31_505


    "Tuning '77" - a seamless audio supercut of an entire year of
    the Grateful Dead tuning their instruments, live on stage.
    Chronologically sequenced, this remix incorporates every
    publicly available recording from 1977, examining the divide
    between audience expectation and performance anxiety.

    Source: all 1977 recordings from archive.org's collection, as of
    12/05/2012.

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