9/16/72: two days after the first partial mix of the lagin/lesh/garcia studio recording “seastones” was submitted to clive davis at A&R records, the dead rolled into massachusetts for two nights at the boston music hall. during the saturday night performance, ned lagin sat in with the band on the dark star > brokedown palace sequence, playing a wurlitzer electric piano and crybaby wah-wah. this was the first and only time prior to 1974 that he sat in with keith godchaux playing acoustic piano. a few years back, a pristine second set soundboard recording of the show surfaced on the archive. the dark star on this evening is one of the dead’s great masterpieces, and the entire band is completely in synch from the beginning. give it a spin.

https://archive.org/details/gd72-09-16.psbd.unknown.6683.sbeok.shnf