Dark Star Orchestra, perhaps one of the best and most faithful Grateful Dead cover bands, landed in Princeton, NJ earlier this week. DSO has made a name for themselves over the year by not only producing some of the finest musicians in the Dead/jam band scene, but also for recreating Grateful Dead shows song for song in their entirety.

DSO treated Princeton to an “old school” Dead show that included lots of rarities and old favorites including “Hard to Handle,” “Viola Lee Blues” and their namesake, “Dark Star.”

Set One:
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Hard To Handle
Dancing In The Street
It Hurts Me Too
He Was A Friend Of Mine
It’s A Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World
Sittin’ On Top Of The World
Good Morning Little School Girl >
Alligator >
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Set Two:
Dupree’s Diamond Blues
Green Green Grass Of Home
Mountains Of The Moon >
Dark Star >
Viola Lee Blues >
Death Don’t Have No Mercy >
Caution >
Turn On Your Lovelight

Encore: And We Bid You Goodnight

Thanks to DeadHead94 for the recording.

Photo credit: towyourhomebehind