Jerry Garcia said, "Dark Star has meant, while I was playing it, almost as many things as I can sit and imagine". When I heard it for the first time (of course, under certain influences), I thought I made an 11 minutes inter-galactic journey with the bizarrest of the visual imageries surrounding my closed eyes....what a strange trip it was! (for more on Dark Star, you can read this http://arts.ucsc.edu/GDead/AGDL/ds.html)Thanks to one mp3 player gifted by mr bojangles, I am revisiting 'Dark Star' (no 'influences' this time) these days and been tripping with equal passion. So, I sat down and listed some other great trippy tracks from the 'days' and realised that they will always remain the 'trips'. The list:
- Dark Star - Grateful Dead (the tuning in the middle of the song is the 'killer' here)
- Highlands - Bob Dylan ( "I'm lost somewhere, I must have made a few bad turns")
- The Rain Song - Led Zepplin (used beautifully in the movie 'Almost famous')
- Echoes - Pink Floyd (always takes me to a 'cold desert'...though ive never been to one)
- T B Sheets - Van Morrison (gotta go, gotta go, gotta go...partners in crime)
- Sister Morphine - The Rolling Stones (got hold of the acoustic version of it, recently...excellent!)
- Because - The Beatles (guess the movie 'American Beauty' ends with this track)
- Heroine - Velvet Underground (very very very heroine...)
- Sparks - The Who (listen to it alone in a dark room with a candle burning)
- The End - The Doors (remember Apocalypse???)
Genres like Indian Classical, Jazz, Qawwalis, Bhajans, Boleros (specially the one by Ravel) also take you on certain trips but I have limited my list to the 'strange trip' variety (okay...i wont use the word again). My dear 'Do-Re-Me' pals....kindly share your list.
