Dark Star Orchestra is one of the best Grateful Dead cover bands on tour today. This band tours around the country re-playing entire Grateful Dead shows.They have been touring since 1997 and have been joined on stage by Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Vince Welnick, Tom Constanten, Steve Kimock, Rob Barraco, Jon Fishman, Jorma Kaukonen and many others.

The band uses as close to the Dead’s original equipment as they can so they can reproduce the sound of the shows they are emulating. They even go so far as to change equipment to resemble which equipment the Dead would have used in different era’s.

I found this recording on The Archive. What makes this show great besides the awesome set list is that it’s a sound board recording. Unlike a lot of the stuff on The Archive which are audience recordings that generally pick up a lot of background noise and crowd chatter.

This particular set is a replay of The Dead performing 09.15.1972 at Boston Music Hail, Boston, MA.

To view the set list and full details check out The Archive here.

To grab the entire set in MP3 format directly click HERE.

Here’s a few samples from the show:

Greatest Story Ever Told

Friend Of The Devil

It’s All Over Baby Blue

To see when DSO is playing near you check out the official DSO website