Hey. There is an early (I believe) Dead track, probably late '60s to 1970 vintage, that has an exquisite gentle psychedelic instrumental passage that I've heard a couple times on the radio... program directors or hosts just choosing maybe 20 seconds of it. It sounds maybe like an aural interpretation of the gradual opening of a complex flower - like HEARING the musical analog of watching a time-lapse movie of a blossom opening and developing.

The track has no driving rhythm. It's not rock-y or bluesy at all and is just an incredible use of electric instruments doing something beautiful and abstract and totally involving.

It may be a portion of one of those tracks on which the Dead did exploratory passages (like Dark Star or The Other One), but if so it's not much like the versions I've heard so far.

I realize my description may be pretty intangible and subjective, but can anyone give me some clues? Please include the name of the album/CD if you take a stab at naming the track. Thanks for running the question through your memories.

Tanemon