This was posted on the eurotraders list today. It’s an excerpt from the interview book Garcia: A Signpost to New Space by Charles Reich and Jann Wenner:
Reich: Well then if we wanted to talk about “Dark Star”, could you say anything about where it comes from?
Garcia: You gotta remember that you and I are talking about two different “Dark Stars.” You’re talking about the “Dark Star” which you have heard formalized on a record, and I’m talking about the “Dark Star” which I have heard in each performance as a completely improvised piece over a long period of time. So I have a long continuum of “Dark Stars” which range in character from each other to real different extremes. “Dark Star” has meant, while I’m playing it, almost as many things as I can sit here and imagine, so all I can do is talk about “Dark Star” as a playing experience.
Reich: Well, yeah, talk about it a little.
Garcia: I can’t. It talks about itself.
The interview took place in 1972, I believe.