#GRATEFUL DEAD EUROPE 72 FULL#
This meant that the shows were full of new songs that had never appeared on an album.
There’s also a limited-edition, 24LP boxset presenting all four shows the Dead played over consecutive nights at the Lyceum, each with a slightly different setlist and its own vibe.Īt the time, the Dead were in the middle of a three-year hiatus from the studio, but it was a golden period for new material, with both Garcia and Weir writing prolifically. The overlap, however, is considerable, for almost half of Europe ’72 comes from that Lyceum show. Now, three reissues to mark the 50th anniversary keep it relatively simple, with the original Europe ’72 remastered as a double CD and triple LP, and the final show of the tour at London’s Lyceum Theatre captured in its entirety as a 4CD set. Then came Europe ’72: The Complete Recordings, a mammoth 73CD boxset containing every one of the 22 shows in full. In 2011 came Europe ’72 Volume 2, with 20 tracks not included on the first volume, prominent among them a legendary hour-long jam around “Dark Star” and “The Other One” from the rain-soaked Bickershaw Festival. On the 30th anniversary of the trip, Steppin’ Out With The Grateful Dead: England ’72presented a further 39 tracks from seven of the UK shows. It was the last with Pigpen, whose gritty, soulful vocals and R&B leanings balanced the cosmic visions of Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir and Phil Lesh, and the first with keyboardist Keith Godchaux and his wife and backing vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux, the joint addition of whom made the music “warmer and more organic”, as Lesh put it.īefore the year was out, 17 tracks distilling peak moments from shows in London, Paris, Amsterdam and Copenhagen had been released as the triple LP Europe ’72. The tour found the Dead at a pivotal moment. ORDER NOW: Wilco are on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut.Yet among the hipsters, flipsters, lovers and others along for the ride, central to the travelling circus was the recording crew under Betty Cantor, who captured every one of the shows in 16-track glory for the live album that was intended to offset the trip’s huge expenses. As the tour programme proudly told us, they were not just a rock’n’roll band but an entire “community”, rooted in a freewheeling hippie idealism that for band and fans alike was a core part of the Dead’s raison d’être. Charlie." All those future classics were interspersed with songs from the aforementioned hit albums such as "Cumberland Blues" and "Sugar Magnolia," as well as spectacular versions of "Truckin'" and "I Know You Rider.When the Grateful Dead departed California for their first European tour on April Fools’ Day 1972, they did so with an entourage almost 50 strong. There was a ton of new, unreleased material that came into the repertoire in the fall of '71 (after Skull & Roses was out) and during the spring of '72, including "Tennessee Jed," "Jack Straw," "He's Gone," "Ramble on Rose," "One More Saturday Night" and "Mr. This would also be Pigpen's final tour with the band. It had been a year since the lineup had gone to its single-drummer configuration, six months since Keith Godchaux had been broken in as the group's exceptional pianist, and this marked the first tour to feature Donna Godchaux as a member of the touring band.
This was a band at the top of its game, still ascending in the wake of three straight hit albums: Workingman's Dead, American Beauty and the live Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses). As a hedge against the costs of the nearly two-month trip, the Dead's label, Warner Bros., paid for the band to lug around a 16-track recorder to capture the entire tour. Many members of the Dead family came along on what was really an extended working vacation that was designed to both expose the Dead to new audiences and also reward the band for their unlikely conquest of America during the preceding two years. The band's first tour outside of North America took them to all sorts of historic and unusual venues in England, Denmark, West Germany, France, Holland and even Luxembourg. Europe '72 not only one of the band's best-selling releases, but also set the gold standard for live Dead.
This 50th Anniversary 180g vinyl 3LP reissue has been newly mastered by Grammy Award-winning engineer David Glasser with newly restored audio by Plangent Processes.
These concerts and this tour, 50 years later, are still considered one of the highest of high points in the Grateful Dead's performing career.
#GRATEFUL DEAD EUROPE 72 PLUS#
From April 7 to May 26, 1972, the Grateful Dead performed and recorded 21 live concerts, plus a set in a television studio, with every night being an exceptional display of the magic that was uniquely the Dead.
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