11/1/2022 0 Comments Grateful dead europe 72![]() ![]() After ackowledging that this show had “one of the few double encores of the tour”, Silberman closes his piece by quoting lyricist Robert Hunter who, realizing that “worlds cannot be saved” declared that “we learned to dance on graves and be glad.” Įurope ’72, Vol. ![]() In the liner notes for the show on 4/29/72 Steve Silberman starts by revealing that the “ragtag band of Northern California freaks” felt like Germany was “a country haunted by the past”, with “dream-castles shimmering on the Rhine”, “ghosts of Nazi kommandants“, “and the gods of Phil’s musical pantheon calling the fire of the muses down from Heaven or up from hell.” He goes on to assert that this atmosphere “charged some of the most electrifying performances in the Dead’s 30-year career”, citing “Playing in the Band” which went for “the galactic core just three minutes into the first set” to “Dark Star” which “probe regions of dissonance that would give most latter-day jam bands the vapors” as examples. 8: Rheinhalle, Düsseldorf, West Germany () After describing most of the songs in the single set of music they played at this venue, Jackson decides to focus on “the six minutes after the second verse of ‘The Other One’,” and the idiosyncratic ending to their final song, “which is a mess worthy of the laugh that follows it”, closing his piece with a reference to the fairy tale: “And with that the Town Musicians of Bremen were gone.” Įurope ’72, Vol. He goes on to write that while most “acts probably came to the studio with a good idea of what song(s) they wanted to highlight and knocked it out quickly”, the Dead “played a remarkable 80-minute set that mixed short songs with big jamming tunes”. #Grateful dead europe 72 tvIn the liner notes for the show on 4/21/72 Blair Jackson introduces “Beat-Club” as “Germany’s first major rock ‘n’ roll TV show, on the air monthly (or so) since September 1965” and claims that “everyone who was anyone in rock music in the late ’60s and early ’70s showed up on Beat-Club at one time or another”. In the closing paragraph, the author revisits the topic he opened with in his previous piece, writing that “In the edition of Melody Maker immediately following the Empire Pool shows, even ‘Bolan Mania’ had to take a backseat: most of the front page was devoted to a huge picture of Garcia and his new customized Stratocaster, accompanied by a headline reading ‘Dead storm Britain’.” “ Lambert then describes the two nights at the venue as if they were one long show, writing that “By midway through the second set on opening night … all notions of ‘British reserve’ were clearly out the window” and “on Night Two in London” the Dead took “an even more fearless dive into the deep unreal”. In the liner notes for the show on Gary Lambert continues building on his notes for the 4/7/72 show by stating “Sam ’s instincts proved correct: while no one expected the Dead to fill the Empire Pool, they drew more than respectably-somewhere in the neighborhood of 8,000 paying customers each night”. #Grateful dead europe 72 updateI will update the final dates once they are ‘completed.’ Below that you will find ‘liner notes’ of each of the shows as well. The link to the show directs to a Jambase site which lists background about each show, some tidbits and you can stream versions if you want. So below, you will find information on the tour. So I thought it would be fun to listen to the entire set on my own time as it were. ![]() As of this writing () the tour is almost over! I gather that many people are listening to the shows on the date they took place. Vinyl of the complete set but that is never going to happen. I won’t deny it would be fun to hear remastered #Grateful dead europe 72 fullI guess the original album has been remastered and the full tour is slated for a bunch of versions as well. So it came as a bit of shock when I read that it was the 50th Anniversary of Europe ’72. Math has never been one of my stronger points. Photo: Album Cover – Grateful Dead – Europe ’72 It is too late to listen to Europe ’72 set on the day of (50 years ago) but we do have a year, after all. ![]()
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