The Grateful Dead - Europe '72
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Europe '72 is a live triple album by the Grateful Dead, released in November 1972. It covers the band's tour of Western Europe in April and May that year, and showcases live favourites, extended improvisations and several new songs including "Jack Straw" and "Brown Eyed Women". The album was the first to include pianist Keith Godchaux and his wife, vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux, and the last to feature founding member Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, who died shortly after its release.

The European tour was expensive and logistically complicated, and the band's record company hoped that a live album would recoup its costs. Consequently, the entire tour was recorded, with highlights making it onto the final release. Europe '72 is one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed albums by the Dead. It was one of the first triple-record rock albums to be certified gold by RIAA; the album has since been certified double platinum. A second volume was released in 2011, in conjunction with the release of the entire 22-date tour as Europe '72: The Complete Recordings.

The band hoped that the expensive trip to Europe would be financially offset by the release of a live-album documentation of the tour. Consequently, the Dead’s record label, Warner Bros., paid for the band to travel with a professional 16-track recorder.[17]

Europe '72 was the third live album by the Dead in as many years, showcasing how the group's reputation was based on live shows.[13] The album contained mostly new material, in addition to live arrangements of tracks found on previous studio albums. Garcia continued his songwriting collaboration with lyricist Robert Hunter.[13] Rhythm guitarist Bob Weir also collaborated with Hunter, though the pair subsequently fell out, leading Weir to collaborate with John Perry Barlow after Europe '72.[18] Pigpen made his third singing-songwriting contribution to a Dead album, writing "Mr. Charlie" with Hunter.[19] The new songs were never officially released in studio form except "One More Saturday Night", which came out as a single to promote the tour and then appeared on Bob Weir's solo album, Ace. Consequently, Europe '72 was treated as a new-material release as much as a live retrospective, and the new songs on the album were considered definitive versions.[4]

Although Europe '72 is billed as a live album, the songs were subject to various studio overdubs, particularly vocals. Several of the songs with Garcia on lead vocals were pitched sharp by as much as a half-step.[20] Weir later said that the overdubbing was a mutual decision by the band and the record company, and both were happy to polish up the album for release. - Wikipedia.


Warner Brothers Records 1972 3WX 2668


Track listing

Side one No. Title Writer(s) Recording date/venue[22] Length 1. "Cumberland Blues" Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Robert Hunter April 8, 1972, Empire Pool 5:47 2. "He's Gone" Garcia, Hunter May 10, 1972, Concertgebouw 7:12 3. "One More Saturday Night" Bob Weir May 26, 1972, Lyceum Theatre 4:45 Total length: 17:29 Side two No. Title Writer(s) Recording date/venue Length 1. "Jack Straw" Weir, Hunter May 3, 1972, L'Olympia 4:46 2. "You Win Again" Hank Williams May 24, 1972, Lyceum Theatre 3:54 3. "China Cat Sunflower" Garcia, Hunter May 3, 1972, L'Olympia 5:33 4. "I Know You Rider" Trad., arr. Grateful Dead May 3, 1972, L'Olympia 4:55 Total length: 19:25 Side three No. Title Writer(s) Recording date/venue Length 1. "Brown-Eyed Women" Garcia, Hunter April 14, 1972, Tivolis Koncertsal 4:55 2. "Hurts Me Too" Elmore James, Marshall Sehorn May 24, 1972, Lyceum Theatre 7:18 3. "Ramble On Rose" Garcia, Hunter May 26, 1972, Lyceum Theatre 6:09 Total length: 18:02 Side four No. Title Writer(s) Recording date/venue Length 1. "Sugar Magnolia" Weir, Hunter May 4, 1972, L'Olympia 7:04 2. "Mr. Charlie" Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Hunter May 23, 1972, Lyceum Theatre 3:40 3. "Tennessee Jed" Garcia, Hunter May 3, 1972, L'Olympia 7:13 Total length: 18:07 Side five No. Title Writer(s) Recording date/venue Length 1. "Truckin'" Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter May 26, 1972, Lyceum Theatre 13:08 2. "Epilog" Garcia, Keith Godchaux, Bill Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir May 26, 1972, Lyceum Theatre 4:33 Total length: 18:16 Side six No. Title Writer(s) Recording date/venue Length 1. "Prelude" Garcia, K. Godchaux, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir May 26, 1972, Lyceum Theatre 8:08 2. "Morning Dew" Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose May 26, 1972, Lyceum Theatre 10:35 Total length: 19:18


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