Description
The Grateful Dead – Europe ’72 (2CD)
Label: Warner Bros. Records – 7599-27265-2
Format: 2 × CD, Album, Reissue
Country: Germany
Released: 1997
Barcode: 0 7599-27265-2 8
Rights Society (Boxed): GEMA/BIEM
Price Code: WE 853
‘Warner big W’ logo on front]
Artwork [Cover Artwork] – Kelly
Tracklist:
1-1 Cumberland Blues
1-2 He’s Gone
1-3 One More Saturday Night
1-4 Jack Straw
1-5 You Win Again
1-6 China Cat Sunflower
1-7 I Know You Rider
1-8 Brown-Eyed Woman
1-9 Hurts Me Too
1-10 Ramble On Rose
2-1 Sugar Magnolia
2-2 Mr. Charlie
2-3 Tennessee Jed
2-4 Truckin’
2-5 Epilogue
2-6 Prelude
2-7 (Walk Me Out In The) Morning Dew
Credits:
Drums – Bill Kreutzmann
Electric Bass, Vocals – Phil Lesh
Lead Guitar, Vocals – Jerry Garcia
Organ, Harmonica, Vocals – Ron (Pigpen) McKernan
Recorded By – Betty Cantor, Bob Matthews, Jim Furman, Rosie (10), Wizard (15)
Rhythm Guitar, Vocals – Bob Weir
Songwriter – Robert Hunter
Vocals – Donna Godchaux
Notes:
Recorded live in Europe by Alembic Sound. Mixed at Alembic Studios, San Francisco, CA.
Compact Disc mastering approved by The Grateful Dead.
Made in Germany by Warner Music Manufacturing Europe.
CD’s and Inlay in very fine condition
Reviews:
++++++++++ A triple live set featuring some of Pigpen’s last days with the DeaD and introduced Keith and Donna Godchaux. It was the band’s first tour through Europe and every concert was recorded by Alembic Sound. The NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE came along. Pigpen had lead vocals on IT HURTS ME TOO and MR. CHARLIE was his last new song. JACK STRAW is a country-favoured shaker that features Weir and Garcia splitting the lead vocals for the first time. HE’S GONE resembles a slowed-down shuffle and is about Mickey Hart’s father who ran away with the Dead’s money. BROWN EYED WOMAN combines the sound of a classic western saloon ballad and something of a ragtime feel about the lives and values of average Americans in earlier days. TENNESSEE JED was partly written by Robert Hunter after he saw a man walking in Barcelona, playing a jew-harp with a rhythm that became the song. It’s about a drunk man and his dog. After he felt and broke his spine, the dog says to him: “Let’s head back to Tennessee, Jed”. MORNING DEW comes out as a dissonant jam and has a fine glistening bell-like rhythm guitar and an explosive crescendo, powered by Garcia and Lesh. TRUCKIN’ was given a solid and inspired treatment with a lengthy instrumental coda that leads into a fiery jam. The album sold very well, becoming their second ‘gold’ album, but the DeaD weren’t satisfied with the manufacturing and marketing by Warner Brothers. The album is also a good sampler of the Dead’s various styles in one concert ++++++++++
nr. 1 De DeaD zorgt niet voor explosieve momenten van genot en geluk, maar wel voor kippevel. Maar dan moet je blijkbaar tot het type van de stille genieter horen. OOR, JAN. 1973
nr. 2 Boy, did the DeaD make a lot of people happy when they put out a triple album! Most of it quite good,too. In addition to several new songs it contains killer versions of SUGAR MAGNOLIA, CHINA CAT, RIDER, TRUCKIN’ and a definitive MORNING DEW. I could live without MR> CHARLIE, YOU WIN AGAIN (Hank Williams never sounded so limp), and RAMBLE ON ROSE, but the LP’s high points are high indeed and the record stands as a good sampler of the various styles the DeaD taggle in concerts. BLAIR JACKSON
nr. 3 This live-triple is where everybody except certified Grateful Dead freaks gets off the bus, but I’ve still got my card and it ain’t no joker. Sure they’re beginning to sound very complacent-the whole “MORNING DEW” side could be scratched, and the long version of TRUCKIN’ proves conclusively that the song doesn’t truck much. But the best stuff here- the ensemble playing on SUGAR MAGNOLIA, the movement of CHINA CAT, Garcia’s IT HURTS ME TOO solo, the lyric to RAMBLE ON ROSE- is a lot more than laid-back good. It’s laid-back brilliant. Most of the rest, patchy though it may be, is laid-back good. Also I like the way they sing. (And write.) rating: B+ ROBERT CRISTGAU, ROCK ALBUMS OF THE 70’S, 1982
nr. 4 This album was their best yet and showcased some of the best vocals the band has ever managed-even if some were overdubbed. Their harmonies has never been sweeter than on tunes like RIDER (which melts magically out of a brilliant CHINA CAT) and SUGAR MAGNOLIA. Garcia said about playing in Europe:”We really played well. The tone, the sound of the band was terrific there. We played some wonderful rooms, some of the finest concert halls in Europe, so the ambient sound is really lovely, really nice.” JAMIE JENSEN, BUILT TO LAST, 1990
nr. 5 LIVE DEAD and SKULL AND ROSES may be equally loved by yer Deadhead but EUROPE ’72 -The Ice Cream Kid- shades them all, thanks to new Alembic production and the excitement of hearing the band taken away from their natural habitat for the first time. Pigpen was on his last legs here, which makes the album triple poignant. New members Keith and Donna get an airing and the rest of the Dead family are in fine fettle, with Weir and Garcia fully locked into their unique tandem approach. The JACK STRAW side is the DeaD at some kind of peak, and proof positive that no other band in the world ever have embraced the live format so often and so comfortably. Old hippies? Cobblers. MB, VOX, JANUARY 1992
nr. 6 The album start off in high gear with an inspired version of CUMBERLAND BLUES, followed by the only song taken from the Amsterdam concert, HE’S GONE. ONE MORE SATURDAY NIGHT is not a favourite of mine, but JACK STRAW, with the nice harmonies and dual singing, makes up for it. YOU WIN AGAIN is a nice, but forgettable country-tune. CHINA CAT>RIDER are inspired and the IT HURTS ME TOO and MORNING DEW are totally different from their earlier released versions. What the album really makes worthwhile having, is the third record. Beautiful renditions of TRUCKIN’, PRELUDE and EPILOGUE and the definite version of MORNING DEW. * * * * ERIK SCHOTHANS, July 1992
nr. 7 It received very mixed reviews… The next natural step in the band’s development – a live album structured in the same way as their concerts, perfectly balanced and containing a suitable mixture of songs old and new. It truthfully represents the Dead at that time they were over here, nothing more, nothing less, and as such I treasure it. An essential buy for all Deadheads. ANDY CHILDS, ZIG ZAG Magazine
nr. 8 The playing is, as ever, impeccable. The singing is, as usual, mighty frail. But the songs! This album was the high point of a songwriting binge between Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter that lasted for the most of the 70’s. Unlike most pop acts, the Dead have never written much about romantic love. Their songs are more apt to be hard-luck stories -some mournful, some surprisingly funny- about desert rats, sharecroppers, footloose troubadours, gamblers and bums. MALCOLM JONES, NEWSWEEK, aug. 21, 1995
nr. 9 Europe ’72 – GD (Warner Bro. 3WX 2668) This three record album includes a color booklet with photos from the tour. This album was heavily overdubbed in the studio, including Merl Saunders on organ. The onstage equipment setup was duplicated in the studio, to preserve the ambience, and used for the overdubs. A number of recording defects are present on the album. During the third chorus of “Ramble On Rose”, as Garcia sings “…name was Ramble…”, a whistling sound is heard. On “Jack Straw”, one of the band members yells out. Released in November, 1972. (Note: the ‘original’ Jack Straw, along with Wat Tyler, led a peasant rebellion, which failed, against the English King Richard II (circa 1381). The term “Jack Straw” has, consequently, been used to describe a person who has no property, influence, or worth.) I. W. Slabicky
nr. 10 EUROPE ’72 (1972)
‘Rolling Stone’ picked it as om all-time worst live albums in their Lists’, hut it’s actually a prime cont the unlikely title of rock’s best-ev album. This had everything, 1 psychedelia of their late 60s work: instrumental excursions that veered 1 to near-ambient sound (an e: “Truckin”‘ through “Epilogue”-and” to “Morning Dew”); souped-up ver recent album highlights (check Gare: some soloing on the joyous “Cmi Blues”); and a remarkable batch of ne Hunter songs, from “Jack Straw” to On Rose”. Shame about the appalling Hank Williams’ “You Win Again”
from Record Collector
