Grateful Dead - Europe 72
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Free Music Review: Classic Dead album. Still others that are better.....
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a great album. The songs are pure, the quality of the recording is amazing. If you're looking for some real authentic live dead you should listen to an entire show though, and this is more or less a compliation of live performances throughout Europe. Check out www.archive.org for free live dead shows. Pretty incredible site, they have hundres of shows.Free Music Review: Great Art
Hit: 5 Stars
One wonders what the archeologist of the future will make of our society but if it were up to me one of the things I hope we would be judged by collectively is this album. It is just that good.
This album is definitely one of my top five favorites.
The Grateful Dead were an original. The psychedelic, bebop, jug band music they played was more like jazz than rock and roll.
The way one song morphs into another and yet another was one of the trademarks to their concerts and the joyous complex beauty of it comes across loud and clear in this double album.
Having spent sometime myself following the Grateful Dead around I got it. Anyone that would like to get a glimpse of what that "it" was should buy this album.
(a lengthier and hopefully a more worthy review to follow)
Jim Connell
Free Music Review: Not totally Live
Hit: 3 Stars
This is generally classed as indispensable Grateful Dead live album. Depending on how you define `live', this may be so. "Europe `72" was extensively overdubbed in a San Francisco warehouse with the Dead set up in concert mode to replicate a concert from the just completed tour. Thus the title and check the careful wording on the original LP cover. This seems to have been missed by all the reviewers I have read, but it explains the keen observations in kireviewer's review below.
"Europe '72 is the Dead (mostly) live at their furry finest, but it isn't a purely live album. The "live" sound is partially re-created in the studio by playing studio tracks back over the same equipment that the live stuff was originally recorded on, thus generating an approximation of the original ambience. Got that?" (Rock Scully "Living with the Dead" p228)
Have the remasters used the original genuine live tracks or the overdubbed ones? From the reviews it is the latter. So it's only quasi-live, for real live try "Rockin' the Rhein".
Free Music Review: if you are looking into this album, you ought to just buy it
Hit: 5 Stars
beacuse you are either interested in the music and were told that this was a good starting place, or you lost your original copy and forgot how well put together these albums were.
A lot of the officially released Grateful Dead music doens't really do justice to the band (no looooong jams where Jerry tries to find the craziest notes, missing the breaks and the band warming up and rapping with the crowd, etc.).
Europe '72 does a good job though. It's a very clear recording, good song selection, a time where the Dead were playing well and had a lot of energy, etc. It was all working.
This gets a 5 because it's the best officially released album. It's great for a road trip, playing in the back yard, playing in the car, playing on the weekend, drinking a beer to, etc.
Beware though, if you like Europe '72 and want more, collecting Dead shows may be addictive.
Free Music Review: Pigpen's Last Stand
Hit: 5 Stars
The Grateful Dead's tour of Europe in 1972 is seen as the end of an era...and the beginning of another. 1972 was without question one of the Dead's best years and this proves it. They had really honed their songwriting skills and it just shines. The late, Great Ron "Pigpen" McKernan is featured on this as this was his last outing with the Grateful Dead (Hard drinking torched his liver and his last show was on June 17, 1972 if I'm not wrong)I'm glad that there are so many bonus tracks of Pigpen. His loss was certainly a blow to the Greatest band in the history of all music and they never regained that type of energy onstage after Pigpen's passing on March 8, 1973 of a Gastrointestinal Hemmorhage. It's really great that we get a version of his most beautiful blues song,The Stranger(Two Souls in Communion). It was only played about 8 times. This classic album features a lot of Grateful Dead favorites never recorded in the studio like He's Gone, Ramble On Rose, Tennesee Jed, and, I believe a few others. It also contains the last pedal steel guitar playing of the Legendary Late, Great Jerry Garcia(1942-1995) The second disc is the gem of the set as it showcases the Grateful Dead's awesome jamming and Pigpen's great singing. Overall, this is a great intro to the Wonderful World of the Grateful Dead and I think and hope you'll love it as much as I since it further proved that there was nothing like a Grateful Dead concert.