Grateful Dead Europe '72 on 180g 3LP Set

Mad Dog · Sep 6, 2011

The tour that keeps on giving.... and taking $$$

Just saw an email from Music Direct, looks the Grateful Dead Records is re-issuing Europe '72 3LP set on 180g. Release date is scheduled for OCTOBER 11, 2011.

Guess the 2 WLP sets, 1 Warners Green label LP, 2 cassette, original 2 CD set and the just received Complete box set just won't be the last version I own. Why..? I'm not sure

http://www.musicdirect.com/p-51567-grateful-dead-europe-72-180g-3lp.aspx

Grateful Dead Europe '72 on 180g 3LP Set

Cut from the Original Analog Album Masters by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering

Released in Conjunction with the Europe 72 Box and Europe 72 Vol. 2 CD Release

All Original Replica Packaging Including an 8 Page Book

Nearly 40 years ago, the Grateful Dead released Europe '72, a triple live album documenting its historic trek across Europe that became not only one of the band's best-selling releases, but also set the gold standard for live Dead.

The Grateful Dead’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. 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. 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.

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). 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 would also be Pigpen's final tour with the band.

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. 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.”

The Grateful Dead Europe '72 Track Listing:

LP1
1. Cumberland Blues (Live in England 1972 Version)
2. He's Gone (Live in Amsterdam 1972 Version)
3. One More Saturday Night (Live in England 1972 Version)
4, Jack Straw (Live in Paris 1972 Version)
5. You Win Again (Live in England 1972 Version)
6. China Cat Sunflower (Live in Paris 1972 Version)
7. I Know You Rider (Live in Paris 1972 Version)

LP2
1. Brown-Eyed Woman (Live in Denmark 1972 Version)
2. Hurts Me Too (Live in London 1972 Version)
3. Ramble On Rose (Live in England 1972 Version)
4. Sugar Magnolia (Live in Paris 1972 Version)
5. Mr. Charlie (Live in England 1972 Version)
6. Tennessee Jed (Live in Paris 1972 Version)

LP3
1. Truckin' (Live in London 1972 Version)
2. Epilogue (Live in England 1972 Version)
3. Prelude (Live in England 1972 Version)
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MikeP5877 · Sep 6, 2011

I was wondering when they would get to that. I have an original green-label pressing that I haven't touched since I bought the CD 18 years ago, should give it a listen before I take the plunge on this one.

mgb70 · Oct 22, 2011

Can anyone comment on the mastering and pressing quality of the new 3 LP Europe '72 set?

Daniel Thomas · Oct 22, 2011

Chris Bellman and Bernie Grundman are names you can trust. They use vacuum tubes on their equipment, which gives everything that wonderfully warm, tubey sound. I really love their DEVO reissues.

This is going to be excellent.

carledwards · Oct 22, 2011

mgb70 said: ↑

Can anyone comment on the mastering and pressing quality of the new 3 LP Europe '72 set?
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Judging by the first of the three records, it's excellent. I plan to compare it to original pressings later.

Supafly · Oct 22, 2011

carledwards said: ↑

Judging by the first of the three records, it's excellent. I plan to compare it to original pressings later.
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Look forward to hearing your results

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