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Originally a three-LP set, this live document of the band at their largest (an octet if you count non-performing lyricist/official member Robert Hunter) is a well-recorded portrait of one of the Dead's finest eras. The Chick Corea-channeled-through-Floyd Cramer piano of Keith Godchaux had already begun to take the Dead to new improvisational heights, but diehard bluesman Pigpen was still representing the group's roots with his harmonica and gritty vocals.
If you favor the jamming side of the Dead, EUROPE '72 offers a wealth of riches. "Morning Dew," "Truckin'" and other classics are presented in epic versions, spotlighting the musicians in all their free-form glory. But those who admire the band's excellent songcraft won't be disappointed either, as songs like "Jack Straw" and "Tennesee Jed" exemplify the Dead's gift for matching lyric with melody. Though the Dead had their moments in the studio, this extended set captures the band as they were truly meant to be experienced: live and uncut.
Expanded & remastered in HDCD, this reissue of 1972 live album includes seven bonus tracks, 'The Stranger (Two Souls In Communion)', 'Looks Like Rain', 'Good Lovin', 'Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)', 'Who Do You Love?', 'Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)' & 'Good Lovin'. Featuring some of Jerry Garcia's last-ever pedal steel guitar playing with the Grateful Dead. Includes expanded booklet as well with rare photos & all-new liner notes, packaged in double gatefold Digipak. Warner/Rhino. 2003.
Grateful Dead: Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir (vocals, guitar); Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (vocals, harmonica, organ); Phil Lesh (vocals, bass instrument); Donna Jean Godchaux (vocals); Keith Godchaux (piano); Bill Kreutzmann (drums).
Liner Note Author: Steve Silberman.
Q (12/95, p.168) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...the Dead were at the height of their powers in spring, 1972....Garcia's liquid guitar never falters, focusing the emotional attack of the shorter songs and stretching out with lyrical abandon on the extended pieces..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.153) - "Originally a triple vinyl set, this was the first of many official and unofficial recordings....They play good-time rock'n'country material with considerable ease, warmth and gusto..."
NME (Magazine) (1/20/96, p.43) - 8 (out of 10) - "...covers just about all the band's musical ground and it really is some journey. There's...cosmic biker blues from Pigpen...and there's Dead heaven as Garcia guides the band from 'China Cat Sunflower' through some kind of miraculous osmosis into 'I Know You Rider'..." Grateful Dead Europe '72 Songs Europe '72 Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  A great intro
These discs contain beautiful versions of many of the Dead's best-loved tunes. The vocals have been cleaned up with overdubs, but there is plenty of unvarnished live Dead if that is what you are seeking, and their vocals never sounded better on any other recording, studio or live. These might be the definitive versions of Truckin' and Morning Dew, and others like Tennessee Jed, Sugar Magnolia, Jack Straw, China/Rider and Ramble on Rose are note-perfect. One high point is the opening Cumberland Blues, which absolutely smokes at high speed. Perhaps after the acoustic-based Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, this might be the best introduction into the Dead's wider canon. If the bonus tracks on the re-release had been the completion of the jam that began with Truckin and ran through Morning Dew into an Other One reprise, we might have said they got it "just exactly perfect."
Submitted by steve (Vischer Ferry, New York)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful. The Dead at their best.
A great snapshot of the band. The accompanying booklet lends more insight into the inspiration and influence the sights and sounds of Europe had on the music. Classic versions of Rider, Ramble on Rose, and Jack Straw. The discs as a whole are genius at work.
Submitted by Joe (East Syracuse, NY, USA)
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