> Bear's Choice:History Of The Grateful Dead > History Of The Grateful Dead Vol 1 (Bear's Choice) > Family Dog at the Great Highway, 4-18-70 > The Grateful Dead (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Not Fade Away (Wembley Empire Pool, London, England 4/7/72) Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad (Wembley Empire Pool, London, England 4/7/72)Ģ0. Not Fade Away (Wembley Empire Pool, London, England 4/7/72)ġ9. Sing Me Back Home (Lyceum Theatre, London, England 5/26/72)ġ8. The Other One (Bickershaw Festival, Wigan, England 5/7/72)ġ7. Drums (Bickershaw Festival, Wigan, England 5/7/72)ġ6. Dark Star (Bickershaw Festival, Wigan, England 5/7/72)ġ5.
Playing In The Band (Lyceum Theatre, London, England 5/24/72)ġ4. Good Lovin (Jahnrhundert Halle, Frankfurt, West Germany 4/26/72)ġ3. Deal (Olympia Theatre, Paris, France 5/4/72)ġ2. Greatest Story Ever Told (Olympia Theatre, Paris, France 5/3/72)ġ1. Dire Wolf (Jahnrhundert Halle, Frankfurt, West Germany 4/26/72)ġ0. Black-Throated Wind (Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark )ĩ. Next Time You See Me (Olympia Theatre, Paris, France 5/4/72)Ĩ. Loser (Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark )ħ. Beat It On Down The Line (La Grande Salle Du Grand Theatre De Luxembourg, Luxembourg 5/16/72)Ħ. Sugaree (Olympia Theatre, Paris, France 5/3/72)ĥ. Chinatown Shuffle (Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark )Ĥ. Me And My Uncle (Wembley Empire Pool, London, England 4/7/72)ģ. Bertha (Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark )Ģ. For this release, he mixed each show from the original 16-track recordings while two-time Grammy®-winning engineer David Glasser mastered the music to HDCD specs.ġ. 2 stems from painstaking work done by Jeffrey Norman, who has been the primary mixer of the Dead's archival multi-track material for the past 15 years. While much of that concert was released on 1995's Hundred Year Hall, these particular tracks were not included and have remained unreleased until now. 2 also includes 'Good Lovin' and 'Dire Wolf' from the April 26 show at Jahrhundert Halle in Frankfurt, West Germany.
Recorded at various locations during the band's 22-show tour, the collection captures the Dead in white-hot moments of improvisational revelry as the band explores a number of its most enduring songs, like 'Bertha,' 'Sugaree' and 'Playing In the Band,' plus relatively obscure cuts like 'Black-Throated Wind' and Pigpen's 'Chinatown Shuffle.'Īs a special treat, the set includes an epic hour-plus jam that combines 'Dark Star' and 'The Other One.' Recorded at the Bickershaw Festival, it was the only show on this tour where the band broke out both of these beloved improvisational showpieces. His only defense is love,' says Mouse of the Kid's return.
2 features new cover art by Stanley Mouse, the artist who helped create the iconic artwork from Europe '72, which features the return of the legendary Ice Cream Kid. 'In fact, songs like 'Beat It On Down The Line,' 'Next Time You See Me' and 'Sing Me Back Home' were selected by the Grateful Dead for the first set, but were left off because there wasn't enough room.' 'I think this album, coupled with Europe '72, represents a complete overview of the tour in every way,' he says. Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux, who produced this 20-track compilation, says he only chose song titles that did not appear on Europe '72 as a way to complement the original. 2, an essential continuation of the original that includes more than two hours of unreleased performances from that storied tour. Now the group proves you can never get too much of a good thing when it revisits that legendary collection with Europe '71 Vol. Album songs Album Intro Album list Singer IntroĮurope '72, a triple live album documenting its historic trek across Europe became not only one of the band's best-selling releases, but also set the gold standard for live Dead.