Europe '72 Volume 2

Europe 72 Volume 2
Live album by Grateful Dead
Released September 20, 2011
Recorded April 7 – May 26, 1972
Genre Rock
Length 155:01 (2:35:01)
Label Rhino
Producer Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology
Europe '72: The Complete Recordings
(2011)		 Europe '72 Volume 2
(2011)		 Road Trips Volume 4 Number 5
(2011)

Europe '72 Volume 2 is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead.[1] It is a two-CD set which features 20 tracks from the band's Spring 1972 tour of Europe. As such, it represents a belated sequel to the band's original three-LP 1972 release, Europe '72. Around the time of the production of the massive Europe '72: The Complete Recordings box set in 2011, Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux was charged with the task of developing this follow-up compilation, nearly four decades later, without repeating any of the songs that appeared on Europe '72. As with the box set, all of the music for this CD was remastered from the original 16-track tapes and encoded with HDCD specifications. The artwork for the release is by Stanley Mouse, who, along with his late partner, Alton Kelley, created the recognizable images for the original release. [2][3]

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Critical reception

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Allmusic [4]

On Allmusic, Richie Unterberger wrote, "The triple-live album Europe '72 is an iconic record not just to Deadheads, but to almost anyone who was around Grateful Dead fans or going to college in the subsequent decade, so often was it blasted out of dorm windows. Almost 40 years later, the double-CD Europe '72, Vol. 2 has about two and a half more hours of performances from the Dead's spring 1972 tour.... [The] 20 songs were deliberately selected to avoid duplicating any songs on the first Europe '72. That does mean some Dead standards featured on the original triple-LP are absent... But this installment is hardly short on familiar Dead numbers... There are also some relatively little-heard originals... Fans of their spaciest psychedelic excursions should be sated by the nearly hourlong jam on "Dark Star" and "The Other One" that opens disc two, though that might test the tolerance of less committed Deadheads. The set features good sound and the kind of loose performances that Grateful Dead fans treasure in live recordings..."[4]

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "Bertha" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 5:53
  2. "Me and My Uncle" (John Phillips) – 3:13
  3. "Chinatown Shuffle" (Ron "Pigpen" McKernan) – 2:38
  4. "Sugaree" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:56
  5. "Beat It On Down The Line" (Jesse Fuller) – 3:11
  6. "Loser" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:29
  7. "Next Time You See Me" (Bill Harvey, Earl Forest) – 4:57
  8. "Black-Throated Wind" (Bob Weir, John Barlow) – 6:00
  9. "Dire Wolf" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:46
  10. "Greatest Story Ever Told" (Weir, Mickey Hart, Barlow) – 4:52
  11. "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:05
  12. "Good Lovin'" (Rudy Clark, Arthur Resnick) – 12:09
  13. "Playing in the Band" (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 11:55

Disc two

  1. "Dark Star" (Garcia, Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, McKernan, Weir, Hunter) > – 19:49
  2. "Drums" (Kreutzmann) > – 2:24
  3. "The Other One" (Weir, Kreutzmann) > – 30:27
  4. "Sing Me Back Home" (Merle Haggard) – 10:58
  5. "Not Fade Away" (Norman Petty, Charles Hardin) > – 4:24
  6. "Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) > – 6:08
  7. "Not Fade Away" (Petty, Hardin) – 2:45

Recording dates

The tracks have been taken from the following shows:[1]

"Me and My Uncle"
"Not Fade Away" >
"Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad" >
"Not Fade Away"
"Bertha"
"Chinatown Shuffle"
"Loser"
"Black-Throated Wind"
"Dire Wolf"
"Good Lovin'"
"Sugaree"
"Greatest Story Ever Told"
"Next Time You See Me"
"Deal"
"Dark Star" >
"Drums" >
"The Other One"
"Beat It On Down The Line"
"Playing In The Band"
"Sing Me Back Home"

Personnel

Grateful Dead

Production

References

  1. ^ a b "Europe '72, Vol. 2". Grateful Dead Family Discography. http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Europe_72_Vol_2.htm. Retrieved October 12, 2011. 
  2. ^ Jackson, Blair (August 17, 2011). "The Tour That Keeps On Giving: Here’s Europe ’72: Vol. 2!". dead.net. http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Europe_72_Vol_2.htm. Retrieved October 12, 2011. 
  3. ^ Jackson, Blair (August 25, 2011). "More on Europe ’72, Vol. 2: A Few Minutes with David Lemieux". dead.net. http://www.dead.net/features/live/more-europe-72-vol-2-few-minutes-david-lemieux. Retrieved October 12, 2011. 
  4. ^ a b Unterberger, Richie. Europe '72 Volume 2 at Allmusic