4.11.72 – Newcastle. This show has a little bit of everything – one of the last pedal steel versions of Looks Like Rain, an outstanding Playin’, quite possibly the best Truckin’>Other One of the tour, and go back and check out Jerry’s vocals during the China>Rider – out of nowhere and truly inspired! Along with 4.29, I think I’m looking forward to the upgrade of this show the most…..
4/26/72 Frankfurt thanks to the Hundred Year Hall release (the 1st after Jerry died I think). The jamming around ‘going down the road’ explains why I love this era of the Dead.
May 3, 1972 at Olympia Theatre, Paris – This show had 3 tunes make it on to the original Europe ’72 album and my first Dead album: Jack Straw, China Cat/Rider and Tennessee Jed
Just a perfect classic 72 Dead setlist. Rough and raw sounding. Love it.
Rheinhalle, Dusseldorf, XWGER (4/24/72)
Truckin’
Tennessee Jed
Chinatown Shuffle
Black Throated Wind
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Mr. Charlie
Beat it on Down the Line
Loser
Playing in the Band
Next Time You See Me
Me and Bobby McGee
Good Lovin’
Casey Jones
He’s Gone
Hurts Me Too
El Paso
Dark Star
Me and My Uncle
Wharf Rat
Sugar Magnolia
Not Fade Away
Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad
Not Fade Away
May 26th. Last show of the tour and the last for dear old pigpen plus this sounds great to me
Jack Straw Chinatown Shuffle China Cat Sunflower I Know You Rider Not Fade Away. Also I have noticed there is another kyle on here and I would not like to be tarred and feathered. Hope you can check by email!
Rotterdam May 11, 1972 hands down is the best show from Europe 72. IMHO, my favorite Grateful Dead show ever. Opening with Playin’ the passion in BTW, Two Souls. The closing of the show from Dark Star – > Sat Nite will blow your mind. Flawless setlist top to bottom with the band coming at you for 3 plus hours. Strap on your seatbelts.
Way too young to have gone in 72. Started in 80 and ran til Jerry passed. I can listen to any of these shows and imagine the vibe in the room. Listening intently as the band transistioned from one sone to the other and guessing the song. Always listening for the big bust out or extended space jams. Now at 46 and still following Further i sit in the venue and always feel like I am 17 and that is the voyage
the tape I got 20 years ago of the 2nd omits hurts me too/b.e. women & LL rain…
Tivoii Theater, Copenhagen, XDEN (4/14/72)
Bertha
Me and My Uncle
Mr. Charlie
You Win Again
Black Throated Wind
Chinatown Shuffle
Loser
Me and Bobby McGee
Cumberland Blues
Playing in the Band
Tennessee Jed
El Paso
Big Boss Man
Beat it on Down the Line
Casey Jones
Truckin’
Hurts Me Too
Brown Eyed Women
Looks Like Rain
Dark Star
Sugar Magnolia
Good Lovin’
Caution
Who Do You Love
Caution
Good Lovin’
Not Fade Away
Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad
Not Fade Away
My first tape of Europe 72 was the first set to 5/23, The Strand Lyceum. Chock full of great stuff from Pigpen – Mr. Charlie, Next Time You See Me, Chinatown Shuffle, Two Souls in Communion, Rockin’ Pneumonia…oh yeah!
The best first set ever. 19 songs over 2 hours. Highlights include Playin in the Band, Cumberland Blues, Jack Straw, all the Pigpen tunes, and closing with China->Rider, NFA->GDTRFB->NFA! And the second set opening of Truckin->Epilogue->The Other One->Morning Dew … it doesn’t get any better than this!
Pigpens best and last moments at the mike was at the Lycum while he sang 2 souls in communion. Just a classic blues tune that reinstated that Pig was the driving force of The dead in the early years. Always loved,always missed.
4-29-72 Hmaburg Germany, have a really old crappy copy of this tape that I can’t even listen too anymore. But Dark Star>Sugar Mags>Caution to end the set and a double encore!!! Can’t wait to get some of these remastered shows!
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04/14/72
4.11.72 – Newcastle. This show has a little bit of everything – one of the last pedal steel versions of Looks Like Rain, an outstanding Playin’, quite possibly the best Truckin’>Other One of the tour, and go back and check out Jerry’s vocals during the China>Rider – out of nowhere and truly inspired! Along with 4.29, I think I’m looking forward to the upgrade of this show the most…..
May 3, 1972 at Olympia Theatre, Paris
Tivoli Garden Bozos
5/11/92 Rotterdam! sick show!
5/4/72 L’Olympia Paris
04/08/1972!
5/11/72 Rotterdam
April 11 / Newcastle City Hall
Musikhalle, Hamburg (4/29/72)
Without question the show on 05-18-72 Kongressaal, Deutsches Museum, Muenchen, West Germany!
Just look at that 2nd set: Top Of The World> Me & My Uncle, Ramble On, BIODTL, Dark Star> Morning Dew> Drums> Sugar Magnolia
Scorching!
And, hey, that first set wasn’t too shabby either!
April 14th – Copenhagen
5/11/72
4/26/72 Frankfurt thanks to the Hundred Year Hall release (the 1st after Jerry died I think). The jamming around ‘going down the road’ explains why I love this era of the Dead.
Thanks!
“Hundred Year Hall” 04-26-72 Frankfurt, Germany
May 3, 1972 at Olympia Theatre, Paris – This show had 3 tunes make it on to the original Europe ’72 album and my first Dead album: Jack Straw, China Cat/Rider and Tennessee Jed
5/26/72…see why:
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1972-05-26.sbd.waddell.89641.sbeok.flac16
Just a perfect classic 72 Dead setlist. Rough and raw sounding. Love it.
Rheinhalle, Dusseldorf, XWGER (4/24/72)
Truckin’
Tennessee Jed
Chinatown Shuffle
Black Throated Wind
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Mr. Charlie
Beat it on Down the Line
Loser
Playing in the Band
Next Time You See Me
Me and Bobby McGee
Good Lovin’
Casey Jones
He’s Gone
Hurts Me Too
El Paso
Dark Star
Me and My Uncle
Wharf Rat
Sugar Magnolia
Not Fade Away
Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad
Not Fade Away
One More Saturday Night
May 3, 1972, great setlist, amazing performances
the run at Lyceum Theatre, London. Brilliant!
My favorite show would be:
May 10, 1972 at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Mainly because I love saying “Concertgebouw”
I’d have to say Rockin the Rhein is my CURRENT favorite show. But once I get my hands on this sweet box set that might change.
5/11/72
05/03/72!!!!
What a beautiful venue and rocking setlist. Wish I was around then…
I would have to go with Rockin’ The Rhein – 4/24/72 Rheinhalle – Dusseldorf, West Germany
May 10 Amsterdaym for sure! Have Europe 72 on vinyl still
Rockin’ the Rhein is amazing! Been listening to that for a long time – never seems to get old!
Rockin’ The Rhein 4/24/72, 45 min. Dark Star -> Uncle -> Dark Star; nuff said. I play/suggest the first set for people just looking into the Dead.
4/7/72 Wembley Empire Pool, London, England
4/24/72. BEST.
May 10, 1972
great he’s gone
May 3, 1972 – That Jack Straw is the first Dead song I heard that made me stop what I was doing and think, “i need to know more about this band”
5/3/1972
The Playin’ In The Band dwnld from Denmark is my NEW favorite.
Have to go with 5/3/72 as well!
4/24/72
*Dark Star
May 26th. Last show of the tour and the last for dear old pigpen plus this sounds great to me
Jack Straw Chinatown Shuffle China Cat Sunflower I Know You Rider Not Fade Away. Also I have noticed there is another kyle on here and I would not like to be tarred and feathered. Hope you can check by email!
4/14/72
Chinatown Shuffleeee
5.23.72 ripping show all the way through.
may 10, 1972
May 26, 1972 @ Lyceum Theatre, London
5/3/72. What more can one band give? Aiko!
5/18/72 Sing Me Back Home 🙂
04-26-72 Frankfurt, Germany….Love the whole show but I still go back to that Bertha.
4/24/72 – Lovelight. ‘Nuff said
Rotterdam May 11, 1972 hands down is the best show from Europe 72. IMHO, my favorite Grateful Dead show ever. Opening with Playin’ the passion in BTW, Two Souls. The closing of the show from Dark Star – > Sat Nite will blow your mind. Flawless setlist top to bottom with the band coming at you for 3 plus hours. Strap on your seatbelts.
I would also say 05-18-72 Kongressaal, Deutsches Museum, Muenchen, West Germany. Great sets.
May 11, 1972. What a show, start to finish.
4-17-72, my goodness gracious – I could watch those videos from Tivoli everyday for the rest of my days and it never gets old.
Way too young to have gone in 72. Started in 80 and ran til Jerry passed. I can listen to any of these shows and imagine the vibe in the room. Listening intently as the band transistioned from one sone to the other and guessing the song. Always listening for the big bust out or extended space jams. Now at 46 and still following Further i sit in the venue and always feel like I am 17 and that is the voyage
Have to agree on the 5-11-72 show
Agree with the above onessss
Deffinitely 5/11
4/24/72
4-8-72 for the best Dark Star ever
4/7/72
I’d have to go with 5-11-72, cant argue with a 47min Dark Star
5-3-72
05/03/72..Greatest Story!
the tape I got 20 years ago of the 2nd omits hurts me too/b.e. women & LL rain…
Tivoii Theater, Copenhagen, XDEN (4/14/72)
Bertha
Me and My Uncle
Mr. Charlie
You Win Again
Black Throated Wind
Chinatown Shuffle
Loser
Me and Bobby McGee
Cumberland Blues
Playing in the Band
Tennessee Jed
El Paso
Big Boss Man
Beat it on Down the Line
Casey Jones
Truckin’
Hurts Me Too
Brown Eyed Women
Looks Like Rain
Dark Star
Sugar Magnolia
Good Lovin’
Caution
Who Do You Love
Caution
Good Lovin’
Not Fade Away
Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad
Not Fade Away
One More Saturday Night
My first tape of Europe 72 was the first set to 5/23, The Strand Lyceum. Chock full of great stuff from Pigpen – Mr. Charlie, Next Time You See Me, Chinatown Shuffle, Two Souls in Communion, Rockin’ Pneumonia…oh yeah!
Hey there. Great contest!. One of my first tapes was from the Olympia Theatre in Paris. Never looked back! Thanks.
4/8/72 London Great “Black Throated Wind”
5/04/72 will always be a great one in my book…
4/8/72 – Great show…great contest too!
4/8/72, the whole show has Jerry in the zone, tight playing all around.
Gotta be the 4/8/72 show for sure
Got to be 5/7/1972 The day that I was born! 🙂
4/8/72…wish I could have been there!
Amsterdam, 5/21. Wow…
first tape of Europe 72 was the first set to 5/23, The Strand Lyceum. Chock full of great stuff from Pigpen
May 26, 1972 — A Monumental Peformance
The best first set ever. 19 songs over 2 hours. Highlights include Playin in the Band, Cumberland Blues, Jack Straw, all the Pigpen tunes, and closing with China->Rider, NFA->GDTRFB->NFA! And the second set opening of Truckin->Epilogue->The Other One->Morning Dew … it doesn’t get any better than this!
May 10 – Amsterdam – great setlist, high energy.
Decisions, decisions, decisions..all so good, personally 5-4-72 but really how can you go wrong.
05/07/72 (Sun) Bickershaw Festival – Wigan, Lancashire, England …because it is my birthday!
Pigpens best and last moments at the mike was at the Lycum while he sang 2 souls in communion. Just a classic blues tune that reinstated that Pig was the driving force of The dead in the early years. Always loved,always missed.
The original release is what made me fall in love with the Dead.
May 23, 1972 at Lyceum Theatre, London, London is Da Bomb! Winner, winner, chicken dinner??
5-4-72 -> partyyyyy onnnnnn
“Jack Straw”, “China Cat Sunflower”, “I Know You Rider” and “Tennessee Jed” – May 3, 1972 at Olympia Theatre, Paris
4/14/72 b/c the extra effort for first paying foreign language audience
5/26/72 Pigpens last show.
4-29-72 Hmaburg Germany, have a really old crappy copy of this tape that I can’t even listen too anymore. But Dark Star>Sugar Mags>Caution to end the set and a double encore!!! Can’t wait to get some of these remastered shows!
5/10/72 …. because I said so 🙂