Scott Bernstein

The next issue of Rolling Stone features news that should thrill Grateful Dead fans as David Fricke reveals that Rhino will put out ALL of the band’s legendary Europe ’72 Tour in a deluxe, limited-edition package that includes 22 shows on over 60 CDs for $450.

Rhino will put out Europe ’72 in its entirety this fall with pre-orders available now over at Dead.net. According to the article, the team working on this project will have put two years into it by the time the release goes live. Fricke also reports that the Dead would be open to putting out other whole tours, Fall ’73 and Spring ’90 were mentioned. Kudos to Rhino and the Grateful Dead organization for giving us fans of archival releases “the full monty.” You can read the entire article in the next issue of Rolling Stone, which hits newsstands on Friday.

Europe ’72 was initially released as a triple-live album on November 5, 1972. The release featured a slew of vocal overdubs and is the Dead’s best-selling live album of all-time. The tracks were taken from a variety of performances on that tour. Deaddisc.com has a summary on which tracks came from which show. 2001’s Golden Road box set contained eight previously unreleased tracks from the tour. Other previous archival releases which feature material from the Europe ’72 tour are Rockin’ The Rhein, Hundred Year Hall and Stepping Out with the Grateful Dead – England ’72.

READ ON for more details on the Europe ’72 box…

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As we reported last week, JEMP Records put out three releases from Phish’s Summer Tour 2010 today via iTunes and through select record stores. Live Phish engineer Jon Altschiller’s original live mixes have been lovingly remastered by Fred Kevorkian for these new releases.

Our friends at JEMP have provided us some remastered tracks to share, so you can sample the quality of these releases. They also sent a few blurbs about each performance written by Phish archivist Kevin Shapiro to give a little background on these shows.

Show #1 = 06/27/2010 – Merriweather Post Pavilion

• Sample: Meatstick > I Saw It Again

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Kevin Shapiro on 6/27/10: On Sunday June 27, 2010, Phish played their sixth headline show (since 1998) at Merriweather Post Pavilion and the second show of a two-night stand to a hot, sticky summer crowd.  Merriweather Post is a wooden-roofed music amphitheater designed by Frank Gehry with excellent acoustics and a capacity of about 19,000.  The band opened set one with “Walfredo” which includes lyrics about Phish’s first visit to the venue opening for Santana in 1992.  This rarity, performed only a half dozen times and for the first time in a decade, began a string of breakouts.  The number two spot featured Bob Marley’s “Mellow Mood” (played for the first time since 2003’s IT festival), “Divided Sky” and 2010’s first “Tela”.  A couple more covers, Clifton Chenier’s Bayou swinging “My Soul” and Norman Blake’s “Ginseng Sullivan”, were clustered mid-set along with “Sample In A Jar.”  Set one wrapped up with “Brian And Robert” – bookended by Phish classics “Bathtub Gin” and “Run Like An Antelope”, the latter of which contained teases of “Brian And Robert.”  Set two was a seamless affair rooted in the show’s theme song, “Saw It Again” (also played at Merriweather for the first time since IT).  This playful set hinged on exploratory playing and transitions like “Meatstick” > “Saw It Again” > “Piper” > “Ghost” which, like the rest of the set included deft teases of “Saw It Again”.  Phish sealed the fate of this uncommon set by weaving their debut of the Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” back into “Saw It Again”.  The remainder of the show: “Contact”, “You Enjoy Myself” (with teases of “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”) and Jimi Hendrix’s “Fire” also included multiple nods to “Saw it Again” among its sonic treasures.

READ ON for samples of the other two releases…

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