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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.
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