Genre: San Francisco rock
Places I remember: Real Groovy Records
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Jack Straw
Gear costume: Morning Dew
Active compensatory factors: This triple album of Dead highlights from their April/May trek through Europe in 1972 looms large in their legend. It was commercially and artistically a big hit with Deadheads.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Jack Straw
Gear costume: Morning Dew
Active compensatory factors: This triple album of Dead highlights from their April/May trek through Europe in 1972 looms large in their legend. It was commercially and artistically a big hit with Deadheads.
For simple reasons: the playing is great; the songs were new and presented in their best light.
Otherwise it's NOT a great live album in my estimation. The crowd noise is forensically removed so this, along with a number of studio overdubs, plus the fact it cherry picks from a number of venues, all means this is presented more like a studio recording than a live document.
The band personnel was interesting too - Pigpen's last tour and the first by Keith and Donna Godchaux. The combination most definitely worked!
Where do they all belong? A transitional record in some respects but it's a benchmark in the vast Dead canon.
Where do they all belong? A transitional record in some respects but it's a benchmark in the vast Dead canon.
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