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Grateful Dead ~ Europe '72

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For me this is thee show. Everyone on side and working hard to recreate those magical CSN type harmonies.
Pigpen vox, harp and organ. Keith confident on keys. Donna lilting and restrained. Phil in the Zone often taking the lead in harmony parts. Jerry on fire. Bobby trying hard. Billy solid as ever. This remaster catches everything you missed when trading tapes. I vastly prefer this show on CD over my NM- WB green label Europe '72 LPs.
Might want to hold my tongue for the Sunshine Daydream CDs next week though! :thmbsp:
 
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I'm on the fence with filling holes with the Europe '72 discs. Call it the slippery slope. What is the saying, "One is too many and one hundred is not enough." Will look into suggestions for which to get.

I tend to grab tapes from the stack without looking. Gives me the relative uncertainty of set lists. Yesterday I grabbed one of my Red Rocks '85s. I had just finished undergrad, life was still unfolding, a very interesting time in my life. Rehab was in the very near future.

Anyway, I popped in the tape, it was the beginning of side B of a Set I and what do I hear ......Dupree's Diamond Blues. Can't remember hearing it in a long long time. Big smile on my face. Who else does this?
 
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Definitely my fave Brent era show in the best quality i've ever heard it! The "Shakedown>UJB" encore is worth seeking
this out alone, but the whole show is high energy rad. I'm gonna pick up a few more DP's as i see deals on ebay
and/or the local used CD bins.
 
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Re: Europe '72.

I just picked up the old "fatboy" double CD. Really nice sound. No harshness at all.

That '72 London show is really quite good and I might have to start filling in the holes.
 
I'll prolly get the 4CD sets of Bickershaw and Hundred Year Hall shows eventually and call it good for Europe '72. That'll make 16 restored/remastered CDs of that tour in HDCD quality. Plenty 'nuff.
 
I got my Veneta, Oregon set today and it is playing now. The concert is superb, the packaging is excellent. It brings me back to the days of my long lost youth. Damn, I am in a really good mood right now.:banana::banana::banana::music::music::music::music:

Tomorrow night the DVD!
 
rswojo said:
I got my Veneta, Oregon set today and it is playing now. The concert is superb, the packaging is excellent. It brings me back to the days of my long lost youth. Damn, I am in a really good mood right now.:banana::banana::banana::music::music::music::music:

Tomorrow night the DVD!
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Cool. Then i should see mine when i get home. Got pulled early today and working a 12hr shift. I know what i'm doing this weekend! :D
 
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I have a buddy who got the 4LP set. He said "it sounds pretty hissy."
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I don't buy nu-vinyl for that very reason. CDs will always do just fine if there's been any kind of digital treatment to the source recording. You live. You learn.

Really hope my CD/DVD copy is waiting for me in the mailbox tonight!
 
I don't dig this new vinyl either. Same guy also recently bought a couple expensive ($50) remasters of Reckoning and something else I can't recall. I think he is done playing that game.

My first 180g record purchase was my last. I bought Pet Sounds, opened it up and it was warped like a pringle. How could a 180g record possibly be warped right out of the sleeve? It's like that old saying, if a friend borrows $20 and never comes back, consider yourself lucky.
 
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