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Anyone catch the meet up at the movies special featuring the GD from the Beat Club '72 last night?
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the best of the early years. They were young, thin, healthy and full of psychedelic whimsy. Their first European trip with an entourage of slightly weird friends and crew. I ran into JG & BW in a record shop in Copenhagen, all of us stunned to see each other there. They handed me and my Lady, RJ two tickets for that show that night. Turned out to be front row center..
Flash forward 40 years and the Dead bought 30 pix for the Euro 72 Steamer Trunk 72CD limited edition of 7200 . Besides the many pix in the coffee table book they asked me to write the liner notes for April 14-1972 which was their first ever gig before a foreign non English speaking crowd. I did so (wasn't easy) and my pix are all over that cd cover as well...
Here are 3 from that time....
Yes, I was in the audience at Tulsa. Great crowd...theatre about 2/3 to 3/4 full. Applause and cheers after each number. Teenage couple sat next to me; the boy explaining Beat/Hippie context to the girl ("Remember that movie we saw...'On the Road'? Neal was the wild guy in that movie!") before and after the show. When Garcia stopped "Sugaree" and complained about someone not keeping up with the changes, someone behind said, "Sounded good to me!" When Bob forget the lyrics to "Truckin'", I'll admit that I was the one who said, "First time THAT'S ever happened!" It was a warm, fun group, and 95% of us were in our fifties or forties.
The show? Fantastic! Shot by a German TV crew for "Beat Club" with no animations, no nothing, just the band with chroma-keyed tie-dyed graphics behind their set up. No audience, so the Dead just played, and occasionally stopped playing and restarted, and played "Playing in the Band" twice all the way through. Pigpen wasn't well but offered a smokin' "Mr. Charlie" that had my feet tapping. Wrapped up with a 30-minute-or-so long version of "Truckin"> Drums (Bill the only drummer, obviously)> "The Other One." Sound recording led by Betty Cantor and Bob Matthews. Sounded great (loved Bill's drums, Phil's bombs, and Jerry's Alligator gee tar). BTW, Donna sings her accents during "Playing." She's sounds great, and this show helped me remember what she could bring when she was happy and the Dead were playing in a small hall where she could hear herself.
Rhino says they can't get the rights to release this on home video....we'll see. You can purchase the soundtrack from Dead.net (and I assume the usual other suspects, as well). If you like the Dead circa '72, then you'll like this. Not a full show, or maybe even a full set, but 8 great numbers delivered over 90 minutes that really help to put you in a great place. Seeing Pigpen (even in his limited role) and Jerry (when he still had his beautiful tenor voice and knew what a 16th note was) is wonderful.
I did not; wish I could have. But somehow ... I imagine this will soon be available for home Blu-ray and DVD consumption - and you're going to want it.
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