Grateful Dead: Europe '72 3LP 50th Anniversary Vinyl

Why you'll love it

This 50th anniversary 3LP set was newly mastered by Grammy-winning engineer David Glasser, with audio restored by Plangent Processes, on 180g vinyl with a booklet. Europe '72 was one of the first triple rock albums certified gold, and it has since gone double platinum.

This edition

3LP set
50th anniversary edition
180g vinyl
Remastered by David Glasser
Plangent Processes restoration
Tri-fold jacket
Booklet included
Stereo mix
Pressed in the Czech Republic

About the album

The Grateful Dead's spring 1972 tour of Europe was so expensive that Warner Bros. sent a 16-track recorder along in the hope of a live album to pay for it. Forty-three people made the trip, the so-called Grateful Dead Family, from Wembley through Copenhagen, Paris and Amsterdam to the Lyceum in London.

The album doubles as a collection of new songs that the band never cut in the studio. "Jack Straw," "Brown-Eyed Women," "Tennessee Jed" and "Ramble On Rose" became Dead classics right here, "China Cat Sunflower" rolls into "I Know You Rider," "Truckin'" opens into a long jam, and "Morning Dew" closes the set with a slow burn. Keith and Donna Godchaux make their first appearances on a Dead album, and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan sings his own "Mr. Charlie."

Kelley and Mouse drew the famous cover, a giant foot stepping across the Atlantic and an ice cream kid on the back. It's three LPs of the Dead at full stride, and the best excuse we know for a long afternoon with nowhere to be.

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