Grateful Dead - The Complete Europe '72 Box Set Favorite Shows Poll

73 CDs, even for the most dedicated DeadHead is a lot to digest. Please pick your top 3 shows from the 22 shows on the tour:

 

Nice idea.... I look forward to posting my opinion, after it's arrived and I've had the chance to check it all out.

 

Jesus, give us a month or two!

 

Great idea!

 

No kidding! I'd like to listen to each show at least 2 times to do a proper ranking.

 

there were great Dark Stars, there were great Other Ones, but I think you have to look at the 5/26 Truckin'> Other One > Morning Dew > Other One > Sing Me Back Home as a sort of culmination/pinnacle of the tour. If it were not included in a very edited version on E72, it would be looked upon with much higher regard

p.s. the great Dark Star: 5/25 (no, NOT 4/8), the great Other One: 4/26

 

I'll get back to this thread in a couple of months. It will take a while just to get through this set once. Then come the Pink Floyd releases... Might take a while.

 

I am listening to them in order and I am show #4. It's the best so far.

April 14 Tivolis Koncertsal, Copenhagen

 

Of those shows I have had before this set was released, 5/14, Copenhagen has been a favorite.

 

Well, I hope this thread stays open for a while. It'll be interesting to see which turn out to be the winners. I'm nowhere near ready to vote yet.

 

its 72 discs & may take a month to digest g'morning

 

surprised by so many 5/4 votes. That to me is a bit of a sleepy, droning on at times show. 5/3 is easily stronger, just looking at the two.

 

I'm curious to see the poll results now that we've had enough time to digest the whole set.
Any one ready to vote?

 

Agreed. This thread was a great idea, but about two years too early. Considering how much traction there is for Dead threads (albeit from a fairly compact bunch of members), this thread should be moved up to the top.

 

5/10, 5/11, 5/26

 

I love the 5/4 show because of the Dark Star > Sugar Magnolia...
And 5/26 because of Truckin' > Epilog....
Of all the Dead show's in several shoe boxes, this is the bit of Grateful Dead I always go back to..

 

I can't vote because I don't have the whole box.

That being said, I love my 4 complete shows (1 unofficial), 1 2CD highlights show (HYH), and 8 additional discs of highlights (Steppin' Out, E72, E72 v2).

That's 21 discs total (plus my unofficial copy of 5/11) with just a tiny bit of overlap (mostly 5/26 and E72).

 

4/8 and 5/26 are no-brainers for me. The third spot is much more of a toss-up, with a lot of small highlights within individual shows coming for attention. I love, for example, the Lovelight from the Hundred Year Hall show, but the rest of that one is fairly standard (for an amazing tour, that is). Ultimately, I went with 4/14 for another wonderful (but very different from 4/8) Dark Star -> Sugar Magnolia transition.

 

A note about 5/26/72:

Yes, the second set jam is one of the highlights from the entire tour. However, I want to give some love to the first set.

At 18 tracks, it's one of the longest first sets from the tour. Everything is played especially well. The Playing in the Band is, I believe, extended past 15 minutes length for the first time. To top it all off, when the band is ready for their set break, the audience spontaneously starts clapping the "Not Fade Away" rhythm, so the band decides to rip into a killer NFA>Going Down the Road...>NFA, which usually ended the 2nd set, not the 1st.

 

There is in fact another thread/poll on the same topic, started a few months after this one. For some reason, that one got more attention.

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/your-5-favorite-grateful-dead-europe-72-shows.267347/

The final show is the winner in both polls!