Grateful Dead - Rockin` the Rhein with the Grateful Dead [Digipak]

Artist:

Grateful Dead

UPC:

081227892128

See Also:

Hart, Mickey Weir, Bob Garcia, Jerry Pickin` On - Pickin` On The Grateful Dead Various Artists - Swingin` To The Grateful Dead

Description:

Grateful Dead: Bob Weir (guitar); Phil Lesh (bass guitar); Donna Jean Godchaux, Jerry Garcia, Keith Godchaux, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Bill Kreutzmann.
Personnel: Jerry Garcia (vocals, guitar); Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (vocals, harmonica, organ, percussion); Phil Lesh (vocals, electric bass); Donna Jean Godchaux, Bob Weir (vocals); Keith Godchaux (piano); Bill Kreutzmann (drums).
Audio Mixer: Jeffrey Norman.
Recording information: Rheinhalle, Dusseldorf, Germany (04/24/1972/05/24/1972); The Lyceum, London, England (04/24/1972/05/24/1972).
The Grateful Dead`s 1972 European tour marked the end of an era for the band. It was their last outing with founding member Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, who was the bluesy soul force of the group. Sadly, he would drink himself to death less than a year after the concert captured on this 3-disc set. Unlike EUROPE `72, a tour sampler notoriously overdubbed after the fact, ROCKIN` THE RHEIN offers a full show, warts and all, which is really the only way to experience the Dead`s magical spontaneity. Pianist Keith Godchaux had already come aboard to fill out the sound, and his jazzy piano inspires the extended jams on "Playing in the Band" and legendary improv-epic "Dark Star."
Pigpen`s gritty, gutter-rat blues are still present, though, as on his own "Chinatown Shuffle" (which never made it to the studio) and the classic Elmore James slow blues "Hurts Me Too." Even though alcohol had already begun taking its toll on Pigpen, his soul-man dominance of extended R&B rave-ups "Good Lovin`" and "Turn on Your Lovelight" (a bonus track from a London concert a month later) shows just what the band lost when he passed away. The Dead would never have another fiery frontman like Pigpen.

Track Listing:

DISC 1: ROCKIN` THE RHEIN:

1. Truckin`
2. Tennessee Jed
3. Chinatown Shuffle
4. Black-Throated Wind
5. China Cat Sunflower
6. I Know You Rider
7. Mr. Charlie
8. Beat It on Down the Line
9. Loser
10. Playing in the Band
11. Next Time You See Me
12. Me and Bobbie McGee

DISC 2: ROCKIN` THE RHEIN:

1. Good Lovin`
2. Casey Jones
3. He`s Gone
4. Hurts Me Too
5. Paso, El
6. Turn on Your Love Light
7. Stranger, The (Two Souls in Communion)

DISC 3: ROCKIN` THE RHEIN:

1. Dark Star
2. Me & My Uncle
3. Dark Star
4. Wharf Rat
5. Sugar Magnolia
6. Not Fade Away
7. Goin` Down the Road Feeling Bad
8. Not Fade Away
9. One More Saturday Night

Album Information

Release Date:

05/24/2004

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

Country Rock

Label:

Rhino

Producer:

Jeffrey Norman; David Lemieux; Jeffrey Norman; David Lemieux

Catalog Number:

8122789212

Original Release Year:

2004

# of Discs:

3

Studio/Live:

Live

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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