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Grateful DeadGrateful Dead Live at L'Olympia on 1972-05-04 (May 4, 1972)

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Collection: : GratefulDead
Band/Artist: Grateful Dead
Date: May 4, 1972 (check for other copies)
Venue: L'Olympia
Location: Paris, France

Source: SBD -> (16 Track) Master Reel -> Dat D
Lineage: Dat (Sony R500) -> SEK'D Prodif Plus ->
Transferred by: Charlie Miller
Keywords: Soundboard; Charlie Miller; Steve Rolfe

Description

Set 1

Greatest Story Ever Told
Deal
Mr. Charlie
Beat It On Down The Line
Brown Eyed Women
Chinatown Shuffle
Playing In The Band
You Win Again
It Hurts Me Too


Set 2

Good Lovin'
Next Time You See Me
Ramble On Rose
Jack Straw
Dark Star ->
Space ->
Drums ->
Space ->
Dark Star ->
Sugar Magnolia
Sing Me Back Home
Mexicali Blues
Big Boss Man
Uncle John's Band
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad ->
Not Fade Away ~ One More Saturday Night

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Reviewer: Dooly - - August 23, 2009
Subject: Charlie Miller
I need to update my WILL and add Charlie Miller to it. Many, many, many years passed until the great invention of the Internet appeared, which made this possible...as well as dedicated folks like Charlie. I've never met the man, but i feel i owe him something. His copies always take me to that different place (without adding any "special ingredients" to the mix. Those days are long behind me, but the Dead keep continuing to be a nice, therapudic part of my life. Even my 6 year old boy KNOWS when Jerry is playing on the stereo, and he cocks a nice grin and listens to him play. :)

Dooly

Reviewer: batcaver - - July 13, 2009
Subject: Good Luvin - Call Me Crazy
I'm not usually enrapt by Good Lovin' but this one is worth really listening because it quickly goes to places I don't recall having heard before. In fact, the bulk of it is a series of jam segments (etudes) that they have obviouly been fooling around with. There even Jerry doing bridge strumming a la Fleetwood Mac's Black Magic Woman. WOW

Reviewer: bumba - - June 10, 2009
Subject: bonus disc
anyone got a copy of the bonus disc that came with rockin the rhein? its called academy of music 72. i won it on ebay for 38.00 but got ripped off. the guys ebay name is captain-video. i will buy a copy or get you a copy of any show you want. i also have most other bonus discs. just email me at rosemary425s@aol.com

Reviewer: ooloo - - May 26, 2009
Subject: outstanding - and available
of course its a 5 star show, and of course its essential - nugs dot net has it waiting, although i really appreciated the real player directions below - that worked too - soo good, you need two copies!

Reviewer: oh_uh_um_ah - - May 4, 2009
Subject: The GRATEFUL DEAD "Live On Stage" May 4, 1972 at L Olympia, Paris, France
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Thrity seven years ago today in "GRATEFUL DEAD History":

~~~~~~~~~~~! PIGPEN & KEITH in Paris !~~~~~~~~~~~

It's a Pigpen and Keith show in Europe!


There aren't enough shows with Pigpen and Keith.

These two incredible performers add so much fun, syncopation and rhythmical dimension to the GRATEFUL DEAD you have to get up and dance.

Pigpen and Keith made a special "Magic" only seen on earth for a brief moment in time, but it was captured on tape and is now available on the Internet Archive for all of us to hear, hopefully forever. It sounds too good to be true, but it's not.

I "Highly Recommend" adding this show to your 1972 GRATEFUL DEAD collection. Five stars for the mix, recording, performance & transfer.

Pigpen lays down his organ chops and adds that special "West Coast" sound.

A real treat for us Pigpen fans. A great Pigpen show, and the boys aint' bad either.

I was always a BIG fan of Pigpen's singing & playing.

Relaxed, calm, and assertive the GRATEFUL DEAD perform their show like seasoned professionals to a Parisian audience in spring.

Ah, the smell of Paris in the spring...inhale, cough, choke, cough, hack. Good stuff man...

Not a New York City crowd, but the boys manange to generate some excitement and deliver an incredibly memorable show.

I'd say if a "live show" could be a MASTERPIECE, this one would be it, up until the frogs turned off the electricty during "Next Time You See Me." What the hell was that shit? Excuse my French...

And then there is the French "Dark Star"....this is where you will find what you are looking for.

Gone are the familiar riffs and licks from the 1969 Dark Star...and to replace those street signs in the music are a whole new set of sounds that do the same thing only differently.

Hardly any crowd noise, just a clean sound off the board, mixed to perfection.

One of the best performances of "Sing Me Back Home" I've ever heard. It's very beautiful and angelic.

Get this show while you can, get it while it's free, get it now or you will be sorry.

It's a Charlie Miller transfer. I recommed you click on Charlie's name and collect all his GRATEFUL DEAD shows.

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Eat, Drink, be Merry and Listen to the GRATEFUL DEAD.

Thanks to IA, the GRATEFUL DEAD and Charlie Miller.

I will always scream MORE!

Can you blame me when the music is this good?

Thanks for the LOVE from Paris, France

Reviewer: JustAFloatingSage - - May 1, 2009
Subject: IncredibleShow
Notes to self:

Remember that the 2nd Dark Star has that sweet 'out of body' jam I love so much ... 1st set is all the stuff the way I expect them to sound... Recording and playmanship like a Dick's pick...

Don't ever forget 2nd set ... Pigpen kicks me in the balls... listen to him when I need to get my lazy ass moving....or when I think all the women of the world look at me like I am just a walking piece-o'-crap

SingMeBackHome...use this version when I get around to learning how to pick the song...

Reviewer: Shropy Dop - - November 25, 2008
Subject: Whoooa
awesome show! wish i was there

Reviewer: magicastles - - November 11, 2008
Subject: this band man!
so yes, while listening to this Dark Star, think about the individual age of this band at the time of this recording: Jerry 29, Bob 24, Phil 32, Pig Pen 26, Keith 23, Donna 24, Bill 25.......!!! A joy to listen to.

Reviewer: Evan S. Hunt - - May 25, 2008
Subject: Spectacularius Superbo
This will make you row your galleon. Guaranteed.

Excellent recording, spirited playing, Pigpen!

An absolute masterpiece.

Reviewer: Chris U. - - May 24, 2008
Subject: Imporant notice re Dark Star
In no particular order: 2-13-70, 2-26-73, 10-14-68, 5-23-72, 2-15-73, 2-27-69 [insert other faves here] ... and this one.

As an initial matter, labelling this as "DS->Drums->DS" would ordinarily be extremely lame except that this drum solo is one of Billy's best. It's brilliance, however, is difficult to appreciate outside of its proper context which is the entire 40 minute long beautifully shiny beast. That is because Billy is hot from beginning to end. Just listen to his drumming during the last verse!

Eventually I'll get around to annotating the Dark Star minute by minute because there at least six distinct (and instantly recognizable) movements. The band start out very tight and in a sublime mood then veer into a dreamlike space of impossible depth. Billy's drum solo occurs smack in the middle of this dream but it seems as if rather than leaving the stage for a smoke the rest of the band has simply dissolved or liquified into nothing before our ears.

When they finally awake, they suddenly snap together and play as tightly or tighter than they ever have before or since, as if awakening they simultaneously understand what they had been aiming for all along.

What I've always found most awesome is that they tease the energy-sucking "downward jam" in this portion for only a few bars. Jerry is plainly uninterested in building a cheesy hut of mundane, major chords on top of the pensive mountain of minor grooves and accidentals the band has accumulated to this point.

And so he lifts the band higher.

Reviewer: sydthecat2 - - May 24, 2008
Subject: Sugar Magnolia
We'll never know what the original vocals from this concert's Sugar Mag sounded like, but who cares? This is one of the greatest concerts they played in one of their greatest years. On my speakers I can't tell if this version is better than the others already on this site but I'm enjoying it nonetheless. As clean as this is though it'd be hard for me to leave my old analog board tapes of this show behind completely. They are up there with my finest. And sound great in my car.

Bravissimo!

Notes

Notes:
-- Thanks to Steve Rolfe for lending me his Dat
-- 2nd Set disc changes are seamless
-- Cut at start of Casey Jones
-- Cut at end of Dark Star
-- Cut in Not Fade Away
-- Diginoise in Big Railroad Blues patched with shnid#20562
-- Next Time You see Me is from a different source