After The Other One comes Wharf Rat, its cryptic and chilling, very much you’d expect from this song, but that doesn’t make it any less amazing! The last few songs includes another ‘jam sandwich’ where we find Goin’ Down The Road Feelin’ Bad in between Not Fade Away part 1 and 2. There’s two parts to this Other One and El Paso is between them, after El Paso ends the Dead jump right back into The Other One almost as if they were picking up right where they left off. Post Truckin’ the Dead release an otherworldly The Other One, it’s thick and heavy at times but also slow and soft at others, either way it’s always highly entrancing. Just when you think the band had divulged into an all out pleasurable chaos of music Jerry takes the lead and corrals together the whole band with a magnificent solo. Set 2 opens with Truckin’, and I must say this really is a stellar version, halfway through the song the whole band breaks loose, everyone is following the rhythm to jam and space out with a wall of instruments and sound.
The Dead close off the first set with Playin’ In The Band, not the most catastrophic version compared to what we may be used to, but still nonetheless an enjoyable tune with some high quality jams. After this is Big Boss Man, and Pigpen takes lead vocals and treats us with an excellent vocal and harmonica performance that gets a nice blues shuffle going.
CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER I KNOW YOU RIDER EUROPE 72 FULL
Near the end of Rider that lull comes back, the instruments fade out and we’re left with the drums pounding in the background, then the drums stop, the tension builds with only the band’s vocals ringing out and the Dead finish the song off on an energetic high note will a full barrage of instruments and drums. Sugaree is up next and much like Greatest Story the band all sounds well composed, I’d like to point attention to Pigpen’s organ on this song which is surprisingly clear on the audio, it really pulled me in and just sounded so good! This set also has a delightful China Cat Sunflower into I Know You Rider, the switch between isn’t too bad, it’s clean and low-key I think, China Cat builds and builds and then falls into a small lull where I Know You Rider kicks in full force. Set 1 rocks in with Greatest Story Ever Told, a very clean and tight version, quite the solid and coherent show opener from the Dead. Set 2: Truckin’ > Drums > The Other One > El Paso > The Other One > Wharf Rat, Ramble On Rose, Sugar Magnolia, Not Fade Away > Goin’ Down The Road Feelin’ Bad > Not Fade Away, E: One More Saturday Night Charlie, Beat It On Down The Line, Tennessee Jed, Playin’ In The Band Set 1: Greatest Story Ever Told, Sugaree, Chinatown Shuffle, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Big Boss Man, Black Throated Wind, Loser, Mr.
Without further adieu lets get right into the set list for today’s show at Wembley Empire Pool: For these shows, much like the other shows I’ve wrote about, I’ll mainly be looking to give some notes, thoughts, and my opinions on the great music the Dead played on this tour! The first show the Grateful Dead did on this tour took place 47 years ago today at the Wembly Empire Pool in London, England on April 7, 1972. This is going to be the first show on our Grateful Dead listening tour of the landmark tour through Europe the Dead undertook back in April-May 1972.
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