Europe ‘72: Prelude
GOOD OL' GRATEFUL DEADCAST
Grateful Dead
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
The Deadcast begins our 10-part series on Europe ‘72, revisiting the Grateful Dead’s legendary triple-LP & epic tour, as the band prepares to blaze a new circuit across the Continent with more than 40 family members, custom recording gear, & the makings of a classic album.
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| 0:00.0 | The Good Old Grateful Deadcast, the official podcast of The Grateful Dead. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm Rich Mayhan with Jesse Jarno, exploring the music and legacy of The Grateful Dead |
| 0:14.6 | for the committed and the curious. |
| 0:18.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, friends across the globe, welcome to season 5 of The Good Old Grateful |
| 0:22.4 | Deadcast. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm your co-host Rich Mayhan, and we are happy to be back with another season of Deadcast |
| 0:28.6 | episodes for you to dive into. |
| 0:30.9 | And boy is the pool a deep one this time. |
| 0:33.8 | Pool? |
| 0:34.8 | Should we say pond? |
| 0:36.3 | Pool pond? |
| 0:37.3 | Pond to be good for you, especially as we go across the pond in a time machine and explore |
| 0:42.0 | the magnificent and brilliantly executed Europe 72 tour that The Grateful Dead embarked |
| 0:48.4 | upon 50 years ago. |
| 0:50.7 | April and May 1972 found 52 bozos and bolos from the San Francisco Bay Area trekking |
| 0:57.3 | across Europe, bringing psychedelic merriment and a whole bunch of new grateful dead songs |
| 1:02.4 | to the old world. |
| 1:04.1 | We're bringing new episodes of The Deadcast to you weekly this season. |
| 1:08.0 | Each episode will cover the shows that happened on The Europe 72 tour 50 years to the week |
| 1:13.9 | after they went down. |
| 1:16.2 | Jesse and I interviewed more people for this season of The Deadcast than ever before, and |
| 1:20.7 | we're very excited to share all of the tales from the European Golden Road with you. |
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