I'm joined by guest Phil Stacey as we discuss the Grateful Dead's live triple album Europe '72.

Show notes:

• Recorded at CompCon world HQ

• Triple album documenting the Dead's European tour

• Displays new Americana sound

• Mickey Hart's gone, Keith and Donna Godchaux join

• Full tour was documented on a 73-CD box set

• Letting it all hang out at an Oregon show

• Garcia and Weir released solo albums this year

• The Dead's influenced ranged wide, eventually including members of punk/indie acts like Black Flag and Meat Puppets

• Greg Ginn, noted Deadhead

• The greatness of "Jack Straw"

• Later covered by eventual guest keyboardist Bruce Hornsby

• Grateful Dead keyboardists : Spinal Tap drummers

• "A long f-ing album"

• Unrelated: The Dirtbombs rule

• "China Cat Sunflower" sounds very different here than the original

• This is Peak Dead

• The band captured the communal live experience and attracted a huge following

• When you party too hard before the show

• Pigpen's last hurrah

• "Morning Dew" is stretched out to 10+ minutes of apocalyptic jam

• Tangent: Janelle Monae is great

• Variety is important

• No more guilty pleasures

• Waaaaaaay off topic

• The strange career of Robert Palmer

• Phil: Europe '72 is like comfort food

• Next up: Wake of the Flood

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