Bertha
Me and My Uncle
Mr. Charlie
Deal
Black Throated Wind
Next Time You See Me
Cumberland Blues
Brown Eyed Women
Beat it on Down the Line
Tennessee Jed
Playing in the Band
Good Lovin'
Looks Like Rain
Casey Jones
Truckin'
Hurts Me Too
Dark Star
Sugar Magnolia
Caution
One More Saturday Night
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Bob W/Spanish Jam
April 8th 1972
Caution yes
One of the lucky ones
Wembley Empire Pool
Now Playing
This was my First show
My First Time Too!
my thoughts after listening to the Europe 72 box
First Ever Dead Gig
50 years ago tonight.
All the years combine
They melt into a dream...
My first time seeing the band
The Empire Pool (so called because it was built as the swimming pool for the 'Empire Games' sometime in the 1930's) was notorious for its echoes. The bands crew did their best by hanging what looked like swathes of parachute silk from the ceiling, which certainly caught my attention as it billowed about! When we left the show and were waiting on a train at the tube station there was a bunch of people on the platform who had also obviously been to the show. The odd thing was they were all wearing full face plastic masks of various types. The even odder part was when they started pulling them away from their faces their actual noses looked like the noses on their masks ( the guy with a big hooked nose had a mask with a hooked nose, the guy with a small pug nose had a little pug nosed mask. Then the Europe '72 album came out with pictures of bozo's and bolo's and I was even more confused. Soon after that I got a job as a salesman for Revelation Records - and boy was I pleased when they told me that had a deal with the Dead to include that nights version of Dark Star on the Glastonbury Fayre album.
The Empire Pool (so called because it was built as the swimming pool for the 'Empire Games' sometime in the 1930's) was notorious for its echoes. The bands crew did their best by hanging what looked like swathes of parachute silk from the ceiling, which certainly caught my attention as it billowed about! When we left the show and were waiting on a train at the tube station there was a bunch of people on the platform who had also obviously been to the show. The odd thing was they were all wearing full face plastic masks of various types. The even odder part was when they started pulling them away from their faces their actual noses looked like the noses on their masks ( the guy with a big hooked nose had a mask with a hooked nose, the guy with a small pug nose had a little pug nosed mask. Then the Europe '72 album came out with pictures of bozo's and bolo's and I was even more confused. Soon after that I got a job as a salesman for Revelation Records - and boy was I pleased when they told me that had a deal with the Dead to include that nights version of Dark Star on the Glastonbury Fayre album.
50 years ago tonight.
All the years combine
They melt into a dream...