tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post7920325731220324670..comments2024-03-26T23:10:34.814-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Sources: April 7, 1972: Empire Pool, WembleyLight Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-23179263488059331702022-05-14T04:02:39.768-07:002022-05-14T04:02:39.768-07:00Three more reviews of the opening show of the Euro...Three more reviews of the opening show of the Europe '72 tour (some dates/headlines unknown). Funny that all the journalists in town went to see this show, and the April 8 show was apparently unreported! <br />The first two reviews are very good & descriptive accounts, not much to add in comment. It's interesting that they weren't really super-familiar with the Dead (the Other One, which had been on the new live album, gets called "The Other Side" and "Spanish Lady," and few Dead songs are named). Russell makes some odd song errors - she hears "The Same Thing" somehow, though Pigpen didn't do any slow blues in the show; and they didn't do Me & My Uncle in this show either. <br />These two reviewers agree that the show was great. The long jams were often overlooked by reviewers, but here The Other One gets particular notice - "ghostly, almost macabre," "doomy, a science fiction sound," "a floating, out-of-time mesh of sound." The audience is "awed into silence" (while the dancers "stand awkwardly"), but everyone's relieved when the Dead get back to rockin'. By the end of the show the crowd's gone mad. <br />Peacock's the odd man out - he wanted to like the Dead but was disappointed. He's wise enough to place some blame on the conditions (the cavernous Empire Pool, his distant mood), but he also feels the band was "erratic...scrappy and untogether," only coming together for a few great moments. Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com