The Grateful Dead went on a huge tour in 1972 and released a 3 album set called EUROPE 72.  My friend [Joe] was not doing very well at the time, as he was wildly jealous of “friends” rather than working out his own problems.  He was a “loser.”

TEMPO_MAPPING- GRATEFUL_DEAD - China Cat Sunflower-I Know You Rider- mean speed music analysis

Yet, when this song came on, during the line “the sun will shine in my backyard someday!!” he would shout to the Heavens and beyond that although his life was lousy at the time, SOMEDAY the sun would shine for him.

From what I hear, this man is now so famous I can only refer to him as “Joe” – and wow, has the sun shined for him!  Me?  I feel like the car trapped in the tempo infographic embedded in the histogram above.

Meanspeed®-Carlton Speed summary

song=China Cat Sunflower into I Know You Rider

mean speed/median expected tempo=89.5 beat per minute (“bpm”)

average length of beat=~670 milliseconds

corresponding tone based on 89.5 beats per minute= 381.9 Hz, 24% below G4=391.995 Hz and 76% above F#4=369.994  Hz

well known song within 1% of the speed of the Grateful Dead song=BIKO, Peter Gabriel / Downeaster Alexa, Billy Joel / Wherever God Shines His Light, Van Morrison / The River Of Dreams, Billy Joel / The Dream, David Sandborn

Google realized a while ago that buying YouTube.com was a financial loss.  To correct for this, Google has temporarily gone to an algorithm that rewards pirates, thieves, ie, THE CHINESE.  I looked up the issue: what IS the precise speed of these two songs performed live?  This return on the query is shameful, and shame on Google’s greed:

1. YouTube – Grateful Dead – 4-17-72 – China Cat Sunflower‏
   	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOXPVRLpoQA7 min – Aug 17, 2008 – Uploaded by pheldd Grateful Dead – TV from the Tivoli 4-17-72 DVD by MattMan. … Grateful Dead – 4 -17-72 – China Cat Sunflower …. Added to queue Grateful …

   More videos for precise tempo China cat Sunflower europe 72 »

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2. Europe ‘72 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe_’72 – Cached

   Europe ‘72 is a 1972 live triple album of performances by the Grateful Dead, … The Dead’s start-stop-restart segue of “China Cat Sunflower” into “I Know …

3. Amazon.com: Europe 72: Grateful Dead: Music

   http://www.amazon.com/Europe-72-Grateful-Dead/dp/B000002KEG – Cached

   Europe 72 [Live, Import]. Grateful Dead | Format: Audio CD …. The “China Cat Sunflower” on this album is among my favorites with fluid improvisational …

4. Grateful Dead album by album thread [Archive] – Page 19 – SH Forums

   http://www.stevehoffman.tv › SH Forums › Music Corner – Cached

   25 posts - 9 authors - Last post: Jul 24, 2009

   Europe 72 still defines live Dead for me, especially China Cat Sunflower >I Know You Rider. … Charlie” and “Tenessee Jed” and you’ve got a lot of the same mid-tempo rhythm. … They were really looking for the best of both worlds, the energy of live performance and the precision of the studio. …

5. Kathy Hussey | Stranger Than Fiction | CD Baby

   http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/hussey2 – Cached

   Here’s a “review” based on the tempos of the songs–I am going to list each song, the precise tempo at which I calibrated it (I got the artist’s permission … 91.0 bpm. as: China Cat Sunflower, The Dead, europe 72;Are You Ready For The …

6. PMO – Brent Wood-musical imagination

   http://www.popular-musicology-online.com/issues/04/wood-01.html – Cached

   by B Wood – Related articles
   By his own admission Lesh finds it impossible to play exact repetitions of a bass … “Help on the Way” is mid-tempo piece comprised of a relatively simple …… verse of “China Cat Sunflower-Know You Rider” from Europe 72 (1972) in …

7. Internet Archive Forums: Europe ‘72 Notebook

   http://www.archive.org/post/304297/europe-72-notebook – Cached

   I have always loved the music of the Europe ‘72 tour. ….. finally West Coast m

   usic in Europe – not so much exact performances of certain songs. … Sugaree, Black Throated Wind, Chinatown Shuffle, China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You ….. executed and played at a tempo just a bit faster than was normal for the tour, …

8. Grateful Dead

   starling.rinet.ru/music/dead.htm – Cached

   ‘China Cat Sunflower‘, the best known song off the album, is plain stupid ….. and in a way, I guess Europe ‘72 can be regarded as a true sequel to …. The songs rarely even venture into mid-tempo – most of them are slow as hell, …. well, for the first time since Anthem Of The Sun, to be precise, the band has …

9. PowerPop: Compare and Contrast: The Only Way to Travel

   powerpop.blogspot.com/…/compare-and-contrast-only-way-to-trave… – Cached

   Sep 15, 2010 – They did acoustically, electrically, slow, mid-tempo, fast. … The one that most Deadheads consider the ‘standard’ version is found on Europe 72, … They started the set with “China Cat Sunflower“, segued from one song …

10. Grateful Dead – The Ultimate 1972 Dead Concert – Europe 72 (2011 …

    http://www.dl4all.com/…/758530-grateful-dead-the-ultimate-1972-dead-c… – Cached

    Apr 8, 2011 – Europe ‘72 was for me the definitive Grateful Dead album. When it came out as an expanded edition I was quite … I had to speed up the tempo to match the intro. … China Cat Sunflower (5/23/72 taken from Steppin’ Out) …

Ian Andrew Schneider

Meanspeed® Music Company

July 1, 2011

some comments from the deadheads, Public domain derived yet fascinating -

• A little online research suggests Jerry must here be playing the Natural ’57 Fender Stratocaster Graham Nash gave him. I love the sound of Fenders. Jer played a variety of guitars over the years, but in the early ’70s often favoured Fender Strats. The Grateful Dead with Fender lead guitar has the dead perfect Dead sound = The best ear & soul massage (for me, at least)!

  Bobjb999 4 days ago

• This was such an amazing time. I think they were one of the best and most versatile bands around. They played and played and played on. No one except the dead ever knew how long the shows would be. Endless jams flowed into endless jams. It was magic.

  liberatedsage 1 week ago

• Head West All Around this Globe 4Europe Fest 2Sense great impact waz whenzen+

  mountainhigh88 2 weeks ago

• if your not a HEAD, then you’re DEAD

  pi3rc3d39 3 weeks ago

• Awesome video! Lovin Phil at the 4:51 mark…Jerry is in top form too!

  cabinbowman 3 weeks ago

• Phil Lesh! You fucking rule!

  andyjukes 1 month ago 3

• This just put me in such a better mood.

  willeng84 1 month ago

• Which one is pig pen?

  Urbanomad22 1 month ago

• @Urbanomad22 He played the organ, so he’s off to the right off camera, i didn’t actually catch a shot of him but i may have missed it… Shortly after this he passed away, in ’73, in fact he stopped touring for a while after the europe 72 tour, as his health was deteriorating… He wasn’t prominent in china>rider, but take a look at a lovelight and you’ll see him leading the jam with his vocals…

  arlog11 4 weeks ago

• @Urbanomad22

  He died in the early 70′s….very sad

  DANCEEXPONETS 4 weeks ago

• @Urbanomad22

  the guy on the piano

  DANCEEXPONETS 4 weeks ago

• PHILBOBBY2.

  FRANCECHILD 1 month ago

• JERRY WE WUV U SO MUCHO.

  FRANCECHILD 1 month ago

• either they were too high or didn’t have shit to smoke. broke ass haters.

  GM80Productions 1 month ago

• sooo sick

  ColoradoDeadHead420 1 month ago

• I had the pleasure and the privilege of seeing the Dead 3 times on the Euro ’72 tour and this vid brings it back to life like it was yesterday:-) The Dead are immortal…

  ClaireSapphyck 1 month ago 7

• @ClaireSapphyck

  woah, and I thought I was cool cause I had it on vinyl…

  DANCEEXPONETS 4 weeks ago

• 5:46 – 6:00 burns deep

  blueoystercultmember 2 months ago

• my parents were deadheads i saw the grateful dead i think 3 times and jgb a couple of times my dad has all the deadhead stuff and a all of the tapes when jerry died he went into a depression and had everything laid out in his room.

  kingofgrime1987 2 months ago

• I can totally relate to wishing to be a headlight on a northbound train; shining my light through the cool Colorado rain.

  tjhillgardner 2 months ago

• to play dire wolf when i was younger and i still only play dead and bob dylan songs! i just want to say thanks to everybody who was at winterland 77, scarfire changed my life!

  chezystezy 2 months ago

• both of my parents are deadheads so i grew up listening to all this music! when i graduated high school, i inherited my pops entire collection of dead memorabilia, ticket stubs, records, mix tapes…basically everything he had from his bum years. i have listened to the songs, gotten lost in the tie dyes he made, and held the ticket stubs with my eyes closed, trying to picture what a dead show sounded like, felt like, every single day since. i learned to play the acoustic guitar just to be able >

  chezystezy 2 months ago

• @chezystezy I can relate. My parents are also Deadheads. I’ve gotten almost all of their T-shirts and a bunch of posters/wall art stuff. The stubs and stickers my dad refuses to let go of. He brings them out sometimes when he listens to music. The tapes he still has, too, because they’re still perfectly playable. I’ve been trying to get him to let me make them into CDs. I prefer them to the CDs you can buy, even the concerts like Filmore West or Knickerbocker.

  TheMiilydork 2 months ago

• @TheMiilydork your dad’s tapes deserve to be remastered and posted on the live music archive. they’ll find their audience there. an amazing resource – there are thousands of dead shows on there.

  apagoogoo 1 month ago

• Such an amazing group, I’m 24 years old from spain and I’ve discovered them recently, i’m telling everyone because everybody should listen to them.

  I’m jealous of all of you guys who were there in the 70′s. LONG LIVE GRATEFUL DEAD, LONG LIVE THE 70′S

  xarls 2 months ago

• @xarls naw man not long live the 70s. they came and th

  ey went, those of us who never lived through them (myself included) can not know what they were like. you should say long live good, positive energy and positive vibe music, music performed by truly talented musicians, and enjoyed by lovely and special people! im stoked you found the dead man, keep it real

  chezystezy 2 months ago

• my ALL time favorite dead

  Route6Band 2 months ago

• This is the best way I can explain it

  Picture my brain as an empty cereal bowl. Jerry’s guitar leads are like a fast and furious scattering of delicious Fruity Pebbles floating down from above. Phil is the whole milk pouring in slowly but steadily, absorbing the flavor of the Pebbles but also giving its own satisfying smoothness and full body to the mix. Bobby is the bran muffin that might go good with it sometimes, sometimes not, and Bill and Mickey are the spoon bringing it all back home

  axwell21 2 months ago 3

• @axwell21 bobbys sick you prolly cant tell whos playing what they both know exzactly what to do

  peacenow94 2 months ago

• @axwell21 Is Donna your obnoxious mother your wails annoyingly at you and kills the vibe?

  schach420 2 months ago

• WHERE DID YOU GET THIS FOOTAGE?! Is it on a DVD? And is the entire Europe ’72 performance filmed? I apologize in advance if this is easy to get this footage and I just haven’t looked for it first.

  ArtemisFlyingV 3 months ago

• dead are talkin in this, way more so than in other sheet I’ve seen….probably cause they were younger and knew no better

  pawball 3 months ago

• Phil me up.

  Lottabean 3 months ago

• I want to just set the queue. oopsies.

  Just tried to sell. no go at the Allman’s it took Jim twice as long for his also. He did spend a LOT of time yelling and bitching me to cramp in the car. We need a van for road trips uck. I sold in two lots at Further and spent spent. It was fun and poofy.

  Lottabean 3 months ago

• now I want Franklin’s Tower @ Radio City1…

  Aesop’s fable sprat consults dolphin. I am the ORCA

  How goes it?

  Lottabean 3 months ago

• fantastic

  Patrick272012 3 months ago

• @Patrick272012 where did you see me? I was in two lots.

  Nothing is gonna bring him back

  Lottabean 3 months ago

• Furthur is great. I never appreciated how much Bob & Phil contributed to the Grateful Dead sound. It really was a band effort. What a great job!

  96BusterMr 3 months ago

• @96BusterMr we are headed to Hampton and Charleston or Boca and another FL show. Jim is using my training to tie dye now. He will then print. Last moment on his artist and T-shirt funds. If we do Fl. I may be able to just ‘work the system’. I dunno how so I will try to shazam still. I wanna will call it if he call be less lunar than I for that one moment I am not. We suffer often, at times not on the very same twip.

  Lottabean 3 months ago

• He is gone. I miss him.

  Thaxton 3 months ago

• @Thaxton Jer?

  Lottabean 3 months ago

• @Lottabean what happened?

  Lottabean 3 months ago

• this is great. thanks for the posting

  TheDeadhead56 3 months ago

• dude the tie dye amps are fuckin amazing.

  bdcogger1 3 months ago

• This song reminds me of all the people that have passed on in my life.It’s sad it’s hard but it’s true.

  gratefulant1 3 months ago

• @gratefulant1 Like a steam locomotive, rolling down the tracks, their gone, gone. And nothings gona bring them back.

  JimmyPage97 3 months ago

• @JimmyPage97 Bird Song is a good one.RIP Janis Joplin

  gratefulant1 3 months ago

• @gratefulant1 Totally on board.

  JimmyPage97 3 months ago

• fantastic in all regards, performance and quality. A+

  upupandawaayyyyyyyy 4 months ago

• One of the better Riders, Jerry’s doing a good job on vocals and on that Strat.

  videomaniac108 4 months ago

• strat with a duo sonic control plate…..huh?

  kevinrocks1 4 months ago

• 2:00 til 2:30 is fucking epic mindd blowing .

  andrewmunro44 4 months ago

• @andrewmunro44 The piano? I always loved how much the piano could add to the deads music. Its always very quietly playing behind…but sometimes it just sticks out. So sweet to me.

  JimmyPage97 4 months ago

• Feel like I supported these guys myself by buying and losing so many Dead albums. Ran into fellow DeadHead at a doctors office, of all places the only thing we couldn’t agree on was what was there best songs.

  bboner2 4 months ago

• @bboner2

  went to the docs for a bad back and he breaks out his cell phone pics of shows he went to and he gets all excited and is like “look! look!

  needless to say i recieved a favorable outcome concerning that visit…

  DEADFRED13 4 months ago

• I actually saw them on this tour – was 16 at the time. But never mind. More to the point I’ve never seen this clip before. And I’m AMAZED that even after all these years I can see this clip and still sit shaking my head in disbelief when it’s finished. What a wonderful band!!!

  retsdon 5 months ago

• One of my favorites indeed! Grate tour, the best! Love and miss ya JG. R.I.P.

  aztreehugger 5 months ago

• I was buried with the Grateful Dead and I woke up a Parrothead…

  jjustinharper 5 months ago

• @jjustinharper Well that is a shame… because Jimmy Buffett is a tool.

  GrandaddyPhunk 4 months ago 2

• @GrandaddyPhunk ouch, judge the man. Im sure you like knew him though…

  JimmyPage97 4 months ago

• Work it out !!!! Whoooooo!YeAAAHHHHHH!

  MrMartind15 5 months ago

• good ol’ Keith…i love the corny nod he gives Jerry after his trippy singing part

  hiddenexit 5 months ago

• rockin’ in the big time. i had an opp to see the dead do europe once and missed it. then, after phil graham announced the dead were headed to china i started investigating how to go but alas it never happened….

  MayorMichaelShell 5 months ago

• @MayorMichaelShell like Egypt…& boy was I fool for not trippin over to Vegas in 94, like “O I’ll go next year” cuz I was just that confident, the music would never stop. I’m SO grateful for every show I did go, even those really hard allnight drives along the coast after workin all week

  , then playin so hard, dancin so fast, how I ever made it – workn those angels overtime!

  mythtree 5 months ago

• @mythtree

  watch out for the day the music dies…

  Johnystoo1 4 months ago

• @Johnystoo1 already drunk whiskey, & Ry -

  as the last train coasted by,

  sang out bye Vai, miss american pi,

  drive the fender to 11 as the end is nigh,

  so all you good ol’ boys sing with me and cry…

  over my dead body sacrificing soul for mankind

  never surrender your voice your hands your body your mind!

  ~I’m just a bird

  mythtree 4 months ago

• get it on phil

  majortom1953 6 months ago

• Where is Steve Miller?

  aoxomoxoadead 6 months ago

• Not bad for a guy with half a finger missing

  hitekvoop 6 months ago

• @hitekvoop whats really impressive is the way he plays banjo

  JimmyPage97 5 months ago

• Thanks for posting that was AWESOME!

  dankster215 6 months ago

• Wow, this clip is a real jewel ! Thanks for posting it ! It made my day.

  wendynychaya 6 months ago

• love it. Miss you Jerry!

  76jrmartin 6 months ago

• This is my happy place

  katew420 6 months ago

• There has never been anything quite like a Dead concert. They were pure electric contagious happiness.

  cunnidvd 6 months ago

• We need to get the bus moving.

  thez00house 6 months ago

• not bad!!

  hydfawr 6 months ago

• great song by a great band ~~~ –( 8

  ezrabrooks90 6 months ago

• I miss the Grateful Dead. They’re music is still the best.

  GTinATL100 6 months ago

• i started listening after touch of grey in the 80′s… i was like 14 at the time… love ‘em, love jerry

  ryonownbey 6 months ago

• deep breath

  sigh

  gratitude unlimited

  2get2Terrapin 7 months ago

• Just the way Garcia HOLDS his pick is masterful. His stage presence is incredible. I dig how into their playing they all are. These guys are all chillin’ on stage making great music for people while having a great time.

  UniformConfusion 7 months ago 2

• wow.

  brett1234 7 months ago

• thumbs up if you saw furthur

  buckster2424 7 months ago 79

• @buckster2424 thumbed sideways did you like the scene or just the band?

  Lottabean 3 months ago

• @buckster2424 broome veterans arena

  pooperscooper420690 1 week ago

• @buckster2424 saw them last year for the first time, going to see them again next month

  jmw1275 5 days ago
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  volcom1551 7 months ago

• @volcom1551 real original

  LiveByTheFunk69 6 months ago

• This is the Hundred Year Hall version isn’t it?

  pcburgh01 7 months ago
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  freia2001 7 months ago

• @pcburgh01 No it’s from a TV show recorded in Copenhagen on 17th April 1972. Hundred Year Hall was Frankfurt, 9 days later.

  freia2001 7 months ago

• Jerry Lives on. Please Keep Rockin’ Grateful Dead. In Need…

  darrenable1 7 months ago

• i was blessed to see this played live by the G-D … owned it on LP – 8 track – Cassette – CD and now it’s wisping through the wind on the internet … times and formats have changed … but this song as performed by them will stay in the collective memory of all who knew the rider 8 )

  sixgun4me 7 months ago

• Europe 72 was released just as the dead were becoming a big deal to my generation. I find it to be one of the premier Dead sets ever. It has the quintessential works like I know you rider and China cat and manifold other great selections. For my money its the greatest compilations ever assebled and my ears second the motion.

  gregroy54 7 months ago

• this is f’ing awesome!

  jebstertolston 7 months ago

• As Good as it Gets.

  tinicum54 8 months ago

• this just rules!

  breaker1109 8 months ago

• … 1st show – Spectrum, Philly, ’77.. absolutely superb!!!! this medley from the Europe ’72 version (that whole cassette), that is, is what clinched it for me back in ’76, wow, love at 1st sound byte!!

  kewlbreez 8 months ago 2

• 4 people were so high they missed the thumbs up button

  treggers123 8 months ago 134

• @treggers123 — right ? lol…

  rpdbluevideo 7 months ago

• @treggers123 original

  JimmyPage97 5 months ago

• @treggers123 LOL.. Nice!

  tummydummy 4 months ago
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  tummydummy 4 months ago

• @treggers123 Nice!

  tummydummy 4 months ago

• Yeah……I was one of them!

  corteggleston 3 months ago

• Yes ppl…the best are dead…Phil “the Liver” Lesh and Bobby “blue” Weir go Further on!!!

  Jenscool 9 months ago

• Genius.

  meiguoren66 9 months ago 2

• @meiguoren66 Yes. Purely

  nebnis81 9 months ago

• the Dead were so much better with just Kruetzman on drums. Much jazzier. Hart is too heavyhanded. bass great! Lesh filling! Lesh is the hippest nerd ever.

  Jerry Christmas and a happy Bob Weir!

  boschicus 9 months ago 3

• @boschicus how dare you bad mouth hart in any way?

  lsnipes777 8 months ago

• @boschicus I like their swinging sound with just Billy too, but I have to admit there are times when Mickey really added a lot. What would Terrapin have sounded like without Mickey’s thunderous tom toms? Even straight stuff likeTouch of Grey benefits from his pounding. Nevermind Samson. It’s a different sound with Mickey. Works better on some stuff than others. I like the extra heavy backbeat.

  sparkomatic 8 months ago

• @sparkomatic yea man the song The Eleven wouldnt be around with out Mickey. He does add alot to the mix and the complexity of the band as a whole

  farmerboy93420 7 months ago

• If you have a basement band and want to take it to the next level, cover this tune!

  wildcat867 9 months ago 2

• respond to this?? How can i comment on a state of mind… a world of it’s own and a place of peace – You are still loved Jerry. The greatest band…ever. and they still rule 38 years later – I am so Grateful to have been there – seen them and done that!

  fxstsrider98 9 months ago

• fabulous

  BigHornCanyon 9 months ago

• damn he can play the guitar!

  justinbiberfan8 9 months ago

• I don’t like the piano very much.

  it’s like the lynird skynird

  keo774 9 months ago

• @keo774 hahaha

  equallyeasilyfuqyou 9 months ago

• @equallyeasilyfuqyou really

  keo774 9 months ago

• god damn, the Grateful Dead were the best band ever

  mmasonvw 9 months ago

• I wish I was a headlight on a northbound train….!!!!

  MGoBlueDeadHead 9 months ago 2

• Wish I was a headlight on a Northbound train…

  RebelSpiritof77 9 months ago

• man after going from soldier field 95 to this i think im going to start campaigning the use of H by musicians, that is so sad.

  dbell10 9 months ago

• love it always and forevar a true wholesome jam 2 dance w newborns 2 gg granys n papaws

  justtopretty789 9 months ago

• @justtopretty789

  justtopretty789 9 months ago

• This is great! Love the tye dye on the amps.

  jahtom 10 months ago

• This is great!

  jahtom 10 months ago

• Jerry looks like he’ grooven.

  jahtom 10 months ago

• Sooooo sweeet!

  unclejohnsband 10 months ago

• i moved to london for love in 1972. didnt stay with the girl but at least i got to see every show the dead did at wembley live. thanks roseanne.

  TheCasinoGuru 10 months ago

• DAMN i MISS theseGUYS even Donna.

  gotama420 10 months ago

• Phil Lesh, to this day, perhaps my favorite bass player—–He kept up with Jerry Garcia, and that’s sayin’ somethin’!!!!!!!!!!!

  darcydmbigd 10 months ago

• @darcydmbigd – phil is the best. totally unique, no one plays like phil. i’d even say it was jerry who had to keep up with phil. and the rest of the band as well.

  Th0masBivens 10 months ago

• @darcydmbigd – phil was great, but this jam is 95% Weir

  pbl1 10 months ago

• Just listened to this show last night. Such a sick combo. Just music to the soul.

  optionaxis 10 months ago

• I’m so lucky to have seen this band, back in the day at Wembley, UK.. I was first in line for tickets and ended up in the 4th row from the stage. Took a week off work and did all 3 concerts. Nothing will ever come close to that expirience that I had. It was quasi religious for me.

  aoxomoxoa88 10 months ago

• Just as I saw them back in 1972. How time flies!

  puddleglumm 10 months ago

• man what a classic tune. cant beat this china rider!

  JackStrawGD 10 months ago

• ahh….Fall of ’72 was when I really got turned onto the Dead – I liked the song “Uncle John’s Band when Workingman’s came out, but that Fall was when I fell in with a group of travellers on the bus, so to speak.

  mtoinma 11 months ago

• magical — Bob, Jerry, Phil — at their peak vocally

  the transition from china cat jam to I Know You Rider is perfection (around 3:00 to 3:28)

  msheehanusma77 11 months ago

• billy really kicks ass on this version. very impressive. of course, everything about this is beautiful

  tapia288 11 months ago

• age has nothing to do with some folks taste in music if u like it ,it is actually better to have younger people liking this because it keeps the true soul of the dead alive

  pinkdeadslave 11 months ago

• Heard this so many times when I was young!

  DrumTVShow 11 months ago

• Chicago Soldier Field early 90s

  spent the 3 1/2 hrs making out with my gf during the show…..GOOD TIME

  themosmitsos 11 months ago

• They were the best. Lived in Berkeley during the days and went to all the New Year Shows in Oakland and SF shows. Saw them up and down the state not to mention scheduled my sales trip around their concert dates all over the US.

  Doesn’t get much better!

  lcrproducts 11 months ago

• @lcrproducts I’m jealous of you, and would also like to come work for you.

  shizzlecream 11 months ago

• dont get much better than this…

  TommG6000 11 months ago

• Dead to the Core

  cindygibbsbarfield 11 months ago

• Does Phil have enough knobs on his bass ???

  He really only needed one knob that went to 111.

  rdx506 11 months ago

• Phil is the reason I play bass. Jerry is why I play guitar. Bill is why I play drums and pigpen is way I tried mouth harp. Best band ever no question.

  bushwauaproductions 11 months ago

• These guys were having a blast here… so confident and tight.

  deweypug 11 months ago

• Honestly, one of the best versions of “I Know You Rider” I’ve ever heard… Europe ’72 was such a monumental tour for the band, and I sincerely think it was the golden era of the Dead. Not at their most psychedelic, but most definitely in tune with their musical abilities and completely confident with each others musicianship.

  GrandaddyPhunk 1 year ago 2

• @GrandaddyPhunk

  I agree…this was the era I liked the best. I think the band chemistry with Pigpen and Gaudcheaux had a lot to do with it. It’s like watching a musical conversation. How many bands could play a set, transitioning from R&R->R&B->Country->Psychedelic Jam and pull it off? Not too many. First show in Boston 71 / Wall of Sound. I entered the building not knowing much about them and left a lifelong Deadhead…

  rjl032653 11 months ago

• Phil played that bass like a lead guitar !

  briandavisradio 1 year ago

• Saw 272 shows, from Fox Atlanta ’80 to Soldier ’95. Lost my mind. I always thought it interesting that the transition on this two-fer remained essentially unchanged for nearly 25 years.

  Nyquilcoma 1 year ago

• last i saw them was atlanta in spring tour 95….they played i know you rider at the end…i think everyone cried…cuz everyone knew he was sick….and of course october came along….best memories ever were those shows….listen to the river sing sweet songs…peace

  5Rrock308 1 year ago

• Soooo Sweet!

  BobJakeMcManus 1 year ago

• STL425 youtube channel.. Great version of Furthur covering Magnolia Mountain. Great footage of Jerry Garcia

  stl425 1 year ago

• very nice…….

  im4out 1 year ago

• Absolutely the best guitar rock medley of all time…..jazz, folk, blues all rolled into one….nothing today comes close…..timeless…..

  pmnorris 1 year ago 21

• @pmnorris I agree this is by far the BEST Grateful Dead song ever. nothing else comes close

  PhukIT1865 8 months ago

• @pmnorris welll there is even a splash of funk, at 14:20

  acousticdrewber83 6 months ago

• Most excellent***** thanks.PEACE LOVE LIGHT ~~~~~Da KID

  isjerryzkid 1 year ago

• I have never seen THE Grateful Dead. I got the see The Dead at Rothbury 2009 however. Even though I’ve never seen the full band together, I miss them and their magic too much to put into words…

  AsherNasher 1 year ago

• @AsherNasher magic is what happened

  skibum2436 1 year ago

• Europe ’72 was the first Dead album I ever listened to. China Cat Sunflower is the song that got me hooked

  guitarmaniac327 1 year ago

• A highlight of my life was seeing the Dead at the Bickershaw Festival on this tour.All the discomfort of 3 days of cold and rain was forgotten when the Dead played . Listen to “Dark Star” from Bickershaw at Deadnet tapers section.

  harryo4d 1 year ago

• I love that every speaker grill is tye dyed.

  grandbbq 1 year ago

• Thanks for posting, rclark. Like they say, ’72 is the gift that keeps on giving.

  artturnerjr 1 year ago

• Okay, so I’m bay area born and bred but, Phil’s no John Entwistle, right?

  biggibson49 1 year ago

• @biggibson49 Phil is Phil, one of the most incredible bass players to ever have walked the earth…..no point in comparing apples/oranges….give thanks for both.

  bellablue108 1 year ago

• @bellablue108 With u 100% on that one man, Phil was Phil. Simple as that.

  gratefullistener420 1 year ago

• Bastante.

  Ladywithafan321 1 year ago

• great musicians good harmonizing nice lyrics lots of fused styles but most of the time their songs dont move me to any emotion other than mellow…i get moved by doors stones ac-dc hank jr. bill monroe skynerd elvis the who chalie parker even mozart stirs my spirit..but their songs for the most part seem the same. the doors break on through is opposite of the end, wild horses the stones to sympathy for the devil they are such unique songs by the same artists. im trying to get moved but nothing.

  davidsliltruck 1 year ago

• @davidsliltruck ur just not feeling the vibes man, feel the vibes

  ripbarrett72 1 year ago

• @davidsliltruck its a live thing….if you never had the live experience, rare to get “it” any other way.

  bellablue108 1 year ago

• go see furthur bra

  SativaBeliver 1 year ago

• i got to see them once at the old boston garden in ’94. very thankful. i only wish my one dead show was a show from the 70s. hazard of being born too late.

  danogzilla 1 year ago

• bobby

  SuperDeadSkater 1 year ago

• Jerry plays a strat on Europe 72 ?!? …… crazy.

  rovinghouse 1 year ago

• hi all,

  Two questions:

  1) is this the same ‘ i know you rider” as the one on album europe 72?

  2) the basseman (lesh?) plays with a pick?? not his fingers ? right?

  paokmacedonia 1 year ago

• @paokmacedonia

  Ok, sorry,let me answer the first one myself, it s not, this one is in copenhagen, not paris.sorry..

  paokmacedonia 1 year ago

• @paokmacedonia Phil Lesh does indeed play with a pick. Every time I saw him he was, at any rate.

  mudcatbluez 1 year ago

• nice…

  dnikeb 1 year ago

• Super Stupid bought a nickelbag! He thought that it was coke, but it was scag!

  bomberbadj 1 year ago

• I’m such a lazy Dead Head!

  Didn’t know footage of this tour existed.

  Take the shame!

  

  MrGajo51 1 year ago

• @MrGajo51 haha, at least you’re a deadhead– cheers

  grube28 1 year ago

• redrocks 78 was incredible pbl1 jerry rocked!

  sourdevo619 1 year ago

• Bob is one slippery mother funker but Phil always seems 2 go rite back whr Bob left off. listen 2 the version on Winterland 1973 box set disc 1 if u get the chance, its one of the better ChinaRider transitions I’ve heard, definately has an “under the water” type sound if u no wat i mean

  gratefullistener420 1 year ago

• One band I would kill to see. Born too late :p

  ilikefluffycow 1 year ago 35

• go see furthur bud.

  Bonzoandthemadhatter 1 year ago

• @ilikefluffycow go see furthur bud…theyre tourin all summer

  Bonzoandthemadhatter 1 year ago

• @ilikefluffycow

  might have missed Grateful Dead but still a lot of amazing jam bands around today. Try listening to Phish if you havent, they are amazing live.

  Disastor13 1 year ago

• @ilikefluffycow same dude, id kill to see jerry live, you can still see them but it aint the same, but i guess thats why we got phish now!!!

  May the four winds blow you safely home jerry

  ripbarrett72 1 year ago

• @ilikefluffycow go check out furthur if you haven’t already i know no jerry but pretty tight to well its nice to be able to rock n mother fn roll with bobby and phil still,ill be at the 2 brooklyn shows late june 2 philly shows july 10th i believe and the 4 nokia shows cant wait been a long gap since 2.23 hammerstein…laid down last night lord i could not take my rest so tru the last couple weeks for me 3 4 in the morning been a tough couple weeks….enjoy

  the shows all..

  womenrsmarter420 1 year ago

• @ilikefluffycow I’m right there with you.

  silentdreemz85 1 year ago

• @ilikefluffycow You can still see the remaining members jam it up at Gathering of the vibes festival.

  themusicmatterz 1 year ago

• @ilikefluffycow Id recommend seeing Further if you ever get a chance. I was born too late myself, but to see Bob and Phil Jam is incredible

  Chape2112 11 months ago

• its not to late! i just saw the rythem devils play with yonder mountain string band, and im going to outside lands in august in san fran to see furthur.

  everyone but jerry :’(

  yonderboogey 11 months ago

• @ilikefluffycow

  so sad…… i was born in 1987, just a few decades too late

  ledzep5 11 months ago

• Look at the smile on Jerry’s face around 1:00 on. A man who just loves what he’s doing. And he’s still doing it now, just on another plane…

  dlbcanuck 11 months ago

• You can still catch further though. They have been killing it for the last year. I mean we all miss jerry but It’s sick to get to hear the tunes live again.

  optionaxis 10 months ago

• @ilikefluffycow That’s how I feel about Jimi. Saw the Dead 4 times, but missed Hendrix altogether.

  sugapablo 9 months ago

• @ilikefluffycow open your eyes!!…..and ears!!

  1i1feat 9 months ago

• @ilikefluffycow “try to see a little FURTHUR”

  mightylittle729 9 months ago

• Gives me the chills everytime I hear this since 1972 when I was 13.

  fullerjohn1119 1 year ago

• yea dude my dad is a deadhead and i just turned 21 i realize what i missed out on…..it sucks dead for life

  blarghonk3649 1 year ago

• My whole body is tingling… 72-74 was suck a dank jamming period… I also like 83 a lot.. After 86 it was a different beast obviously .. but i enjoyed Jerry as he aged, and after his coma he did rip some unfathomable leads!! Thank god I got to see the boys a few times.. It’s sad that todays generation doesn’t get to experience anything like this.. A lot of people love Phish, but I think it’s similar to masturbating with a cheesegrater listening to them… slightly amusing but mostly painfull!!

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  all66books 1 year ago

• what…no love for ’77?

  pbl1 1 year ago

• @CDZIKUS dude phish is pretty tight

  acrazyspiritual 1 year ago

• @CDZIKUS

  haha pretty wild comparison my friend! obviously this is where it all started, but I’d say it would be better to say that, for you, listening to phish is like being taken out for Thai food when you just want a good steak.

  TwilitParade 1 year ago

• I can put Dead on in the garage, work and the hours slip away….awesome.

  JohnneyKnocksvillkid 1 year ago

• This jams like a mofo! I looooove this!!!!

  garydupuis 1 year ago

• Must hear the Slightly Stoopid countryrock cover. Pretty good

  OSOPLANET 1 year ago

• this is true slightly stupid does do some wonderful homeage!!!! Holla at ya homeboys…….

  newmoongathering 1 year ago

• Stoopid? are you in 4th grade?

  -DEAD FTW

  doomshot555 1 year ago 2

• I don’t get you

  OSOPLANET 1 year ago

• Don’t be so quick to dismiss something you haven’t heard. Have an open mind, right? Slightly Stoopid has some solid jams, closer to the sun, collie man, zeplike and jimmy, to name a few. Their cover of this song is solid as well, just paying tribute to a band that influenced them.

  jdman331 1 year ago

• emptynet1 – what a great way to put it.

  Discovered this album at 14 and can hear this particular tune over and over and never get tired.

  73tunder 1 year ago

• Europe 72 corrupted my ear for music forever..( I was only about 10/11 at the time). and I can still listen to it today like its the first time I heard it….

  emptynet1 1 year ago 18

• hell ya

  notmefuckingname 1 year ago

• @emptynet1 lucky son of a bitch! i had a dream id been to this

  eggmannsean 10 months ago

• Should go without saying that I lovvve your vid!

  chynnacatsunflower 1 year ago

• I sort of grew up in both Kansas (flat) and Colorado’s western slope (not flat). When I first heard this song on Europe ’72 I immediately knew it was going to be my favorite for long fast down hill ski runs, and it was! The best high-speed cruising tune ever ! Still is ! Not too bad for 360 degree spins at slow-medium speeds either. I guess I degress but I bet you get it.

  lukkymaxx 1 year ago 3

• This is EPIC Dead! At their finest for sure.

  icecoldhubbas 1 year ago

• bobby f-ing up the transition lead here – good thing they cleaned it up in the studio before releasing it on the album. I believe it was taken from Olympia Hall, Paris.

  Bearses 1 year ago

• Just for the record, because I see a few people asking, Keith, Donna and Pigpen were all present ont he Europe 72 tour. I believe I’ve read Pigpen’s doctors told him he should stay home, because as has been pointed out, he was already pretty sick by this time.

  It’s easy to tell who’s playing what: the piano was always Keith, the organ was always Pigpen, though it doesn’t sound like there’s any organ on this particular song.

  Kohntarkosz 1 year ago

• who will be the next grateful dead, there are so many people waiting.

  mikeod314 1 year ago

• Makes me miss Jerry so much…..

  nrchsk 1 year ago

• This where its fucking at. 72 Europe tour is the best dead ive ever heard, its just them and the fam basically on a vacation, Pig is still around but they can tell he’s goin so they make the best of These times eSpecially on stage.

  spreadneck7 1 year ago

• this vid shows the importance and quality of Phil’s playing. love it

  jhrobbin 1 year ago

• those were the days keep it alive bob and phil

  usmcrenner 1 year ago

• haha i love phil! there are spots where he wont let jerry go haha the shit

  cjonezz1 1 year ago

• Such awesome music. Its sad to thi

  nk I’ll never get to see these guys in concert.

  Stormclouds777 1 year ago

• go see further.

  Bonzoandthemadhatter 1 year ago

• I LOVE YOU JERRY . GOD BLESS ALL

  cletusthefetus4 1 year ago

• omg i so remember this combo at laguna seca cant remember exactly which year hey keener and the brutal bros. if you see this member me? kat

  kattazztraphy 1 year ago

• what a tour this would have been, They are really tight, and to still have pig pen would have been great

  RedsoxFan20042007 1 year ago 2

• i spy an aligator

  leadfinger101 1 year ago

• yah i thought that was his alligator guitar

  DheadHead 1 year ago

• Makes an old man yearn for yesteryear.

  mhagar21 1 year ago

• Thats such an amazing quote. Really made me reminess.

  MrThieving 1 year ago

• Does it get any better

  LittlewillieJr 1 year ago

• Garcia rippin it as always chyeaaa

  24pquiles 1 year ago 2

• haha bobby got to solo nice

  matt52590 1 year ago 3

• pure cosmic bliss…

  hellbornelfchild 1 year ago 2

• god i miss these guys. rip jerry.

  drinfothv 1 year ago

• where’s ringo?

  reallygonecat 1 year ago

• hahaha i hope youre kidding..

  NutopianPresident 1 year ago

• he was jamming in the concert for bangladesh about this time

  NutopianPresident 1 year ago

• vintage GD!

  hellbornelfchild 1 year ago

• vintge….

  HiDefArtCR8tor 1 year ago

• 3:28 to 3:37 surreal

  volcom1551 1 year ago

• just bought the record!!

  skatespom 1 year ago

• can’t…stop…dancing

  sayntfuu 1 year ago 4

• Back in the days, people usta create music.

  zitozentinel 1 year ago 6

• lovin’ Keith’s sweet piano runs! awesome stuff all around- this is the GD at their peak.

  OK… 73/74/77/80/81/85 were peaks too! LMAO….. love the good ole GD!

  xneapolisx 1 year ago

• phil is missing his pocket protector

  StinglyJ 1 year ago

• LOL I agree. Maybe Phil is a nerd wanna-be.

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  erocabass 1 year ago

• Phil was never the coolest bass player but he sure can drop the BOMBS

  erocabass 1 year ago

• is Europe ’72 on DVD?

  CadillacL 1 year ago

• in my opinion jerry always been a strat guy,

  his custom guitars were always a blend of the gibson/fender model, but the single coil pickups were his mainstay. dig all the old fender gear

  rustystring 1 year ago 2

• is that you from the rusty strings band ?

  matt banjomatt here

  acousticeclecticjam 1 year ago

• who’s on key’s righnow?

  leadfinger101 1 year ago

• Keith Godchaux

  br10810 1 year ago

• Phil is the BEST!! haha.. I love his looks into the camera. Jerry Baby Jerry>>

  woodruff480 1 year ago

• it’s a wall of tie-dyed fender amps

  heusker 1 year ago

• isnt it amazing how a simple smile from jerry lit up the world

  TheCasinoGuru 1 year ago 3

• so true

  hrothgardesign 1 year ago

• i miss jerry too. always will. so sad but the music lives on!!

  TheCasinoGuru 1 year ago

• Phil~!!!!!!!

  snuffyigngp 1 year ago 2

• What a great song!! china rider one of my favorites. I miss Jerry!!!

  Love the rare Strat playing

  coglmarcis714 1 year ago

• are you kidding???

  dzp5560 1 year ago

• Who’s the lead guitarist on the left? He’s pretty good! Drummer and bass player are ok too .

  lip11 1 year ago

• Bob weir, He’s awsome!

  johnbridges27 1 year ago

• @lip11 phil lesh on bass and i belive billy kreutzman on drums

  rambleonrose93 1 year ago

• Check Jerry playing a strat!

  FredMacintosh 1 year ago

• the gator guitar

  QuadroWho 1 year ago

• well that put a smile on my face thank you for posting brother

  rainbowpagun 1 year ago

• REALLY?

  THACONCH 1 year ago

• Is that Keith and Pig on keys? The other guy doesn’t look like Keith but I’ve never seen him with out a beard.

  MrTaylorN 1 year ago

• I think they were both in Europe. Keith Godchaux and Donna Jean had started playing with the Dead in ’71 (as I recall). The tour represented by the ’72 album was Ron “Pigpen” McKernan’s last with the Dead before he died in 1973. I think Pigpen played organ during this time; Godchaux played the piano.

  lorenparker 1 year ago

• both you see Pigpen at 2:03

  mightylittle729 1 year ago

• I think Pig was already very sick by this time and while he played a few songs, I think he pretty much laid back during that Europe 72 tour.

  lip11 1 year ago

• Never saw pig s I was born in 71, but did see the very last show in Buffalo that Brent played in before he passed. Then Jerry went and I moved south.

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  mishmash2373 1 year ago

• steal my heart right off of my chest!

  mishmash2373 1 year ago

• that was ridiculous man! thanks

  stuffthings7635 1 year ago

• fa

  b blew my mind in 69 and still blowing whats left the dead!!!!!!!!!!

  spikescratch 1 year ago

• Beautiful. I was thinking how there was the side to the Dead that was so schooled — Leshs classical, jazz and avant-garde roots; Jerrys in traditonal folk and bluegrass; Mickeys in military bands, … Pig channeling R&B classics … meanwhile, they had this whole other side to them that threw it all out and started from scratch, playing crazy, unstructured, stuff. All of that working at once. Thats why I think people will be listening to this music 200 years from now.

  vistacruiser59 1 year ago 2

• Couldn’y agree more, you nailed the experience as best as anyone could in 1 paragraph, well done Vistacruiser

  clishat 1 year ago

• i remember the dead arriving in cologne airport a few days later – man you should have seen the Germans marvel at this totally outrageous tribe of hippies from california – those were the days

  longlivejerryg 1 year ago 2

• Greatest song of the greatest Rock & Roll band of all times!

  cunnidvd 1 year ago

• thanks rclark85 for posting, really love it…..great stuff!!!!

  dizubz 1 year ago

• oh, where was the china cat? genius guitar work-

  dizubz 1 year ago

• i did say “China Cat Sunflower JAM”, right? thanks for watching everyone! go see live music!

  rclark85 1 year ago

• too beautiful for words

  01vettec5 1 year ago

• times just aren’t what they used to be that’s for sure man.

  enjoiCam 1 year ago 8

• where the f is china?? and yeah keith and donna ate just ab to crash BMWs in the lott.. sad

  snoozin2006 1 year ago

• jerrys been gone 14 years and it still hurts. damn we miss you jer bear!!

  TheCasinoGuru 1 year ago

• happy birthday jerry RIP we all miss you

  brendanpig7 1 year ago

• happy birthday jerry! it’s my birthday too!

  ken

  ask123321 1 year ago 3

• I like to think I knew you Jerry and I miss you since you’re gone.

  melsquirrel 1 year ago

• Reading you youngsters lament about not seeing the G.D. with Jerry takes the sting out of the fact that I turn 42 next month. God bless these you tube vids!

  obhesh 1 year ago 4

• Age doesn’t mean as much as it used to. 30 is, in fact, the new 20. Look at bands like Bad Religion – Greg Graffin turned 44 this year and they still sound like they’re in their 20s. You probably got to see a lot of live Dead and you’re very lucky for that.

  foolsgoldsoma 1 year ago

• i sure miss them,, and doing acid,,oh and watching the sunrise after trippin all night.

  tjnewmoon 1 year ago 3

• Dad said the Rat Dog show was really good! too bad i didn’t get to see them before Jerry died. Though I did get to dance with my mom! LOL

  xXaerogurl1o1Xx 1 year ago

• I got a double Iguana all over my back

  obiwil 1 year ago

• “The late 70′s shouldn’t even count” should not be in any fans vocabulary. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but everyone agrees by now that the late 70′s are Jerry’s best.

  desertfox202 1 year ago

• I’m pretty sure he meant when critiquing Keith. For sure, Keith was in bad shape by that time – the drug/road lifestyle had taken its toll on his playing.

  I have to agree here, you can’t compare Keith’s playing ’72-’74 to ’78-’79.

  Jerry on the other hand…

  AaronT611 1 year ago

• not sure about that. jerry was great in 77, but sucked hard in 78 and only fair in 79

  pbl1 1 year ago

• but awsome in 80-81 yes!!!

  rotolo 1 year ago

• SAw Phil Lesh and Friends at Saturday in The Park in Sioux City Iowa….pretty damn good I must say…lot of dead covers

  skog8 1 year ago

• I’ll never forget the impact the Europe 72 album had on me. the feel of these songs, and of course the introduction on such great songs such as Jack Straw, Ramble on Rose etc will be forever in my heart. And Keith’s playing and the sound of his grand piano is such a pivotal part of the sound. I wish he could have kept his shit together and stuck around. He is so on top of his game here, the stuff from the late 70s shouldn’t even count.

  Gossage54 1 year ago 3

• Didn’t do this when I saw them, but this a good one..

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  as200s 1 year ago

• I ‘d rather drink muddy water and sleep in a hollow log than stay here in ‘Frisco and be treated like a dog…

  gtz1975 1 year ago 3

• no rock band listened to each other quite like the dead did, very non-selfish musicians

  stashJ8 2 years ago

• i love kreutzmanns drumming so much

  jim267 2 years ago 3

• Amazing that the finest performances of all time by the GD were captured on video by the Danish Broadcasting Corp (I think). European television in the 1970′s was much more progressive, or comtemporary , with their programming in support of rock acts compared to television in the United States. Other than afterhours programs like the “Midnight Special” and “Don Kirshner,” bands like the Dead didn’t get much (if at all) exposure on the networks here in the U.S.

  Bearses 2 years ago

• inmortal

  pinescarpin 2 years ago

• Brilliant.

  threeby8887 2 years ago

• por que no esta jugando el TENNESEAN……..

  COZO si hay que echar un pequeña nativo pequeña hermano para hacer el punto que la misma ALMA juegan mejor juntos los GIUANTS van a SEGOLENE PERDIENDO y NUNCA GANAron el SUPER BOW

  diablocodyify 2 years ago

• the Europe 72 version of this whole china/rider is probably my favorite one out there. ive listened to it hundreds and hundreds of times and i cant get enough.

  nachman2288 2 years ago

• great jam!

  bradmason123 2 years ago

• how did they get their amps tye-died like that?

  prophetdude2 2 years ago

They stretched them like canvas on a painting. Excellent looking, eh?