Grateful Dead - 1972-12-15 - Long Beach, CA (SBD)

Grateful Dead

1972-12-15

Long Beach Arena

Long Beach, CA

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

1st Set:

01. Promised Land

02. Sugaree

03. Black Throated Wind

04. Tennessee Jed

05. El Paso

06. Candyman

07. Big River

08. China Cat Sunflower >

09. I Know You Rider

10. Box of Rain

11. Mexicali Blues

12. Brown-Eyed Women

13. Beat It On Down the Line

14. Loser

15. Playin' In The Band

16. Casey Jones

2nd Set:

01. Greatest Story Ever Told

02. Deal

03. Me And My Uncle

04. He's Gone

05. Truckin' >

06. Jam >

07. Dark Star >

08. Morning Dew

09. Sugar Magnolia

Encore:

01. Johnny B. Goode

Grateful Dead - 1972-12-15 - Long Beach, CA (SBD)

1972 - For the Grateful Dead, the year 1972 would be a transitional one, marked by some incredible high points but marred by sadness. The band would integrate new keyboardist Keith Godchaux (who joined in late 1971) and his wife, vocalist Donna Jean, into the band. The Dead would travel to Europe, a legendary venture originally marked by the triple album, Europe 72, and later commemorated by the official release of every show from that tour. On August 27, 1972, the band would play a show at Veneta, Oregon which Deadheads rank along with the May 8, 1977 Cornell show as one for the ages. Alcohol abuse finally caught up with founding member and organist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, who played his last show with the band on July 17, 1972, and eventually passed away in March 1973, another rocker whose lifestyle cost him his life at age 27. With Pigpen departing the band, the Dead lost some of their bluesy roots. The band began experimenting with some jazz influenced material, as evident on the album Wake of the Flood released the following year. As many of you know, 1973 and 1974 are often considered (along with 1977) as the Dead's peak, but 1972 set the stage. The soundboard recording captures the Dead duringtheir next to last show of 1972, in Long Beach, on December 15, 1972, 49 years ago today.