7/6/2023 0 Comments China cat sunflower europe 72![]() No, that doesn't happen in France you eat when the meals are cooked there. So we’d have to go to some little countryside French place and of course, all of France closes down between 2:30 and 7:00 for food… It's not like in this country where there are things that are open all the time and you can eat whenever. And when people like us are really hungry, it's, like, really not a good idea to let that hunger go on any longer because it'll burst out in ways that you're not really comfortable with. But she must not have been there, because I remember a lot of times driving through France in these two buses, with 52 hippies… it'd be 4:00 in the afternoon, and we’d be really hungry. One of the things that I just remember… Rosie wasn't there, because Rosie speaks French-born in Paris, speaks fluent French. JON McINTIRE : W e had two buses - like 52 people. īOB WEIR : W e'd hit multiple and varied truckstops to the amazement and consternation of the locals. This next bit of Bob Weir comes from David and Marty Martinez’s 1995 interview with him, and it’s followed by an interview David did with the Dead’s late manager Jon McIntire. As always, we’re standing on the shoulders of heads, and specifically David Gans. JESSE: The Bozo bus and the Bolo bus took the two-day overland route from Hamburg to Paris with an overnight stop in Konigswinter. A lot more.ĪUDIO: “China Cat Sunflower” (0:00-0:13). But, to paraphrase the great music documentarian Marty DiBergi, they got more. That would change significantly when they got to Paris, where-in the comfortable confines of the Olympia Theatre -they found a welcoming crowd of heads and captured more than twice that: 5 live Dead recordings that virtually every head knows. But in the course of the tour’s first 10 performances, they’d only caught two songs that would make it to the original Europe ‘72 triple-LP. They had been in Europe for exactly a month and had plenty of adventures and made some fantastic music. JESSE: Late on May Day 1972, the Grateful Dead arrived in France. Phil Lesh & Bob Weir, by David Gans & Marty Martinez, Grateful Dead Hour #369, 9/1995. Jon McIntire, by David Gans, This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, 2011. ![]() Rosie McGee, Dancing With the Dead audiobook, 2013. Rosie McGee, by David Gans, This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, 2015. ![]() Dennis “Wiz” Leonard, by Blair Jackson, This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, 2011. Robert Hunter, by Steve Silberman, unpublished. Rosie McGee’s Dancing With the Dead is available via her site as both an audiobook and righteous photo-laden edition.- Robert Hunter, by David Gans, Conversations with the Dead, 1977. This Is All A Dream We Dreamed and Conversations With the Dead are available via David’s website. The original transcription of “I Know You Rider,” as “Woman Blue,” can be found in John and Alan Lomax’s 1934 book, American Ballads & Folk Songs.Īs always, incredible thanks to our friends who have provided auxiliary audio sources for the Deadcast, including David Gans and Blair Jackson. ![]() Alex Allan has compared multiple drafts of “Jack Straw” and David Dodd’s annotation collects some thoughts from train-spotters on the accuracy of the Great Northern out of Cheyenne. Writer Jerry Hopkins met up with the band and filed an excellent story about the band’s Paris visit for Rolling Stone, “ The Beautiful Dead Hit Europe.”Īt L’Olympia, the band caught several performances that wound up on Europe ‘72, including “Tennessee Jed,” “China Cat Sunflower” > “I Know You Rider,” “Jack Straw,” and “Sugar Magnolia.” Robert Hunter posted the original handwritten lyrics for “ China Cat Sunflower” and “ Jack Straw” on his website. Sounds like he would’ve been an appropriately colorful Deadcast guest. While assembling this episode, I tried again and was saddened to find an obituary for Mark, who passed away last year. Several years back, I spent a bit of time trying to unsuccessfully locate Mark. When the Grateful Dead were in Paris, they received this beautiful telegram from a head named Mark Princi.
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