Europe / Wall
Saturday, June 17, 1972
Notable Moment
Pigpen's last show
Hollywood Bowl. Pigpen's liver disease keeps him off the road from this point forward. He'll die nine months later, age 27. The Dead never replace his frontman/R&B-vocalist role.
Show stats
- Saturday
- Day 169 of 1972
- Show #
- 34 of 88
- Era
- Europe / Wall
- Keys
- Keith
- Recordings
- 3
- Top rating
- ★ 5.00 (8)
- Top-rated tape
- AUD
- Total dl
- 217,999
- Songs played
- 26 · 2 sets
- Show length
- 2h 33m
- Longest track
- The Other One · 22:48
- ◆ Pigpen's final show with the band.
Curator Score
How this is computed →From the tapers · archive.org · 3
- ★★★★★ · I was at this show, my first Dead show · hamradioman · 2005
I got all pumped up for a few months listening to the 10-04-70 show and the 7-2-71 show on bootleg vinyls, and when this show came around my buddies and myself decided to go to this show. Wow, it blew us away. The venue was awesome, being my first time at the Hollywood Bowl. It was really strange, because there were alot of empty seats there, and behind the seating was a grassy area where we layed out blankets, chairs and sleeping bags to watch the show from.
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- ★★★★★ · First GD show, 72 blew my mind!!! · mgb · 2007
This was my first Dead show. I was 18 and still in HS. I went with a friend that had introduced me to the Dead. We had dinner at a Hollywood restaurant near the Bowl. We attempted to share some sunshine in a coke but I got the last gulp and away I went! We were in the second large section of seats and we rushed the stage when the Dead came out. I held onto a rail cause that was all I could do. I was off in the stratosphere and the band was incredible!
- ★★★★★ · 2nd review entry for this show for me · hamradiomann · 2010
So a guy below was talking about the "watch the wires!" comment by Bobby Weir at 1:20 into Truckin'. The trouble going on that caused that was that there were a bunch of girls on stage who got up there and started whirl dancing around, and they were right between the band members and Bobby knew someone was going to trip on some wires and cause a problem, so next thing that happens is his mike went tumbling to the floor. I wrote the "hamradioman" review below.
Community reviews from archive.org, not the Curator.
Bust-outs & rarities
- ◦Rockin Pneumoniaonly 4 plays ever
Setlist
Set 1
Setlist from CMU Dead archive (mleone/gdead)
Recordings on archive.org · 3
Top-rated source
gd1972-06-17.shure-sony.melton.115839.flac16
Audience · ★ 5.00 (8 reviews) · 23,054 dl
Compare all 3 sources
- gd1972-06-17.shure-sony.melton.115839.flac16Audience · ★ 5.00 · 23,054 dl
- gd1972-06-17.shure.melton.miller.116272.flac16(FOB) Shure Unidyne III -> Cassette Master (Sony TC-40) · ★ 4.71 · 158,383 dl
- gd72-06-17.aud.hanno.16470.sbeok.shnfAudience · ★ 3.72 · 36,562 dl