"For 12 years, Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux has had the dream job of overseeing the massive audio and video archives for the Grateful Dead. Although there have been many archival releases over the past couple of decades from the band, the upcoming ‘Europe ’72′ box set release marks the largest collection of live recordings that has been released to date.
With 72 CDs of music representing 22 complete concerts, the exhaustive expansion of the original ‘Europe ’72′ release is a treasure trove of riches for Deadheads, who snapped up all 7200 copies of the box set within four days of the pre-order announcement for the release.
Due to the unexpected demand and quick sellout, the band decided to sell additional “music only” copies of the set, so that all fans would have the chance to get a copy of the music from this historic release. Ultimate Classic Rock recently spoke with Lemieux to dissect the contents of the set, plus we also wanted to find out what future releases might be on the horizon after this set is released in the fall..."
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