Lyceum '72: The Complete Recordings
Lyceum '72: The Complete Recordings is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. Packaged as a box set of 24 LPs, it contains four complete concerts recorded at the Lyceum Theatre in London on May 23, 24, 25, and 26, 1972. It was released on July 29, 2022, in a limited edition of 4,000 copies.
The Lyceum concerts were the last four shows of the Grateful Dead's 1972 tour of Europe. Several of the songs on Lyceum '72: The Complete Recordings were previously released on the albums Europe '72, Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead: England '72, and Europe '72 Volume 2. Additionally, the entire concert tour was released in 2011 as a 73-CD box set called Europe '72: The Complete Recordings. The concert from May 26 was released – also on July 29, 2022 – as a four-CD album called Lyceum Theatre, London, England 5/26/72.
Track listing
Note: Disc 6 side B and disc 24 side B are decorative etchings.May 23, 1972
Disc 1 side A- "Promised Land"
- "Sugaree"
- "Mr. Charlie"
- "Black-Throated Wind"
- "Tennessee Jed"
- "Next Time You See Me"
- "Jack Straw"
- "China Cat Sunflower" >
- "I Know You Rider"
- "Me and My Uncle"
- "Chinatown Shuffle"
- "Big Railroad Blues"
- "The Stranger "
- "Playing in the Band"
- "Sitting on Top of the World"
- "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu"
- "Mexicali Blues"
- "Good Lovin'"
- "Casey Jones"
- "Ramble On Rose"
Disc 4 side B
- "Dark Star" >
- "Morning Dew"
- "He's Gone"
- "Sugar Magnolia"
- "Comes a Time"
- "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" >
- "Not Fade Away" >
- "Hey Bo Diddley" >
- "Not Fade Away"
May 24, 1972
Disc 7 side A- "Cold Rain and Snow"
- "Beat It On Down the Line"
- "Mr. Charlie"
- "Deal"
- "Me and My Uncle"
- "Hurts Me Too"
- "Dire Wolf"
- "Black-Throated Wind"
- "Chinatown Shuffle"
- "China Cat Sunflower" >
- "I Know You Rider"
- "Playing in the Band"
- "You Win Again"
- "Jack Straw"
- "Casey Jones"
- "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu"
- "Mexicali Blues"
- "Black Peter"
- "Mexican Hat Dance" tuning
- "Truckin'" >
- "Drums" >
- "The Other One"
- "The Other One"
- "Sing Me Back Home"
- "Sugar Magnolia"
- "Turn On Your Lovelight" >
- "The Stranger "
May 25, 1972
Disc 12 side A- "Promised Land"
- "Brown-Eyed Women"
- "Big Boss Man"
- "Black-Throated Wind"
- "Tennessee Jed"
- "Mr. Charlie"
- "Jack Straw"
- "China Cat Sunflower" >
- "I Know You Rider"
- "Me and Bobby McGee"
- "Good Lovin
- "Playing in the Band"
- "Brokedown Palace"
- "Casey Jones"
- "Me and My Uncle"
- "Big Railroad Blues"
- "Chinatown Shuffle"
- "Ramble On Rose"
- "Uncle John's Band" >
- "Wharf Rat"
- "Dark Star"
- "Dark Star" >
- "Sugar Magnolia"
- "Comes a Time"
- "El Paso"
- "Sitting on Top of the World"
- "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" >
- "One More Saturday Night"
May 26, 1972
Disc 18 side A- "Promised Land"
- "Sugaree"
- "Mr. Charlie"
- "Black-Throated Wind"
- "Loser"
- "Next Time You See Me"
- "El Paso"
- "Dire Wolf"
- "The Stranger "
- "Playing in the Band"
- "He's Gone"
- "Cumberland Blues"
- "Jack Straw"
- "Chinatown Shuffle"
- "China Cat Sunflower" >
- "I Know You Rider"
- "Not Fade Away" >
- "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" >
- "Not Fade Away"
- "Truckin
- "The Other One" >
- "Drums" >
- "The Other One"
- "The Other One" >
- "Morning Dew"
- "The Other One" >
- "Sing Me Back Home"
- "Me and My Uncle"
- "Ramble On Rose"
- "Sugar Magnolia"
- "Casey Jones"
- "One More Saturday Night"
Personnel
Grateful Dead- Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
- Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals
- Keith Godchaux – piano
- Bill Kreutzmann – drums
- Phil Lesh – bass, vocals
- Ron "Pigpen" McKernan – organ, harmonica, percussion, vocals
- Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
- Produced by Grateful Dead
- Produced for release by David Lemieux
- Recording: Betty Cantor, Janet Furman, Bob Matthews, Rosie, Wizard
- Mixing: Jeffrey Norman
- Mastering: David Glasser
- Artwork: Brian Blomerth, Scott McDougall
- Liner notes essay: Nicholas Meriwether