Grateful Dead Select ‘Beat Club 4/21/72’ For ‘Shakedown Stream’ Video Series

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The Grateful Dead will broadcast their Beat Club 4/21/72 performance for this week’s installment of the Shakedown Stream video series. Shakedown Stream begins with a pre-show this Friday, May 22 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT before the screening of Beat Club 4/21/1972.

Sam Cutler, the band’s tour manager during the Europe ’72 tour that included the Beat Club appearance, will join co-hosts David Lemieux (GD archivist) and Gary Lambert (GD historian) on the pre-show. Fans can submit questions for Sam, David and Gary using this form.

The Grateful Dead stopped by the Bremen, Germany Beat Club studios on April 21, 1972 to film an appearance for the German music television show. Audio of the performance went unheard until its inclusion in the 2011 box set Europe ’72: The Complete Recordings. Video of the Dead’s Beat Club show premiered in theaters on July 17, 2014 at the fourth annual Grateful Dead Meet Up At The Movies. The GD lineup at the time featured guitarists Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, bassist Phil Lesh, drummer Bill Kreutzmann, keyboardists Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and Keith Godchaux and vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux.

Watch the pre-show on Friday, May 22 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT below:

Check out Beat Club 4/21/72 tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. PT on the JamBase Livestreams Calendar via YouTube or below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLz1JBmONVk