On his grave is inscribed: “Son intelligence égalait son coeur.” He died 19 April 1922 and was buried in Pere Lachaise cemetery. He retired to an apartment in Paris, spending winters on the Cote d’Azure. His success was interrupted by WW1 during which he gave his printery to the state. Oller lived in a house next to his Jardin de Paris. In 1892 he started his own amusement park “Le Jardin de Paris,” and in 1893, The Olympia music hall with a waxworks in the basement. Then there was the big one, the Moulin Rouge. The Montagnes Russes was an amusement park that he moved from London. On the entertainment side, Oller opened further amusements. In the Belle Epoque the entertainment industry moved around Oller – he was known by everybody, and was acquainted with everybody important in society … He was also involved with horse racing and betting on horse races, including the invention and early operation of the “pari mutual” system. He was the founder of many music halls, dance theatres, and other distractions, including the famous Folies Bergere. Joseph Oller was a leading entertainment impresario and entrepreneur in Paris during the last decades of the 19th century and the start of the 20th century – the “Belle Époque.” For all of his life was he exceptionally active and creative in conceiving of new business ventures. The owner was Joseph Oller, who also co-founded the famous cabaret theater Moulin Rouge.Īn Oller biography written in 1946 by Ferran Canymeres for Les Editions Universelles described the Spanish-born Oller’s background, stating: When it opened in 1883, The Olympia, or “L’Olympia” as it’s known to locals, was the first music hall built in Paris. The Olympia was a short walk from where the band and their cohorts were staying at the nearby Grand Hotel. It’s like we’re not fucking off enough to enjoy that or we’re not playing enough to enjoy that.” I’m a music junkie and I have to play every day. We’ve had the English freakout, the Danish freakout. We’ve had the German equivalent of the guy who gets up on the stage and takes his clothes off. “Everywhere we’ve been, the audiences have been Grateful Dead audiences. It was sacked by the Barbarians in the year 300, and before that, it was a Roman bath. We went to the Notre Dame and we saw that - really boss, but we couldn’t climb the tower. “Almost every place we went today was closed,” Garcia lamented. Before I get too nostalgic, take a look at that cover.As guitarist Jerry Garcia would tell Rolling Stone reporter Jerry Hopkins, their plans for sightseeing around Paris were slightly derailed: Pig's numbers were always my favorites, and 1972 was his last tour. See Me,” as well as a handful of other live staples. Included are two Pigpen tunes, “Chinatown Shuffle” and “Next Time You They hadn’t lost their any of their improvisational prowess. The first the first disc showcase the band’s transition into the short-song format introduced in 1971, cuts that demonstrate theīand’s willingness to shed the ‘inaccessible’ label while proving that The predecessor, and all of them are welcome additions to the document. You don’t have to be aĭeadhead to enjoy the record, either, it should appeal to a wide audience, at least a wide audience of classic rock listeners. In fact, if you're totally new to the Dead, then I recommend you start here because the tracks represent what they did best: country, blues, and mind bending instrumental psychedelia. So please don't be put off by my lukewarm reception, because the Dead were always better in 1972 and this is no exception. I guess over the years, so many vault releases down the road, I've moved on from the knee-jerk reaction of, 'wow, this sounds great compared to my supposed 2nd gen copy!' When I turn on a CD like this, I just hear a good quality rip of some shows that I've long been familiar with on tapes. Listen to the 'original' Europe '72 for reasons I feel hard pressed to explain.Īdmittedly, I once had an embarrassingly large collection of Dead tapes Quality is excellent and the sequencing is even good, I prefer to If you’re not a bootleg collector, then this release (especially when taken after digesting the aforementioned predecessor) is a goodĬross-section of the Dead’s set first overseas tour. Vault material from a band with enough vault material to keep the CDs rolling out for at least another 50 years. Triple-live long player Europe ‘72 is another chapter in the GD saga, and another commercial release of treasured

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