July 1978: The Complete Recordings

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July 1978: The Complete Recordings
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Live album by
Grateful Dead
ReleasedMay 13, 2016 (2016-05-13)
RecordedJuly 1–8, 1978
Genre Rock
Length744:51
Label Rhino
Producer Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology
Red Rocks: 7/8/78
(2016)		July 1978: The Complete Recordings
(2016)		 Dave's Picks Volume 19
(2016)

July 1978: The Complete Recordings is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. Packaged as a box set, and produced as a limited edition of 15,000 copies, it contains five complete concerts on twelve CDs. It was released on May 13, 2016. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Contents

July 7, 1978 was the band's first appearance at Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheatre (there were actually four dates in succession at the venue, with the band taking a seven-week break halfway in between for the recording of Shakedown Street ). They played annual runs at Red Rocks through 1987, missing only 1980, 1981, and 1986. An additional date was originally scheduled for Milwaukee Summerfest, on July 2, but had to be cancelled. Though relatively short, this is the third complete tour to be officially released by the band, following the twenty two-date tour of Western Europe in 1972, and the sixteen-date winter / spring 1990 tour of the eastern United States.

The concerts were recorded by audio engineer Betty Cantor-Jackson. They are among a number of soundboard recordings by Cantor-Jackson — known as "Betty boards" — that were long missing from the Grateful Dead's vault of concert recordings. The tapes eventually were returned to the band, and production of the album began some months later. [6] [9]

Concerts

The album includes all five of the band's July 1978 concerts.

Track listing

July 1, 1978 – Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri

Disc 1

  1. "Bertha" > (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 7:02
  2. "Good Lovin'" (Arthur Resnick, Rudy Clark) – 6:30
  3. "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:49
  4. "Jack Straw" (Bob Weir, Hunter) – 6:03
  5. "Friend of the Devil" (Garcia, John Dawson, Hunter) – 8:20
  6. "Me and My Uncle" > (John Phillips) – 2:56
  7. "Big River" (Johnny Cash) – 5:16

Disc 2

  1. "Terrapin Station" > (Garcia, Hunter, Kreutzmann, Hart) – 11:01
  2. "Playing in the Band" > (Weir, Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 8:56
  3. "Rhythm Devils" > (Hart, Bill Kreutzmann) – 8:51
  4. "Space" > (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Weir, Keith Godchaux) - 3:51
  5. "Estimated Prophet" > (Weir, John Barlow) – 11:05
  6. "The Other One" > (Weir, Kreutzmann) – 5:13
  7. "Wharf Rat" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:01
  8. "Around and Around" (Chuck Berry) – 8:25
Encore:
  2. "Johnny B. Goode" (Berry) – 4:15

Note: The Dead played one set on this date, as part of Willie Nelson's annual 4th of July Picnic.

July 3, 1978 – St. Paul Civic Center Arena, St. Paul, Minnesota

Disc 1

First set:
  1. "New Minglewood Blues" (Traditional) – 5:40
  2. "Loser" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:35
  3. "Looks Like Rain" (Weir, Barlow) – 7:51
  4. "Ramble On Rose" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:25
  5. Mexicali Blues" > (Weir, Barlow) - 3:26
  6. "Mama Tried" (Merle Haggard) – 3:24
  7. "Peggy-O" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 8:09
  8. "Cassidy" (Weir, Barlow) – 5:08
  9. "Deal" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:13
  10. "The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, Barlow) – 8:20

Disc 2

Second set:
  1. "Scarlet Begonias" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:16
  2. "Fire on the Mountain" (Hart, Hunter) – 9:39
  3. "Dancing in the Street" > (Marvin Gaye, Ivy Jo Hunter, William "Mickey" Stevenson) – 13:32
  4. "Rhythm Devils" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 11:10
  5. "Not Fade Away" > (Charles Hardin, Norman Petty) – 6:46
  6. "Stella Blue" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:51
  7. "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 9:19
Encore:
  2. "Werewolves of London" (LeRoy Marinell, Waddy Wachtel, Warren Zevon) – 7:12

July 5, 1978 – Omaha Civic Auditorium, Omaha, Nebraska

Disc 1

First set:
  1. "Sugaree" (Garcia, Hunter) –9:51
  2. "Beat It On Down the Line" (Jesse Fuller) – 3:28
  3. "They Love Each Other" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:12
  4. "Looks Like Rain" (Weir, Barlow) – 7:59
  5. "Dire Wolf" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:49
  6. "It's All Over Now" (Bobby Womack, Shirley Womack) – 8:22
  7. "Candyman" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:41
  8. "Lazy Lightning" > (Weir, Barlow) – 3:27
  9. "Supplication" (Weir, Barlow) –5:27
Second set:
  2. "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:13
  3. "Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:08
  4. "Ship of Fools" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:41

Disc 2

  1. "Estimated Prophet" > (Weir, Barlow) – 12:42
  2. "Eyes of the World" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 12:23
  3. "Rhythm Devils" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 7:56
  4. "Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Godchaux) - 7:28
  5. "Wharf Rat" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:43
  6. "Truckin'" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 7:29
  7. "Iko Iko" > (James "Sugar Boy" Crawford, Barbara Ann Hawkins, Rosa Lee Hawkins, Joan Marie Johnson) – 7:23
  8. "Around and Around" (Berry) – 8:27
Encore:
  2. "Promised Land" (Chuck Berry) – 4:13

July 7, 1978 – Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Colorado

Disc 1

First set:
  1. "Jack Straw" (Bob Weir, Hunter) – 5:49
  2. "Candyman" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:41
  3. "Me and My Uncle" > (John Phillips) – 3:00
  4. "Big River" (Johnny Cash) – 5:53
  5. "Friend of the Devil" (Garcia, John Dawson, Hunter) – 8:36
  6. "Cassidy" (Weir, Barlow) – 5:06
  7. "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:11
  8. "Passenger" (Lesh, Peter Monk) – 5:31
  9. "Peggy-O" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 9:10
  10. "The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, Barlow) – 8:13

Disc 2

Second set:
  1. "Cold Rain and Snow" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:26
  2. "Beat It On Down the Line" (Jesse Fuller) – 3:38
  3. "Scarlet Begonias" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:18
  4. "Fire on the Mountain" (Hart, Hunter) – 8:10

Disc 3

  1. "Dancing in the Street" > (Gaye, Hunter, Stevenson) – 8:57
  2. "Rhythm Devils" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 10:12
  3. "Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Godchaux) - 6:09
  4. "Not Fade Away" > (Charles Hardin, Norman Petty) – 11:04
  5. "Black Peter" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:29
  6. "Around and Around" (Berry) – 8:44
Encore:
  2. "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:55
  3. "Johnny B. Goode" (Berry) – 4:16

July 8, 1978 – Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Colorado

Disc 1

First set:
  1. "Bertha" > (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) > – 6:43
  2. "Good Lovin'" (Resnick, Clark) – 6:40
  3. "Dire Wolf" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:07
  4. "El Paso" (Marty Robbins) – 4:25
  5. "It Must Have Been the Roses" (Hunter) – 7:16
  6. "New Minglewood Blues" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:09
  7. "Ramble On Rose" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:34
  8. "Promised Land" (Chuck Berry) – 4:37
  9. "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:26
Second set:
  2. "Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:44
  3. "Ship of Fools" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:45

Disc 2

  1. "Estimated Prophet" > (Weir, Barlow) – 13:08
  2. "The Other One" > (Weir, Kreutzmann) – 8:51
  3. "Eyes of the World" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:34
  4. "Rhythm Devils" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 10:29
  5. "Space" > (Garcia, Godchaux, Lesh, Weir) – 5:03
  6. "Wharf Rat" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:43
  7. "Franklin's Tower" > (Garcia, Hunter, Kreutzmann) – 10:39
  8. "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 9:31

Disc 3

Encore:
  1. "Terrapin Station" > (Garcia, Hunter, Kreutzmann, Hart) – 10:48
  2. "One More Saturday Night" (Weir) – 5:13
  3. "Werewolves of London" (Marinell, Wachtel, Zevon) – 6:44

Note: This show was simultaneously released as a stand-alone edition.

Personnel

Grateful Dead
Production

Charts

Chart (2016)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [10] 62

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