Road Trips Volume 1 Number 2

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Road Trips Volume 1 Number 2
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Live album by
ReleasedFebruary 4, 2008
RecordedOctober 1977
Genre Rock
Length158:20
bonus disc: 79:28
Label Grateful Dead
Producer Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology
Road Trips Full Show: Spectrum 11/6/79
(2008)
Road Trips Volume 1 Number 2
(2008)
Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings
(2008)
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Road Trips Volume 1 Number 2 Bonus Disc
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All About Jazz (favorable) [1]
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Road Trips Volume 1 Number 2 is a live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead, the second in their "Road Trips" series of archival releases. It was recorded in October 1977, and released on February 4, 2008. [4] [5]

Contents

Road Trips Volume 1 Number 2 contains material from four different concerts, recorded over a two-week period at venues in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana.

Portions of the 10/11/77 show from Norman, Oklahoma can also be found as bonus tracks on Dick's Picks Volume 29 .

Track listing

Disc 1
No.TitleRecording venue and dateLength
1."Let It Grow" (Bob Weir, John Perry Barlow) Lloyd Noble Center, 10/11/7710:17
2."Sugaree" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) Assembly Center, 10/16/7717:41
3."The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, Barlow)Assembly Center, 10/16/778:59
4."Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo >" (Garcia, Hunter) Hofheinz Pavilion, 10/14/7711:53
5."El Paso" (Marty Robbins)Hofheinz Pavilion, 10/14/774:52
6."Help On the Way >" (Garcia, Hunter)Lloyd Noble Center, 10/11/775:48
7."Slipknot!" (Garcia, Keith Godchaux, Phil Lesh, Weir)Lloyd Noble Center, 10/11/774:02
8."Franklin's Tower >" (Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, Hunter)Lloyd Noble Center, 10/11/7714:59
Disc 2
No.TitleRecording venue and dateLength
1."Playing in the Band" (Weir, Mickey Hart, Hunter)Hofheinz Pavilion, 10/14/7717:12
2."Drums >" (Hart, Kreutzmann)Assembly Center, 10/16/773:09
3."The Other One >" (Weir)Assembly Center, 10/16/778:24
4."Good Lovin'" (Arthur Resnick, Rudy Clark)Assembly Center, 10/16/775:53
5."Terrapin Station >" (Garcia, Hunter)Assembly Center, 10/16/7711:29
6."Black Peter >" (Garcia, Hunter)Assembly Center, 10/16/7713:17
7."Around and Around" (Chuck Berry)Assembly Center, 10/16/779:08
8."Brokedown Palace >" (Garcia, Hunter)Hofheinz Pavilion, 10/14/775:51
9."Playing In the Band reprise" (Weir, Hart, Hunter)Hofheinz Pavilion, 10/14/775:23
Bonus Disc
No.TitleRecording venue and dateLength
1."Scarlet Begonias >" (Garcia, Hunter)Assembly Center, 10/16/7710:02
2."Fire On the Mountain" (Hart, Hunter)Assembly Center, 10/16/779:31
3."Estimated Prophet" (Weir, Barlow)Assembly Center, 10/16/7712:04
4."Loser" (Garcia, Hunter)Hofheinz Pavilion, 10/14/777:55
5."Sunrise" (Donna Godchaux)Lloyd Noble Center, 10/11/773:56
6."Iko Iko >" (James Crawford) University of New Mexico, 10/7/777:05
7."The Wheel >" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hunter)University of New Mexico, 10/7/775:30
8."Wharf Rat >" (Garcia, Hunter)University of New Mexico, 10/7/7713:31
9."Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter)University of New Mexico, 10/7/779:48

Personnel

Grateful Dead

Production

Sound quality

A label on the CD case for Road Trips Volume 1 Number 2 states, "The compact discs herein have been digitally remastered directly from original analog reel-to-reel tapes. They are historical snapshots, not modern professional recordings, and may therefore exhibit occasional technical anomalies and unavoidable ravages of time."

The album was released in HDCD format. This provides enhanced sound quality when played on CD players with HDCD capability, and is fully compatible with regular CD players.

Concert set lists

The complete set lists for the October 7, 11, 14 and 16, 1977 Southwest Tour concerts from which this recording was taken were: [6]

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico – 10/7/77

Lloyd Noble Center, Norman, Oklahoma – 10/11/77

Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston, Texas – 10/14/77

Assembly Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana – 10/16/77

* appears on Road Trips Volume 1 Number 2
** appears on bonus disc
*** appears on Dick's Picks 29

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