Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4

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Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4
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Live album by
ReleasedSeptember 30, 2008
RecordedOctober 21–22, 1978
Genre Rock
Length159:13
bonus disc: 58:36
Label Grateful Dead
Producer Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology
Rocking the Cradle: Egypt 1978
(2008)
Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4
(2008)
Road Trips Volume 2 Number 1
(2008)
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Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4 Bonus Disc
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Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4 is a two-CD live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead. The fourth in their "Road Trips" series of albums, it was released on September 30, 2008. It was recorded at the Winterland Arena in San Francisco, California, on October 21 and 22, 1978. [3]

Contents

A third, "bonus" disc was included with early shipments of the album. The bonus disc contains songs recorded live at Winterland on October 17 and 21, 1978. [4]

Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4 is subtitled From Egypt with Love. The Winterland concerts of October 17, 18, 20, 21, and 22, 1978, were the first shows played by the Dead after their concerts near the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt a month earlier. [5] Songs from the Egypt performances are contained in the album Rocking the Cradle: Egypt 1978 , which was released on the same day as Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4.

Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4 includes a few minutes of music from an audience recording, edited into the mix to complete several songs that were cut on the master soundboard tapes. [6] These songs are "Sugaree", "Stella Blue", "Sugar Magnolia", and "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad", along with "He's Gone" on the bonus disc.

Track listing

Disc one

October 21, 1978
  1. "Sugaree" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 13:40
  2. "Passenger" (Phil Lesh, Peter Monk) – 3:39
  3. "Stagger Lee" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:28
  4. "I Need A Miracle" (Bob Weir, John Barlow) – 7:37
  5. "Got My Mojo Working" > (Preston Foster) – 12:12
  6. "The Other One" > (Weir) – 7:32
  7. "Stella Blue" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:53
  8. "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 8:48
  9. "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:42

Disc two

October 22, 1978
  1. "Ollin Arageed" > (Hamza El Din) – 3:30
  2. "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:28
  3. "Peggy-O" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 9:10
  4. "Jack Straw" (Weir, Hunter) – 6:32
  5. "Scarlet Begonias" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:44
  6. "Fire on the Mountain" (Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 12:40
  7. "Not Fade Away" > (Norman Petty, Buddy Holly) – 21:43
  8. "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:56

Bonus Disc

October 21, 1978
  1. "Bertha" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:17
  2. "Good Lovin'" (Arthur Resnick, Rudy Clark) – 7:49
  3. "Estimated Prophet" > (Weir, Barlow) – 14:52
  4. "He's Gone" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:35
October 17, 1978
  1. "If I Had the World to Give" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:40
  2. "Around and Around" (Chuck Berry) – 9:24

Personnel

Grateful Dead

Guest musicians

Production

Concert set lists

The complete set lists for the "From Egypt With Love" concerts held October 17, 18, 20, 21 and 22, 1978 at Winterland Arena in San Francisco were: [7]

October 17, 1978:

October 18, 1978:

October 20, 1978:

October 21, 1978:

October 22, 1978:

* appears on Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4
** appears on bonus disc

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References

  1. Collete, Doug. Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4, Glide magazine, December 8, 2008
  2. Metzger, John. Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4, The Music Box, January 13, 2009
  3. Greenhaus, Mike. "From Egypt with Love", Relix, August 28, 2008
  4. Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4 at the Grateful Dead Family Discography
  5. Jackson, Blair. "From Egypt with Love!" CD liner essay
  6. Scott, John W.; Dolgushkin, Mike; Nixon, Stu. (1995). DeadBase IX: The Complete Guide to Grateful Dead Song Lists. Cornish, NH: DeadBase. pp. 71–72. ISBN   1-877657-18-2.