Road Trips Volume 2 Number 1

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Road Trips Volume 2 Number 1
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Live album by
ReleasedDecember 10, 2008
RecordedSeptember 18–20, 1990
Genre Rock
Length154:54
bonus disc: 76:49
Label Grateful Dead
Producer Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology
Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4
(2008)
Road Trips Volume 2 Number 1
(2008)
Road Trips Volume 2 Number 2
(2009)
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Road Trips Volume 2 Number 1 Bonus Disc
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Road Trips Volume 2 Number 1 is two-CD live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead. The fifth in their "Road Trips" series of albums, it was recorded at Madison Square Garden in New York City on September 18, 19, and 20, 1990. It was released on December 10, 2008. [4] [5]

Contents

A third, "bonus" disc, recorded on September 18, 1990, was included with early shipments of the album. [6]

Another Grateful Dead album recorded during the same run of concerts at Madison Square Garden is Dick's Picks Volume 9 .

Track listing

Disc One

September 20, 1990
  1. "Truckin'" > (Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Robert Hunter) – 9:07
  2. "China Cat Sunflower" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:51
  3. "I Know You Rider" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:09
September 19, 1990
  1. "Playing in the Band" > (Weir, Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 11:05
  2. "Ship of Fools" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:43
  3. "Playing in the Band" > (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 2:32
  4. "Uncle John's Band" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:49
  5. "Let it Grow" > (Weir, John Barlow) – 11:30
  6. "Jam" (Grateful Dead) – 11:18

Disc Two

September 20, 1990
  1. "Jam" > (Grateful Dead) – 10:24
  2. "Dark Star" > (Garcia, Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Lesh, Ron McKernan, Weir, Hunter) – 13:21
  3. "Playing in the Band" > (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 3:53
  4. "Dark Star" > (Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir, Hunter) – 14:44
  5. "Throwing Stones" > (Weir, Barlow) – 10:03
  6. "Touch of Grey" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:41
  7. "Turn On Your Love Light" (Joseph Scott, Deadric Malone) – 7:13
September 18, 1990

Bonus Disc

September 18, 1990
  1. "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:34
  2. "Picasso Moon" (Weir, Barlow, Bob Bralove) – 7:34
  3. "To Lay Me Down" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:43
  4. "Eyes of The World" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 17:57
  5. "Estimated Prophet" > (Weir, Barlow) – 12:59
  6. "Foolish Heart" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:25
  7. "Jam" (Grateful Dead) – 10:36

Personnel

Musicians

Production

Concert set lists

The complete set lists for the September 18, 19 and 20, 1990 concerts at Madison Square Garden were: [7]

September 18, 1990:

September 19, 1990:

September 20, 1990:

* appears on Road Trips Volume 2 Number 1
** appears on bonus disc

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