Road Trips Vol. 1 Number 4
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Road Trips Vol 1, No. 4
Shows
Winterland – October 17, 1978
Winterland – October 21, 1978
Winterland – October 22, 1978
Since we’ve all been in deep Egypt Mode the last couple of months preparing the new Rhino release Rocking the Cradle: Grateful Dead, Egypt ’78 (which you can learn more about and order here), we thought it would be cool for the new Road Trips (that’s Vol. 1, No. 4 for those of you keeping score at home) to be a companion to that release, compiled from the band’s famous October 1978 “From Egypt With Love” shows at Winterland in San Francisco, just a month after their return from the desert.
Here’s the deal: The group was feeling totally jazzed when they got back from Egypt, and Bill Graham, who had been on the trip abroad as a spectator, rather than as promoter, wanted to give the band’s hometown fans a taste of the Egypt experience by hosting a series of five shows at Winterland that would include a slide show depicting the group’s amazing adventures in Cairo and beyond. As it turned out, the Dead Heads got more than that, too: At two of the concerts, their good friend Hamza El Din (a Nubian musician living in the Bay Area) reprised the Egyptian song he’d sung at the Sound & Light Theater in Gizah – called “Ollin Arageed” – which had been a jumping-off point for some fascinating cross-cultural explorations between the Dead and a host of native singers and percussionists. It proved to be magical at Winterland, too, as the crowd joined in clapping the song’s unusual and hypnotic beat. War’s exceptional harmonica player, Lee Oskar, dropped by the last two nights of the run, and the final concert brought a surprise appearance by ex-Quicksilver guitarist John Cipollina.
This new Road Trips was culled from the the last two concerts of the series, October 21 and 22, 1978. There’s plenty to dig here, including a really dynamic extended take on the aforementioned “Ollin Arageed” which eventually lands at “Deal” (of all songs!); a stunning sequence featuring “Got My Mojo Working”>”The Other One”>”Stella Blue”; a generous and free-flowing “Scarlet Begonias” > “Fire on the Mountain”; and a “Not Fade Away” > “Goin’ Down the Road” combo that’s sparked by the presence of Mr. Cipollina and his vampire bat Gibson SG, and which goes into some very interesting jamming spaces between songs.
Track List
Disk One – 10/21/78
Sugaree
Passenger
Stagger Lee
I Need A Miracle
Got My Mojo Working (with Lee Oskar)>
The Other One>
Stella Blue>
Sugar Magnolia
US Blues
Disk Two – 10/22/78
Olin Aragreed>
Deal
Peggy-O
Jack Straw
Scarlet Begonias>
Fire On The Mountain
NFA (with John Cipollina)>
GDTRFB
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4
Live album by Grateful Dead
Released September 30, 2008
Recorded October 21 – 22, 1978
Genre Rock
Length 159:13
bonus disc: 58:36
Label Grateful Dead
Producer Grateful Dead
Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4 is 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.
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.
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. 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. These songs are “Sugaree”, “Stella Blue”, “Sugar Magnolia”, and “Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad”.
Track listing
Disc one
October 21, 1978
Sugaree (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 13:40
Passenger (Phil Lesh, Peter Monk) – 3:39
Stagger Lee (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:28
I Need A Miracle (Bob Weir, John Barlow) – 7:37
Got My Mojo Working (Preston Foster) – 12:12
The Other One (Weir) – 7:32
Stella Blue (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:53
Sugar Magnolia (Weir, Hunter) – 8:48
U.S. Blues (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:42
Disc two
October 22, 1978
Ollin Arageed (Hamza El Din) – 3:30
Deal (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:28
Peggy-O (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 9:10
Jack Straw (Weir, Hunter) – 6:32
Scarlet Begonias (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:44
Fire on the Mountain (Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 12:40
Not Fade Away (Norman Petty, Buddy Holly) – 21:43
Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:56
Bonus Disc
October 21, 1978
Bertha (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:17
Good Lovin’ (Arthur Resnick, Rudy Clark) – 7:49
Estimated Prophet (Weir, Barlow) – 14:52
He’s Gone (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:35
October 17, 1978
If I Had the World to Give (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:40
Around and Around (Chuck Berry) – 9:24
Personnel
Grateful Dead
Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals
Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals
Keith Godchaux – keyboards
Mickey Hart – drums
Bill Kreutzmann – drums
Phil Lesh – electric bass
Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals
Guest musicians
Hamza El Din – oud, vocals on “Ollin Arageed”
John Cipollina – guitar on “Not Fade Away” and “Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad”
Lee Oskar – harmonica on “Got My Mojo Working”, “The Other One”, “Stella Blue”, and “Sugar Magnolia”
Production
Produced by Grateful Dead
Compilation produced by David Lemieux and Blair Jackson
Edited and mastered by Jeffrey Norman at Garage Audio Mastering
Cover art by Scott McDougall
Package design by Steve Vance
Liner notes written by Blair Jackson