Road Trips: Volume 3 Number 1
$19.98
Oakland, 12/28/79
The latest installment in our Road Trips series, now entering its third big year (and ninth release overall) is bound to become a favorite. Road Trips Vol. 3, No. 1 is the complete show from December 28, 1979, part of the sparkling run that has already given us the excellent Dick’s Picks: Vol. 5 (from 12/26/79). You’ll recall that these year-end concerts, held at the Oakland Auditorium because Winterland had closed down for good the previous New Year’s Eve, were the first holiday shows featuring new keyboardist Brent Mydland, who joined the band in April 1979.
The new lineup had been gaining momentum with each passing tour since that spring, and by December was truly hitting its stride. It helped, too, that the band was in the midst of recording their Go To Heaven album, so they were really playing together a lot during this period. This 12/28/79 concert is a blast: a super high-energy rock and roll show that also has its share of spacey jams and exploratory passages. The first set includes standout versions of “Sugaree,” “High Time” (rare enough that it always felt like a treat!) and “The Music Never Stopped,” while the second set opens with the always potent pair of “Alabama Getaway” > “Greatest Story Ever Told,” turns deep and introspective with “Playing in the Band” and “Terrapin,” and then later turns into a non-stop party with “Uncle John’s Band,” “I Need A Miracle,” “Bertha” and Good Lovin’.” If you’re not wiped out after that, the double-encore will waste you‚Äî”Casey Jones” and “Saturday Night”!
The limited edition Bonus Disc we’re sending out with this one (if you order promptly) is also a winner from beginning to end, too. It includes the heart of the second set from 12/30/79, including a fantastic “Scarlet Begonias” > “Fire on the Mountain,” which then goes into a surprise “Let It Grow.”
The sound on all three discs is spectacular (it’s hard to beat great reels as source tapes), and as always the CDs have been mastered to the exacting HDCD spec, because you would accept nothing less. The colorful accompanying booklet contains a number of excellent Jay Blakesberg photos from those Oakland Aud. shows, as well as a typically inspiring essay by the always poetic Dead scribe Steve Silberman.
So it’s a win-win. A slam-dunk. A no-brainer. For more info on all the goodness packed onto these discs, click here. And when you finally come to your senses and decide that you can longer live another day without Road Trips Vol. 3, No. 1, you can order it here.
– Blair Jackson
Track List
CD 1: Oakland Auditorium Arena, December 28, 1979
1. SUGAREE
2. MAMA TRIED>
3. MEXICALI BLUES
4. ROW JIMMY
5. IT’S ALL OVER NOW
6. HIGH TIME
7. THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED
SET 2:
8. ALABAMA GETAWAY>
9. GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD
CD 2: Oakland Auditorium Arena, December 28, 1979
1. TERRAPIN STATION>
2. PLAYING IN THE BAND>
3. RHYTHM DEVILS>
4. SPACE>
5. UNCLE JOHN’S BAND>
6. I NEED A MIRACLE>
7. BERTHA>
8. GOOD LOVIN’
9. CASEY JONES
10. ONE MORE SATURDAY NIGHT
Bonus CD: (while supplies last) Oakland Auditorium Arena, December 30, 1979
1. NEW MINGLEWOOD BLUES
2. CANDYMAN
3. RAMBLE ON ROSE
4. LAZY LIGHTNING>
5. SUPPLICATION
6. SCARLET BEGONIAS>
7. FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN>
8. LET IT GROW
9. TRUCKIN’>
10. WHARF RAT
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Road Trips Volume 3 Number 1
Live album by Grateful Dead
Released November 10, 2009
Recorded December 28, 1979
Genre Rock
Length 152:32
bonus disc: 78:53
Label Grateful Dead
Producer Grateful Dead
Road Trips Volume 3 Number 1 is a two-CD live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead. The ninth in their “Road Trips” series of albums, it was recorded on December 28, 1979, at the Oakland Auditorium in Oakland, California, and contains the complete show from that date. A third, bonus disc included with some copies of the album was recorded two nights later, December 30, 1979, at the same venue. The album was released on November 10, 2009.
Another Grateful Dead album that was recorded at the December 1979 run of concerts at the Oakland Auditorium is Dick’s Picks Volume 5.
Track listing
Disc One
First set:
Sugaree (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter)
Mama Tried > (Merle Haggard)
Mexicali Blues (Bob Weir, John Perry Barlow)
Row Jimmy (Garcia, Hunter)
It’s All Over Now (Bobby Womack, Shirley Womack)
High Time (Garcia, Hunter)
The Music Never Stopped (Weir, Barlow)
Second set:
Alabama Getaway (Garcia, Hunter)
Greatest Story Ever Told (Weir, Mickey Hart, Hunter)
Disc Two
Terrapin Station > (Garcia, Hunter)
Playing in the Band > (Weir, Hart, Hunter)
Rhythm Devils > (Hart, Bill Kreutzmann)
Space > (Grateful Dead)
Uncle John’s Band > (Garcia, Hunter)
I Need a Miracle > (Weir, Barlow)
Bertha > (Garcia, Hunter)
Good Lovin’ (Artie Resnick, Rudy Clark)
Encore:
Casey Jones (Garcia, Hunter)
One More Saturday Night (Weir)
Bonus Disc
December 30, 1979:
New Minglewood Blues (Noah Lewis)
Candyman (Garcia, Hunter)
Ramble On Rose (Garcia, Hunter)
Lazy Lightning > (Weir, Barlow)
Supplication (Weir, Barlow)
Scarlet Begonias > (Garcia, Hunter)
Fire on the Mountain > (Hart, Hunter)
Let It Grow (Weir, Barlow)
Truckin’ > (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Weir, Hunter)
Wharf Rat (Garcia, Hunter)
Personnel
Grateful Dead
Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals
Mickey Hart – drums
Bill Kreutzmann – drums
Phil Lesh – electric bass, vocals
Brent Mydland – keyboards, vocals
Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals
Production
Produced by Grateful Dead
Photos by Jay Blakesberg
Booklet essay by Steve Silberman