Road Trips: Volume 1 - Number 2
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Albuquerque, NM - 10/7/77
Norman, OK - 10/11/77
Houston, TX - 10/14/77
Baton Rouge, LA - 10/16/77
Ah yes, the glorious year of 1977, a favorite of discerning Dead Heads for three decades now! For the second volume in our new Road Trips series, we’ve chosen another tour that was not tapped previously through Dick’s Picks—a blazing swing through the Southwest, Colorado and down to Louisiana during the first weeks of October 1977.
This was a great time for the band: Both the years-in-the-making Grateful Dead Movie and the new Terrapin Station album had come out a few months earlier and the group was riding high on momentum from both of those projects. There was exciting new material that had debuted at the beginning of the year, including “Estimated Prophet,” “Terrapin” and “Fire on the Mountain,” and steady touring through the spring allowed the band to really explore the nuances of the new repertoire, while they also continued to hone the material that had come in following the band’s return to the stage in mid-1976 after their hiatus. What you’ll find on these great-sounding discs is a mixture of old favorites played with that fabled ’77 energy, and more recent material that was hitting new peaks nightly. There’s a “Let It Grow” that will knock your tie-dyed socks off, one of the great versions of “Sugaree” of that or any year, the famous “Help on the Way > Slipknot! > Franklin’s Tower” from Norman, Oklahoma, epic workouts on “Playing in the Band” and “The Other One” and a jammed-out “Black Peter” for the ages. Hot stuff!
Once again, the discs have been lovingly compiled and painstakingly mastered (in HDCD) from the original master tapes (in this case reels) by Jeffrey Norman. The booklet that accompanies the CDs boasts scads of great photos from the era and a very cool historical essay by the ever-hip and erudite scribe Steve Silberman.
TRACK LIST
DISC 1:
1. Let It Grow (10:17) (10/11/77)
2. Sugaree (17:41) (10/16/77)
3. The Music Never Stopped (8:59) (10/16/77)
4. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleoo (11:53) (10/14/77)
5. El Paso (4:52) (10/14/77)
6. Help On the Way (5:48) (10/11/77)
7. Slipknot! (4:02) (10/11/77)
8. Franklin's Tower (14:59) (10/11/77)
DISC 2:
1. Playing In the Band (17:12) (10/14/77)
2. Drums (3:09) (10/16/77)
3. The Other One (8:24) (10/16/77)
4. Good Lovin' (5:53) (10/16/77)
5. Terrapin Station (11;29) (10/16/77)
6. Black Peter (13:17) (10/16/77)
7. Around and Around (9:08) (10/16/77)
8. Brokedown Palace (5:51) (10/14/77)
9. Playing In the Band reprise (5:23) (10/14/77)
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Complete shows please...
As always, it is nice to see new live Dead material being released and I believe that this new format of Road Trips has promise. However, I don't understand why this release did not contain a complete show. For example, the 10/11/77 show is worthy of its release in its entirety as I’m sure all of the others are. I understand that some people don't mind compilations, but how about maybe alternating the releases from compilations to complete shows? Granted in many cases, the second set is where a lot of shows make their mark so I might be content with that on occasion.
I guess to me, all Grateful Dead shows are like a story, a historical document etched in music, and really, a living experience. What I mean to say is that I think it is great to hear how the show went down, from first set to second set, with all of the highs and lows. I'm mean who reads a book and decides to just skip chapters? This is why the Grateful Dead is the greatest American band. You got to have the whole thing and not just bits and pieces.
I will have to pass on this one as I did on the first release. Hopefully, the next release will be a complete show.
Rick
Do or do not; there is no try.
ahem
if that ain't the best Sugaree - i don't know what is - WOW!
insofar as complete shows go, here's how one voice in the wilderness sounds -----> it's an all-inclusive never ending show - least ways, so far....
Keep on Dancin' -
Peace -
heresy
here comes the heretic....
in the days when you could download from archive i always edited concerts
i now have a series of mostly single cds with a couple of my fave short songs followed by 2nd set jam to make up full cd of music from one concert
there are many routes to heaven.....
and while wer'e at it.......
personally i'd be happier for music to be available download only - it take weeks to get stuuf here in liverpool UK. god bless ya spin in newcastle
October '77 - hell yeah!!!
10/14/77 was my first show and they have pulled some great selections from that show. have heard AUD tapes of all of these shows and it's a great call to put this out.
I'm VERY happy with the Road Trips concept and execution and this 2nd offering only confirms that feeling even more. count me in I'll order up next paycheck for certain.
thanks for this release!!!!
otw, Oso Rojo
What s shame
They spent all that money on the vault and this is what they do with it....bummer.
lighten up people
You know, if for you it's "complete shows or nothin" then there's a real simple option available to you: don't buy it. And while you're not buying it, how about not logging on here to bitch and moan because you don't like what they're selling? Read the Road Trips info...they're planning on releasing more complete shows. yay.
As for me, I really like this format a lot. Honestly, I just don't need to own any more lame first-set Promised Lands or half-assed just-warming-up Stagger Lees. You know? I've got limited money and I'd rather not have to spend it on every freakin Miracle from the whole tour.
Keep on skimmin the cream off the top and I for one will keep buying.
Your mileage may vary, and that's cool too...like the man sez, one man gathers what another man spills.
Road Trips
BEGGARS?!?! GratefulGooner////BEGGARS?!?! Boycotted last one Gonna boycot this a disgrace slap in the face and shows how far the Dead et al have fallen whole shows please and NOT the crappy 128K from Sirius I'm 'off the bus' till you guys at Rhino get it str8
re: lighten up people
Not sure if you know this, but we have this thing. It's called "freedom of speech". Google it if you need to.
gimme gimme gimme I need some more
luckily I have a lot of these shows so I won't have to get RT2 right away. one thing about having a lot of GD is that more tends to blur with the rest.
whatever, RT or complete, more GD is always welcome. When I am not in a GD mood, I DO NOT want to hear them. When I am in a GD mood, I REALLY WANT TO HEAR THEM.
btw, more 70 & 71 GD would be most welcome.
posting on burgundy wine,
harry blotter at yer service.
listening party is a GREAT idea.
Mix discs are fine with me...
If I want a complete show, I'll just dip into the hundreds of GBs' worth of shows that are sitting on spindles on a shelf near my desk or one of the myriad of directories on my hard drives that haven't been archived to DVDR yet. That, or I can pop in one of the 30-odd Dick's Picks releases. Then there are the From the Vault discs.
Ahhh...you get the idea. It's nice to have them mixing things up a bit. They did a great job on the first one.
That being said, I doubt I'll be buying this one (as nice as it sounds...I'm streaming it as I type) or any future new releases. Why? Because I pre-ordered the first Road Trips and never received the bonus disc--the only reason pre-ordered it instead of waiting for it to hit the local music store.
It's not that the disc didn't arrive. That's not the issue.
My beef is that, despite a few friendly emails, the new customer service folks never responded. Not even an acknowledgment that they'd run out of the discs as had happened w/Three from the Vault (which they made right a few weeks later after they'd had some more made up) or that someone had simply made a mistake and that it was too late to do anything about it.
Either of those would have been fine. It wouldn't have mattered that the bonus disc never showed up. As I said, that wasn't the issue.
Instead, they repeatedly ignored a patient customer who was trying to report a problem. That's the issue.
Even the most wretched and odious companies like WalMart will at least listen to their customers. I wish I could say that about the good old Grateful Dead's new people...
Anyhow, I'll probably wait until I find a used copy somewhere and grab it. At least I know that the money I shell out for it won't help to pay the salaries of the people who can't be bothered to reply to a customer.