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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Darn Grateful Dead
Shame on you Grateful Dead for allowing us to be able to tape and trade your full concert recordings for all these years. I've traded tapes since seeing my first show in Rochester in Nov 77. Then you had the NERVE to release the Dicks Picks series, so then I had to BUY a hugely superior sounding CD compared to my tapes, including the above mentioned Roch 77.
Now you have the gall to release these "Road Trips" compilations, the latest being from one of the best. years. ever. of the Dead. I'm just going back into my cave.
How dare you.
signed,
Punxatawney Phil
Winterland '73
Yep, there it is, 9 CD set coming in May. Thank you Rhino.
I salivate.
Also looking forward to the 77 RT set!
Bring it on.......
This looks great, already ordered my copy. Where are all the shows? What is Rhino waiting on, maybe they want their fan base to all die off?
Coconut Phil, living Free.
Winterland 73 and spring 77
Dunno if I posted this already. Still awaiting my "whoops" late fall 73 Winterland that I ordered and you guys cancelled. That selection still spins my beanie.
The first issue of this series was a painful listen. Sorry, but all Grateful Dead is not the same. Speaking of that, all of 77 isn't the same either. February/March would have provided a breakout or two, some oddities, and in my unhumble opinion, better playing.
I appreciate the chance to buy this music, really I do. I'm going to pass on this one, just as I wished I'd passed on the first one. I get buyer's remorse just looking at it.
The complete shows/compilations debate is a good one. I fall on the side of the compilations...and complete shows... and I do too. Yep, we are schizo. I'm still inspired by the Cow Palace release, thank you. Yet Ladies and Gentlemen is still my favorite four disc set and it's a compilations...but I'd take all those shows, complete if you released them, but I understand the need to be somewhat commercial.
No need to get touchy on the receiving end of all this criticism. Once a picky deadhead, always a picky deadhead. Thanks for making this music available, and I look forward to that Winterland 73!!
No worries
Thanks for the stream of disk one - Sugaree and Music Never Stopped have already sold me a hard copy. Glory be!
I enjoy the "sampler" format of this series - just as valid as Ladies and Gentlemen..., Steppin' Out ... and the like. I totally agree with those who don't want to feel obliged to sit through yet another unexeptional Promised Land to arrive at a stunning Sugaree (as herein).
My only small complaint - make these available as downloads. My only BIG complaint - reinstate the downloadable mp3s at the Tapers' Section. That was a nasty surprise.
By the way, as a UK customer my copy of the Fall 79 set arrived (+ bonus cd) without delay from the US. I recommend spincds, though, for anyone who's willing to pay a little more.
We just ride.
WillCo
off the bus
Saw my first show 2/67 at the original Fillmore. What a long, strange trip its been to see how the Dead marketing machine has declined, especially since '95. How sad to have the music controlled by people who don't have a clue about Dead concerts. I bought the first road trip cd, and agree with many of you that it doesn't work. I question the criteria for how these particular cuts were chosen. Complete shows had an arc. It was a true CONCERT, like a symphony with a prelude, middle, and grand finale. The difference between the Dead and their tribute bands is that the Dead were absolute masters of choosing set lists, even if it was on the fly. In the beginning, it all seemed spontaneous and probably was, and in later years, became more predictable without becoming rigid & stale. So to put out someone's idea of a "greatest hits" who is obviously not a Deadhead is really completely missing the point - CD'S SHOULD BE ISSUED ONLY AS COMPLETE SHOWS so one can appreciate the gestalt (the sum is greater than its parts) rather than just individual tunes. Everyone could then make up their own greatest hits compilations if they so chose. It just occurred to me that I'm preaching to the choir. Like Pigpen said, "if you have to ask, you ain't never gonna know." How about the boys picking out their own favorite shows? Phil's favorites? Bob's favorites? etc. I would imagine they're more interested in working on future music, which would be consistent with the Dead..............."FURTHER"! Is there anyone out there who knows what the f I'm talking about?
Hard to Handle
Well I had swapped mail messages with Blair Jackson after the first road trips release proclaiming my personal disdain for compilations such as these. I just hit shuffle on the IPOD if I want to here a mix. I understand that some new fans might find this interesting and I wonder what the delta is between sales of these road trip cds and whole show dick's picks or digital downloads. As someone said previously (and blair confirmed) this is not Rhino. Anyway to make the point one more time I am closing in on 50 years old and I joined the revolution in 79 so I'm sure there are a bunch of deadheads with money to spend in their 60's. I think I may die before seeing them offer a wide array of whole show digital downloads (would avoid the $8 shipping cost people are complaining about). Until then there are still plenty of vine sites out there (including dead.net) where you can still trade high quality shows and until an alternative is offered by the dead and/or rhino I'll continue to do that and that will just be one less show I purchase when they are available. Would be really great if the powers that be on this web site put out a note on the plan/timing of some whole show releases. The compilation thing really seems to be the last stage in the full going commercial transformation of the dead. What a shame. How about just making a ton of whole shows available for lossless download and donating the proceeds to a dead related charity. Now that would be old school grateful dead. Please send us some Help on the Way!
just my humble opinion.... Marty
Shows vs. Compilations
I find the compilations a bit like jerking off with the other hand - it's familiar, yet undoubtedly different, and in the end you still get off ...
I want this set ...
I love 1977, BUT BUT BUT ...
*I finally got my RT Vol.1 No.1 yesterday. It pretty much sux to my ears, real mushy. The drummers sound like they're pounding on soggy cereal cartons. But that's neither here nor there ...
*Postage on the new set is still way up there - $12 to Australia.
*For service that can no longer be relied on.
*What kind of world is it where Amazon is a southern hemisphere DeadHead's friend - in terms of shipping prices and reliability - and the official GD route is not.
Signed, Kenny Of The.Disenfranchised
I'm Buying it because....
...I have over 600 SBDs that, thanks to the Dead's generosity, I have legally downloaded for FREE!!!!
I guess I'm one of the few, but I repay the Grateful Dead by purchasing all of their releases. I have gladly paid for, AND ENJOYED everything they have put out. Yes, I'd prefer a complete show but RT Vol. 1 was great! I'm sure Vol. 2 will be as well.