Released March 21, 2009 Artist Grateful Dead Label Grateful Dead Records | Producer Grateful Dead Release date 21 March 2009 Genres Rock music, Jam band | |
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Recorded February 14, 1968
(principal recording)
January–February, 1968
(bonus tracks) Length 156:48
bonus disc: 77:57 Road Trips Volume 2 Number 2
(2009) To Terrapin Hartford '77
(2009) Similar Grateful Dead albums, Jam band albums, Other albums | ||
Road Trips Volume 2 Number 2 is two-CD live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead. The sixth in their "Road Trips" series of albums, it was the first to contain a complete concert — the February 14, 1968 show at the Carousel Ballroom (later known as the Fillmore West) in San Francisco, California. Bonus material on Disc 1, as well as the bonus disc offered to early purchasers, comes from the Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service "Tour of the Great Pacific Northwest", immediately precededing the Carousel Ballroom show. The album was released on March 21, 2009.
Contents
The Carousel & Seattle concerts
Although the Valentine's Day show at the Carousel was not the first rock concert there, it was the first show under the management auspices of the Dead, Quicksilver and Jefferson Airplane, who had leased the venue to compete with the Avalon Ballroom and Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium. Thus, the show was billed as the "Grand Opening". The Grateful Dead shared the bill with Country Joe and the Fish. The cover of Road Trips Volume 2 Number 2 incorporates artwork by Stanley Mouse that was used in the poster promoting the concert.
Live material from this show, along with recordings of other concerts from the same era, was used in the creation of Anthem of the Sun, a Dead album that is an amalgam of studio and live material.
The seven tracks from Seattle are believed to have been mislabeled. The show actually occurred on January 27, 1968.
Dark Star
Road Trips Volume 2 Number 2 contains two performances of "Dark Star" — one from the February 14, 1968 concert at the Carousel Ballroom, and one from February 2, 1968, at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland, Oregon. A third performance of the song, from the Eagles Auditorium in Seattle, Washington, is included on the bonus disc.
Disc One
February 14, 1968, Carousel Ballroom – 1st Set
Bonus Material, January–February, 1968
Disc Two
February 14, 1968, Carousel Ballroom – 2nd Set
- "That's It for the Other One" > (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir) – 9:30
- "New Potato Caboose" > (Lesh, Petersen) – 8:48
- "Born Cross-Eyed" > (Weir) – 2:38
- "Spanish Jam – 12:28
- "Alligator" > (Lesh, McKernan, Hunter) – 14:30
- "Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" > (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir) – 10:00
- "Feedback" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir) – 6:10
- "In the Midnight Hour" (Steve Cropper, Wilson Pickett) – 10:35
Bonus Disc
Bonus Material, January, 1968
- "Viola Lee Blues" (Noah Lewis) (1/23/68 Seattle, WA) – 22:46
- "Good Morning Little School Girl" (Sonny Boy Williamson) (1/20/68 Eureka, CA) – 12:14
- "New Potato Caboose" (Lesh, Petersen) (1/30/68 Eugene, OR) – 12:40
- "Dark Star" > (Grateful Dead, Hunter) (1/23/68 Seattle, WA) – 7:45
- "China Cat Sunflower" > (Garcia, Hunter) (1/23/68 Seattle, WA) – 5:08
- "The Eleven" (Hunter, Lesh) (1/23/68 Seattle, WA) – 6:00
- "Turn On Your Love Light" (Scott, Malone) (1/23/68 Seattle, WA) – 12:55
Musicians
Production
Songs
Morning Dew6:29
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl12:41
Dark Star6:15