Road Trips Volume 2 Number 3
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Road Trips Volume 2 Number 3 is a two-CD live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead
. The seventh in their "Road Trips" series of albums, it was recorded on June 16, 1974, at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa
, and on June 18, 1974, at Freedom Hall
in Louisville, Kentucky
. A third, bonus disc included with some copies of the album was recorded at the same two concerts. The album was released on June 18, 2009.
The cover of Road Trips Volume 2 Number 3 depicts the Wall of Sound
. This was the very large and powerful concert sound system being used by the Grateful Dead at the time of these shows. It was composed of more than 600 speakers, powered by dozens of amplifiers. Each musical instrument had its own dedicated array of speakers. The Wall of Sound provided a superior sonic environment for Dead concert audiences of that era.
State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, IA 6/16/74
Freedom Hall, Louisville, KY 6/18/74
June 16, 1974, Iowa State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, Iowa:
June 18, 1974, Freedom Hall, Louisville, Kentucky:
* appears on Road Trips Volume 2 Number 3
** appears on bonus disc
Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...
. The seventh in their "Road Trips" series of albums, it was recorded on June 16, 1974, at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines is the capital and the most populous city in the US state of Iowa. It is also the county seat of Polk County. A small portion of the city extends into Warren County. It was incorporated on September 22, 1851, as Fort Des Moines which was shortened to "Des Moines" in 1857...
, and on June 18, 1974, at Freedom Hall
Freedom Hall
Freedom Hall is a multipurpose arena in Louisville, Kentucky, on the grounds of the Kentucky Exposition Center, which is owned by the Commonwealth of Kentucky...
in Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...
. A third, bonus disc included with some copies of the album was recorded at the same two concerts. The album was released on June 18, 2009.
The cover of Road Trips Volume 2 Number 3 depicts the Wall of Sound
Wall of Sound (Grateful Dead)
The Wall of Sound was an enormous public address system designed specifically for the Grateful Dead's live performances by audio engineer Owsley "Bear" Stanley. Used in 1974, the Wall of Sound fulfilled the band's desire for a distortion-free sound system that could also serve as its own monitoring...
. This was the very large and powerful concert sound system being used by the Grateful Dead at the time of these shows. It was composed of more than 600 speakers, powered by dozens of amplifiers. Each musical instrument had its own dedicated array of speakers. The Wall of Sound provided a superior sonic environment for Dead concert audiences of that era.
Disc One
State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, IA 6/16/74- "China Cat SunflowerChina Cat Sunflower"China Cat Sunflower" is a song performed by the Grateful Dead which was first recorded for their third studio album Aoxomoxoa. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and the music composed by Jerry Garcia. The song is typically sung by Jerry Garcia. The first live recording of this song...
" (Jerry GarciaJerry GarciaJerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
, Robert HunterRobert Hunter (lyricist)Robert C. Hunter is an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator, and poet, best known for his association with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead.-Biography:He was born Robert Burns in San Luis Obispo, California...
) > – 10:36 - "I Know You RiderI Know You Rider"I Know You Rider" is a traditional woman's blues song that has been adapted by numerous artists. Modern versions can be traced back to the song's appearance in the 1934 book, American Ballads and Folk Songs, by the noted father and son musicologists and folklorists, John Lomax and Alan Lomax...
" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 4:52 - "The Race Is OnThe Race Is On (song)"The Race Is On" is a song co-written and recorded by country music artist George Jones. It was the first single released from his 1965 album of the same name...
" (Don Rollins) – 3:23 - "Eyes of the World" (Garcia, Hunter) > – 20:09
- "Big River" (Johnny CashJohnny CashJohn R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
) – 5:42 - "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:35
- "Playing in the Band" (Weir, Mickey HartMickey HartMickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971, and from October 1974 to August 1995...
, Hunter) – 28:53
Disc Two
Freedom Hall, Louisville, KY 6/18/74- "Loose Lucy" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:34
- "Eyes of the World" (Garcia, Hunter) > – 14:27
- "China Doll" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:02
- "Weather Report Suite" (Bob WeirBob WeirBob Weir is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead...
, Eric AndersenEric AndersenEric Andersen is an American singer-songwriter.-Biography:In the early 1960s, Eric Andersen was part of the Greenwich Village folk scene in New York...
, John Perry BarlowJohn Perry BarlowJohn Perry Barlow is an American poet and essayist, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian political activist who has been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He is also a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic...
) > – 16:19 - "Jam" (Grateful Dead) > – 9:28
- "The Other One" (Weir) > – 15:46
- "It's a Sin Jam" (Grateful Dead) > – 3:18
- "Stella Blue" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:27
Bonus Disc
Freedom Hall, Louisville, KY 6/18/74- "Morning DewMorning Dew"Morning Dew", also known as " Morning Dew", is a post-apocalyptic folk-rock song written by Canadian singer Bonnie Dobson in 1962.According to Dobson in a 1993 interview, "Morning Dew" was inspired by the film On the Beach....
" (Bonnie DobsonBonnie DobsonBonnie Dobson is a Canadian folk music songwriter, singer, and guitarist, most known in the 1960s for composing the songs "I'm Your Woman" and "Morning Dew"...
, Tim RoseTim RoseTimothy Alan Patrick Rose , best known professionally as Tim Rose, was an American singer-songwriter, who spent much of his life in London, England and had more success in Europe than in his native country...
) – 13:07 - "Around and AroundAround and Around"Around and Around" is a 1958 rock song written and first recorded by Chuck Berry. It originally appeared under the name "Around & Around" as the B-side to the single "Johnny B. Goode".- The Rolling Stones :...
" (Chuck BerryChuck BerryCharles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...
) – 5:29
State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, IA 6/16/74
- "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:02
- "Greatest Story Ever Told" (Weir, Hunter) – 5:31
- "Truckin'Truckin'"Truckin'" is a song by the Grateful Dead, which first appeared on their 1970 album American Beauty. It was recognized by the United States Library of Congress in 1997 as a national treasure....
" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) > – 8:09 - "Nobody's Jam" (Grateful Dead) > – 12:45
- "Wharf Rat" (Garcia, Hunter) > – 9:36
- "Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 8:16
Freedom Hall, Louisville, KY 6/18/74
- "Sugar MagnoliaSugar Magnolia"Sugar Magnolia" is a song by the Grateful Dead. Written by Robert Hunter and Bob Weir, it is one of the most well-known songs by the band, alongside such hits as "Truckin'," "Casey Jones," "Uncle John's Band," and "Touch of Grey."...
" (Weir, Hunter) – 9:30
Grateful Dead
- Jerry GarciaJerry GarciaJerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
– lead guitarLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
, vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments... - Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals
- Keith GodchauxKeith GodchauxKeith Richard Godchaux was a musician best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead.-Biography:Keith Godchaux was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Concord, California...
– keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments... - Bill KreutzmannBill KreutzmannBill Kreutzmann is an American drummer who played with the rock band the Grateful Dead for their entire thirty-year career...
– drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person .... - Phil LeshPhil LeshPhillip Chapman Lesh is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career....
– electric bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, vocals - Bob WeirBob WeirBob Weir is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead...
– rhythm guitarRhythm guitarRhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
, vocals
Production
- Produced by Grateful Dead
- Compilation produced by David LemieuxDavid LemieuxDavid Hardy Lemieux is an audio and film archivist. He has been working as the Grateful Dead's audiovisual archivist and CD/DVD producer since September, 1999. He was put in charge of the Grateful Dead's vault after the August, 1999 passing of original Grateful Dead tape archivist Dick Latvala...
and Blair Jackson - CD mastering by Jeffrey Norman
- Recording by Kidd Candelario
- Liner notes essay "The Wall of Sound" by Dennis McNally
- Archival research by Eileen Law
- Cover art by Scott McDougall
- Wall of Sound diagram by Mary Ann Mayer
- Photos by Kirk Drange, Ray Ellingsen, Lexie Alexander May, and Richard Pechner
- Package design by Steve Vance
Concert set lists
The complete set lists for the June 16 and 18, 1974 concerts were:June 16, 1974, Iowa State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, Iowa:
- First Set: "Bertha", "Mexicali BluesMexicali Blues (song)"Mexicali Blues" is a song from Bob Weir's 1972 Ace solo album that, like the rest of the material on that record, was de facto by the Grateful Dead. Indeed it appears on the 1974 Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead compilation....
", "Row Jimmy", "Beat It On Down the Line", "Scarlet BegoniasScarlet Begonias"Scarlet Begonias" is a song by the Grateful Dead in 4/4 time. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and the music by Jerry Garcia. The song first appears on the 1974 release Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel....
", "Black-Throated WindBlack-Throated Wind"Black-Throated Wind" is the second track from Bob Weir's solo debut Ace. The song was written by Weir and lyricist John Perry Barlow about the experiences Barlow had on a road trip from New York to San Francisco in 1971...
", "SugareeSugaree"Sugaree" is a song written by long-time Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter and composed by guitarist Jerry Garcia. It was written for Jerry Garcia's first solo album Garcia, which was released in January 1972...
", "El PasoEl Paso (song)"El Paso" is a country and western ballad written and originally recorded by Marty Robbins, and first released on Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs in September 1959. It was released as a single the following month, and became a major hit on both the country and pop music charts, reaching number...
", "It Must Have Been the Roses", "Jack Straw", "China Cat SunflowerChina Cat Sunflower"China Cat Sunflower" is a song performed by the Grateful Dead which was first recorded for their third studio album Aoxomoxoa. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and the music composed by Jerry Garcia. The song is typically sung by Jerry Garcia. The first live recording of this song...
"*, "I Know You RiderI Know You Rider"I Know You Rider" is a traditional woman's blues song that has been adapted by numerous artists. Modern versions can be traced back to the song's appearance in the 1934 book, American Ballads and Folk Songs, by the noted father and son musicologists and folklorists, John Lomax and Alan Lomax...
"*, "Around and AroundAround and Around"Around and Around" is a 1958 rock song written and first recorded by Chuck Berry. It originally appeared under the name "Around & Around" as the B-side to the single "Johnny B. Goode".- The Rolling Stones :...
" - Second Set: "U.S. Blues"*, "The Race Is OnThe Race Is On (song)"The Race Is On" is a song co-written and recorded by country music artist George Jones. It was the first single released from his 1965 album of the same name...
"*, "Eyes of the World"*, "Big River"*, "Playing in the Band"* - Third Set: "Tennessee Jed", "Me and My UncleMe and My Uncle"Me and My Uncle", often also written "Me & My Uncle," is a song composed by John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, and popularized by the Grateful Dead and Judy Collins...
", "Deal"**, "Greatest Story Ever Told"**, "Ship of Fools", "Truckin'Truckin'"Truckin'" is a song by the Grateful Dead, which first appeared on their 1970 album American Beauty. It was recognized by the United States Library of Congress in 1997 as a national treasure....
"**, "Nobody's Jam"**, "Wharf Rat"**, "Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad"** - Encore: "Casey Jones"
June 18, 1974, Freedom Hall, Louisville, Kentucky:
- First Set: "Promised LandPromised Land (song)"Promised Land" is a song lyric written by Chuck Berry to the melody of "Wabash Cannonball", an American folk song. The song was first recorded in this version by Chuck Berry in 1964 for his album St. Louis to Liverpool. Released in 1965, it was Berry's first single issued following his prison term...
", "It Must Have Been the Roses", "Black-Throated Wind", "Ramble On Rose", "Beat It On Down the Line", "Loser", "Mexicali Blues", "Eyes of the World"*, "China Doll"*, "Around and Around"** - Second Set: "Loose Lucy"*, "El Paso", "Row Jimmy", "Weather Report Suite"*, "Jam"*, "The Other One"*, "It's a Sin Jam"*, "Stella Blue"*, "Big River", "Tennessee Jed", "Sugar MagnoliaSugar Magnolia"Sugar Magnolia" is a song by the Grateful Dead. Written by Robert Hunter and Bob Weir, it is one of the most well-known songs by the band, alongside such hits as "Truckin'," "Casey Jones," "Uncle John's Band," and "Touch of Grey."...
"** - Encore: "Morning DewMorning Dew"Morning Dew", also known as " Morning Dew", is a post-apocalyptic folk-rock song written by Canadian singer Bonnie Dobson in 1962.According to Dobson in a 1993 interview, "Morning Dew" was inspired by the film On the Beach....
"**