''Road Trips Volume 2 Number 2'' is a two-CD live album by the American rock band the

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. 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

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. Bonus material on Disc 1, as well as the bonus disc offered to early purchasers, comes from the Grateful Dead and

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"Tour of the Great Pacific Northwest", immediately preceding the Carousel Ballroom show. The album was released on March 21, 2009.

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

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, 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

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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 ''

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'', 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, not January 23.

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

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. A third performance of the song, from the Eagles Auditorium in

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, is included on the bonus disc.

Track listing

Disc one

''First set:'' ''Bonus material, January–February 1968''

Disc two

''Second set:'' #" That's It for the Other One" – 9:30 → #*"Cryptical Envelopment" (Garcia) #*"The Other One" (Weir, Kreutzmann) #*"Cryptical Envelopment" (Garcia) #"New Potato Caboose" (Lesh, Robert Petersen) – 8:48 → #"

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" (Weir) – 2:38 → #"Spanish Jam" (Grateful Dead) – 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 ''Encore:'' #

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" (

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) – 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 "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 was typically sung by J ...

" (Garcia, Hunter) (1/23/68 Seattle, WA) – 5:08 → #"

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" (Hunter, Lesh) (1/23/68 Seattle, WA) – 6:00 #"

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" (Scott, Malone) (1/23/68 Seattle, WA) – 12:55

Personnel

Musicians

Jerry Garcia Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for being the principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence ...

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lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

Mickey Hart Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman, September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 until February 19 ...

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drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

Bill Kreutzmann William Kreutzmann Jr. ( ; born May 7, 1946) is an American drummer and founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead. He played with the band for its entire thirty-year career, usually alongside fellow drummer Mickey Hart, and has continued ...

– drums *

Phil Lesh Philip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940) is an American musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career. After the band's disbanding in 1995, Lesh continued the tradition of ...

–

electric bass The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck The ...

, vocals *

Ron "Pigpen" McKernan Ronald Charles McKernan (September 8, 1945 – March 8, 1973), known as Pigpen, was an American musician. He was a founding member of the San Francisco band the Grateful Dead and played in the group from 1965 to 1972. McKernan grew up he ...

– organ, vocals *

Bob Weir Robert Hall Weir ( ; né Parber, born October 16, 1947) is an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the group disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead ...

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rhythm guitar In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drum kit, bass guitar ...

, vocals

Production

* Produced by Grateful Dead * Compilation produced by David Lemieux and Blair Jackson * Recorded by Dan Healy * CD Mastering by Jeffrey Norman at Garage Audio Mastering, Petaluma CA * Audio Restoration by Jamie Howarth / Plangent Processes * Cover art by Scott McDougall * Original Poster by

* Photo by Ted Streshinsky * Package design by Steve Vance * Special Thanks to Matt Smith

References

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