Road Trips: Vol. 1, No. 4 - From Egypt With Love [LIVE]

Grateful Dead (Author)

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Live
• ASIN: B0029KZIS8
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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The newest installment of Road Trips, titled "From Egypt With Love", is culled from the Dead's five-night run at Winterland a month after they returned from their triumphant journey to Cairo. Each night, the band treated hometown fans to a slide-show of their travels. At two of the concerts, Hamza El Din joined the Dead for versions of "Ollin Arageed" to summon even more of the flavor of Egypt. Other special guests during the run included harmonica ace Lee Oskar (of War) and guitarist John Cipollina (of Quicksilver Messenger Service).

Road Trips Vol. 1 No. 4 includes...

- Two CDs of music drawn from two of the five shows - October 21 and 22, 1978

- Audio lovingly mastered (in HDCD) by Jeffrey Norman

- Long-lost photos and eye-opening liner notes by Blair Jackson

Track listing:

Disc 1

1. Sugaree

2. Passenger

3. Stagger Lee

4. I Need A Miracle

5. Got My Mojo Working

6. The Other One

7. Stella Blue

8. Sugar Magnolia

9. U.S. Blues

Disc 2

1. Ollin Arageed

2. Deal

3. Peggy-O

4. Jack Straw

5. Scarlet Begonias

6. Fire On The Mountain

7. Not Fade Away

8. Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Probably for Deadheads only, October 14, 2009

By	David White (Fairport, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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Don't get me wrong, I like The Dead a lot. I bought LIVE DEAD when it came out in '69, and that was my first exposure to a Dead concert. The Road Trips series picks up where Dick's Picks left off, and this CD has plenty of good music on it. Three things make it not so great: Donna Jean Godchaux sings off pitch at times, Bob Weir's guitar tone is set at an odd setting for him, and finally, there are points in at least two songs where the original recording was lost or damaged, and what sounds like an audience recording is spliced in. You can buy the two CD version for less at the Dead website. The third bonus CD's are very expensive on Ebay, since they are no longer available and are collectors items.

4.0 out of 5 stars The Dead is Chunky & Winterland is Funky, June 21, 2009

By	PHILIP S WOLF (SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CA. USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Right after The Grateful Dead, returned from Egypt in September of 1978, it was announced that the band would play five nights at Winterland, San Francisco. The desert weirdness was coming to the city by the bay!

Volume 1, No. 4 of the: "Road Trips" series features the highlights from this last stand of The Dead at great arena before it's December 1978 closing. The shows I have heard from this year of touring have their highs & lows, but the: "From Egypt With Love" stand from Winterland, are one of the great moments of GD magic.

Most of the music spread over these two CD's comes directly from the second sets of 10/21/78 & 10/22/78. Some first set magic is captured as well with Sugaree and Stagger Lee. A bit of the Egyptian music section is one here as Hamza El Din, and his Nubian singers and percussion army perform: "Ollin Arageed" as a taste of sounds found on the Nile River on any day of the week. The Dead, takes Ollin Arageed and morphs the tribal chants of the ancient river into a savage rendition of: "Deal" a journey from The Great Pyramids to an old west card game.

"Passenger" takes The Dead, as close to the Punk bands of the day, as they will ever travel. "Sugaree" is streched out in some different directions with some fine slide guitar. "Sugar Magnolia" is a wild ride in a Jeep right down the middle of California's deltas between Fresno and Manteca on a warm summer afternoon.

The drumming onslaught of: "Not Fade Away" shows what the band had learned from the tribal chants and drum circles of Egypt. A fine: "U.S. Blues" raps up the music of disc one, and a excellent rendition of: "Goin' Down the Road, Feelin' Bad" concludes disc two.

The band sells this at their Official Web Site, for much less cash than it is offered here, and that is the place to seek it out. But, you need to purchase these sets early to receive the third bonus that is only available for a limited time before the vendors are the only ones selling this set in it's complete form.

The graphic work featured here is amazing, and makes for a very attractive package to house this music in. The music speaks loudly of just what The Grateful Dead, are all about. Musical journeys that span the globe and a thousand centuries. The live music of The Grateful Dead, as only they can produce.
This is great: "Live Dead"
4.5 Stars !!!