Road Trips Volume 1 Number 1 Explained

Road Trips Volume 1 Number 1 is a live album by the Grateful Dead. It contains highlights from their fall 1979 tour of the East Coast. It was released on November 5, 2007.

Credits

Grateful Dead

• Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
• Mickey Hart – drums
• Bill Kreutzmann – drums
• Phil Lesh – bass
• Brent Mydland – keyboards, vocals
• Bob Weir – guitar, vocals

Production

• Produced by Grateful Dead
• Compilation produced by David Lemieux and Blair Jackson
• Recorded by Dan Healy
• Edited and mastered by Jeffrey Norman at Garage Audio Mastering
• Cover art by Scott McDougall
• Photos by Jay Blakesberg, Herb Greene, Larry Hulst, and Bob Minkin
• Package design by Steve Vance
• Liner notes written by Blair Jackson

Sound quality

A label on the CD case for Road Trips Volume 1 Number 1 states, "The compact discs herein have been digitally remastered directly from original soundboard cassettes. They are historical snapshots, not modern professional recordings, and may therefore exhibit occasional technical anomalies and unavoidable ravages of time."

The album was released in HDCD format. This provides enhanced sound quality when played on CD players with HDCD capability, and is fully compatible with regular CD players.

Recording dates

Road Trips Volume 1 Number 1 contains selections from the following concerts:

• New Haven Coliseum, New Haven, Connecticut, 10/25/79
• Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, New York, 10/31/79
• The Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 11/6/79
• Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland, 11/8/79
• Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, New York, 11/9/79
• Crisler Arena, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 11/10/79