Road Trips Volume 2 Number 2

Road Trips Volume 2 Number 2
Road Trips Volume 2 Number 2
Live album by Grateful Dead
Released	March 21, 2009
Recorded	February 14, 1968 ; (principal recording) ; January–February, 1968 ; (bonus tracks)
Genre	Rock, jam
Length	156:48 ; bonus disc: 77:57
Label	Grateful Dead
Producer	Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology
Alternative cover
	Road Trips Volume 2 Number 2 Bonus Disc

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
All About Jazz	(favorable)^[1]
Allmusic	^[2]
The Best Of Website	(A+)^[3]
The Music Box	^[4]

Road Trips Volume 2 Number 2 is a 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 preceding the Carousel Ballroom show. The album was released on March 21, 2009.^[5]^[6]

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.^[2]

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 Portland, Oregon. A third performance of the song, from the Eagles Auditorium in Seattle, Washington, is included on the bonus disc.

Track listing

Disc one

First set (2/14/1968)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose)	6:30
2.	"Good Morning Little School Girl" (Sonny Boy Williamson)	12:35
3.	"Dark Star →" (Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Bob Weir, Robert Hunter)	6:10
4.	"China Cat Sunflower →" (Garcia, Hunter)	4:25
5.	"The Eleven →" (Lesh, Hunter)	5:15
6.	"Turn On Your Love Light" (Joe Scott, Deadric Malone)	9:02

Bonus material (January–February 1968)
No.	Title	Recording date and venue	Length
7.	"Viola Lee Blues" (Noah Lewis)	1/20/68, Eureka Municipal Auditorium	20:38
8.	"Beat It On Down the Line" (Jesse Fuller)	1/23/68, Eagles Auditorium Building	3:38
9.	"It Hurts Me Too" (Elmore James)	1/23/68, Eagles Auditorium Building	4:20
10.	"Dark Star" (Grateful Dead, Hunter)	2/2/68, Crystal Ballroom	6:40

Disc two

Second set (2/14/1968)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"That's It for the Other One → Cryptical Envelopment (Garcia) The Other One (Weir, Kreutzmann) Cryptical Envelopment (Garcia)"	9:30
2.	"New Potato Caboose →" (Lesh, Robert Petersen)	8:48
3.	"Born Cross-Eyed →" (Weir)	2:38
4.	"Spanish Jam" (Grateful Dead)	12:28
5.	"Alligator →" (Lesh, McKernan, Hunter)	14:30
6.	"Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks) →" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir)	10:00
7.	"Feedback" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir)	6:10
8.	"In the Midnight Hour (Encore)" (Steve Cropper, Wilson Pickett)	10:35

Bonus disc (*Bonus material, January 1968*)
No.	Title	Recording date and venue	Length
1.	"Viola Lee Blues" (Noah Lewis)	1/23/68, Eagles Auditorium Building	22:46
2.	"Good Morning Little School Girl" (Sonny Boy Williamson)	1/20/68, Eureka Municipal Auditorium	12:14
3.	"New Potato Caboose" (Lesh, Petersen)	1/30/68, Erb Memorial Union	12:40
4.	"Dark Star →" (Grateful Dead, Hunter)	1/23/68, Eagles Auditorium Building	7:45
5.	"China Cat Sunflower →" (Garcia, Hunter)	1/23/68, Eagles Auditorium Building	5:08
6.	"The Eleven" (Hunter, Lesh)	1/23/68, Eagles Auditorium Building	6:00
7.	"Turn On Your Love Light" (Scott, Malone)	1/23/68, Eagles Auditorium Building	12:55