''Road Trips Volume 3 Number 1'' is a two-CD live album by the American rock band the
Grateful Dead. The ninth in their "Road Trips" series of albums, it was recorded on December 28, 1979, at the
Oakland Auditorium
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in
Oakland, California
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, and contains the complete show from that date. A third, bonus disc included with some copies of the album was recorded two nights later, December 30, 1979, at the same venue. The album was released on November 10, 2009.
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Another Grateful Dead album that was recorded at the December 1979 run of concerts at the Oakland Auditorium is '' Dick's Picks Volume 5''.
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Track listing
Disc One
''First set'':
''Second set'':
Disc Two
''Encore'':
Bonus Disc
''December 30, 1979'':
#"New Minglewood Blues" (Noah Lewis
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his birth year was also reported as 1890 or 1895. 1891 is general ...
) – 8:21
#"Candyman" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:56
#"Ramble On Rose" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:44
#"Lazy Lightning" > (Weir, Barlow) – 3:27
#"Supplication" (Weir, Barlow) – 5:54
#" Scarlet Begonias" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:24
#" Fire on the Mountain" > (Hart, Hunter) – 9:23
#"Let It Grow" (Weir, Barlow) – 10:10
#"Truckin'
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" > (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 7:21
#"Wharf Rat" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:11
Personnel
Grateful Dead
* Jerry Garcia – lead guitar
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, vocals
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* Mickey Hart – drums
* 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 to ...
– drums
* Phil Lesh – electric bass
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, vocals
* Brent Mydland
Brent Mydland (October 21, 1952 – July 26, 1990) was an American keyboardist and singer. He was a member of the rock band The Grateful Dead from 1979 to 1990, a longer tenure than any other keyboardist in the band.
Growing up in Concord ...
– keyboards
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* Keyboard, part of a typewriter
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** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping
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Music
* Musi ...
, vocals
* Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals
Production
*Produced by Grateful Dead
*Photos by Jay Blakesberg
*Booklet essay by Steve Silberman
December 30, 1979 set list
The set list for the December 30, 1979 concert at the Oakland Auditorium Arena was:[
*First set: "New Minglewood Blues"*, "Candyman"*, "Me and My Uncle" > "Big River", "Ramble On Rose"*, "Lazy Lightnin'"* > "Supplication"*, "Deal"
*Second set: "Scarlet Begonias"* > "Fire on the Mountain"*, "Let It Grow"* > "Drums" > "Space" > "Truckin'"* > "Wharf Rat"* > "Around & Around" > "Johnny B. Goode"
*Encore: "Don't Ease Me In", "Brokedown Palace"
* Included in the ''Road Trips Volume 3 Number 1'' bonus disc
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Notes
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Road Trips albums
2009 live albums
Grateful Dead Records live albums