''Road Trips Volume 2 Number 4'' is a two-CD live album by the American rock band the

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. The eighth in their "Road Trips" series of albums, it was recorded on May 26 and 27, 1993, at the Cal Expo Amphitheatre in

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. A third, bonus disc included with some copies of the album was recorded at the same two concerts. The album was released on August 25, 2009. As of 2024 the shows are the latest to be given a dedicated official release outside of

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in 2015, which featured a show from each year between 1966-1995.

Track listing

Disc One

''May 26, 1993'':

Disc Two

''May 26, 1993'': ''May 27, 1993'':

Bonus Disc

''May 27, 1993'': ''May 26, 1993'':

Personnel

Grateful Dead

Jerry Garcia Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician who was the lead guitarist and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence during the counterculture of the 196 ...

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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 art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

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 The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

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 Philip Chapman Lesh (March 15, 1940 – October 25, 2024) was an American musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he developed a unique style of improvised six-string bass guitar. He was their bassist throughout their 30 ...

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electric bass The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an electric but with a longer neck and scale leng ...

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

, vocals *

Vince Welnick Vincent Leo Welnick (February 21, 1951 – June 2, 2006) was an American keyboardist and singer-songwriter, best known for playing with the band The Tubes during the 1970s and 1980s and with the Grateful Dead in the 1990s. He was inducted ...

– keyboards, vocals

Production

*Produced by Grateful Dead *Compilation produced by David Lemieux and Blair Jackson *CD mastering by Jeffrey Norman *Cover art by Scott McDougall *Photos by Susana Millman and Bob Minkin *Package design by Steve Vance

Set lists

Following are the complete set lists for the concerts excerpted on ''Road Trips Volume 2 Number 4'' May 26, 1993 *First set: "Samson and Delilah"*, "Here Comes Sunshine"*, "Walkin' Blues"*, "Broken Arrow"**, "Ramble On Rose"**, "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again"**, "Deal"* *Second set: "Box of Rain"*, "Victim or the Crime"* > "Crazy Fingers"* > "Playing in the Band"* > "Drums"* > "Space" > "Corrina"* > "Playing in the Band"* > "China Doll"* > "Around and Around"* *Encore: "Liberty"* May 27, 1993 *First set: "Shakedown Street"*, "The Same Thing"*, "Dire Wolf"*, "Beat It On Down the Line", "High Time"*, "When I Paint My Masterpiece"*, "Cumberland Blues", "

Promised Land In the Abrahamic religions, the "Promised Land" ( ) refers to a swath of territory in the Levant that was bestowed upon Abraham and his descendants by God in Abrahamic religions, God. In the context of the Bible, these descendants are originally ...

" *Second set: "Picasso Moon"** > "Fire on the Mountain"** > "Wave to the Wind", "Cassidy"** > "Uncle John's Band"** > "Cassidy"** > "Drums" > "Space" > "The Other One" > "Wharf Rat" > "

Sugar Magnolia "Sugar Magnolia" is a song by the Grateful Dead. Written by Robert Hunter and Bob Weir, it is one of the most well-known songs by the band, alongside such hits as " Truckin'", " Casey Jones", " Uncle John's Band", " Touch of Grey", and fellow su ...

" *Encore: "Gloria"** *included on ''Road Trips Volume 2 Number 4''
**included on bonus disc

Notes

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