Road Trips Volume 4 Number 2 is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...

. The fourteenth of the Road Trips series of archival releases, it was recorded on March 31 and April 1, 1988, at the Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey

East Rutherford, New Jersey

East Rutherford is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 8,913. It is an inner-ring suburb of New York City, located west of Midtown Manhattan....

. It was released as a three disc CD on February 1, 2011.

Road Trips Volume 4 Number 2, subtitled April Fools' '88, includes the complete April 1 concert, along with the second set, encore, and two songs from the first set of the March 31 concert. It was only the second live Dead album that was recorded in 1988; the first was Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 5

Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 5

Volume 5 is the fifth in a series of live digital downloads of the band the Grateful Dead released by The Grateful Dead Productions. It was released on September 6, 2005 and is a three disc set featuring all of the March 27, 1988 show from the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, VA...

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The April 1 performance of Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

's "Ballad of a Thin Man

Ballad of a Thin Man

"Ballad of a Thin Man" is a song written and recorded by Bob Dylan, released on the album Highway 61 Revisited in 1965.-Meaning:"Ballad of a Thin Man" comments on a conventional "Mr. Jones", who walks into a room of intentionally bizarre circus freaks and doesn't "know what's happening".The...

" had been previously released on Postcards of the Hanging.

Disc one

April 1 – First set:

1. "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" > (Jerry Garcia
   Jerry Garcia
   Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
   
   , Robert Hunter
   Robert Hunter (lyricist)
   Robert C. Hunter is an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator, and poet, best known for his association with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead.-Biography:He was born Robert Burns in San Luis Obispo, California...
   
   ) – 10:10
2. "Jack Straw
   Jack Straw (song)
   Jack Straw is a rock song written by Bob Weir and Robert Hunter in the Troubadour tradition. The track appeared on the Grateful Dead album, Europe '72, and was frequently performed live by the band....
   
   " > (Bob Weir
   Bob Weir
   Bob Weir is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead...
   
   , Hunter) – 5:19
3. "To Lay Me Down" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:29
4. "Ballad of a Thin Man
   Ballad of a Thin Man
   "Ballad of a Thin Man" is a song written and recorded by Bob Dylan, released on the album Highway 61 Revisited in 1965.-Meaning:"Ballad of a Thin Man" comments on a conventional "Mr. Jones", who walks into a room of intentionally bizarre circus freaks and doesn't "know what's happening".The...
   
   " (Bob Dylan
   Bob Dylan
   Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
   
   ) – 6:52
5. "When Push Comes to Shove" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:50
6. "New Minglewood Blues" (traditional, arranged by Weir) – 7:48
7. "Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Phil Lesh
   Phil Lesh
   Phillip Chapman Lesh is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career....
   
   , Hunter) – 5:51
8. "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:07

March 31 – First set:

9. "When I Paint My Masterpiece
   When I Paint My Masterpiece
   "When I Paint My Masterpiece" is a song written by Bob Dylan and first featured on the Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II compilation in 1971. The song is segued back-to-back with "Tomorrow is a Long Time" . Even though there is applause at the beginning of the song, it is in fact a studio recording...
   
   " (Dylan) – 5:00
10. "Let It Grow" (Weir, John Perry Barlow
    John Perry Barlow
    John Perry Barlow is an American poet and essayist, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian political activist who has been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He is also a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic...
    
    ) – 12:06

April 1 – Encore:

11. "Brokedown Palace" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:21

Disc two

March 31 – Second set:

1. "Scarlet Begonias
   Scarlet Begonias
   "Scarlet Begonias" is a song by the Grateful Dead in 4/4 time. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and the music by Jerry Garcia. The song first appears on the 1974 release Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel....
   
   " > (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:05
2. "Fire on the Mountain
   Fire on the Mountain (Grateful Dead song)
   "Fire on the Mountain" is a song by the Grateful Dead. It was written by lyricist Robert Hunter and composed by drummer Mickey Hart. It was commercially released on the album Shakedown Street in November 1978. An earlier instrumental version of this song titled "Happiness is Drumming" appeared in...
   
   " (Mickey Hart
   Mickey Hart
   Mickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971, and from October 1974 to August 1995...
   
   , Hunter) – 11:35
3. "Samson and Delilah
   Samson and Delilah (song)
   "Samson and Delilah" is a traditional song based on the Biblical tale of Samson and his betrayal by Delilah. Its best known performer is perhaps the Grateful Dead, who first performed the song live in 1976, with guitarist Bob Weir singing lead vocals. It was frequently played live by the Dead. The...
   
   " (traditional, arranged by Weir) – 6:40
4. "Terrapin Station" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:41
5. "Rhythm Devils" > (Hart, Bill Kreutamann) – 5:52
6. "Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir) – 6:22
7. "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" > (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:17
8. "I Need a Miracle" > (Weir, Barlow) – 3:21
9. "Dear Mr. Fantasy
   Dear Mr. Fantasy
   "Dear Mr. Fantasy" is a rock song by Traffic from their 1967 album, Mr. Fantasy. An extended live version of the song also appears on the 1971 Traffic album Welcome to the Canteen...
   
   " > (Jim Capaldi
   Jim Capaldi
   Nicola James "Jim" Capaldi was an English musician and songwriter. His musical career lasted more than four decades. He co-founded Traffic in Birmingham with Steve Winwood, and the band's psychedelic rock was influential in Britain and the United States...
   
   , Chris Wood
   Chris Wood (rock musician)
   Christopher Gordon Blandford 'Chris' Wood was a founding member of the English rock band Traffic, along with Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, and Dave Mason....
   
   , Steve Winwood
   Steve Winwood
   Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English international recording artist whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music , R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz...
   
   ) – 4:20
10. "Hey Jude
    Hey Jude
    "Hey Jude" is a song by the English rock band The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The ballad evolved from "Hey Jules", a song widely accepted as being written to comfort John Lennon's son, Julian, during his parents' divorce—although this explanation is not...
    
    " > (John Lennon
    John Lennon
    John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
    
    , Paul McCartney
    Paul McCartney
    Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
    
    ) – 1:41
11. "All Along the Watchtower
    All Along the Watchtower
    "All Along the Watchtower" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. The song, which has been included on most of Dylan's greatest hits compilations, initially appeared on his 1967 album John Wesley Harding. Over the past 35 years, he has performed it in concert more...
    
    " (Dylan) – 4:45

March 31 – Encore:

12. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door
    Knockin' on Heaven's Door
    "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan for the soundtrack of the 1973 film Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid. It reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.-Story line and song structure:...
    
    " (Dylan) – 8:30

Disc three

April 1 – Second set:

1. "China Cat Sunflower
   China Cat Sunflower
   "China Cat Sunflower" is a song performed by the Grateful Dead which was first recorded for their third studio album Aoxomoxoa. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and the music composed by Jerry Garcia. The song is typically sung by Jerry Garcia. The first live recording of this song...
   
   " > (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:19
2. "I Know You Rider
   I Know You Rider
   "I Know You Rider" is a traditional woman's blues song that has been adapted by numerous artists. Modern versions can be traced back to the song's appearance in the 1934 book, American Ballads and Folk Songs, by the noted father and son musicologists and folklorists, John Lomax and Alan Lomax...
   
   " (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 5:37
3. "Estimated Prophet" > (Weir, Barlow) – 12:36
4. "Eyes of the World" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:55
5. "Rhythm Devils" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 7:00
6. "Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir) – 8:33
7. "The Other One" > (Weir, Kreutzmann) – 7:19
8. "Wharf Rat" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:55
9. "Throwing Stones" > (Weir, Barlow) – 9:05
10. "Not Fade Away
    Not Fade Away (song)
    "Not Fade Away" is a song credited to Buddy Holly and Norman Petty and first recorded by Holly's band The Crickets in Clovis, New Mexico, on May 27, 1957...
    
    " (Norman Petty
    Norman Petty
    Norman Petty was an American musician, songwriter, and pioneer record producer who helped shape modern popular music, including pop and rock....
    
    , Charles Hardin
    Buddy Holly
    Charles Hardin Holley , known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll...
    
    ) – 5:57

Grateful Dead

• Jerry Garcia
  Jerry Garcia
  Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
  
   – lead guitar
  Lead guitar
  Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
  
  , vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Mickey Hart
  Mickey Hart
  Mickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971, and from October 1974 to August 1995...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• Bill Kreutzmann
  Bill Kreutzmann
  Bill Kreutzmann is an American drummer who played with the rock band the Grateful Dead for their entire thirty-year career...
  
   – drums
• Phil Lesh
  Phil Lesh
  Phillip Chapman Lesh is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career....
  
   – electric bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , vocals
• Brent Mydland
  Brent Mydland
  Brent Mydland was the fourth keyboardist to play for the American rock band the Grateful Dead. He was with the band for eleven years, longer than any other keyboardist.- Early life :...
  
   – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  , vocals
• Bob Weir
  Bob Weir
  Bob Weir is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead...
  
   – rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
  
  , vocals

Production

• Produced for release by David Lemieux and Blair Jackson
• CD mastering by Jeffrey Norman
• Recorded by Dan Healy
  Dan Healy (soundman)
  Dan Healy is an audio engineer most famous for his work with the American rock band the Grateful Dead. He succeeded Owsley "Bear" Stanley as the group's chief sound man...
  
  
• Cover art by Scott McDougall
• Photos by James B. Anderson and Bob Minkin
• Package design by Steve Vance
• "Somewhere in the Swamps of Jersey" liner essay by Gary Lambert

Set lists

Following are the full set lists from the March 30, March 31, and April 1, 1988 concerts at the Brendan Byre Arena.

Wednesday, March 30

• First Set: "Bertha" > "Greatest Story Ever Told" > "Hey Pocky Way", "West L.A. Fadeaway", "Queen Jane Approximately
  Queen Jane Approximately
  "Queen Jane Approximately" is a song from Bob Dylan's 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited. It was released as a single as the B-side to "One of Us Must Know " in January 1966...
  
  ", "Big Railroad Blues", "Cassidy
  Cassidy (song)
  "Cassidy" is a song written by John Barlow and Bob Weir and performed by the Grateful Dead, Ratdog and Phil Lesh & Friends. The song appeared on Bob Weir's Ace, The Grateful Dead's Reckoning and Without a Net albums....
  
  " > "Don't Ease Me In"
• Second Set: "Shakedown Street" > "Looks Like Rain", "Uncle John's Band
  Uncle John's Band
  "Uncle John's Band" is a song by the Grateful Dead that first appeared in their concert setlists in late 1969. The band recorded it for their 1970 album Workingman's Dead...
  
  " > "Playing in the Band
  Playing in the Band
  "Playing in the Band" is a Grateful Dead song. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir composed it. The song first emerged in embryonic form on the self-titled 1971 live album Grateful Dead...
  
  " > "Uncle John's Band" > "Rhythm Devils" > "Space" > "The Wheel" > "Gimme Some Lovin'
  Gimme Some Lovin'
  "Gimme Some Loving" is a song written by Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis and Muff Winwood, and originally performed by The Spencer Davis Group. The basic riff of the song was borrowed from the Homer Banks song " A Lot of Love", written by Banks and Willie Dean "Deanie" Parker. The song was a UK #2 in...
  
  " > "Morning Dew
  Morning Dew
  "Morning Dew", also known as " Morning Dew", is a post-apocalyptic folk-rock song written by Canadian singer Bonnie Dobson in 1962.According to Dobson in a 1993 interview, "Morning Dew" was inspired by the film On the Beach....
  
  " > "Turn On Your Love Light
  Turn On Your Love Light
  "Turn On Your Love Light" is an R&B-style blues song recorded by Bobby Bland in 1961. It was a both an important R&B and pop chart hit for Bland and has become one of his most identifiable songs...
  
  "
• Encore: "Black Muddy River"

Thursday, March 31

• First Set: "Hell in a Bucket" > "Sugaree
  Sugaree
  "Sugaree" is a song written by long-time Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter and composed by guitarist Jerry Garcia. It was written for Jerry Garcia's first solo album Garcia, which was released in January 1972...
  
  ", "Me and My Uncle
  Me and My Uncle
  "Me and My Uncle", often also written "Me & My Uncle," is a song composed by John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, and popularized by the Grateful Dead and Judy Collins...
  
  " > "Mexicali Blues
  Mexicali Blues (song)
  "Mexicali Blues" is a song from Bob Weir's 1972 Ace solo album that, like the rest of the material on that record, was de facto by the Grateful Dead. Indeed it appears on the 1974 Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead compilation....
  
  ", "Brown Eyed Women", "When I Paint My Masterpiece
  When I Paint My Masterpiece
  "When I Paint My Masterpiece" is a song written by Bob Dylan and first featured on the Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II compilation in 1971. The song is segued back-to-back with "Tomorrow is a Long Time" . Even though there is applause at the beginning of the song, it is in fact a studio recording...
  
  "*, "Ramble On Rose", "Let It Grow"*
• Second Set: "Scarlet Begonias
  Scarlet Begonias
  "Scarlet Begonias" is a song by the Grateful Dead in 4/4 time. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and the music by Jerry Garcia. The song first appears on the 1974 release Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel....
  
  "* > "Fire on the Mountain
  Fire on the Mountain (Grateful Dead song)
  "Fire on the Mountain" is a song by the Grateful Dead. It was written by lyricist Robert Hunter and composed by drummer Mickey Hart. It was commercially released on the album Shakedown Street in November 1978. An earlier instrumental version of this song titled "Happiness is Drumming" appeared in...
  
  "* > "Samson and Delilah
  Samson and Delilah (song)
  "Samson and Delilah" is a traditional song based on the Biblical tale of Samson and his betrayal by Delilah. Its best known performer is perhaps the Grateful Dead, who first performed the song live in 1976, with guitarist Bob Weir singing lead vocals. It was frequently played live by the Dead. The...
  
  "*, "Terrapin Station"* > "Rhythm Devils"* > "Space"* > "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad"* > "I Need a Miracle"* > "Dear Mr. Fantasy
  Dear Mr. Fantasy
  "Dear Mr. Fantasy" is a rock song by Traffic from their 1967 album, Mr. Fantasy. An extended live version of the song also appears on the 1971 Traffic album Welcome to the Canteen...
  
  "* > "Hey Jude
  Hey Jude
  "Hey Jude" is a song by the English rock band The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The ballad evolved from "Hey Jules", a song widely accepted as being written to comfort John Lennon's son, Julian, during his parents' divorce—although this explanation is not...
  
  "* > "All Along the Watchtower
  All Along the Watchtower
  "All Along the Watchtower" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. The song, which has been included on most of Dylan's greatest hits compilations, initially appeared on his 1967 album John Wesley Harding. Over the past 35 years, he has performed it in concert more...
  
  "*
• Encore: "Knockin' on Heaven's Door
  Knockin' on Heaven's Door
  "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan for the soundtrack of the 1973 film Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid. It reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.-Story line and song structure:...
  
  "*

Friday, April 1

• First Set: "Little Bunny Foo Foo
  Little Bunny Foo Foo
  Little Bunny Foo Foo is a children's poem, involving a rabbit harassing a population of field mice. The rabbit is scolded and eventually punished by a fairy. Like many traditional folk songs, there are multiple versions with differing variations. It is also known under the alternative name Little...
  
  " tuning*, "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo"* > "Jack Straw
  Jack Straw (song)
  Jack Straw is a rock song written by Bob Weir and Robert Hunter in the Troubadour tradition. The track appeared on the Grateful Dead album, Europe '72, and was frequently performed live by the band....
  
  "* > "To Lay Me Down"*, "Ballad of a Thin Man
  Ballad of a Thin Man
  "Ballad of a Thin Man" is a song written and recorded by Bob Dylan, released on the album Highway 61 Revisited in 1965.-Meaning:"Ballad of a Thin Man" comments on a conventional "Mr. Jones", who walks into a room of intentionally bizarre circus freaks and doesn't "know what's happening".The...
  
  "*, "When Push Comes to Shove"*, "New Minglewood Blues"*, "Cumberland Blues"*, "Deal"*
• Second Set: "China Cat Sunflower
  China Cat Sunflower
  "China Cat Sunflower" is a song performed by the Grateful Dead which was first recorded for their third studio album Aoxomoxoa. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and the music composed by Jerry Garcia. The song is typically sung by Jerry Garcia. The first live recording of this song...
  
  "* > "I Know You Rider
  I Know You Rider
  "I Know You Rider" is a traditional woman's blues song that has been adapted by numerous artists. Modern versions can be traced back to the song's appearance in the 1934 book, American Ballads and Folk Songs, by the noted father and son musicologists and folklorists, John Lomax and Alan Lomax...
  
  "*, "Estimated Prophet"* > "Eyes of the World"* > "Rhythm Devils"* > "Space"* > "The Other One"* > "Wharf Rat"* > "Throwing Stones"* > "Not Fade Away
  Not Fade Away (song)
  "Not Fade Away" is a song credited to Buddy Holly and Norman Petty and first recorded by Holly's band The Crickets in Clovis, New Mexico, on May 27, 1957...
  
  "*
• Encore: "Brokedown Palace"*

* Included in Road Trips Volume 4 Number 2