Enjoying the Ride
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Released | May 30, 2025 | |||
Recorded | 1969–1994 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Label | Rhino | |||
Producer | Grateful Dead | |||
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Enjoying the Ride is a live album by the rock group the Grateful Dead. Packaged as a box set and comprising 60 CDs, it contains complete and partial recordings of concerts recorded over 25 years, from 1969 to 1994. It also includes a booklet of essays and photos. It is scheduled to be released on May 30, 2025, in a limited edition of 6,000 copies.[1][2][3][4][5]
An album of selections from the box set on three CDs or six LPs, titled The Music Never Stopped, is also scheduled to be released on May 30, 2025.
Concerts
[edit]Enjoying the Ride contains recordings of 17 complete concerts from 17 different venues – several of them with bonus tracks from another concert at the same venue – plus performances from three other venues, each assembled from parts of two or three different concerts. It also contains a bonus cassette with tracks from another concert.
- Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California – April 5, 1969 (on cassette)
- Fillmore West, San Francisco, California – June 5 / 7 / 8, 1969
- Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, New York – February 24, 1971
- Fillmore East, New York, New York – April 25 / 27, 1971 [a]
- Music Hall, Boston, Massachusetts – September 15 / 16, 1972
- Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York – March 16, 1973
- Winterland Arena, San Francisco, California – March 20, 1977
- The Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 13, 1978
- Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Colorado – August 12, 1979
- Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, Wisconsin – August 23, 1980
- Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, Connecticut – March 14, 1981
- Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, Virginia – May 1, 1981
- Frost Amphitheater, Palo Alto, California – August 20, 1983
- Greek Theatre, Berkeley, California – July 13, 1984
- Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, California – November 21, 1985
- Madison Square Garden, New York, New York – September 16, 1987
- Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, Indiana – July 15, 1989
- Oakland Arena, Oakland, California – December 27, 1989
- Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, California – May 12, 1991
- Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland – March 17, 1993
- Boston Garden, Boston, Massachusetts – October 3, 1994
Enjoying the Ride includes bonus tracks from these concerts:
- Capitol Theatre – February 20, 1971
- Alpine Valley Music Theatre – July 11, 1981
- Capital Centre – September 15, 1982
- Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center – November 22, 1985
Note:
- ^ Other tracks from these shows were released on Ladies and Gentlemen... the Grateful Dead.
Personnel
[edit]Grateful Dead
- Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
- Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
- Phil Lesh – bass, vocals
- Bill Kreutzmann – drums
- Mickey Hart – drums (1969, 1977 – 1995 concerts)
- Ron "Pigpen" McKernan – keyboards, harmonica, percussion, vocals (1969 – 1971 concerts)
- Tom Constanten – keyboards (1969 concerts)
- Keith Godchaux – keyboards (1972 – 1978 concerts)
- Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals (1972 – 1978 concerts)
- Brent Mydland – keyboards, vocals (1979 – 1989 concerts)
- Vince Welnick – keyboards, vocals (1991 – 1994 concerts)
- Bruce Hornsby – keyboards, vocals (1991 concert)
Additional musicians
- Clarence Clemons – saxophone (December 27, 1989 concert)
Production
- Produced by Grateful Dead
- Produced for release by David Lemieux
- Recording: Owsley "Bear" Stanley, Betty Cantor-Jackson, Kidd Candelario, Dan Healy, John Cutler
- Mastering: David Glasser, Jeffrey Norman
- Liner notes: Jesse Jarnow, David Lemieux, Owsley Stanley Foundation
Track listing
[edit]Avalon Ballroom
[edit]Cassette
- Avalon Ballroom – June 5, 1969 – selections:
- Side 1
- "Dupree's Diamond Blues" >
- "Mountains of the Moon" >
- "Dark Star" >
- "St. Stephen"
- Side 2
- "Turn On Your Lovelight"
- "China Cat Sunflower" >
- "Doin' That Rag"
Fillmore West
[edit]Disc 1
- Fillmore West – June 5, 1969 – selections:
- "Morning Dew"
- "Me and My Uncle"
- "Doin' That Rag" >
- "He Was a Friend of Mine"
- "Hard to Handle"
- "Cosmic Charlie"
- "Cryptical Envelopment" >
- "Drums" >
- "The Other One" >
- "Cryptical Envelopment"
Disc 2
- "China Cat Sunflower"
- "Sitting On Top of the World"
- "Dark Star"
- Fillmore West – June 7, 1969 – selections:
- "Dire Wolf"
- "Dupree's Diamond Blues"
- "Mountains of the Moon"
- "Dark Star"
Disc 3
- Fillmore West – June 8, 1969 – selection:
- "Dancing in the Street"
- "He Was a Friend of Mine"
- "China Cat Sunflower"
- "New Potato Caboose"
- "Me and My Uncle"
- "Cryptical Envelopment"
- "Drums"
- "The Other One"
- "Cosmic Charlie"
Capitol Theatre
[edit]Disc 4
- Capitol Theatre – February 24, 1971 – first set:
- "Casey Jones"
- "Me and My Uncle"
- "Cumberland Blues"
- "Next Time You See Me"
- "Bird Song"
- "Me and Bobby McGee"
- "Bertha"
- "Hard to Handle"
- "Loser"
- "Playing in the Band"
- "Good Lovin'"
Disc 5
- Capitol Theatre – February 24, 1971 – second set:
- "Sugar Magnolia"
- "I'm a King Bee"
- "Greatest Story Ever Told"
- "Johnny B. Goode"
- "Deal"
- "New Minglewood Blues"
- "Truckin'" >
- "Not Fade Away" >
- "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" >
- "Not Fade Away" >
- "Turn On Your Love Light"
Disc 6
- Capitol Theatre – February 20, 1971 – bonus tracks:
- "Hard to Handle"
- "Cryptical Envelopment" >
- "Drums" >
- "The Other One" >
- "Wharf Rat"
- "Ripple"
- "Not Fade Away" >
- "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" >
- "Not Fade Away" >
- "Turn On Your Love Light"
Fillmore East
[edit]Disc 7
- Fillmore East – April 25, 1971 – selections:
- "Truckin'"
- "Loser"
- "Hard to Handle"
- "Me and Bobby McGee"
- "Cold Rain and Snow"
- "Ain't It Crazy"
- "Playing in the Band"
- "Friend of the Devil"
- "Casey Jones"
- "Morning Dew"
- "Bertha"
Disc 8
- "Good Lovin'"
- "Not Fade Away" >
- "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" >
- "Not Fade Away"
- "Uncle John's Band"
- Fillmore East – April 27, 1971 – selections:
- "Truckin'"
- "Mama Tried"
- "Bertha"
- "Next Time You See Me"
- "Cumberland Blues"
Disc 9
- "Me and Bobby McGee"
- "Loser"
- "Hard to Handle"
- "China Cat Sunflower"
- "I Know You Rider"
- "Casey Jones"
- "Sugar Magnolia"
- "Deal"
- "Me and My Uncle"
- "Bird Song"
- "Playing in the Band"
- "Dire Wolf"
Boston Music Hall
[edit]Disc 10
- Boston Music Hall – September 15, 1972 – selections:
- "Promised Land"
- "Sugaree"
- "Greatest Story Ever Told"
- "China Cat Sunflower" >
- "I Know Your Rider"
- "Black Throated Wind"
- "Tennessee Jed"
- "El Paso"
- "Loser"
- "Jack Straw"
- "Friend of the Devil"
Disc 11
- "Playing in the Band"
- "Casey Jones"
- "He's Gone"
- "Me and My Uncle"
- "Bird Song"
- "Mexicali Blues"
- "Ramble On Rose"
Disc 12
- "Truckin'" >
- "Drums" >
- "The Other One: >
- Boston Music Hall – September 16, 1972 – selections:
- "Morning Dew" >
- "Dark Star" >
- "Brokedown Palace"
Nassau Coliseum
[edit]Disc 13
- Nassau Coliseum – March 16, 1973 – first set:
- "China Cat Sunflower" >
- "I Know Your Rider"
- "Jack Straw"
- "Wave That Flag"
- "Looks Like Rain"
- "Ramble On Rose"
- "Box of Rain"
- "Beat It On Down the Line"
- "They Love Each Other"
- "El Paso"
- "Row Jimmy"
- "Mexicali Blues"
Disc 14
- "Bird Song"
- "Playing in the Band"
- Nassau Coliseum – March 16, 1973 – second set:
- "Promised Land" >
- "Bertha" >
- "Greatest Story Ever Told"
- "Loser"
- "Big River"
- "Don't Ease Me In"
- "Me and My Uncle"
Disc 15
- "Dark Star" >
- "Truckin'" >
- "Morning Dew"
- "Sugar Magnolia"
Winterland Arena
[edit]Disc 16
- Winterland Arena – March 20, 1977 – first set:
- "New Minglewood Blues"
- "Ramble On Rose"
- "El Paso"
- "Deal"
- "Cassidy"
- "Peggy-O"
- "Beat It On Down the Line"
- "Brown-Eyed Women"
- "Estimated Prophet"
- "Scarlet Begonias"
Disc 17
- Winterland Arena – March 20, 1977 – second set:
- "Samson and Delilah"
- "Row Jimmy"
- "Promised Land"
- "St. Stephen" >
- "The Other One" >
- "Stella Blue"
Disc 18
- Winterland Arena – March 20, 1977 – first encore:
- "U.S. Blues"
- Winterland Arena – March 20, 1977 – second encore:
- "Terrapin Station"
The Spectrum
[edit]Disc 19
- The Spectrum – May 13, 1978 – first set:
- "Jack Straw"
- "Dire Wolf"
- "Beat It On Down the Line"
- "Peggy-O"
- "El Paso"
- "Row Jimmy"
- "New Minglewood Blues"
- "Candyman"
- "The Music Never Stopped"
Disc 20
- The Spectrum – May 13, 1978 – second set:
- "Bertha" >
- "Good Lovin'"
- "Terrapin Station" >
- "Playing in the Band" >
- "Drums" >
Disc 21
- "Truckin'" >
- "Black Peter" >
- "Sugar Magnolia"
- The Spectrum – May 13, 1978 – encore:
Red Rocks Amphitheatre
[edit]Disc 22
- Red Rocks Amphitheatre – August 12, 1979 – first set:
- "Promised Land"
- "They Love Each Other"
- "Mama Tried" >
- "Mexicali Blues"
- "Peggy-O"
- "Lazy Lightning" >
- "Supplication"
- "Brown-Eyed Women"
- "Looks Like Rain"
- "Althea" >
- "Passenger"
Disc 23
- Red Rocks Amphitheatre – August 12, 1979 – second set:
- "China Cat Sunflower" >
- "I Know Your Rider"
- "Lost Sailor"
- "Don't Ease Me In"
- "Estimated Prophet" >
- "Eyes of the World" >
- "Drums" >
Disc 24
- "Space" >
- "Not Fade Away" >
- "Black Peter" >
- "Around and Around"
- Red Rocks Amphitheatre – August 12, 1979 – encore:
- "U.S. Blues"
Alpine Valley Music Theatre
[edit]Disc 25
- Alpine Valley Music Theatre – August 23, 1980 – first set:
- "Alabama Getaway" >
- "Promised Land"
- "Candyman"
- "Me and My Uncle" >
- "Big River"
- "Tennessee Jed"
- "Lazy Lightning" >
- "Supplication"
- "Althea"
- "The Music Never Stopped"
Disc 26
- Alpine Valley Music Theatre – August 23, 1980 – second set:
- "Don't Ease Me In"
- "Lost Sailor" >
- "Saint of Circumstance" >
- "He's Gone" >
- "Drums" >
- "Space" >
- "Wharf Rat" >
- "Around and Around" >
- "Good Lovin'"
- Alpine Valley Music Theatre – August 23, 1980 – encore:
- "One More Saturday Night"
Disc 27
- Alpine Valley Music Theatre – July 11, 1981 – bonus tracks:
- "Lost Sailor" >
- "Saint of Circumstance" >
- "Ship of Fools"
- "He's Gone" >
- "Truckin'" >
- "Drums" >
- "Space" >
- "The Other One"
Hartford Civic Center
[edit]Disc 28
- Hartford Civic Center – March 14, 1981 – first set:
- "Feel Like a Stranger"
- "Sugaree"
- "Me and My Uncle"
- "Big River"
- "Peggy-O"
- "C.C. Rider"
- "Althea"
- "Passenger"
- "China Cat Sunflower" >
- "I Know You Rider"
Disc 29
- Hartford Civic Center – March 14, 1981 – second set:
- "Alabama Getaway" >
- "Greatest Story Ever Told"
- "Ship of Fools"
- "Lost Sailor" >
- "Saint of Circumstance" >
- "Drums" >
Disc 30
- "Space" >
- "The Other One" >
- "Stella Blue" >
- "I Need a Miracle" >
- "Bertha" >
- "Good Lovin'"
- Hartford Civic Center – March 14, 1981 – encore:
- "One More Saturday Night"
Hampton Coliseum
[edit]Disc 31
- Hampton Coliseum – May 1, 1981 – first set:
- "Alabama Getaway" >
- "Promised Land"
- "Friend of the Devil"
- "Me and My Uncle" >
- "Big River"
- "Althea" >
- "Little Red Rooster"
- "Tennessee Jed" >
- "Let It Grow" >
- "Deal"
Disc 32
- Hampton Coliseum – May 1, 1981 – second set:
- "Feel Like a Stranger"
- "Franklin's Tower" >
- "Lost Sailor" >
- "Saint of Circumstance" >
- "He's Gone" >
- "The Other One" >
- "Drums" >
Disc 33
- "Space" >
- "The Wheel" >
- "Wharf Rat" >
- "Sugar Magnolia"
- Hampton Coliseum – May 1, 1981 – encore:
- "U.S. Blues"
Frost Amphitheater
[edit]Disc 34
- Frost Amphitheater – August 20, 1983 – first set:
- "Alabama Getaway" >
- "Greatest Story Ever Told"
- "They Love Each Other"
- "New Minglewood Blues"
- "Bird Song"
- "Looks Like Rain"
- "Tennessee Jed"
- "My Brother Esau"
- "Deal"
Disc 35
- Frost Amphitheater – August 20, 1983 – second set:
- "Shakedown Street"
- "Man Smart, Woman Smarter"
- "Ship of Fools" >
- "Estimated Prophet" >
- "Eyes of the World" >
- "Drums" >
Disc 36
- "Space" >
- "The Other One" >
- "Black Peter"
- "Good Lovin'"
- Frost Amphitheater – August 20, 1983 – encore:
- "One More Saturday Night"
Greek Theatre
[edit]Disc 37
- Greek Theatre – July 13, 1984 – first set:
- "Bertha" >
- "Greatest Story Even Told"
- "Dire Wolf"
- "C.C. Rider"
- "Loser"
- "Cassidy"
- "Dupree's Diamond Blues"
- "Hell in a Bucket" >
- "Might as Well"
Disc 38
- Greek Theatre – July 13, 1984 – second set:
- "Scarlet Begonias" >
- "Touch of Grey" >
- "Fire on the Mountain" >
- "Man Smart, Woman Smarter" >
- "Drums" >
- "Space" >
Disc 39
- "The Wheel" >
- "I Need a Miracle" >
- "Stella Blue" >
- "Sugar Magonlia"
- Greek Theatre – July 13, 1984 – encore:
- "Dark Star"
Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center
[edit]Disc 40
- Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center – November 21, 1985 – first set:
- "Big Boy Pete"
- "Dire Wolf"
- "Little Red Rooster"
- "Brown-Eyed Women"
- "Me and My Uncle" >
- "Mexicali Blues"
- "Ramble On Rose"
- "Looks Like Rain" >
- "Might as Well"
- Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center – November 21, 1985 – second set:
- "Shakedown Street" >
- "Crazy Fingers"
Disc 41
- "Playing in the Band" >
- "She Belongs to Me" >
- "Drums" >
- "The Other One" >
- "Wharf Rat" >
- "Playing in the Band" >
- "Gimme Some Lovin'" >
- "In the Midnight Hour"
- Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center – November 21, 1985 – encore:
Disc 42
- Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center – November 22, 1985 – bonus tracks:
- "Touch of Grey"
- "Estimated Prophet" >
- "Eyes of the World" >
- "Drums" >
- "Space" >
- "Morning Dew" >
- "Throwing Stones" >
- "Turn On Your Lovelight"
- "Brokedown Palace"
Madison Square Garden
[edit]Disc 43
- Madison Square Garden – September 16, 1987 – first set:
- "Touch of Grey" >
- "Scarlet Begonias"
- "Little Red Rooster"
- "Dire Wolf"
- "My Brother Esau"
- "High Time"
- "Let It Grow"
- "Don't Ease Me In"
Disc 44
- Madison Square Garden – September 16, 1987 – second set:
- "Bertha" >
- "Greatest Story Ever Told" >
- "Devil with the Blue Dress" / "Good Golly Miss Molly" / "Devil with the Blue Dress" >
- "He's Gone" >
- "Drums" >
- "Space" >
Disc 45
- "Truckin'" >
- "Wharf Rat" >
- "Throwing Stones" >
- "Not Fade Away"
- Madison Square Garden – September 16, 1987 – encore:
- "Black Muddy River"
Deer Creek Music Center
[edit]Disc 46
- Deer Creek Music Center – July 15, 1989 – first set:
- "Bertha" >
- "Greatest Story Ever Told"
- "Candyman"
- "Walkin' Blues"
- "Peggy-O"
- "Queen Jane Approximately"
- "We Can Run"
- "Bird Song"
Disc 47
- Deer Creek Music Center – July 15, 1989 – second set:
- "Foolish Heart" >
- "Victim or the Crime" >
- "Crazy Fingers" >
- "Truckin'" >
- "Smokestack Lightnin'" >
- "Drums" >
Disc 48
- "Space" >
- "China Doll" >
- "All Along the Watchtower" >
- "Stella Blue" >
- "Sugar Magnolia"
- Deer Creek Music Center – July 15, 1989 – encore:
- "Brokedown Palace"
Oakland Arena
[edit]Disc 49
- Oakland Arena – December 27, 1989 – first set:
- "Cold Rain and Snow"
- "Greatest Story Ever Told"
- "Never Trust a Woman"
- "Althea"
- "Me and My Uncle" >
- "Big River"
- "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"
- "Bird Song" >
- "Promised Land"
Disc 50
- Oakland Arena – December 27, 1989 – second set:
- "Iko Iko"
- "Playing in the Band" >
- "Crazy Fingers" >
- "Uncle John's Band" >
- "Drums" >
- "Space" >
Disc 51
- "The Wheel" >
- "I Need a Miracle" >
- "Morning Dew"
- Oakland Arena – December 27, 1989 – encore:
- "Johnny B. Goode" >
- "Black Muddy River"
Shoreline Amphitheatre
[edit]Disc 52
- Shoreline Amphitheatre – May 12, 1991 – first set:
- "Picasso Moon"
- "Althea"
- "C.C. Rider" >
- "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry"
- "El Paso"
- "High Time"
- "Black Throated Wind" >
- "Deal"
Disc 53
- Shoreline Amphitheatre – May 12, 1991 – second set:
- "Help on the Way" >
- "Slipknot" >
- "Franklin's Tower"
- "Looks Like Rain" >
- "Terrapin Station" >
- "Drums" >
Disc 54
- "Space" >
- "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" >
- "Trowing Stones" >
- "Turn On Your Lovelight"
- Shoreline Amphitheatre – May 12, 1991 – encore:
Capital Centre
[edit]Disc 55
- Capital Centre – March 17, 1993 – first set:
- "Shakedown Street"
- "Wang Dang Doodle"
- "Lazy River Road"
- "Desolation Row"
- "Ramble On Rose"
- "Eternity"
- "Liberty"
- Capital Centre – March 17, 1993 – second set:
- "Picasso Moon"
Disc 56
- "Crazy Fingers" >
- "Playing in the Band"
- "Dark Star" >
- "Drums" >
- "Space" >
- "The Other One" >
- "Days Between" >
- "Good Lovin'"
- Capital Centre – March 17, 1993 – encore:
Disc 57
- Capital Centre – September 15, 1982 – bonus tracks:
- "Shakedown Street" >
- "Lost Sailor" >
- "Saint of Circumstance" >
- "Drums" >
- "Jam" >
- "Not Fade Away" >
- "Stella Blue"
- "Around and Around" >
- "Good Lovin'"
- "Touch of Grey"
Boston Garden
[edit]Disc 58
- Boston Garden – October 3, 1994 – first set:
- "Touch of Grey" >
- "Beat It On Down the Line"
- "Loose Lucy"
- "Little Red Rooster"
- "Childhood's End"
- "Dire Wolf"
- "Black Throated Wind"
- "Bird Song"
Disc 59
- Boston Garden – October 3, 1994 – second set:
- "Box of Rain"
- "Shakedown Street"
- "Cassidy" >
- "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" >
- "Drums" >
Disc 60
- "Space" >
- "The Wheel" >
- "All Along the Watchtower" >
- "Attics of My Life"
- "Around and Around"
- Boston Garden – October 3, 1994 – encore:
- "Brokedown Palace"
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