Grateful Dead

A little over a month after playing a concert on the desert grounds surrounding the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, the Grateful Dead returned home to San Francisco for a five-show stint at Winterland.  The band brought along a slide show of their Egyptian stand and introduced the audience to the masterful oud player Hamza El-Din who accompanied them on his composition "Ollin Arageed" which segued into "Deal."  This volume of Road Trips, making its general retail debut from Real Gone Music, excerpts the final two Winterland shows (October 21-22, 1978) which also welcomed War harmonica player Lee Oskar (on the medley of "Got My Mojo Working," "The Other One," "Stella Blue," and Sugar Magnolia") and Quicksilver Messenger Service guitarist John Cipollina (on the "Not Fade Away"/"Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" medley.  This one is a "Betty Board" recording in HDCD sound, augmented by audience recordings.