Friend of the Devils: April 1978
Friend of the Devils: April 1978 | ||||
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Released | September 20, 2024 | |||
Recorded | April 6–16, 1978 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Label | Rhino | |||
Producer | Grateful Dead | |||
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Friend of the Devils: April 1978 is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. Packaged as a box set, it contains eight complete concerts on 19 CDs. It was released on September 20, 2024, in a limited edition of 10,000 copies.[1][2][3][4]
Friend of the Devils: April 1978 contains recordings of these concerts:
- April 6, 1978 – Curtis Hixon Hall, Tampa, Florida
- April 7, 1978 – Hollywood Sportatorium, Pembroke Pines, Florida
- April 8, 1978 – Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Jacksonville, Florida
- April 10, 1978 – Fox Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia
- April 11, 1978 – Fox Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia
- April 12, 1978 – Cameron Indoor Stadium, Durham, North Carolina
- April 14, 1978 – Cassell Coliseum, Blacksburg, Virginia
- April 16, 1978 – Huntington Civic Center, Huntington, West Virginia
The April 12 concert was also released on September 20, 2024, as a separate album called Duke '78, as a three-disc CD, a four-disc LP, and a digital download.
The April 15, 1978 concert, which is not included in Friend of the Devils, was released in 2021 as Dave's Picks Volume 37.
Track listing
[edit]Disc 1
- April 6, 1978 – Curtis Hixon Hall – first set:
- "Bertha" > (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter)
- "Good Lovin'" (Rudy Clark, Arthur Resnick)
- "Dire Wolf" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Me and My Uncle" > (John Phillips)
- "Big River" (Johnny Cash)
- "Friend of the Devil" (Garcia, Hunter, John Dawson)
- "Passenger" (Phil Lesh, Peter Monk)
- "Candyman" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Lazy Lightning" > (Bob Weir, John Perry Barlow)
- "Supplication" (Weir, Barlow)
- April 6, 1978 – Curtis Hixon Hall – second set:
- "Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
- "It Must Have Been the Roses" (Hunter)
Disc 2
- "Estimated Prophet" > (Weir, Barlow)
- "He's Gone" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Rhythm Devils" > (Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann)
- "The Other One" > (Weir, Kreutzmann)
- "Wharf Rat" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Around and Around" (Chuck Berry)
- April 6, 1978 – Curtis Hixon Hall – encore:
- "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter)
Disc 3
- April 7, 1978 – Hollywood Sportatorium – first set:
- "Promised Land" (Berry)
- "Sugaree" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Cassidy" (Weir, Barlow)
- "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Mama Tried" > (Merle Haggard)
- "Mexicali Blues" (Weir, Barlow)
- "Peggy-O" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
- "New Minglewood Blues" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
- "Loser" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, Barlow)
- April 7, 1978 – Hollywood Sportatorium – second set:
- "Jack Straw" (Weir, Hunter)
Disc 4
- "Ship of Fools" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Good Lovin'" (Clark, Resnick)
- "Terrapin Station" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Playing in the Band" > (Weir, Hart, Hunter)
- "Rhythm Devils" > (Hart, Kreutzmann)
- "Not Fade Away" > (Norman Petty, Charles Hardin)
- "Black Peter" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Playing in the Band" (Weir, Hart, Hunter)
- April 7, 1978 – Hollywood Sportatorium – encore:
- "Johnny B. Goode" (Berry)
Disc 5
- April 8, 1978 – Veterans Memorial Coliseum – first set:
- "Mississippi Half Step Uptown Toodeloo" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Me and My Uncle" > (Phillips)
- "Big River" (Cash)
- "They Love Each Other" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Looks Like Rain" (Weir, Barlow)
- "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "El Paso" (Marty Robbins)
- "It Must Have Been the Roses" (Hunter)
- "Lazy Lightning" > (Weir, Barlow)
- "Supplication" (Weir, Barlow)
Disc 6
- April 8, 1978 – Veterans Memorial Coliseum – second set:
- "Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
- "Scarlet Begonias" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Fire on the Mountain" (Hart, Hunter)
- "Estimated Prophet" > (Weir, Barlow)
- "Eyes of the World" (Garcia, Hunter)
Disc 7
- "Rhythm Devils" > (Hart, Kreutzmann)
- "Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir)
- "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter)
- April 8, 1978 – Veterans Memorial Coliseum – encore:
- "One More Saturday Night" (Weir)
Disc 8
- April 10, 1978 – Fox Theatre – first set:
- "Promised Land" (Berry)
- "Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "It's All Over Now" (Bobby Womack, Shirley Womack)
- "Peggy-O" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
- "Cassidy" (Weir, Barlow)
- "Dire Wolf" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "El Paso" (Robbins)
- "Row Jimmy" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Passenger" (Lesh, Monk)
- "Candyman" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, Barlow)
- April 10, 1978 – Fox Theatre – second set:
- "Jack Straw" (Weir, Hunter)
Disc 9
- "Ship of Fools" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Dancing in the Street" > (William Stevenson, Marvin Gaye, Ivy Jo Hunter)
- "Rhythm Devils" > (Hart, Kreutzmann)
- "Franklin's Tower" > (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hunter)
- "Black Peter" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Around and Around" (Berry)
- April 10, 1978 – Fox Theatre – encore:
- "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter)
Dics 10
- April 11, 1978 – Fox Theatre – first set:
- "Bertha" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Good Lovin'" (Clark, Resnick)
- "Friend of the Devil" (Garcia, Hunter, Dawson)
- "Me and My Uncle" > (Phillips)
- "Big River" (Cash)
- "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Looks Like Rain" (Weir, Barlow)
- "Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "New Minglewood Blues" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
- "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter)
Disc 11
- April 11, 1978 – Fox Theatre – second set:
- "Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
- "Scarlet Begonias" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Fire on the Mountain" (Hart, Hunter)
- "Sunrise" (Donna Jean Godchaux)
Disc 12
- "Terrapin Station" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Rhythm Devils" > (Hart, Kreutzmann)
- "Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir)
- "Iko Iko" > (James Crawford, Barbara Ann Hawkins, Rosa Lee Hawkins, Joan Marie Johnson)
- "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter)
- April 11, 1978 – Fox Theatre – encore:
- "Johnny B. Goode" (Berry)
Disc 13
- April 12, 1978 – Cameron Indoor Stadium – first set:
- "Jack Straw" (Weir, Hunter)
- "Dire Wolf" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Beat It On Down the Line" (Jesse Fuller)
- "Peggy-O" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
- "Mama Tried" > (Haggard)
- "Mexicali Blues" (Weir, Barlow)
- "Funiculi Funicula" (Luigi Denza)
- "Row Jimmy" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "New Minglewood Blues" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
- "Loser" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Lazy Lightning" > (Weir, Barlow)
- "Supplication" (Weir, Barlow)
Disc 14
- April 12, 1978 – Cameron Indoor Stadium – second set:
- "Bertha" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Good Lovin'" (Clark, Resnick)
- "It Must Have Been the Roses" (Hunter)
Disc 15
- "Estimated Prophet" > (Weir, Barlow)
- "Eyes of the World" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Rhythm Devils" > (Hart, Kreutzmann)
- "Truckin'" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter)
- "Wharf Rat" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Around and Around" (Berry)
- April 12, 1978 – Cameron Indoor Stadium – encore:
- "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter)
Disc 16
- April 14, 1978 – Cassell Coliseum – first set:
- "Promised Land" (Berry)
- "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Me and My Uncle" > (Phillips)
- "Big River" (Cash)
- "Peggy-O" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Looks Like Rain" (Weir, Barlow)
- "Dire Wolf" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "It's All Over Now" (B. Womack, S. Womack)
- "Dupree's Diamond Blues" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, Barlow)
- April 14, 1978 – Cassell Coliseum – second set:
- "Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
- "Ship of Fools" (Garcia, Hunter)
Disc 17
- "Dancing in the Street" > (Stevenson, Gaye, Hunter)
- "Rhythm Devils" > (Hart, Kreutzmann)
- "Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir)
- "The Other One" > (Weir, Kreutzmann)
- "Black Peter" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter)
- April 14, 1978 – Cassell Coliseum – encore:
- "Johnny B. Goode" (Berry)
Disc 18
- April 16, 1978 – Huntington Civic Center – first set:
- "Jack Straw" (Weir, Hunter)
- "Dire Wolf" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Cassidy" (Weir, Barlow)
- "Peggy-O" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
- "Mexicali Blues" > (Weir, Barlow)
- "Mama Tried" (Haggard)
- "They Love Each Other" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "New Minglewood Blues" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
- "Scarlet Begonias" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Fire on the Mountain" (Hart, Hunter)
- April 16, 1978 – Huntington Civic Center – second set:
- "Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
- "Ship of Fools" (Garcia, Hunter)
Disc 19
- "Estimated Prophet" > (Weir, Barlow)
- "Eyes of the World" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Rhythm Devils" > (Hart, Kreutzmann)
- "Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir)
- "Iko Iko" > (Crawford, B. Hawkins, R. Hawkins, Johnson)
- "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter)
- April 16, 1978 – Huntington Civic Center – encore:
- "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter)
Personnel
[edit]Grateful Dead
- Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
- Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals
- Keith Godchaux – keyboards
- Mickey Hart – drums
- Bill Kreutzmann – drums
- Phil Lesh – bass, vocals
- Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
Production
- Produced by Grateful Dead
- Produced for release by David Lemieux
- Recording: Betty Cantor-Jackson
- Mastering: Jeffrey Norman
- Art direction, design: Steve Vance
- Artwork: Matthew Brannon
- Liner notes: Steve Silberman
References
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