The
first volume was recorded and filmed at
Three Rivers Stadium in
Pittsburgh on July 8, 1990 with bonus material recorded two days earlier at
Cardinal Stadium,
Louisville. The soundtrack was released as a 3-CD set. The
second volume features the June 14, 1991 concert at
Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in
Washington, D.C., and bonus material from a show at the same venue on July 12, 1990. It is the only Grateful Dead video release featuring
Vince Welnick and
Bruce Hornsby. The DVD contains one track that is not on the CD, "
Box of Rain", recorded at the 1990 show. It also includes a music video, "Liberty", directed by Justin Kreutzmann, the son of Dead drummer
Bill Kreutzmann. The
third volume contains the June 16, 1990 show at the
Shoreline Amphitheatre in
Mountain View, California. The album also includes six songs from a show at the same venue on October 3, 1987. One of these is "My Brother Esau", the first appearance of this song on CD. The
fourth volume contains two consecutive complete shows—July 24, 1987, at
Oakland Stadium, and July 26, 1987 at
Anaheim Stadium. The album was released as a 4-CD set. These concerts were recorded during the "Dylan & the Dead" tour. On this brief tour, each Grateful Dead show was followed by a performance by
Bob Dylan, with the Dead providing accompaniment. Songs from those performances are documented on the album
Dylan & the Dead. The fourth volume was the only volume that was not also released on
VHS videotape. It was also the only DVD of the series that included the option of either a two-channel
stereo or a Dolby 5.1 channel
surround sound soundtrack. ==See also==