Road Trips

Road Trips was a series of CDs of archival live recordings, most previously unreleased, by the Grateful Dead. The series ran for four years, beginning in late 2007, following the end of the 36-volume Dick's Picks series in 2005. Unlike Dick's Picks, which mostly featured complete or near-complete single concerts, Road Trips was billed as a series in which two-CD releases would each survey tours or periods in the band's performing career that had not been previously well-represented in archival releases. Many of the later releases in the series were nevertheless comprised of recordings of single concerts, and some were spread across three CDs. Bonus discs were initially offered as incentives for advance orders of some individual installments during the first years of the series. The final year of the series included only one bonus disc, which was available to purchasers of a subscription to the final year. Road Trips was succeeded by Dave's Picks, a series similar in format to the final year of Road Trips in that releases in the Dave's Picks series consist of single concerts, and one bonus disc is available per year to series subscribers.