Drummer Bill Kreutzmann played with a cast, having broken his wrist while horseback riding. The final night's performance concurred with a total lunar eclipse. The band referred to their stage set-up as "The Gizah Sound and Light Theater". The final two, September 15 & 16, 1978, are excerpted for the album. The Dead crew set up their gear at the open-air theater on the east side of the Great Sphinx, for three nights of concerts. Rather than ship all of the required sound reinforcement equipment from the United States, the PA and a 24-track, mobile studio recording truck were borrowed from the Who, in the UK. The pyramids are like the obvious number one choice because no matter what anyone thinks they might be, there is definitely some kind of mojo about the pyramids." You know, power that's been preserved from the ancient world. Describing the planning, bassist Phil Lesh said, "It sort of became my project because I was one of the first people in the band who was on the trip of playing at places of power. Through Wallace's introduction to Joe Malone, a professor at the American University of Beirut who was formerly with the State Department, the trio had made contacts with the Egyptian government. Following some on-the-ground research by Trist's close friend Jonathan Wallace and his meeting with Jehan Sadat, the then- First Lady of Egypt, Loren returned with bassist Phil Lesh and Alan Trist to meet with officials and begin the paperwork and logistics process. The idea for the concerts had its origins in an Egyptian vacation taken by band manager Richard Loren. It also includes "The Vacation Tapes", a 15-minute feature, from footage originally shot on 8mm silent film, of band members, crew and friends visiting various Egyptian sites. The DVD contains concert footage (all of which is represented either on the two CDs or the bonus disc) from the September 16 performance. The shows on the album were recorded on a 24-track multitrack recorder and were mixed down to stereo for the album's release.Ī bonus disc of additional tracks from the dates was included with early copies of the album. This was the third continent on which the band performed, having previously performed in Europe. The album was recorded September 15 & 16, 1978, at the Giza pyramid complex in Giza, Egypt. It contains two CDs and one DVD and was released in 2008. r/fonts is the place to share and discuss awesome fonts.Rocking the Cradle: Egypt 1978 is a live album by American rock band the Grateful Dead. r/typography A subreddit for discussion of the arts of typesetting and glyph design. Typographica Also useful for an indirect search or inspirationīad Sample: the sample provided is too poor (small, blurry) to identify the font.Fonts in Use Not a type ID tool per se, but useful for an indirect search or inspiration.Font_ID on Twitter: Stephen Coles of Typographica takes identification requests.Typophile Type ID Board: A forum dedicated to identifying typefaces.Identifont: Identify by selecting distinguishing features.Whatfontis: Image recognition tool or specify a URL.Other type identification resources on the web: Identified!: the font has been identified.īad Sample: the sample provided is too poor (small, blurry) to identify the font. Identified (customized): the font has been identified, but the type has been altered or customized in the sample. (If you know a better match, please speak up!) Unavailable: a typeface has been identified, but it is not commercially available as a digital font.Ĭlose: no exact match was found, but something very similar was found. Lettering: the text is lettered (drawn), not a typeface. (This should be the initial state of every request.) Open Question: a typeface needs identifying. The poster and the mods can set and change link flair. Please do not link to any pirated fonts.Stick around and try to help identify some of the other open questions.Leave it for other folks trying to find the same font in the future. Please do not delete your post after your font has been identified.
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