Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks Vol.33 (Vinyl Box - 2022 - EU - Original)
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Description
Trying to decide which Grateful Dead
concert to reissue on vinyl is kind of like
ordering from the menu of a three-star
restaurant: no matter what you pick, it’s
not just going to be good, it’s also going
to be unique and memorable. Faced
with such an embarrassment of riches,
and trying to remain true to our vision of
hitting a different year with each release,
we decided to do what any sensible
Dead Head would do: go BIG. Hence,
our 8-LP release of Dick’s Picks Vol. 33! Fresh from a year-and-a-half
touring hiatus, and back to full, two-drummer strength, the Dead opened for The
Who as part of Bill Graham’s historic Day on the Green concerts in 1976. This
Pick captures both dates in their entirety, and
features one of the most monumental medleys
(and that’s sayin’ something!) in band history
with a 60-minute, 10-song journey through “St.
Stephen”/”Not Fade Away”/”St. Stephen”/”Help
on the Way”/”Slipknot!”/”Drums”/”Samson and
Delilah”/”Slipknot!”/”Franklin’s Tower”/”One
More Saturday Night” on the first day. Day
two offers excellent takes on two solo Garcia
favorites, “Might as Well” and “The Wheel,”
that were new to the concert repertoire and a
particularly fine “Ramble on Rose” among other
highlights. Bill Graham had honored the Dead
by selecting them to close the year’s stellar series of Day on the Green concerts,
and that—perhaps coupled with the presence of formidable co-headliners The
Who—sparked some of the band’s finest performances of the period.
But it’s not just the performances, or the fact that we hadn’t done a 1976 vinyl
reissue, that drew us to this concert. This “Betty Board” is one of the cleanest
recordings in the whole series, and with a fresh mastering for vinyl by Jeffrey
Norman at Mockingbird Mastering, lacquer cutting by Clint Holley and Dave
Polster at Well Made Music, and a pressing on 180-gram black vinyl by our
friends at Gotta Groove Records, this is—dare we say it—the best-sounding
Dead vinyl release we’ve done. Seriously...the test pressings (which were
reviewed by Jeffrey
Norman, Dead archivist
David Lemieux and Real
Gone’s Gordon Anderson)
were just fantastic, so
present and crisp. We’ve
included a 4-page, full-
color, LP-sized insert that
captures all the extensive
graphics that were on the
CD release, too. It’s our
biggest Grateful Dead
album ever...limited to 6000
hand-numbered copies!
Trackliste
A1 Promised Land
A2 Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
A3 Cassidy
B1 Tennessee Jed
B2 Looks Like Rain
C1 They Love Each Other
C2 New Minglewood Blues
D1 Scarlet Begonias
D2 Lazy Lightning
D3 Supplication
E1 Sugaree
F1 St. Stephen
F2 Not Fade Away
F3 St. Stephen
F4 Help On The Way
G1 Slipknot!
G2 Drums
G3 Samson And Delilah
G4 Slipknot!
H1 Franklin's Tower
H2 One More Saturday Night
H3 U.S. Blues
I1 Might As Well
I2 Mama Tried
I3 Ramble On Rose
I4 Cassidy
J1 Deal
J2 El Paso
J3 Loser
J4 Promised Land
K1 Friend Of The Devil
K2 Dancing In The Streets
L1 Wharf Rat
L2 Dancing In The Streets
M1 Samson And Delilah
M2 Brown-Eyed Women
M3 Playing In The Band
N1 Drums
N2 The Wheel
N3 Space
N4 The Other One
O1 Stella Blue
O2 Playing In The Band
P1 Sugar Magnolia
P2 Johnny B. Goode
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