Dick's Picks Volume 17
Encyclopedia
Dick's Picks Volume 17 is the seventeenth live album
in the Dick's Picks series of releases by the Grateful Dead
. It was recorded on September 25, 1991 at the Boston Garden
in Boston, Massachusetts, with two additional tracks from the March 31, 1991 show at Greensboro.
Production:
Live album
A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...
in the Dick's Picks series of releases by the Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...
. It was recorded on September 25, 1991 at the Boston Garden
Boston Garden
The Boston Garden was an arena in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Designed by boxing promoter Tex Rickard, who also built the third iteration of New York's Madison Square Garden, it opened on November 17, 1928 as "Boston Madison Square Garden" and outlived its original namesake by some 30 years...
in Boston, Massachusetts, with two additional tracks from the March 31, 1991 show at Greensboro.
Disc one
- ”Help on the Way” (GarciaJerry GarciaJerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
, HunterRobert Hunter (lyricist)Robert C. Hunter is an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator, and poet, best known for his association with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead.-Biography:He was born Robert Burns in San Luis Obispo, California...
) – 4:15 > - ”Slipknot!” (Garcia, GodchauxKeith GodchauxKeith Richard Godchaux was a musician best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead.-Biography:Keith Godchaux was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Concord, California...
, KreutzmannBill KreutzmannBill Kreutzmann is an American drummer who played with the rock band the Grateful Dead for their entire thirty-year career...
, LeshPhil LeshPhillip Chapman Lesh is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career....
, WeirBob WeirBob Weir is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead...
) – 5:30 > - ”Franklin's Tower” (Garcia, Hunter, Kreutzmann) – 10:41
- ”Walkin' Blues” (Johnson) – 6:30
- ”It Must Have Been the Roses” (Hunter) – 5:45 >
- ”Dire Wolf” (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:59
- ”Queen Jane Approximately” (DylanBob DylanBob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
) – 7:16 - ”Tennessee Jed” (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:50 >
- ”The Music Never Stopped” (BarlowJohn Perry BarlowJohn Perry Barlow is an American poet and essayist, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian political activist who has been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He is also a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic...
, Weir) – 8:18
Disc two
- ”Victim or the Crime” (Graham, Weir) – 8:24 >
- ”Crazy Fingers” (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:38 >
- "Playing in the Band” (HartMickey HartMickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971, and from October 1974 to August 1995...
, Hunter, Weir) – 9:22 > - "Terrapin Station" (Garcia, Hunter) – 12:47 >
- ”Boston Clam Jam” (Grateful Dead) – 5:37 >
- ”Drums” (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 11:04 >
- ”Space” (Grateful Dead) – 8:15 >
Disc three
- ”That Would Be Something” (McCartneyPaul McCartneySir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
) – 3:51 > - ”Playing in the Band” (Hart, Hunter, Weir) – 5:23 >
- ”China Doll” (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:46 >
- ”Throwing Stones” (Barlow, Weir) – 8:59 >
- ”Not Fade Away” (HollyBuddy HollyCharles Hardin Holley , known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll...
, Petty) – 9:01 - ”The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)” (DylanBob DylanBob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
) – 4:43 - ”Samson and Delilah” (traditional) – 7:47 >
- ”Eyes of the World” (Garcia, Hunter) – 23:30
- The last two tracks are from the March 31, 1991 show at Greensboro.
Personnel
Grateful Dead:- Jerry Garcia - lead guitar, vocals
- Mickey Hart - drums
- Bruce Hornsby - keyboards, accordion, vocals
- Bill Kreutzmann - drums
- Phil Lesh - bass, vocals
- Bob Weir - rhythm guitar, vocals
- Vince Welnick - keyboards, vocals
Production:
- Dick Latvala, David Lemieux - tape archivists
- Gecko Graphics - design
- Dan Healy - recording
- Jeffrey Norman - CD mastering
- John Cutler - magnetic scrutinizer
- Jim Anderson, Susana Millman - photography