''Dick's Picks Volume 9'' is the ninth live album in the Dick's Picks series of releases by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded on September 16, 1990, at the Madison Square Garden in

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during the first tour with new keyboardists

Vince Welnick Vincent Leo Welnick (February 21, 1951 – June 2, 2006) was an American keyboardist-singer-songwriter best known for playing with the band The Tubes during the 1970s and 1980s and with the Grateful Dead in the 1990s. He was inducted into ...

and

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. This CD contains the full show from that night. Another Grateful Dead album recorded during the same run of concerts at Madison Square Garden is '' Road Trips Volume 2 Number 1''.

Enclosure

Included with the release is a single sheet of paper folded in half, yielding a four-page enclosure. The front duplicates the cover of the CD and the back contains an oval-shaped, purple-tinted,

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photograph of the band on stage against a background of clouds that merges seamlessly with the clouds on the cover. The two pages inside contain a wide black-and-white photograph of the entire band on stage along with lists of the contents of and credits for the release.Enclosure included with Dick's Picks Volume 9, 1997.

Track listing

Disc one

:''First set:'' #"Hell in a Bucket" ( Bob Weir,

Brent Mydland Brent Mydland (October 21, 1952 – July 26, 1990) was an American keyboardist and singer. He was a member of the rock band The Grateful Dead from 1979 to 1990, a longer tenure than any other keyboardist in the band. Growing up in Concord ...

, John Barlow) – 7:03 #"Cold Rain & Snow" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:42 #"

Little Red Rooster "Little Red Rooster" (or "The Red Rooster" as it was first titled) is a blues standard credited to arranger and songwriter Willie Dixon. The song was first recorded in 1961 by American blues musician Howlin' Wolf in the Chicago blues style. His ...

" ( Willie Dixon) – 10:21 #" Stagger Lee" ( Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 8:32 #"

Queen Jane Approximately "Queen Jane Approximately" is a song from Bob Dylan's 1965 album ''Highway 61 Revisited''. It was released as a single as the B-side to " One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)" in January 1966. It has also been covered by several artists, includin ...

" (

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) – 7:47 #"Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:35 #"Cassidy" (Weir, Barlow) – 6:26 → #"Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:48

Disc two

:''Second set:'' #"

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" (traditional, arranged by Weir) – 8:10 #"

Iko Iko "Iko Iko" () is a much-covered New Orleans song that tells of a parade collision between two tribes of Mardi Gras Indians and the traditional confrontation. The song, under the original title "Jock-A-Mo", was written and released in 1953 as a sin ...

" ( James Crawford) – 10:15 #"Looks Like Rain" (Weir, Barlow) – 8:47 #"He's Gone" (Garcia, Hunter) – 16:26 → #"No MSG Jam" (Grateful Dead) – 7:50 → #"Drums" (

Bill Kreutzmann William Kreutzmann Jr. ( ; born May 7, 1946) is an American drummer and founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead. He played with the band for its entire thirty-year career, usually alongside fellow drummer Mickey Hart, and has continued to ...

, Mickey Hart) – 8:59 →

Disc three

:''Second set, continued:'' #"Space" (Grateful Dead) – 10:49 → #"Standing on the Moon" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:28 → #"Lunatic Preserve" (Grateful Dead) – 5:45 → #"I Need a Miracle" (Weir, Barlow) – 5:19 → #"

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) – 13:12 :''Encore:'' #

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" (Dylan) – 7:35

Personnel

Grateful Dead *Jerry Garcia –

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*Mickey Hart – drums,

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*Bruce Hornsby – accordion,

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, synthesizer, vocals *Phil Lesh –

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, vocals *Bill Kreutzmann – drums, percussion *Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals *Vince Welnick – keyboards, vocals Production *Dan Healy – recording *

Dick Latvala Dick Latvala (26 July 1943 – 6 August 1999) was an American tape archivist for the Grateful Dead. He started the CD series ''Dick's Picks'', a series that selects live music from Grateful Dead concerts. The first volume of ''Dick's Picks'' w ...

– tape archivist *Jeffrey Norman – CD mastering *John Cutler – ferromagnetist *Gecko Graphics – package design *Susana Millman – photography

Notes

{{Authority control 09 1997 live albums Albums recorded at Madison Square Garden