''Dick's Picks Volume 14'' is the 14th live album in the Dick's Picks series of releases by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded on November 30 and December 2, 1973, at

Boston Music Hall The Boston Music Hall was a concert hall located on Winter Street in Boston, Massachusetts, with an additional entrance on Hamilton Place. One of the oldest continuously operating theaters in the United States, it was built in 1852 and was the ...

in Boston, Massachusetts. ''Volume 14'' was the last of the Dick's Picks series to be released during the lifetime of the series's namesake tape archivist,

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 ...

. As on '' Dick's Picks Volume 1'',

Donna Godchaux Donna may refer to the short form of the honorific ''nobildonna'', the female form of Don (honorific) in Italian. People *Donna (given name); includes name origin and list of people and characters with the name * Roberto Di Donna (born 1968), Ita ...

does not appear on this set as she had taken a hiatus from touring with the band due to pregnancy.

Enclosure and liner notes

Included with the release is a single sheet folded into thirds, yielding a six-page enclosure. The front duplicates the CD's cover and the back contains a photograph of the venue's marquee that weekend, stating that the band played there three nights and the shows were "sol out ic. Inside are three pages of liner notes interspersed with black-and-white photographs of each of the band members and a single page listing the contents of and credits for the release.

Liner notes

The liner notes were written by "Michael J. Sanditen aka Tulsa" and are entitled "Baked in Beantown". In the notes for the 11/30/73 show, Michael tells of how the band was late and "The curtain opened to an empty stage and a room full of jaws dropping to the floor." After a few hours, once the mic stands were in place, bassist Phil Lesh appeared and apologized to the crowd, saying "You see, we thought we were supposed to be here tomorrow night." Their first song, "Morning Dew", was "more or less a sound check." The author writes that there were "no hard feelings over being late" and it "turned out to be a really cool scene". He finishes this first part of the notes by stating that when the band finished he and his friends left and ventured "out into the snowy rain at 2 am." In the notes for the 12/02/73 show, Sanditen writes that "the music was seamless" and the "second set had no break in it." He asserts that "from start to finish this was one fine performance with little if any miscues." In the last paragraph, he writes that for the next 23 years he and his friends traveled the country, "from Telluride to Santa Fe and New York to San Francisco," trying to "once more give ourselves the opportunity of reliving our youth". Tulsa closes his article by writing "We are all linked together by a desire to take a ride like that just one more time."Enclosure included with Dick's Picks Volume 14, 1981, 1999.

Track listing

Disc one

#" (Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew" (

Bonnie Dobson Bonnie Dobson (born November 13, 1940, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)"Bonnie Dobson"< ...

Tim Rose Timothy Alan Patrick Rose (September 23, 1940 – September 24, 2002) (unofficial website by long-term correspondent of Rose's) was an American singer and songwriter who spent much of his life in London, England, and had more success in E ...

) – 14:29 #" Mexicali Blues" ( Bob Weir, John Barlow) – 3:46 #"

Dire Wolf The dire wolf (''Aenocyon dirus'' ) is an extinct canine. It is one of the most famous prehistoric carnivores in North America, along with its extinct competitor ''Smilodon''. The dire wolf lived in the Americas and eastern Asia during the Late ...

" ( Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 5:09 #"Black-Throated Wind" (Weir, Barlow) – 7:01 #"Don't Ease Me In" (traditional) – 4:44 #" Big River" ( Johnny Cash) – 5:30 #"They Love Each Other" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:01 #"

Playing in the Band "Playing in the Band" is a Grateful Dead song. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir composed the music, with some assistance from percussionist Mickey Hart. The song first emerged in embryonic form on the s ...

" (Weir, Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 23:18

Disc two

#"Here Comes Sunshine" (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:54 #"Weather Report Suite" (Weir, Eric Anderson, Barlow) – 14:44 → ::*"Prelude" (Weir) ::*"Part 1" (

Eric Andersen Eric Andersen (born February 14, 1943) is an American folk music singer-songwriter, who has written songs recorded by Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Linda Ronstadt, the Grateful Dead and many others. Early in his career, in the 1960s, ...

, Weir) ::*"Part 2: Let it Grow" (Barlow, Weir) #

"Dark Star Jam" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir, Hunter) – 9:18 → #"Eyes of the World" (Garcia, Hunter) – 19:26 → #" Sugar Magnolia" (Hunter, Weir) – 10:16

Disc three

#"Cold Rain and Snow" (traditional) – 7:21 #"Beat It on Down the Line" (

Jesse Fuller Jesse Fuller (March 12, 1896 – January 29, 1976) was an American one-man band musician, best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues". Early life Fuller was born in Jonesboro, Georgia, near Atlanta. He was sent by his mother to live with ...

) – 3:40 #"Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:48 ::*"The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" (Franklin, Friend) ::*"Beer Barrel Polka" (Brown, Timm, Vejvoda, Zeman) #

"Jack Straw" (Hunter, Weir) – 5:21 #"Ramble on Rose" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:04 #"Weather Report Suite" (Anderson, Barlow, Weir) – 15:54 #"Wharf Rat" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:38 → #"Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:03 →

Disc four

#"Playing in the Band" (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 12:09 → #"Jam" (Grateful Dead) – 15:39 → #"He's Gone" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:27 → #"

Truckin' "Truckin" is a song by the Grateful Dead, which first appeared on their 1970 album '' American Beauty''. It was recognized by the United States Library of Congress in 1997 as a national treasure.''Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip'' . Jake Wo ...

" (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 13:34 → #"Stella Blue" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:15 #"Morning Dew" (Dobson, Rose) – 14:31

Personnel

Grateful Dead: * Jerry Garcia –

lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featu ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

Keith Godchaux Keith Richard Godchaux (July 19, 1948 – July 23, 1980) was a pianist best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1979. Biography Godchaux was born in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in Concord, California ...

– keyboards *

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 ...

– drums * Phil Lesh –

electric bass The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and s ...

, vocals * Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals Production: *Bill Candelario – recording *Dick Latvala – tape archivist *Jeffrey Norman – CD mastering *John Cutler – ferromagnetist *Gecko Graphics – design *Michael J. Sanditen – photography

Recording dates

*November 30 – Discs 1 & 2 *December 2 – Discs 3 & 4

References

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