Englishtown, New Jersey
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The Marshall Tucker Band
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.
Comparisons to unofficial releases reveal that there is an edit to the song "He's Gone," removing a mistake by Garcia where he repeated the song's chorus rather than singing the bridge.
This was the first Dick's Picks released after the death of
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 ...
for whom the series is named. The liner notes include a picture of Latvala with the following message:
This is the first Dick's Picks to use the High Definition Compatible Digital (
HDCD
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) CD format.
Enclosure and review
The release includes two pieces of paper stapled together in the middle, yielding an eight-page enclosure. The front duplicates the cover of the CD and the back contains a circular drawing of a grey
cyclopes
In Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, the Cyclopes ( ; el, Κύκλωπες, ''Kýklōpes'', "Circle-eyes" or "Round-eyes"; singular Cyclops ; , ''Kýklōps'') are giant one-eyed creatures. Three groups of Cyclopes can be distinguish ...
skull with a single crossbone backed by blue sky with some clouds.
Inside, the first page on the left features a color photograph of the band on stage, and the page on the right lists the contents of and credits for the release. The two pages in the middle contain a two-page review of the show, and the last two pages contain a small photograph of
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 ...
and a large photo, from high up and behind the stage, of the crowd at the show. The "People of Earth" message mentioned previously appears on the bottom of the left side of these two pages, under the photo of Dick.
Review by Martha Megill
The titles of the review are "Concert Attendance Takes Planning", in fine print, above "Grateful Dead Fan Is Happy, Satisfied" in bold typeface. The review is an account of the show from the Asbury Park Press, dated 9/6/77 and written in the first person by Martha Megill.
The review is very personal and starts by describing Megill's three-mile walk from where she and her friends parked to the concert area. After describing a few ways she and her friends found to mitigate the hot weather, the author briefly mentions being barely able to hear the shows by the backup bands, the New Riders of the Purple Sage and
The Marshall Tucker Band
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.
About two-thirds of the way through the article Martha mentions that "by 6 p.m. the air had cooled slightly," and it was finally "time for the Dead." Although the first song "proved to be no louder than the previous music," she writes that "the sound improved gradually" and "by the last set the sound was great."
Megill claims that their song "Truckin' ", the last song before the encore, was "the highlight of the entire day" and that the "One hundred thousand people n attendancewere ecstatic." She then ends the article by stating that she agrees "wholeheartedly with the many bumper stickers I saw. 'There Ain't Nothin' Like a Grateful Dead Concert'." She closes her review by asserting that everyone there heard "some excellent music" and had "a real good time."Enclosure included with Dick's Picks Volume 15, 1977, 1999.
Track listing
Disc one
:''First set:''
#"Introduction" (Scher) – 0:41
#"
Promised Land
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Chuck Berry
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" (traditional) – 9:18
#"New Minglewood Blues" (
Noah Lewis
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) – 5:20
#" Friend of the Devil" (Garcia, John Dawson, Hunter) – 8:13
#"The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, Barlow) – 7:03
Disc two
:''Second set:''
#"Bertha" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:35 →
#"
Good Lovin'
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Original version
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Rudy Clark
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, Arthur Resnick) – 6:00
#"Loser" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:37
#"Estimated Prophet" (Barlow, Weir) – 9:29 →
#"Eyes of the World" (Garcia, Hunter) – 13:17
#"
Samson and Delilah
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figures.
Samson and Delilah may also refer to:
In music
* ''Samson and Delilah'' (opera), an opera by Camille Saint-Saëns
* ''Samson & Delilah'' (album), released in 2013 by V V Brown
* "Samson and Delilah" (t ...
Truckin'
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" (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 10:05
:''Encore:''
#
"Terrapin Station" (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:02
Personnel
Grateful Dead:
* Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals
*
Bill Kreutzmann
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Donna Jean Godchaux
Donna Jean Thatcher Godchaux-MacKay (born August 22, 1947) is an American singer who was a member of the Grateful Dead from 1972 until 1979.
Biography
Donna Jean Thatcher was born in Florence, Alabama. Prior to 1970, she had worked as a sessi ...
– vocals
*
Keith Godchaux
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Biography
Godchaux was born in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in Concord, California ...
– keyboards
Production:
*
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
*Gecko Graphics – design
*
Betty Cantor-Jackson
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– recording
*Jeffrey Norman – CD mastering
*John Cutler – magnetic scrutinizer
*Jim Anderson, John Oliver – photography
*Martha Megill – liner notes; from Asbury Park Press September 6, 1977.