''Dick's Picks Volume 6'' is the sixth
live album in the
Dick's Picks series of releases by the
Grateful Dead. It was recorded on October 14, 1983, at the
Hartford Civic Center in
Hartford, Connecticut. The album, on three CDs, contains the complete show from that night. It was released in October, 1996.
This show was the first Grateful Dead concert that
Phish guitarist
Trey Anastasio
Ernest Joseph "Trey" Anastasio III (born September 30, 1964) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Phish, which he co-founded in 1983. He is credited by name as composer of 152 Phish o ...
attended. Mike Gordon, Phish's bassist, attended separately. The album was the first to include the song "Keep Your Day Job".
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Enclosure
Included with the release is a single sheet folded in half, yielding a four-page enclosure. The front duplicates the cover of the CD and the back contains a black-and-white photograph of a ticket stub for the event. The two pages inside contain a wide black-and-white photograph of the band and list the contents of and credits for the release[Enclosure included with Dick's Picks Volume 6, 1996.]
Caveat emptor
Each volume of ''Dick's Picks'' has its own " caveat emptor" label, advising the listener of the sound quality of the recording. The label for ''Dick's Picks Volume 6'' reads:
"This compact disc has been digitally remastered directly from the original metal cassette. It is a snapshot of history, not a modern professional recording, and may therefore exhibit some technical anomalies and the unavoidable effects of the ravages of time."
Track listing
Disc one
:''First set:''
#"Alabama Getaway" → ( Garcia, Hunter) – 6:06
#"Greatest Story Ever Told" (Hart
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, Hunter, Weir
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) – 4:52
#"They Love Each Other" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:10
#" Mama Tried" ( Haggard) – 2:48
#" Big River" (Cash
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) – 6:31
#"Althea" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:49
#" C.C. Rider" (traditional) – 8:01
#"Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:33
#"Hell in a Bucket" → ( Barlow, Weir) – 5:53
#"Keep Your Day Job" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:57
Disc two
:''Second set:''
#" Scarlet Begonias" → (Garcia, Hunter) – 14:20
#" Fire on the Mountain" (Hart, Hunter) – 16:36
#"Estimated Prophet" → (Barlow, Weir) – 13:11
#"Eyes of the World" → (Garcia, Hunter) – 17:53
Disc three
#"Drums" → (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 5:25
#"Spinach Jam" → (Grateful Dead) – 13:05
#"The Other One" → (Kreutzmann, Weir) – 6:09
#"Stella Blue" → (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:10
#" Sugar Magnolia" (Hunter, Weir) – 9:26
:''Encore:''
#"U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:40
Personnel
Grateful Dead
* Jerry Garcia – lead guitar
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, vocals
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* Mickey Hart – 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 ...
– drums
* Phil Lesh – electric bass
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, vocals
*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 ...
– keyboards, vocals
* Bob Weir – guitar, 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
*Michael Conway – photography
*Gecko Graphics – design
Notes
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1996 live albums