''Dave's Picks Volume 3'' is a three-CD live album by the rock band the

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. It features the complete concert recorded on October 22, 1971 at the

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, plus bonus tracks from the previous night's show at the same venue. The album was released on August 1, 2012. The two concerts featured on Dave's Picks Volume 3 were keyboardist

Keith Godchaux Keith Richard Godchaux (July 19, 1948 – July 23, 1980) was an American pianist best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1979. Following their departure from the Dead, he and his wife Donna formed the H ...

's second and third performances with the Grateful Dead. At the time,

Ron "Pigpen" McKernan Ronald Charles McKernan (September 8, 1945 – March 8, 1973), known as Pigpen, was an American musician. He was a founding member of the San Francisco Sound, San Francisco band the Grateful Dead and played in the group from 1965 to 1972. ...

was too ill to tour, although he was still a member of the band. Godchaux's first appearance with the Dead occurred on October 19, 1971, at

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. His sixth performance with the Grateful Dead, also from the same tour, has been released as '' Download Series Volume 3''. Just two months prior, the band had played the Auditorium Theater with McKernan, and some of those performances which have been released on ''

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''. ''Dave's Picks Volume 3'' is the third installment in the ''Dave's Picks'' series of Grateful Dead archival releases, which succeeded the ''Road Trips'' series. It was produced as a limited edition of 12,000 copies.

Critical reception

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'', Doug Collette said, "Previous entries in Grateful Dead archive series have documented the quietly courageous, not to mention authoritative, fashion, by which keyboardist Keith Godchaux made a place of himself in the iconic band's lineup late in 1971, having been enlisted when charter member Ron 'Pigpen' McKernan became too ill to tour regularly. But one makethe case so vividly as does this latest entry in ''Dave's Pick's Volume 3''."

Track listing

Disc 1

:''First set:'' #"Bertha" (

Jerry Garcia Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician who was the lead guitarist and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence during the counterculture of the 196 ...

, Robert Hunter) – 6:12 #"

Me and My Uncle "Me and My Uncle", often also written as "Me & My Uncle," is a song composed by John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas, and popularized in versions by Judy Collins and the Grateful Dead. It relates the journey of a narrator and his uncle from s ...

" ( John Phillips) – 3:24 #"Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:33 #"

Jack Straw John Whitaker Straw (born 3 August 1946) is a British politician who served in the Cabinet from 1997 to 2010 under the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He held two of the traditional Great Offices of State, as Home Secretar ...

" (

Bob Weir Robert Hall Weir ( ; né Parber, born October 16, 1947) is an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the group disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with the Other Ones, later known as the Dead ...

, Hunter) – 5:01 #"Loser" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:28 #"

Playing in the Band "Playing in the Band" is a song by the Grateful Dead. 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 th ...

" (Weir,

Mickey Hart Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman, September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 until February 19 ...

, Hunter) – 6:31 #"

Sugaree "Sugaree" is a song with lyrics by long-time Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter and music by guitarist Jerry Garcia. It was written for Jerry Garcia's first solo album '' Garcia'', which was released in January 1972. As with the songs on the r ...

" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:20 #"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, United States. He was sent by his moth ...

) – 3:55 #"Black Peter" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:18 #"Mexicali Blues" (Weir,

John Perry Barlow John Perry Barlow (October 3, 1947February 7, 2018) was an American poet, essayist, cattle rancher, and cyberlibertarian political activist who had been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He was also a lyricist for th ...

) – 3:45 #"Cold Rain and Snow" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:11 #"

Me and Bobby McGee "Me and Bobby McGee" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson and originally performed by Roger Miller. Fred Foster shares the writing credit, as Kristofferson wrote the song based on a suggestion from Foster. A posth ...

" (

Kris Kristofferson Kristoffer Kristofferson (June 22, 1936 – September 28, 2024) was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He was a pioneering figure in the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, moving away from the polished Nashville sound and toward a m ...

Fred Foster Fred Luther Foster (July 26, 1931 – February 20, 2019) was an American record producer, songwriter, and music business executive who founded Monument Records and Combine Music. As a record producer he was most closely associated with Roy Orbi ...

) – 5:57

Disc 2

#"Comes a Time" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:36 #" One More Saturday Night" (Weir) – 4:37 :''Second set:'' #

"Ramble On Rose" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:27 #"Cumberland Blues" (Garcia,

Phil Lesh Philip Chapman Lesh (March 15, 1940 – October 25, 2024) was an American musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he developed a unique style of improvised six-string bass guitar. He was their bassist throughout their 30 ...

, Hunter) – 5:58 #"That's It for the Other One" > – 28:06 #*"Cryptical Envelopment" (Garcia) #*"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 ...

) #*"The Other One" (Weir, Kreutzmann) #*"Cryptical Envelopment" (Garcia) #"Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:33 #"

Sugar Magnolia "Sugar Magnolia" is a song by the Grateful Dead. Written by Robert Hunter and Bob Weir, it is one of the most well-known songs by the band, alongside such hits as " Truckin'", " Casey Jones", " Uncle John's Band", " Touch of Grey", and fellow su ...

" (Weir, Hunter) – 6:53 #"

Casey Jones John Luther "Casey" Jones (March 14, 1864 – April 30, 1900) was an American railroader who was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train in Vaughan, Mississippi. Jones was a locomotive engineer for the Illinois Cen ...

" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:54 #"

Johnny B. Goode "Johnny B. Goode" is a song by American musician Chuck Berry, written and sung by Berry in 1958. Released as a Single (music), single in 1958, it peaked at number two on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Hot R&B Sides chart and number eight on its pre ...

" (

Chuck Berry Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter who pioneered rock and roll. Nicknamed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Father of Rock and Roll", he refined and de ...

) – 3:50

Disc 3

:''Bonus tracks – October 21, 1971, Auditorium Theatre'': #"

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 W ...

" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 11:11 #"Big Railroad Blues" ( Noah Lewis) – 3:27 #" The Frozen Logger" ( James Stevens) – 0:54 #" Dark Star" > (Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh,

, Weir, Hunter) – 14:57 #" Sittin' on Top of the World" > ( Walter Jacobs, Lonnie Carter) – 3:21 #"Dark Star" > (Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir, Hunter) – 2:12 #"Me and Bobby McGee" (Kristofferson, Foster) – 6:16 #"Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:23 #" St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 5:54 #"Johnny B. Goode" (Berry) – 4:14

Personnel

Grateful Dead

– lead guitar, vocals *

– keyboards *

– drums *

– electric bass, vocals *

– rhythm guitar, vocals

Production

*Produced by Grateful Dead *Produced for release by David Lemieux *CD mastering by Jeffrey Norman *Recorded by Rex Jackson *Executive producer: Mark Pincus *Associate producer: Doran Tyson *Archival research: Nicholas Meriwether *Tape research: Michael Wesley Johnson *Cover art: Scott McDougall *Photography: Chip Williams *Art direction and design: Steve Vance

References

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