''Dick's Picks Volume 14'' is the 14th

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in the

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of releases by the

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. It was recorded on November 30 and December 2, 1973, at

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. ''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 Richard Allan 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 ...

. As on ''

Dick's Picks Volume 1 ''Dick's Picks Volume 1'' is the first live album, album in the ''Dick's Picks'' series of live releases by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded on December 19, 1973, at Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa, Florida, and contains a rare recording of the ba ...

'',

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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, in Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)"Bo ...

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 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 ...

, John Barlow) – 3:46 #"

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" (

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) – 5:09 #"Black-Throated Wind" (Weir, Barlow) – 7:01 #"Don't Ease Me In" (traditional) – 4:44 #" Big River" (

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) – 5:30 #"They Love Each Other" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:01 #"

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) – 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, Rick Nelson, and many others. Early in his career, ...

, 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 "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 ...

" (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, United States. He was sent by his moth ...

) – 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 W ...

" (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 ...

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

Personnel

Grateful Dead: *

–

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 featur ...

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

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 ...

– 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 The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

–

electric bass The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an electric but with a longer neck and scale leng ...

, vocals *

–

rhythm guitar In music performances, rhythm guitar is a guitar technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse (music), pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., d ...

, 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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