''Dick's Picks Volume 2'' is the second live album in the

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of releases by the

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. It was recorded on

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night in 1971 at the

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. The album consists of the second set of the concert. It was released in March 1995, the last Grateful Dead album to be released before the death of Jerry Garcia. ''Dick's Picks Volume 2'' is the only one of the Dick's Picks that is a single CD. The other albums in the series have either two, three, or four CDs, except for ''

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'', which contains six CDs.

Set list

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", "

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 ...

", "Deal", "

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", "Loser", "

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", "Tennessee Jed", "Jack Straw", "Big Railroad Blues", "Brown Eyed Women", " Mexicali Blues", "Casey Jones", "Cumberland Blues", " One More Saturday Night" 2: "Dark Star"* > "Jam"* > "Sugar Magnolia"*, "St. Stephen"*, "Not Fade Away"* > "Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad"* > "Not Fade Away" reprise* E: "

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" Note:

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were the

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. * appears on ''Dick's Picks Volume 2''

The jam

The jam that appears on the set list after " Dark Star" is generally referred to as "Tighten Up Jam" by collectors due to its similarities to the

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tune " Tighten Up". The Grateful Dead would jam on the theme only a handful of times, mostly from 1969 until 1971. Also notably rare is a "

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" tease on the way back into playing " Not Fade Away" from "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad". The Grateful Dead were known for teasing bits of songs, often they would play a song they teased at a different show.

Caveat emptor

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" label, advising the listener of the sound quality of the recording. The label for ''Volume 2'' reads: "This compact disc has been digitally remastered directly from the original quarter track 7½ ips analog tape. 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

# " Dark Star" → ( Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann,

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, McKernan,

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)
"Jam" → – 23:14 # "

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" → (Weir, Hunter) – 6:33 # "

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" (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 7:10 # " Not Fade Away" → (

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, Hardin) – 7:25 # "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" → (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 10:38 # "Not Fade Away" (Petty, Hardin) – 3:19

Personnel

Grateful Dead *

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–

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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 ...

–

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Phil Lesh Philip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940) is an American musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career. After the band's disbanding in 1995, Lesh continued the tradition of ...

–

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, vocals *

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, ...

–

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, vocals Production * Rex Jackson – 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 * Gecko Graphics – design

Notes and references

External links

First set of concert
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