''Dick's Picks Volume 5'' is the fifth

live album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th centur ...

in the ''Dick's Picks'' series of releases by the

Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead was an American rock music, rock band formed in Palo Alto, California, in 1965. Known for their eclectic style that fused elements of rock, blues, jazz, Folk music, folk, country music, country, bluegrass music, bluegrass, roc ...

. It was recorded on December 26, 1979, at the Oakland Auditorium Arena in

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. It was released in May 1996. This concert was a benefit for the

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, an organization started by

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and Wavy Gravy.

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 ...

still sits on the advisory board today. ''Volume 5'' was the first of the ''Dick's Picks'' to contain a complete concert. It was also the first release of a full concert to feature

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Brent Mydland Brent Mydland (October 21, 1952 – July 26, 1990) was an American keyboardist, songwriter and singer. He was a member of the rock band The Grateful Dead from 1979 until his death in 1990, a longer tenure than any other keyboardist in the ...

. Another Grateful Dead album that was recorded at the December 1979 run of concerts at the Oakland Auditorium is '' Road Trips Volume 3 Number 1''.

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 showing the entire scene: two skeletons on top of the stage, the sound system and lights above the band, the band on stage, and finally, at the bottom of the image, a portion of the crowd watching them. The two pages inside feature a black-and-white photograph of the band on stage along with lists of the contents of and credits for the release.Enclosure included with Dick's Picks Volume 5, 1996.

Caveat Emptor

Each volume of ''Dick's Picks'' has its own "

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" label, advising the listener of the sound quality of the recording. The label for ''Volume 5'' reads: "This compact disc has been digitally remastered directly from the original half track stereo 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

Disc one :''First set:'' #"Cold Rain and Snow" (Traditional, arr. Grateful Dead) – 6:44 #"C.C. Rider" ( Ma Rainey, Lena Arant) – 6:43 #"

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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) – 3:58 #" Me and My Uncle" ( John Phillips) – 2:59 → #" Big River" (

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) – 5:59 #"Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:20 #"New Minglewood Blues" ( Noah Lewis) – 7:41 #" Friend of the Devil" (Garcia, John Dawson, Hunter) – 9:37 #"Looks Like Rain" (

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) – 8:14 #"Alabama Getaway" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:58 → #"

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" (

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 ...

) – 4:26 Disc two :''Second set:'' #" Uncle John's Band" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:14 → #"Estimated Prophet" (Weir, Barlow) – 14:11 → #"Jam" (Garcia,

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 ...

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 ...

, Phil Lesh,

, Weir) – 6:01 → #"He's Gone" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:03 → #"The Other One" (Weir, Kreutzmann) – 8:38 → #"Drums" (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 6:03 → Disc three #"Drums" (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 4:22 → #"Jam" (Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, Mydland, Weir) – 6:03 → #" Not Fade Away" ( Charles Hardin,

Norman Petty Norman Petty (May 25, 1927 – August 15, 1984) was an American musician, record producer, publisher, and radio station owner. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of early rock & roll. With Vi Ann Petty—his wife and vocalist—he ...

) – 11:52 → #"Brokedown Palace" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:49 → #" Around and Around" (Berry) – 3:57 → #"

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" (Berry) – 4:28 :''Encore:'' #

" Shakedown Street" (Garcia, Hunter) – 13:52 → #" Uncle John's Band" (Garcia, Hunter) – 2:54

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 ...

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 ...

- drums * Phil Lesh -

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 ...

- keyboards, vocals *

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

, vocals Production * Betty Cantor-Jackson - recording * Dick Latvala - tape archivist *Jeffrey Norman - CD mastering *Jay Blakesberg - photo *Gecko Graphics - design

References

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