Grateful Dead Dick S Picks Vol. 33 10/9 & 10/10/76 Vinyl Record (box set)

Trying to decide which Grateful Dead concert to reissue on vinyl is kind of like ordering from the menu of a three-star restaurant: no matter what you pick, it’s not just going to be good, it’s also going to be unique and memorable. Faced with such an embarrassment of riches, and trying to remain true to our vision of hitting a different year with each release, we decided to do what any sensible Dead Head would do: go BIG. Hence, our 8-LP release of Dick’s Picks Vol. 33! Fresh from a year-and-a-half touring hiatus, and back to full, two-drummer strength, the Dead opened for The Who as part of Bill Graham’s historic Day on the Green concerts in 1976. This Pick captures both dates in their entirety, and features one of the most monumental medleys (and that’s sayin’ something!) in band history with a 60-minute, 10-song journey through “St. Stephen”/”Not Fade Away”/”St. Stephen”/”Help on the Way”/”Slipknot!”/”Drums”/”Samson and Delilah”/”Slipknot!”/”Franklin’s Tower”/”One More Saturday Night” on the first day. Day two offers excellent takes on two solo Garcia favorites, “Might as Well” and “The Wheel,” that were new to the concert repertoire and a particularly fine “Ramble on Rose” among other highlights. Bill Graham had honored the Dead by selecting them to close the year’s stellar series of Day on the Green concerts, and that—perhaps coupled with the presence of formidable co-headliners The Who—sparked some of the band’s finest performances of the period.

Tracklist

• Promised Land
• Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
• Cassidy
• Tennessee Jed
• Looks Like Rain
• They Love Each Other
• New Minglewood Blues
• Scarlet Begonias
• Lazy Lightnin'
• Supplication
• Sugaree
• St. Stephen
• Not Fade Away
• St. Stephen
• Help On The Way
• Slipknot!
• Drums
• Samson And Delilah
• Slipknot!
• Franklin's Tower
• One More Saturday Night
• U.S. Blues
• Might As Well
• Mama Tried
• Ramble On Rose
• Cassidy
• Deal
• El Paso
• Loser
• Promised Land
• Friend Of The Devil
• Dancing In The Streets
• Wharf Rat
• Dancing In The Streets
• Samson And Delilah
• Brown-Eyed Woman
• Playing In The Band
• Drums
• The Wheel
• Space
• The Other One
• Stella Blue
• Playing In The Band
• Sugar Magnolia
• Johnny B. Goode

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