THE GRATEFUL DEAD Dick’s Picks Vol. 3 SEALED limited edition 180 Gram 4LP
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THE GRATEFUL DEAD Dick’s Picks Vol. 3 Pembroke Pines, FL 5/22/77 hails from 2024 and is a SEALED limited edition and hand numbered 180 Gram 4LP set. Grateful Dead archivist Dick Latvala considered this show to be the finest outing on the entire Spring 1977 tour, and, as any Dead Head knows, that is high praise indeed! At the time this was released on CD, the Dead weren’t sure a market existed (ha!) for three and four-CD packages, so this four-LP set leaves off eight songs from the show, but consider what songs are here: a phenomenal “Help on the Way”/”Slipknot!”/”Franklin’s Tower” comes after one of the definitive renditions of “Sugaree” and a terrific “The Music Never Stopped,” with the late, great Phil Lesh’s slithering bass leading the way in recording engineer’s Betty Cantor-Jackson’s mix. But sides E, F & G offer one of those sublime (and, in this case, never to be repeated) sequences of songs that only the Dead could pull off in concert; after the rarely-performed “Sunrise,” a medley of “Estimated Prophet”/”Eyes of the World”/”Wharf Rat”/”Terrapin Station” (a truncated version two months before its official release)/”Morning Dew” brings the show home, as Jerry Garcia’s soloing on “Morning Dew” reaches heights seldom attained even by him. This was a knockout release on its first very limited vinyl run (check out those resale prices), and we’ve improved on it with a fresh mastering job by Jeffrey Norman (in his own words, “the sound is better than the original heard on the Brookvale release”), and lacquer cutting by Clint Holley and Dave Polster at Well Made Music. Pressed on 180-gram black vinyl at the plant we’ve been using to great acclaim for all of our Grateful Dead releases, Gotta Groove Records, and limited to 2000 hand-numbered copies!
LP ONE
SIDE A
Funiculi Funicula
The Music Never Stopped
Sugaree
SIDE B
Lazy Lightning
Supplication
Dancin’ in the Streets
LP TWO
SIDE C
Help On The Way
Slipknot!
SIDE D
Franklin’s Tower
LP THREE
SIDE E
Samson and Delilah
Sunrise
Estimated Prophet
SIDE F
Eyes of the World
Wharf Rat
LP FOUR
SIDE G
Terrapin Station
(Walk Me Out In The) Morning Dew
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