Dave's Picks Volume 18

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Dave's Picks Volume 18
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Live album by
ReleasedMay 1, 2016
RecordedJuly 17, 1976
Venue Orpheum Theatre,
San Francisco
Genre Rock
Length207:05
(bonus disc 69:25)
Label Rhino
Producer Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology
Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 4/25/77
(2016)
Dave's Picks Volume 18
(2016)
Red Rocks: 7/8/78
(2016)
Alternative cover
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Dave's Picks 2016 Bonus Disc

Dave's Picks Volume 18 is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded on July 17, 1976 at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco, California. It was produced as a limited edition of 16,500 copies, and released on May 1, 2016. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Contents

The album also includes seven songs recorded live at the same venue the previous night. A bonus disc, included with shipments of the album to 2016 Dave's Picks subscribers, contains eight more songs from the July 16 concert.

Recording

In July 1976 the Grateful Dead played a six-show, seven-night concert run at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco. The shows were promoted by Bill Graham. The final show of the run, on Sunday, July 18, was broadcast by KSAN radio. Each audience member was provided with a glass of champagne, used for a surprise toast to the band at the beginning of the concert. [5]

At the July 17 concert, vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux was absent from the second set. [5]

Track listing

Disc 1
First set:
  1. "Promised Land" (Chuck Berry) – 4:37
  2. "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 9:42
  3. "Mama Tried" (Merle Haggard) – 3:04
  4. "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:03
  5. "New Minglewood Blues" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 4:58
  6. "Peggy-O" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 9:14
  7. "Big River" (Johnny Cash) – 6:23
  8. "Sugaree" (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:30
  9. "Johnny B. Goode" (Berry) – 4:24
Second set:
  1. "Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:41
Disc 2
  1. "Comes a Time" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 16:00
  2. "Drums" > (Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann) – 1:39
  3. "The Other One" > (Bob Weir, Kreutzmann) – 5:46
  4. "Space" > (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Weir) – 10:00
  5. "Eyes of the World" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:37
  6. "Jam" > (Grateful Dead) – 7:21
  7. "The Other One" > (Weir, Kreutzmann) – 3:36
  8. "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" > (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:10
  9. "One More Saturday Night" (Weir) – 6:12
First encore:
  1. "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:16
Disc 3
Second encore:
  1. "Not Fade Away" (Norman Petty, Charles Hardin) – 14:26
Selections from July 16, 1976:
  1. "Big River" (Cash) – 7:02
  2. "Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:50
  3. "Looks Like Rain" (Weir, John Barlow) – 7:35
  4. "Peggy-O" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 9:19
  5. "The Music Never Stopped" > (Weir, Barlow) – 5:53
  6. "Scarlet Begonias" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:56
  7. "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:33
Dave's Picks 2016 Bonus Disc
Selections from July 16, 1976:
  1. "Playing in the Band" > (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 15:54
  2. "Cosmic Charlie" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:03
  3. "Spanish Jam" > (Grateful Dead) – 9:08
  4. "Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 3:53
  5. "The Wheel" > (Garcia, Hunter, Kreutzmann) – 6:35
  6. "Playing in the Band" (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 5:51
  7. "High Time" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:13
  8. "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 9:50

Notes

First set: "Cold Rain and Snow" · "Cassidy" · "Deal" · "Mama Tried" · "Row Jimmy" · "Big River"[A] · "Brown Eyed Women"[A] · "Looks Like Rain"[A] · "Peggy-O"[A] · "The Music Never Stopped"[A] · "Scarlet Begonias"[A]
Second set: "Playing in the Band"[B] · "Cosmic Charlie"[B] · "Samson and Delilah" · "Spanish Jam"[B] · "Drums"[B] · "The Wheel"[B] · "Playing in the Band"[B] · "Around and Around" · "High Time"[B] · "Sugar Magnolia"[B]
Encore: "U.S. Blues"[A]
[A] Included on disc 3
[B] Included on bonus disc

Personnel

Grateful Dead
Production

Charts

Chart (2016)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [10] 38

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