Dick's Picks Volume 17

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Dick's Picks Volume 17
Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks Volume 17.jpg
Live album by
ReleasedApril 2000
RecordedSeptember 25, 1991
March 31, 1991
Venue Boston Garden
Genre Rock, jam
Length194:11
Label Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology
Dick's Picks Volume 16
(2000)
Dick's Picks Volume 17
(2000)
Dick's Picks Volume 18
(2000)
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Dick's Picks Volume 17 is the 17th live album in the Dick's Picks series of releases by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded on September 25, 1991 at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, with two additional tracks from the March 31, 1991 show at Greensboro.

Contents

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 features a rectangular color photograph of the inside of the venue with the house lights on, after the sound system has been set up but before the audience has arrived. The two pages inside contain a single wide color photograph of the band on stage along with the contents of and credits for the release. [4]

Track listing

Disc one
Set one:

  1. "Help on the Way" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:15 →
  2. "Slipknot!" (Garcia, Godchaux, Kreutzmann, Lesh, Weir) – 5:30 →
  3. "Franklin's Tower" (Garcia, Hunter, Kreutzmann) – 10:41
  4. "Walkin' Blues" (House) – 6:30
  5. "It Must Have Been the Roses" (Hunter) – 5:45 →
  6. "Dire Wolf" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:59
  7. "Queen Jane Approximately" (Dylan) – 7:16
  8. "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:50 →
  9. "The Music Never Stopped" (Barlow, Weir) – 8:18

Disc two
Set two:

  1. "Victim or the Crime" (Graham, Weir) – 8:24 →
  2. "Crazy Fingers" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:38 →
  3. "Playing in the Band" (Hart, Hunter, Weir) – 9:22 →
  4. "Terrapin Station" (Garcia, Hunter) – 12:47 →
  5. "Boston Clam Jam" (Grateful Dead) – 5:37 →
  6. "Drums" (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 11:04 →
  7. "Space" (Grateful Dead) – 8:15 →

Disc three
Set two, continued:

  1. "That Would Be Something" (McCartney) – 3:51 →
  2. "Playing in the Band" (Hart, Hunter, Weir) – 5:23 →
  3. "China Doll" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:46 →
  4. "Throwing Stones" (Barlow, Weir) – 8:59 →
  5. "Not Fade Away" (Holly, Petty) – 9:01

Encore:

  1. "The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)" (Dylan) – 4:43

March 31, 1991 — Set two:

  1. "Samson and Delilah" (traditional) – 7:47 →
  2. "Eyes of the World" (Garcia, Hunter) – 23:30

Personnel

Grateful Dead:

Production:

See also

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References

  1. Ruhlman, William. "Dick's Picks, Vol. 17: Boston Garden 9/25/91". AllMusic. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
  2. Metzger, John (July 2000). Dick's Picks Volume 17, The Music Box
  3. The Grateful Dead Album Guide Archived 2013-12-28 at the Wayback Machine , Rolling Stone
  4. Enclosure included with Dick's Picks Volume 17, 1991, 2000.