Dick's Picks Volume 7

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Dick's Picks Volume 7
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Live album by
Grateful Dead
ReleasedMarch 4, 1997
RecordedSeptember 9–11, 1974
Genre Rock, jam, psychedelic rock
Length212:57
Label Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology
Selections from the Arista Years
(1997)		Dick's Picks Volume 7
(1997)		 Fallout from the Phil Zone
(1997)
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Dick's Picks Volume 7 is the seventh live album in the Dick's Picks series of releases by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded on September 9, 10, and 11, 1974 at Alexandra Palace in London, England. It was released in March 1997.

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 contains a drawing of a dragon eating its tail against a background of clouds that merge with the clouds on the cover.

The two pages inside contain a wide black-and-white drawing of the venue by Alfred Meeson. Above this drawing, in the clouds, are lists of the contents of and credits for the release. [4]

Track listing

Disc one
September 9, 1974: [a]
  1. "Scarlet Begonias" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 9:29
  2. "Mexicali Blues" (Bob Weir, John Perry Barlow) – 3:36
  3. "Row Jimmy" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:21
September 10, 1974 – set I:
  2. "Black-Throated Wind" (Weir, Barlow) – 7:20
  3. "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:48
September 11, 1974 – set I:
  2. "Beat It On Down the Line" (Jesse Fuller) – 3:30
  3. "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:59
  4. "Playing in the Band" (Weir, Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 23:30
Disc two
September 10, 1974 – set I:
  1. "Weather Report Suite" (Weir, Eric Andersen, Barlow) – 18:18 →
  2. "Stella Blue" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:32
September 11, 1974 – set I:
  2. "Jack Straw" (Weir, Hunter) – 5:19
  3. "Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:07
September 11, 1974 – set II:
  2. "Big River" (Johnny Cash) – 5:14
September 9, 1974:
  2. "Truckin'" (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 10:31 →
  3. "Wood Green Jam" (Garcia, Keith Godchaux, Bill Kreutzmann, Lesh, Weir) – 5:56 →
  4. "Wharf Rat" (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:13
Disc three
September 10, 1974 – set II:
  1. "Me & My Uncle" (John Phillips) – 3:30
  2. "Not Fade Away" (Charles Hardin, Norman Petty) – 16:27
  3. "Dark Star" (Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Weir, Hunter) – 24:08 →
  4. "Spam Jam" (Garcia, K. Godchaux, Kreutzmann, Lesh, Weir) – 7:13 →
  5. "Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) – 13:15
  6. "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:41

Personnel

Grateful Dead

Production

Notes

  1. ↑ One-set show due to late start [5]

References

  1. ↑ Ruhlman, William. "Dick's Picks, Vol. 7: Alexandra Palace, London, England 9/9-9/11/74". AllMusic. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  2. ↑ Metzger, John (June 1997). Dick's Picks Volume 7, 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 7, 1997.
  5. ↑ "Alexandria Palace – September 9, 1974". dead.net. Retrieved June 20, 2026.
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