Dick's Picks Volume 30

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Dick's Picks Volume 30
Live album by Grateful Dead
Released	October, 2003
Recorded	March, 1972
Genre	Country rock Folk-rock Psychedelic rock Jam
Label	Grateful Dead Records
Grateful Dead chronology
Dick's Picks Volume 29 (2003)	Dick's Picks Volume 30 (2003)	The Very Best of the Grateful Dead (2003)

Dick's Picks Volume 30 is the thirtieth installment of the Grateful Dead's archival series. Just prior to their famous Europe '72 tour, the Dead played a seven show run at the New York Academy of Music in Brooklyn. Included in this four CD set are some performances from March 25, March 27 and March 28. The March 25 show featured Bo Diddley as a guest, whose perfomance is included in disc one. Other rarities contained in this volume are the only Grateful Dead live performance of "How Sweet It is (To be Loved by You)", Donna Godchaux's version of "Are You Lonely For Me Baby?" and an instrumental encore of "Sidewalks of New York".

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Disc One 1.2 Disc Two 1.3 Disc Three 1.4 Disc Four 2 Recording dates 3 Personnel 3.1 Grateful Dead 3.2 Additional musician 3.3 Production

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc One

1. "Bo Diddley" (Bo Diddley) – 4:10
2. "I'm a Man (Mannish Boy)" (Diddley) – 6:00
3. "I've Seen Them All" (Diddley) – 7:43
4. "Jam" (Diddley, Grateful Dead) – 9:59
5. "Mona" (Diddley) – 3:34
6. "How Sweet It is (To be Loved by You)" (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland) – 7:56
7. "Are You Lonely For Me Baby?" (Bert Berns) – 7:37
8. "Smokestack Lightnin'" (Howlin' Wolf) – 13:11
9. "Playing in the Band" (Robert Hunter, Mickey Hart, Bob Weir) – 11:10

[edit] Disc Two

1. "Truckin'" (Hunter, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Weir) – 9:49
2. "Tennessee Jed" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:45
3. "Chinatown Shuffle" (Pigpen) – 3:10
4. "Black-Throated Wind" (John Barlow, Weir) – 6:48
5. "You Win Again" (Hank Williams) – 5:09
6. "Mr. Charlie" (Hunter, Pigpen) – 5:02
7. "Mexical Blues" (Barlow, Weir) – 4:37
8. "Brokedown Palace" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:13
9. "Next Time You See Me" (Frank Forest, William G. Harvey) – 4:52
10. "Cumberland Blues" (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh) – 6:09

[edit] Disc Three

1. "Looks Like Rain" (Barlow, Weir) – 8:06
2. "Big Railroad Blues" (Noah Lewis) – 4:09
3. "El Paso" (Marty Robbins) – 5:25
4. "China Cat Sunflower" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:05
5. "I Know You Rider" (traditional, arr. Grateful Dead) – 6:27
6. "Casey Jones" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:43
7. "Playing in the Band" (Hunter, Hart, Weir) – 13:56
8. "Sugaree" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:36
9. "The Stranger (Two Souls in Communion)" (Pigpen) – 8:58

[edit] Disc Four

1. "Sugar Magnolia / Sunshine Daydream" (Hunter, Weir) – 6:55
2. "The Other One" (Bill Kreutzman, Weir) – 28:16
3. "It Hurts Me Too" (Elmore James, Marshall Sehorn) – 9:23
4. "Not Fade Away" (Buddy Holly, Norman Petty) – 5:26
5. "Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 8:20
6. "Not Fade Away" (Holly, Petty) – 3:35
7. "Sidewalks of New York" (James W. Blake, Charles B. Lawlor) – 1:10
8. "One More Saturday Night" (Weir) – 4:43

[edit] Recording dates

• March 25 – Disc 1 tracks 1-8
• March 27 – Disc 1 track 9
• March 28 – Discs 2-4

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Grateful Dead

• Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
• Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
• Phil Lesh – electric bass, vocals
• Pigpen – harmonica, organ, percussion, vocals
• Donna Godchaux – vocals
• Keith Godchaux – piano
• Bill Kreutzman – drums

[edit] Additional musician

• Bo Diddley – guitar, vocals on disc 1 tracks 1-5

[edit] Production

• Recording – Betty Cantor-Jackson
• CD mastering – Jeffrey Norman
• Tape archivist – David Lemieux
• Archival research – Eileen Law
• Cover art, package design & photography – Robert Minkin