Dave's Picks Volume 8

Dave's Picks Volume 8
Live album by Grateful Dead
Released	November 1, 2013
Recorded	November 30, 1980, Fox Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Genre	Rock
Length	188:03
Label	Rhino
Producer	Grateful Dead
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Dave's Picks Volume 8 is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert from November 30, 1980, at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. It was produced as a limited edition of 13,000 numbered copies, and was released on November 1, 2013.^[1][2]

This album is the first official Grateful Dead matrix recording, which digitally combines the soundboard audio with an audience recording of the concert.^[3] It is also the first of the Dave's Picks series of albums to feature Brent Mydland on keyboards.

The album liner notes were written by Nick Paumgarten.^[4] In a November 2012 article in The New Yorker about the vast recorded legacy of the Grateful Dead, Paumgarten had written about an audience recording of this concert.^[5]

Track listing

Disc 1

First set:

1. "Feel Like a Stranger" (Bob Weir, John Perry Barlow) – 9:19
2. "Loser" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 8:17
3. "Cassidy" (Weir, Barlow) – 5:14
4. "Ramble On Rose" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:55
5. "Little Red Rooster" (Willie Dixon) – 9:33
6. "Bird Song" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:22
7. "Me and My Uncle" > (John Phillips) – 2:59
8. "Big River" (Johnny Cash) – 5:55
9. "It Must Have Been the Roses" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:13

Disc 2

1. "Lost Sailor" > (Weir, Barlow) – 6:34
2. "Saint of Circumstance" (Weir, Barlow) – 6:31
3. "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:03

Second set:

4. "Scarlet Begonias" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:44
5. "Fire on the Mountain" (Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 10:50
6. "Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arranged by Weir) – 7:40
7. "Ship of Fools" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:49

Disc 3

1. "Playing in the Band" > (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 15:53
2. "Drums" > (Hart, Bill Kreutzmann) – 11:25
3. "Space" > (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Weir) – 4:23
4. "The Wheel" > (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hunter) – 6:49
5. "China Doll" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:50
6. "Around and Around" > (Chuck Berry) – 4:01
7. "Johnny B. Goode" (Berry) – 4:49

Encore:

8. "Uncle John's Band" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:46

Personnel

Grateful Dead

• Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
• Mickey Hart – drums
• Bill Kreutzmann – drums
• Phil Lesh – electric bass
• Brent Mydland – keyboards, vocals
• Bob Weir – guitar, vocals

Production

• Produced by Grateful Dead
• Produced for release by David Lemieux
• Executive producer: Mark Pinkus
• Associate producers: Doran Tyson, Ryan Wilson
• Mastering: Jeffrey Norman
• Recording: Dan Healy
• Additional recording: Bob Wagner
• Art direction, design: Steve Vance
• Cover art: Timothy Truman
• Tape research: Michael Wesley Johnson
• Archival research: Nicholas Meriwether
• Photography: Jay Blakesberg
• Liner notes essay "The Fox's Den" by Nick Paumgarten

References