| Dick's Picks Volume 2 | ||||
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| Released | March 1995 | |||
| Recorded | October 31, 1971 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 58:19 | |||
| Label | Grateful Dead | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| The Music Box | [2] |
| Rolling Stone | [3][4] |
| Entertainment Weekly | A−[5] |
Dick's Picks Volume 2 is the secondlive album in theDick's Picks series of releases by theGrateful Dead. It was recorded onHalloween night in 1971 at theOhio Theatre inColumbus, Ohio. The album consists of the second set of the concert. It was released in March 1995, the last Grateful Dead album to be released before the death of Jerry Garcia.
Dick's Picks Volume 2 is the only one of the Dick's Picks that is a single CD. The other albums in the series have either two, three, or four CDs, except forDick's Picks Volume 29, which contains six CDs.
The complete concert set list for the 10/31/71 show at the Ohio Theatre was:[6]
1: "Bertha", "Me and My Uncle", "Deal", "Playing in the Band", "Loser", "El Paso", "Tennessee Jed", "Jack Straw", "Big Railroad Blues", "Brown Eyed Women", "Mexicali Blues", "Casey Jones", "Cumberland Blues", "One More Saturday Night"
2: "Dark Star"* → "Jam"* → "Sugar Magnolia"* → "St. Stephen"* → "Not Fade Away"* → "Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad"* → "Not Fade Away" reprise*
E: "Johnny B. Goode"
Note:New Riders of the Purple Sage were theopening act.
* appears onDick's Picks Volume 2
The jam that appears on the set list after "Dark Star" is generally referred to as "Tighten Up Jam" by collectors due to its similarities to theArchie Bell & the Drells tune "Tighten Up". The Grateful Dead would jam on the theme only a handful of times, mostly from 1969 until 1971.
Also notably rare is a "Cold Rain and Snow" tease on the way back into playing "Not Fade Away" from "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad". The Grateful Dead were known for teasing bits of songs, often they would play a song they teased at a different show.
Each volume ofDick's Picks has its own "caveat emptor" label, advising the listener of the sound quality of the recording. The label forVolume 2 reads:
"This compact disc has been digitally remastered directly from the original quarter track 7½ ips analog tape. It is a snapshot of history, not a modern professional recording, and may therefore exhibit some technical anomalies and the unavoidable effects of the ravages of time."
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