Dick's Picks Volume 18

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Dick's Picks Volume 18 is the 18th live album in the Dick's Picks series of releases by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded February 3, 1978, at the Dane County Coliseum in Madison, Wisconsin and on February 5, 1978, at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls, Iowa. There are also two songs from the February 4, 1978 show at the Milwaukee Auditorium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

This release is known to have a patched cut in the original soundboard tapes. If certain soundboards are missing parts of a song those creating the release will attempt to patch the cut if possible. Sometimes this is from an audience source or from an entirely different show. Unfortunately there is no database for these fixed soundboards and hence is up to the listeners to stumble upon such a discovery. Track 4 on Disc 3, Truckin, contains a patch from the Truckin recorded on 1978-01-31. The patch from 1978-01-31 starts at ~2:00 and ends at ~3:40 on the official release.

Track listing

Disc one

1. ”Bertha” (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:42
2. ”Good Lovin’” (Clark, Resnick) – 6:14
3. ”Cold Rain and Snow” (traditional) – 6:17
4. ”New Minglewood Blues” (traditional) – 5:41
5. ”They Love Each Other” (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:42
6. ”It's All Over Now” (Womack, Womack) – 7:39
7. ”Dupree's Diamond Blues” (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:37
8. ”Looks Like Rain” (Barlow, Weir) – 7:59
9. ”Brown-Eyed Women” (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:34
10. ”Passenger” (Lesh, Monk) – 5:40
11. ”Deal” (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:34
12. ”The Music Never Stopped” (Barlow, Weir) – 8:06

Disc two

1. ”Estimated Prophet” > (Barlow, Weir) – 12:16
2. ”Eyes of the World” > (Garcia, Hunter) – 14:37
3. ”Playing in the Band” > (Hart, Hunter, Weir) – 24:35
4. ”The Wheel” > (Garcia, Hunter, Kreutzmann) – 5:43
5. ”Playing in the Band” (Hart, Hunter, Weir) – 9:02
6. ”Johnny B. Goode” (Berry) – 4:38

Disc three

1. ”Samson and Delilah” (traditional) – 11:21
2. ”Scarlet Begonias” > (Garcia, Hunter) – 12:45
3. ”Fire on the Mountain” (Hart, Hunter) – 17:03
4. ”Truckin'“ > (Garcia, Hunter, Lesh, Weir) – 9:17
5. ”Drums” > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 1:56
6. ”The Other One” > (Kreutzmann, Weir) – 9:02
7. ”Wharf Rat” (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:58
8. ”Around and Around” (Berry) – 8:34

Recording dates

• February 3, 1978 – Disc 1, tracks 3, 5, 8, 9, 12; Disc 2
• February 4, 1978 – Disc 1, tracks 6, 7
• February 5, 1978 – Disc 1, tracks 1, 2, 4, 10, 11; Disc 3

Personnel

Grateful Dead:

• Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
• Bill Kreutzmann – drums
• Mickey Hart – drums
• Phil Lesh – bass, vocals
• Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
• Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals
• Keith Godchaux – keyboards

Production:

• Dick Latvala – tape archivists
• David Lemieux – tape archivists
• Gecko Graphics – design
• Betty Cantor-Jackson – recording
• Jeffrey Norman – CD mastering
• John Cutler – magnetic scrutinizer
• Bruce Polonsky – photography
• Keith Wessel – photography
• J. Corkey Custer – liner notes from Emerald City Chronicle.