{"history":[],"article":{"id":"7b833114-4ddc-487e-9d63-aed0b2d4870f","title":"Dick's Picks Volume 36","slug":"dick-s-picks-volume-36","content":":::summary\n![Dick's Picks Volume 36](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Grateful///Dead///-///Dick%27s///Picks///Volume///36.jpg)\n**Name:** Dick's Picks Volume 36 \n**Type:** live \n**Artist:** [Grateful Dead](https://bliptext.com/articles/grateful-dead) \n**Released:** October 2005 \n**Recorded:** September 21, 1972 \n**Venue:** [The Spectrum](https://bliptext.com/articles/spectrum-arena), [Philadelphia](https://bliptext.com/articles/philadelphia) \n**Genre:** [Rock](https://bliptext.com/articles/rock-music), [country rock](https://bliptext.com/articles/country-rock), [jam](https://bliptext.com/articles/jam-band) \n**Length:** 279:10 \n**Label:** [Grateful Dead Records](https://bliptext.com/articles/grateful-dead-records) \n**Prev Title:** [Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 6](https://bliptext.com/articles/grateful-dead-download-series-volume-6) \n**Prev Year:** 2005 \n**Next Title:** [Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 7](https://bliptext.com/articles/grateful-dead-download-series-volume-7) \n**Next Year:** 2005 \n:::\n\n# \n**Dick's Picks Volume 36** is the 36th and last installment of the Dick's Picks series of [Grateful Dead](https://bliptext.com/articles/grateful-dead) concert recordings.\nIt is a four-CD set.\nThis release contains the Dead's complete show recorded on September 21, 1972 at [The Spectrum](https://bliptext.com/articles/wachovia-spectrum) in [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania](https://bliptext.com/articles/philadelphia).\nIt also includes three bonus tracks from September 3, 1972, at [Folsom Field](https://bliptext.com/articles/folsom-field) in [Boulder, Colorado](https://bliptext.com/articles/boulder-colorado).\n\n# Booklet, liner notes, and newspaper clippings\nThe release includes a 28-page booklet made of seven sheets of paper stapled together in the middle.\nThe front duplicates the cover of the CD and the back features a color photograph of the band on stage in Boulder, CO on 9/3/72.\nThe booklet starts off with seven pages of liner notes and contains two newspaper clippings interspersed among several pages of photos of the band playing on stage.\nThe last two pages list the contents of and credits for the release.\n\n## Liner notes by Bear\nThe liner notes were written by [Owsley \"Bear\" Stanley](https://bliptext.com/articles/owsley-bear-stanley) on 9/26/05 and are entitled \"Notes: on sound, my theories and my techniques\".\nAccompanied by a few small black-and-white photographs of the band members, the essay is true to its title, offering a detailed description of how Bear, the band's soundman, set up the [public address systems](https://bliptext.com/articles/public-address-system) the band used in its shows along with why he used these techniques.\nTechnical details fill these notes, and the author demonstrates an appreciation of the acoustics of the venues and the brains of the people in the audience.\nFor example, at one point Stanley writes that \"This is simple physics. Sound travels through air at a speed of one foot/millisecond, and human ears are set 1/2 foot apart, giving us a discrimination of 1/2 millisecond max in arrival of sound in each ear. It is this sense for arrival time (phase/delay) which is used to determine direction.\"\nSound engineers may appreciate these technical details more than most people, but Bear is apparently writing for an audience of regular fans.\nHe closes his piece by writing he \"hope[s] all this chatter is of some interest—or better, use—to you, the reader of these notes. I also hope you enjoy this album.\"\n\n## Newspaper clippings\nThe booklet includes two newspaper clippings, but does not reveal when or where the reviews appeared.\nThe first clipping features a review by Jonathan Takiff entitled \"Grateful Dead leaves 'em alive, thankful\".\nWriting that \"Fifteen, 25, 40-minute jams pass without a time sense because there is no waste, no sense of repetition\", the tone of the piece is very positive and the author demonstrates a solid understanding of the band, its music and fans, and the overall scene.\nPublished in Philadelphia Daily News, September 22, 1972\nThe second clipping features a review by Ralph P. Bobb entitled \" 'Dead' make Phila. more bearable\".\nAsking [rhetorically](https://bliptext.com/articles/rhetorical-question) \"What makes Greatful [sic] Dead concerts so enjoyable?\"\nthe author explains that \"The Dead is one group which can experiment with their music during a live concert and make it sound like a polished product.\"\n\n# Caveat emptor\nEach volume of Dick's Picks has its own \"[caveat emptor](https://bliptext.com/articles/caveat-emptor)\" label, advising the listener of the sound quality of the recording.\nThe one for volume 36 reads:\n\"Dick's Picks Vol. 36 was mastered from the original 1/4\" analog sonic journal tapes recorded at 7.5 ips, and were not produced with commercial intentions.\nHowever, due to the masterful skill of the recordist, these tapes sound remarkably rich and true to the live sound.\nBeing more than thirty years old, the tapes exhibit some minor signs of the ravages of time, as we all do, but rest assured that everything possible has been done to make them sound as good as possible.\"\n\n# Artwork\nThe album cover art for Dick's Picks Volume 36 was created by Bob Minkin.\nDrawn with the aid of computer software, it depicts an abstract image, and is part of a series of similar art works used for Dick's Picks volumes 31 through 36.\nMinkin is a San Francisco-based graphic designer who received a BFA degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.\n\n# Track listing\n\n## Disc one\n

\"[Promised Land](https://bliptext.com/articles/promised-land-chuck-berry-song)\" ([Chuck Berry](https://bliptext.com/articles/chuck-berry)) – 3:50
\"Bird Song\" ([Jerry Garcia](https://bliptext.com/articles/jerry-garcia), [Robert Hunter](https://bliptext.com/articles/robert-hunter-lyricist)) – 13:40
\"[El Paso](https://bliptext.com/articles/el-paso-song)\" ([Marty Robbins](https://bliptext.com/articles/marty-robbins)) – 5:06
\"[China Cat Sunflower](https://bliptext.com/articles/china-cat-sunflower)\" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:28
\"[I Know You Rider](https://bliptext.com/articles/i-know-you-rider)\" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:49
\"[Black-Throated Wind](https://bliptext.com/articles/black-throated-wind)\" ([Bob Weir](https://bliptext.com/articles/bob-weir), [John Barlow](https://bliptext.com/articles/john-perry-barlow)) – 6:47
\"Big Railroad Blues\" ([Noah Lewis](https://bliptext.com/articles/noah-lewis-musician), arranged by Grateful Dead) – 4:02
\"[Jack Straw](https://bliptext.com/articles/jack-straw-song)\" (Weir, Hunter) – 4:52
\"Loser\" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:12
\"[Big River](https://bliptext.com/articles/big-river-johnny-cash-song)\" ([Johnny Cash](https://bliptext.com/articles/johnny-cash)) – 4:42

\n\n## Disc two\n

\"Ramble On Rose\" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:34
\"Cumberland Blues\" (Garcia, [Phil Lesh](https://bliptext.com/articles/phil-lesh), Hunter) – 7:40
\"[Playing in the Band](https://bliptext.com/articles/playing-in-the-band)\" (Weir, [Mickey Hart](https://bliptext.com/articles/mickey-hart), Hunter) – 16:47

\"He's Gone\" (Garcia, Hunter) – 14:18

\"[Truckin'](https://bliptext.com/articles/truckin)\" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 11:51

\"Black Peter\" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:39

\"[Mexicali Blues](https://bliptext.com/articles/mexicali-blues-song)\" (Weir, Barlow) – 3:26\n\n\n## Disc three\n

\"[Dark Star](https://bliptext.com/articles/dark-star-song)\" > (Garcia, Hart, [Bill Kreutzmann](https://bliptext.com/articles/bill-kreutzmann), Lesh, [Ron \"Pigpen\" McKernan](https://bliptext.com/articles/ron-pigpen-mckernan), Weir, Hunter) – 37:08
\"[Morning Dew](https://bliptext.com/articles/morning-dew)\" ([Bonnie Dobson](https://bliptext.com/articles/bonnie-dobson), [Tim Rose](https://bliptext.com/articles/tim-rose)) – 12:10
\"Beat It On Down the Line\" ([Jesse Fuller](https://bliptext.com/articles/jesse-fuller)) – 3:34
\"Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo\" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:02
\"[Sugar Magnolia](https://bliptext.com/articles/sugar-magnolia)\" (Weir, Hunter) – 8:30\n
\"[Friend of the Devil](https://bliptext.com/articles/friend-of-the-devil)\" (Garcia, [John Dawson](https://bliptext.com/articles/john-dawson-musician), Hunter) – 3:37

\n\n## Disc four\n

\"[Not Fade Away](https://bliptext.com/articles/not-fade-away-song)\" > ([Buddy Holly](https://bliptext.com/articles/buddy-holly), [Norman Petty](https://bliptext.com/articles/norman-petty)) – 5:57
\"Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad\" > (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:26\n
\"Not Fade Away\" reprise (Hardin, Petty) – 3:31

\"[One More Saturday Night](https://bliptext.com/articles/one-more-saturday-night-song)\" (Weir) – 4:56

\n\n

\"He's Gone\" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:30

\"The Other One\" > (Weir, Kreutzmann) – 28:57

\"Wharf Rat\" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:16

\n\n\n# Personnel\n\n## Grateful Dead\n\n## Production","current_revision":null,"created_by":"kACnuQmH5k9Nr5VNVEpVeg7XpvUmMctD","created_at":"2025-01-26T09:27:48.611Z","updated_at":"2025-01-26T09:27:48.611Z","search_vector":"'36':5 'dick':1 'pick':3 'volum':4","search_content":" \n \n**Name:** Dick's Picks Volume 36 \n**Type:** live \n**Artist:** [Grateful Dead](https://bliptext.com/articles/grateful-dead) \n**Released:** October 2005 \n**Recorded:** September 21, 1972 \n**Venue:** [The Spectrum](https://bliptext.com/articles/spectrum-arena), [Philadelphia](https://bliptext.com/articles/philadelphia) \n**Genre:** [Rock](https://bliptext.com/articles/rock-music), [country rock](https://bliptext.com/articles/country-rock), [jam](https://bliptext.com/articles/jam-band) \n**Length:** 279:10 \n**Label:** [Grateful Dead Records](https://bliptext.com/articles/grateful-dead-records) \n**Prev Title:** [Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 6](https://bliptext.com/articles/grateful-dead-download-series-volume-6) \n**Prev Year:** 2005 \n**Next Title:** [Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 7](https://bliptext.com/articles/grateful-dead-download-series-volume-7) \n**Next Year:** 2005 \n \n\n# \n**Dick's Picks Volume 36** is the 36th and last installment of the Dick's Picks series of [Grateful Dead](https://bliptext.com/articles/grateful-dead) concert recordings.\nIt is a four-CD set.\nThis release contains the Dead's complete show recorded on September 21, 1972 at [The Spectrum](https://bliptext.com/articles/wachovia-spectrum) in [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania](https://bliptext.com/articles/philadelphia).\nIt also includes three bonus tracks from September 3, 1972, at [Folsom Field](https://bliptext.com/articles/folsom-field) in [Boulder, Colorado](https://bliptext.com/articles/boulder-colorado).\n\n# Booklet, liner notes, and newspaper clippings\nThe release includes a 28-page booklet made of seven sheets of paper stapled together in the middle.\nThe front duplicates the cover of the CD and the back features a color photograph of the band on stage in Boulder, CO on 9/3/72.\nThe booklet starts off with seven pages of liner notes and contains two newspaper clippings interspersed among several pages of photos of the band playing on stage.\nThe last two pages list the contents of and credits for the release.\n\n## Liner notes by Bear\nThe liner notes were written by [Owsley \"Bear\" Stanley](https://bliptext.com/articles/owsley-bear-stanley) on 9/26/05 and are entitled \"Notes: on sound, my theories and my techniques\".\nAccompanied by a few small black-and-white photographs of the band members, the essay is true to its title, offering a detailed description of how Bear, the band's soundman, set up the [public address systems](https://bliptext.com/articles/public-address-system) the band used in its shows along with why he used these techniques.\nTechnical details fill these notes, and the author demonstrates an appreciation of the acoustics of the venues and the brains of the people in the audience.\nFor example, at one point Stanley writes that \"This is simple physics. Sound travels through air at a speed of one foot/millisecond, and human ears are set 1/2 foot apart, giving us a discrimination of 1/2 millisecond max in arrival of sound in each ear. It is this sense for arrival time (phase/delay) which is used to determine direction.\"\nSound engineers may appreciate these technical details more than most people, but Bear is apparently writing for an audience of regular fans.\nHe closes his piece by writing he \"hope[s] all this chatter is of some interest—or better, use—to you, the reader of these notes. I also hope you enjoy this album.\"\n\n## Newspaper clippings\nThe booklet includes two newspaper clippings, but does not reveal when or where the reviews appeared.\nThe first clipping features a review by Jonathan Takiff entitled \"Grateful Dead leaves 'em alive, thankful\".\nWriting that \"Fifteen, 25, 40-minute jams pass without a time sense because there is no waste, no sense of repetition\", the tone of the piece is very positive and the author demonstrates a solid understanding of the band, its music and fans, and the overall scene.\nPublished in Philadelphia Daily News, September 22, 1972\nThe second clipping features a review by Ralph P. Bobb entitled \" 'Dead' make Phila. more bearable\".\nAsking [rhetorically](https://bliptext.com/articles/rhetorical-question) \"What makes Greatful [sic] Dead concerts so enjoyable?\"\nthe author explains that \"The Dead is one group which can experiment with their music during a live concert and make it sound like a polished product.\"\n\n# Caveat emptor\nEach volume of Dick's Picks has its own \"[caveat emptor](https://bliptext.com/articles/caveat-emptor)\" label, advising the listener of the sound quality of the recording.\nThe one for volume 36 reads:\n\"Dick's Picks Vol. 36 was mastered from the original 1/4\" analog sonic journal tapes recorded at 7.5 ips, and were not produced with commercial intentions.\nHowever, due to the masterful skill of the recordist, these tapes sound remarkably rich and true to the live sound.\nBeing more than thirty years old, the tapes exhibit some minor signs of the ravages of time, as we all do, but rest assured that everything possible has been done to make them sound as good as possible.\"\n\n# Artwork\nThe album cover art for Dick's Picks Volume 36 was created by Bob Minkin.\nDrawn with the aid of computer software, it depicts an abstract image, and is part of a series of similar art works used for Dick's Picks volumes 31 through 36.\nMinkin is a San Francisco-based graphic designer who received a BFA degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.\n\n# Track listing\n\n## Disc one\n \n \"[Promised Land](https://bliptext.com/articles/promised-land-chuck-berry-song)\" ([Chuck Berry](https://bliptext.com/articles/chuck-berry)) – 3:50 \n \"Bird Song\" ([Jerry Garcia](https://bliptext.com/articles/jerry-garcia), [Robert Hunter](https://bliptext.com/articles/robert-hunter-lyricist)) – 13:40 \n \"[El Paso](https://bliptext.com/articles/el-paso-song)\" ([Marty Robbins](https://bliptext.com/articles/marty-robbins)) – 5:06 \n \"[China Cat Sunflower](https://bliptext.com/articles/china-cat-sunflower)\" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:28 \n \"[I Know You Rider](https://bliptext.com/articles/i-know-you-rider)\" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:49 \n \"[Black-Throated Wind](https://bliptext.com/articles/black-throated-wind)\" ([Bob Weir](https://bliptext.com/articles/bob-weir), [John Barlow](https://bliptext.com/articles/john-perry-barlow)) – 6:47 \n \"Big Railroad Blues\" ([Noah Lewis](https://bliptext.com/articles/noah-lewis-musician), arranged by Grateful Dead) – 4:02 \n \"[Jack Straw](https://bliptext.com/articles/jack-straw-song)\" (Weir, Hunter) – 4:52 \n \"Loser\" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:12 \n \"[Big River](https://bliptext.com/articles/big-river-johnny-cash-song)\" ([Johnny Cash](https://bliptext.com/articles/johnny-cash)) – 4:42 \n \n\n## Disc two\n \n \"Ramble On Rose\" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:34 \n \"Cumberland Blues\" (Garcia, [Phil Lesh](https://bliptext.com/articles/phil-lesh), Hunter) – 7:40 \n \"[Playing in the Band](https://bliptext.com/articles/playing-in-the-band)\" (Weir, [Mickey Hart](https://bliptext.com/articles/mickey-hart), Hunter) – 16:47 \n \n \"He's Gone\" (Garcia, Hunter) – 14:18 \n \"[Truckin'](https://bliptext.com/articles/truckin)\" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 11:51 \n \"Black Peter\" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:39 \n \"[Mexicali Blues](https://bliptext.com/articles/mexicali-blues-song)\" (Weir, Barlow) – 3:26\n \n\n## Disc three\n \n \"[Dark Star](https://bliptext.com/articles/dark-star-song)\" > (Garcia, Hart, [Bill Kreutzmann](https://bliptext.com/articles/bill-kreutzmann), Lesh, [Ron \"Pigpen\" McKernan](https://bliptext.com/articles/ron-pigpen-mckernan), Weir, Hunter) – 37:08 \n \"[Morning Dew](https://bliptext.com/articles/morning-dew)\" ([Bonnie Dobson](https://bliptext.com/articles/bonnie-dobson), [Tim Rose](https://bliptext.com/articles/tim-rose)) – 12:10 \n \"Beat It On Down the Line\" ([Jesse Fuller](https://bliptext.com/articles/jesse-fuller)) – 3:34 \n \"Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo\" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:02 \n \"[Sugar Magnolia](https://bliptext.com/articles/sugar-magnolia)\" (Weir, Hunter) – 8:30\n \"[Friend of the Devil](https://bliptext.com/articles/friend-of-the-devil)\" (Garcia, [John Dawson](https://bliptext.com/articles/john-dawson-musician), Hunter) – 3:37 \n \n\n## Disc four\n \n \"[Not Fade Away](https://bliptext.com/articles/not-fade-away-song)\" > ([Buddy Holly](https://bliptext.com/articles/buddy-holly), [Norman Petty](https://bliptext.com/articles/norman-petty)) – 5:57 \n \"Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad\" > (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:26\n \"Not Fade Away\" reprise (Hardin, Petty) – 3:31 \n \n \"[One More Saturday Night](https://bliptext.com/articles/one-more-saturday-night-song)\" (Weir) – 4:56 \n \n \"He's Gone\" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:30 \n \"The Other One\" > (Weir, Kreutzmann) – 28:57 \n \"Wharf Rat\" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:16 \n \n\n# Personnel\n\n## Grateful Dead\n\n## Production","revisionCount":0},"hasMore":false,"nextCursor":null}

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