Dick's Picks Volume 6

Dick's Picks Volume 6
Live album by Grateful Dead
Released	October 7, 1996
Recorded	October 14, 1983
Genre	Rock
Length	177:41
Label	Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology
Dozin' at the Knick (1996) Dick's Picks Volume 6 (1996) The Arista Years (1996)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The Music Box	[2]
Rolling Stone	[3]
Entertainment Weekly	C+ [4]

Dick's Picks Volume 6 is the sixth live album in the Dick's Picks series of releases by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded on October 14, 1983, at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Connecticut. The album, on three CDs, contains the complete show from that night. It was released in October, 1996.

This show was the first Grateful Dead concert that Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio attended.^[5] Mike Gordon, Phish's bassist, attended separately.^[6] The album was the first to include the song "Keep Your Day Job".^[1]

Enclosure

Included with the release is a single sheet folded in half, yielding a four-page enclosure. The front duplicates the cover of the CD and the back contains a black-and-white photograph of a ticket stub for the event. The two pages inside contain a wide black-and-white photograph of the band and list the contents of and credits for the release^[7]

Caveat emptor

Each volume of Dick's Picks has its own "caveat emptor" label, advising the listener of the sound quality of the recording. The label for Dick's Picks Volume 6 reads:

"This compact disc has been digitally remastered directly from the original metal cassette. 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."

Track listing

Disc one

First set:

1. "Alabama Getaway" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 6:06 →
2. "Greatest Story Ever Told" (Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 4:52
3. "They Love Each Other" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:10
4. "Mama Tried" (Merle Haggard) – 2:48
5. "Big River" (Johnny Cash) – 6:31
6. "Althea" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:49
7. "C.C. Rider" (Ma Rainey, Lena Arant) – 8:01
8. "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:33
9. "Hell in a Bucket" (Weir, John Perry Barlow) – 5:53 →
10. "Keep Your Day Job" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:57

Disc two

Second set:

1. "Scarlet Begonias" (Garcia, Hunter) – 14:20 →
2. "Fire on the Mountain" (Hart, Hunter) – 16:36 →
3. "Estimated Prophet" (Weir, Barlow) – 13:11 →
4. "Eyes of the World" (Garcia, Hunter) – 17:53 →

Disc three

1. "Drums" (Hart, Bill Kreutzmann) – 5:25 →
2. "Spinach Jam" (Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Brent Mydland, Weir) – 13:05 →
3. "The Other One" (Weir, Kreutzmann) – 6:09 →
4. "Stella Blue" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:10 →
5. "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 9:26

Encore:

6. "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:40

Personnel

Grateful Dead

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

Production

• Dan Healy – recording
• Dick Latvala – tape archivist
• Jeffrey Norman – CD mastering
• Michael Conway – photography
• Gecko Graphics – design

Notes

1. Ruhlman, William. "Dick's Picks, Vol. 6: Hartford Civic Center 10/14/83". AllMusic. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
2. Metzger, John (February 1997) .Dick's Picks Volume 6, The Music Box
3. The Grateful Dead Album Guide Archived 2013-12-28 at the Wayback Machine, Rolling Stone
4. A look at Dick's Picks, Volumes One-Six, Entertainment Weekly
5. "Bobby Weir and Trey Anastasio at the Connecticut Forum", YouTube
6. "Mike Gordon & Scott Murawski Reddit AMA"
7. Enclosure included with Dick's Picks Volume 6, 1996.