Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks Vol. 36 4cd
(9/21/72) Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA
Disc One
1 Promised Land 3:50 (Berry)
2 Bird Song 13:40 (Garcia, Hunter)
3 El Paso 5:06 (Robbins)
4 China Cat Sunflower > 5:28 (Garcia, Hunter)
5 I Know You Rider 6:49 (Trad. Arr. By Grateful Dead)
6 Black-Throated Wind 6:47 (Weir, Barlow)
7 Big Railroad Blues 4:10 (Lewis, Arr. By Grateful Dead)
8 Jack Straw 4:52 (Weir, Hunter)
9 Loser 7:12 (Garcia, Hunter)
10 Big River 4:42 (Cash)
Disc Two
1 Ramble On Rose 6:34 (Garcia, Hunter)
2 Cumberland Blues 7:40 (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter)
3 Playing In The Band 16:47 (Weir, Hart, Hunter)
set 2:
4 He's Gone > 14:18 (Garcia, Hunter)
5 Truckin' 11:51 (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter)
6 Black Peter 9:39 (Garcia, Hunter)
7 Mexicali Blues 3:26 (Weir, Barlow)
Disc Three
1 Dark Star > 37:08:00 (Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir, Hunter)
2 Morning Dew 12:10 (Dobson, Rose)
3 Beat It On Down The Line 3:34 (Fuller)
4 Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo 10:02 (Garcia, Hunter)
5 Sugar Magnolia 8:30 (Weir, Hunter)
6 Friend Of The Devil 3:37 (Garcia, Dawson, Hunter)
Disc Four
1 Not Fade Away > 5:57 (Hardin, Petty)
2 Goin' Down The Road Feeling Band > 7:26 (Trad. Arr. by Grateful Dead)
3 Not Fade Away 3:31 (Hardin, Petty)
4 One More Saturday Night 4:56 (Weir)
Bonus Tracks: 9/3/72 Folsom Field, Boulder, CO 5 He's Gone > 10:30 (Garcia, Hunter)
6 The Other One > 28:57:00 (Weir, Kreutzmann)
7 Wharf Rat 10:16 (Garcia, Hunter)
2005
This particular Pick has been an especially long time coming: when Dick's Picks was created in
1993, series founder and guiding spirit Dick Latvala had the 9/21/72 Philly show very high on
his short list of candidates for the first release. Dick departed from this world some six years
ago, but the gifts he left to this community just keep on coming.
1972 was a pivotal year in the Grateful Dead's evolution. The band, crew, and families spent the
better part of the spring across the pond, touring throughout Europe. Failing health was rapidly
catching up with co-founder Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (vocals/organ/harmonica), who -- still
considered an active member -- had not played with the Grateful Dead since mid-June. His
replacement(s) came in the form of the husband-and-wife team of Keith Godchaux (keyboards)
and Donna Jean Godchaux (vocals). The pair's contributions, especially those of Keith, were
immediately felt in the jazz-fused direction the Dead's music was adopting. The four-disc
Dick's Picks, Vol. 36 (2005) includes the complete three-plus-hour performance on
September 21, 1972, at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA. While the show is heavy on longer
jams, those excursions are complemented with compact selections, such as the rousing cover
of Chuck Berry's "Promise Land" that kicks off the set. Due to a broken string from Jerry Garcia
(guitar/vocals), Keith Godchaux steps up with beautiful piano leads during a nearly quarter-hour
"Bird Song," that joins a particularly ferocious "China Cat Sunflower"/"I Know You Rider" and
"Loser" as bright moments from disc one. Among other first set highlights -- which sprawl onto
disc two -- are a full-throttle "Cumberland Blues," and an exceptionally trippy
"Playing in the Band," with Keith Godchaux, Garcia, and Phil Lesh (bass) impelling the truly
psychedelic spontaneous inventions during the sinuous instrumental improvisations. The Grateful
Dead ease into the second set with a languid and probing "He's Gone" that foretells the
"Truckin'"/"He's Gone" medley as well as the epic "Dark Star." Clocking in at over 30 minutes, the
musicians take full advantage and have ample opportunities to navigate without trepidation into
uncharted territory. Again it is Keith Godchaux and Garcia who initiate the collective exploration.
Additionally, there are readings of "Morning Dew" -- which emerges from the ashes of "Dark Star"
-- "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo," as well as a sublime "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad"
that is concealed within a brawny "Not Fade Away" sandwich. By some accounts the triple-tune
filler -- from September 3, 1972, at Folsom Field in Boulder, CO -- equals the main program.
"He's Gone" provides a perfect platform for the vicious "Other One," and emotive "Wharf Rat" that
follows. Parties interested in experiencing the Grateful Dead at one of their undeniable peaks --
both in terms of repertoire and prowess -- will not be disappointed and may well find
themselves regularly revisiting Dick's Picks, Vol. 36
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