Product Review

This Pick was, at the time it was released, chronologically the latest live show in the Grateful Dead discography, and it s still the second latest concert to be officially released in their vast library. And it chronicles a very special period in Dead history, when Bruce Hornsby sat in with the band to form, along with former Tube Vince Welnick, a formidable, two-pronged keyboard attack. This particular volume culled from a complete 9/25/91 show at the Boston Garden (a consistently good stadium venue for the band) and a bonus half hour from a 3/31/91 show in Greensboro, NC is also notable for including the first-ever performance of Paul McCartney s That Would Be Something and the first-ever appearance of Dylan s The Mighty Quinn on a Dead album. Add to that the stunning, 23-minute version of Eyes of the World that caps off the third disc and Dick s Picks Vol. 17 is a exemplary document of late-period Dead. Out of print for years!