Dick's Picks, Vol. 14: Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA, 11/30/73 & 12/2/73 [Live, Original recording remastered]

Grateful Dead | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 5, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 1973
• Number of Discs: 4
• Format: Live, Original recording remastered
• Label: Arista
• ASIN: B00005V8PN
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31,550 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Morning Dew

2. Mexicali Blues

3. Dire Wolf

4. Black-Throated Wind

5. Don't Ease Me In

See all 8 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Here Comes Sunshine

2. Weather Report Suite

3. Dark Star Jam

4. Eyes Of The World

5. Sugar Magnolia

Disc: 3

1. Cold Rain & Snow

2. Beat It On Down The Line

3. Brown-Eyed Woman / The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down / Beer Barrel Polka

4. Jack Straw

5. Ramble On Rose

See all 8 tracks on this disc

Disc: 4

1. Playing In The Band

2. Jam

3. He's Gone

4. Truckin'

5. Stella Blue

See all 6 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Whelmed, Wildered, and Gruntled, July 31, 2006

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My Uncle Stu (Atlanta) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dick's Picks, Vol. 14: Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA, 11/30/73 & 12/2/73 (Audio CD)

When picking a bootleg or dick's pick, it's usually the set list that gets me excited, motivates me, helps me pick what I want to listen to. But of course that's a little bit of a decoy. Any song the Dead play can be miraculous if it is one of those magical nights, and any song can be demoralizing on one of those other nights or an off set. The real sign of a good show is when I'm under-whelmed by the set list but find myself surprised at how absorbed I get in the show. Listening to the beginning of disc 2, from the November 30th, '73 night I assume, when I found myself really captivated by a Here Comes Sunshine into Weather Report Suite parts one and two (not among my top fifty favorite dead songs), I knew this was a special show. The Dark Star, Eyes, and Sugar Mag were icing. Disc 3 has another patch with a Weather Report Suite into Wharf Rat, from a few nights later, and it's not a problem. We also get a great Disc 4, with Playing in the Band dissolving into a particularly spacey jam, holding tension but staying afloat. That feeling again: Relax, I know it seems confusing, but the band is here absorb the confusion and spin some threads to the multi-pronged signposts of gratification, which doesn't mean anything in particular but they are still playing, so it must, don't worry, they've been here before, just keep listening and you'll emerge out the other side no worse for wear. Good stuff. These were mellow outings for the Dead, but it's a little bit of a lazy couple of shows, with chunky pauses and directionless noodling at times, but good music for getting lost and found.

Not the greatest, not the most exciting, but nice entrancing ambient Dead.

Also, Donna is not there for these shows, evidently on maternity leave. Besides the absence of her annoying wailing, perhaps her absence also freed up the band to broader the spacey jams into new places. I know I pick on Donna, but she deserves it, her singing is really, really bad, and it is very embarrassing that the Dead let her sing for as long as they did. Her voice mars the best years of the Dead's playing, so to have a live CD from the Donna years, minus Donna singing, is a treat. Deadheads should buy this CD just to support the release of more from this all too short Donna-less interval.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best Dick's Picks releases, if not the best one., March 21, 2002

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"doick" (US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dick's Picks, Vol. 14: Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA, 11/30/73 & 12/2/73 (Audio CD)

It's 1973, it doesn't have Donna, it's not awash in synthesizers and MIDI technology, Jerry's voice is crisp and clear, and it's 4 discs, for less than 25 bucks. You can't go wrong with this.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best Dick's Picks, February 28, 2003

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Ross James Browne (Atlanta, Georgia United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dick's Picks, Vol. 14: Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA, 11/30/73 & 12/2/73 (Audio CD)

The versions of Weather Report Suite are alone worth the price of admission on these discs. There is also a really killer version of Morning Dew. This is a great Dick's Pick for people who can actually appreciate the slower stuff by the Dead, and you have to appreciate the slower stuff in order to be a true Deadhead.