Dick's Picks Volume 27

Dick's Picks Volume 27 is an album by the Grateful Dead, the twenty-seventh installment of their archival release series. It was recorded on December 16, 1992 at the Oakland Coliseum Arena, in Oakland, California. It was released in 2003.

Dick's Picks Volume 27 also contains four bonus songs recorded at the December 17, 1992 concert at the Oakland Colieum. These include the encore, the only officially released version of the medly "Baba O'Riley" and "Tomorrow Never Knows". This is also the only release in the series to feature Vince Welnick without Bruce Hornsby.

Track listing

Disc One

First set:

1. "Feel Like a Stranger" (John Barlow, Bob Weir) – 9:20
2. "Brown-Eyed Women" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) – 5:22
3. "The Same Thing" (Willie Dixon) – 8:09
4. "Loose Lucy" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:21
5. "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" (Bob Dylan) – 9:18
6. "Row Jimmy" (Hunter, Garcia) – 10:10
7. "Let it Grow" (Barlow, Weir) – 13:05

Disc Two

Second set:

1. "Shakedown Street" (Hunter, Garcia) – 12:59->
2. "Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arranged by Weir) – 7:28
3. "Ship of Fools" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:39
4. "Playing in the Band" (Hunter, Mickey Hart, Weir) – 12:33->
5. "Drums" (Hart, Bill Kreutzman) – 14:41->
6. "Space" (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Weir) – 10:56->

Disc Three

Second set, continued:

1. "Dark Star" (Hunter, Garcia, Hart, Kreutzman, Lesh, Pigpen, Weir) – 8:56->
2. "All Along the Watchtower" (Dylan) – 6:38->
3. "Stella Blue" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:43->
4. "Good Lovin'" (Artie Resnick, Rudy Clark) – 8:30

Encore:

1. "Casey Jones" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:38

Bonus tracks — December 17, 1992:

1. "Throwing Stones" (Barlow, Weir) – 9:43->
2. "Not Fade Away" (Buddy Holly, Norman Petty) – 10:58
3. "Baba O'Riley" (Pete Townshend) – 3:28
4. "Tomorrow Never Knows" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 4:46

Personnel

Grateful Dead

• Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
• Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
• Phil Lesh – electric bass, vocals
• Vince Welnick – keyboards, vocals
• Mickey Hart – drums, percussion
• Bill Kreutzman – drums, percussion

Production

• Recording – Dan Healy
• Tape archivist – David Lemieux
• Archival research – Eileen Law
• CD mastering – Jeffrey Norman
• Design & layout – Robert Minkin
• Photography – Ken Friedman