More Grateful Dead Dave’s Picks Volume 9 Details Revealed

Way back in October we shared the news that the ninth installment of the Grateful Dead’s Dave’s Picks series of live archival releases features the band’s complete May 14, 1974 performance. This show took place at Adams Fieldhouse in Missoula, MT during the famed Wall Of Sound era. Nearly three months later Dave’s Picks Volume 9 is available for pre-order.

Dave’s Picks Volume 9 is set to be released on February 1. The 3-disc set, which was mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman, is limited to 14,000 individually numbered copies. Head to Dead.net to listen to the 16-minute “Weather Report Suite” from the new release.

Here’s Dead.net’s description of Dave’s Picks Volume 9:

re kicking off Dave’s Picks 2014 with a visit to the Wall Of Sound era. Dave’s Picks Volume 9 features the complete show from May 14, 1974, at Adams Field House at the University of Montana in Missoula, the Grateful Dead’s only appearance in the state of oro y plata. This monstrously hot show is the third official show of the Wall Of Sound, which had debuted in March 1974. Highlights run deep including the second performance of “Scarlet Begonias,” a 22+ minute “Playing In The Band” that leans heavily on the band’s jazz chops, and a second set jam of “Weather Report Suite>Dark Star” that contains some of the deepest jamming of 1974, and that’s saying a heck of a lot! It also features one of only a handful of versions of “Dark Star” played in 1974, a song heading toward a long hiatus, and this one digs deep into some of the wildest spaces you’ll ever hear. Rockers, ballads, and jams, 5/14/74 covers all the bases, with plenty of nuances to revel in, each and every listen.

Check out the tracklist:

Disc 1
1. Bertha [6:15]
2. Me And My Uncle [3:15]
3. Loser [6:39]
4. Black-Throated Wind [6:52]
5. Scarlet Begonias> [7:21]
6. It Must Have Been The Roses [5:44]
7. Jack Straw [5:18]
8. Tennessee Jed [8:18]
9. Mexicali Blues [3:39]
10. Deal [4:46]

Disc 2
1. Big River [5:21]
2. Brown-Eyed Woman [5:13]
3. Playing In The Band [20:49]
4. U.S. Blues [5:48]
5. El Paso [4:44]
6. Row Jimmy [8:52]

Disc 3
1. Weather Report Suite [16:08]
Prelude [1:26]
Part I [4:32]
Part II (Let It Grow) [10:10]
2. Dark Star> [26:39]
3. China Doll [5:52]
4. Promised Land [3:46]
5. Not Fade Away> [6:15]
6. Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad [9:58]
7. One More Saturday Night [4:50]

Here’s David Lemieux’s “Seaside Chat” about Volume 9: