Dave's Picks Volume 12


Dave's Picks Volume 12 is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded on November 4, 1977 at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. It was produced as a limited edition of 14,000 numbered copies, and was released by Rhino Records on November 1, 2014. The album also includes over 75 minutes of bonus tracks recorded on November 2, 1977 at a concert at Seneca College in Toronto.
The album Dick's Picks Volume 34 was recorded on November 5, 1977—the night after Dave's Picks Volume 12—at the Community War Memorial in Rochester, New York. That album also includes extensive bonus material from the November 2 Seneca College concert.

Critical reception

On All About Jazz, Doug Collette said, "Betty Cantor-Jackson's work is always redolent of a realism in the Dead's mix of instruments and it's further tribute to engineer Jeffrey Norman that he preserves that quality through the HDCD mastering.... No frayed or loose ends are apparent in the music, which the Grateful Dead parlay with a radiant confidence befitting their success on stage earlier in the year. Such virtue certainly isn't uncommon in the group's discography, only rare in that it is so robust throughout in this set."
On AllMusic, Fred Thomas wrote, " documents this spirited, fun from the band, who seem in high spirits throughout two sets that volley back and forth between spacy jamming and tight musicianship. Fan favorites of the era are speckled throughout the collection, including an especially electric "Let It Grow" that blurs into an equally dynamic "Eyes of the World"."

Track listing

Disc 1
  1. "Bertha" – 7:50
  2. "Good Lovin'" – 6:26
  3. "Brown-Eyed Women" – 5:56
  4. "Cassidy" – 5:02
  5. "It Must Have Been the Roses" – 7:42
  6. "Sunrise" – 4:19
  7. "New Minglewood Blues" – 5:38
  8. "Dupree's Diamond Blues" – 6:45
  9. "Let It Grow" – 13:43
  11. Jones Gang introduction – 1:40
  12. "Samson and Delilah" – 7:21
  13. "Cold Rain and Snow" – 6:03
Disc 2
  1. "Playing in the Band" – 13:03
  2. "Eyes of the World" – 13:11
  3. "Estimated Prophet" – 11:18
  4. "The Other One" – 4:25
  5. "Drums" – 3:35
  6. "Iko Iko" – 10:47
  7. "Stella Blue" – 11:45
  8. "Playing in the Band" – 7:01
  10. "Johnny B. Goode" – 4:44
Disc 3
  1. "Promised Land" – 4:54
  2. "They Love Each Other" – 7:28
  3. "Me and My Uncle" – 3:05
  4. "Big River" – 6:22
  5. "Candyman" – 7:10
  6. "Looks Like Rain" – 8:30
  7. "Ramble On Rose" – 8:41
  8. "Scarlet Begonias" – 10:28
  9. "Fire on the Mountain" – 7:33
  10. "Terrapin Station" – 10:14
Note : The set list for the November 2, 1977 concert at Seneca College Field House in Toronto, Ontario was:

Personnel

;Grateful Dead
;Production