Dave's Picks Volume 17


Dave's Picks Volume 17 is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded on July 19, 1974 at Selland Arena in Fresno, California. It was produced in a limited edition of 16,500 numbered copies, and released on February 1, 2016.
Each year a different person creates the album cover art for the Dave's Picks albums. For 2016 the designated artist was Justin Helton Depicted on the cover of Volume 17 are two skeletons and the band's Wall of Sound concert sound system.

Critical reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine, writing on AllMusic, said, "... the repertoire... doesn't distinguish this show as much as its muscular, elastic snap, where the band is equally eager to delve into funky murk and launch into outer space.... the real pleasure of the Fresno 1974 show is how it showcases everything the Dead could do at that moment—the burnished folk, the old-time rock & roll, the country and funk—and shows that the band was still finding ways to turn the whole thing inside out and back again."

Track listing

;Disc 1
  1. "Bertha" – 6:33
  2. "Mexicali Blues" – 4:06
  3. "Deal" – 4:55
  4. "Beat It On Down the Line" – 3:45
  5. "Row Jimmy" – 8:20
  6. "Me and Bobby McGee" – 6:28
  7. "Scarlet Begonias" – 8:52
  8. "El Paso" – 4:39
  9. "Tennessee Jed" – 7:54
;Disc 2
  1. "Playing in the Band" – 29:14
  3. "Seastones" – 15:13
  5. "Brown-Eyed Women" – 5:11
  6. "Me and My Uncle" – 3:11
  7. "It Must Have Been the Roses" – 5:54
  8. "Jack Straw" – 5:28
;Disc 3
  1. "He's Gone" > – 14:55
  2. "U.S. Blues" – 5:55
  3. "Weather Report Suite" > – 18:47
  4. *"Prelude"
  5. *"Part 1"
  6. *"Let It Grow"
  7. "Jam" > – 9:35
  8. "Eyes of the World" > – 16:32
  9. "China Doll" – 6:33
  10. "One More Saturday Night" – 5:21

Personnel

Grateful Dead
Additional musicians
Production
  • Produced by Grateful Dead
  • Produced for release by David Lemieux
  • Associate Producers: Doran Tyson & Ivette Ramos
  • CD mastering: Jeffrey Norman
  • Recording: Kidd Candelario
  • Art direction, design: Steve Vance
  • Cover art: Justin Helton
  • Photos: Kirk West
  • Liner notes: Nicholas G. Meriwether