''Dave's Picks Volume 8'' is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert from November 30, 1980, at the Fox Theatre in

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. It was produced as a limited edition of 13,000 numbered copies, and was released on November 1, 2013. This album is the first officially released Grateful Dead matrix recording. Matrix recordings digitally synchronize an amateur audience recording with the soundboard audio in order to add the natural, reverberant sound of the performance hall and the excitement of the audience. This can increase the "live feel" of what might be a "dry", or sometimes relatively lifeless recording. Various ratios of the two can be blended to reduce sound errors from microphone bleeding or errant mixing levels while adding the ambient sounds of the venue and lessening the possibly amateurish sound quality captured by microphones in the audience. ''Volume 8'' was the first of the ''Dave's Picks'' albums to feature

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on keyboards, and the first that was recorded after the 1970s. In a November 2012 article in ''

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'' about the vast recorded legacy of the Grateful Dead, Nick Paumgarten had written about an audience recording of this concert. He was then asked to write the album liner notes, which discuss the provenance of the unusually high quality audience recording (captured from the balcony by Bob Wagner) and reference the popular

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quote comparing writing about music to "dancing about architecture".

Track listing

;Disc 1 :''First set:'' #"Feel Like a Stranger" ( Bob Weir,

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) – 9:19 #"Loser" ( Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 8:17 #"Cassidy" (Weir, Barlow) – 5:14 #"Ramble On Rose" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:55 #"

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" ( Willie Dixon) – 9:33 #"Bird Song" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:22 #" Me and My Uncle" > ( John Phillips) – 2:59 #" Big River" ( Johnny Cash) – 5:55 #"It Must Have Been the Roses" (Hunter) – 7:13 ;Disc 2 #"Lost Sailor" > (Weir, Barlow) – 6:34 #"Saint of Circumstance" (Weir, Barlow) – 6:31 #"Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:03 :''Second set:'' #

" Scarlet Begonias" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:44 #" Fire on the Mountain" ( Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 10:50 #"

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" (traditional, arranged by Weir) – 7:40 #"Ship of Fools" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:49 ;Disc 3 #"

Playing in the Band "Playing in the Band" is a Grateful Dead song. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir composed the music, with some assistance from percussionist Mickey Hart. The song first emerged in embryonic form on the s ...

" > (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 15:53 #"Drums" > (Hart,

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) – 11:25 #"Space" > (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Weir) – 4:23 #"The Wheel" > (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hunter) – 6:49 #"China Doll" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:50 #"

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" > (

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) – 4:01 #" Johnny B. Goode" (Berry) – 4:49 :''Encore:'' #

Uncle John's Band "Uncle John's Band" is a song by the Grateful Dead that first appeared in their concert setlists in late 1969. The band recorded it for their 1970 album '' Workingman's Dead''. Written by guitarist Jerry Garcia and lyricist Robert Hunter, "U ...

" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:46

Personnel

;Grateful Dead * Jerry Garcia –

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* Mickey Hart – drums *

– drums * Phil Lesh –

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– keyboards, vocals * Bob Weir – guitar, vocals ;Production *Produced by Grateful Dead *Produced for release by David Lemieux *Executive producer: Mark Pinkus *Associate producers: Doran Tyson, Ryan Wilson *Mastering: Jeffrey Norman *Recording: Dan Healy *Additional recording: Bob Wagner *Art direction, design: Steve Vance *Cover art:

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*Tape research: Michael Wesley Johnson *Archival research: Nicholas Meriwether *Photography:

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*Liner notes essay "The Fox's Den" by Nick Paumgarten

References

{{Grateful Dead 2013 live albums 08 Rhino Entertainment live albums