The next installment of the Grateful Dead’s Dave’s Pick archival concert series will feature the band’s show from December 3, 1979, at the Uptown Theatre in Chicago.
As Dead archivist David Lemieux notes, the show features keyboardist Brent Mydland, who joined up with the band just months before in the spring of ’79. Highlights of the night include first-set renditions of Dead favorites like “Brown-Eyed Women,” “Ramble On Rose,” “Althea” and “The Music Never Stopped,” plus “Scarlet Begonias”> “Fire on the Mountain,” “Lost Sailor”> “Saint of Circumstance,” “Truckin'” and “Johnny B. Goode” later in the show.
Dave’s Picks Vol. 31, which will be limited to 20,000 numbered copies, also includes selections of “Estimated Prophet”> “Franklin’s Tower” and a jam from the Dead’s 12/4/79 performance at the Chicago venue. Vol 31 was mastered from Dan Healy’s recordings by David Glasser at Airshow Mastering.
More information and pre-order for the collection is available here. Below, hear Lemieux give his take on the selection of 12/3/79 for Vol. 31.

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Tom
July 18, 2019 at 4:14 pmYeah, I’ll take John Mayer over Jerry Garcia any day. He beats him in 3 important ways: guitar, fashion sense, and looks (e.g. chiseled face and lotion-smooth skin).
Patrick Logan
July 18, 2019 at 10:00 am31 live albums! And a bunch of others I guess, for a band that never had a decent singer, and droned on and on and on. I don’t get it. Mass hypnosis perhaps?
dukephoto
July 18, 2019 at 1:48 pmThe acid kicking in???
Harry Palmer
July 17, 2019 at 4:48 pmSorry David but I will enjoy this release. All 20.000 numbered copies sold out in one day so I am not the only one who likes it.
DSahm
July 17, 2019 at 4:41 pmFall ’79 was hot!
David
July 17, 2019 at 4:16 pmTime for a new archivist. This is such a mundane release. As Betty once said, ‘he wasn’t there. He doesn’t know.’
Jeff
July 17, 2019 at 4:53 pmI was there; I was at that show and the next one which is also sampled. These two shoes were amongst the first 150 I had the chance to see beginning in 1969, btw. They were – in my estimation – some of the best of the era. You didn’t like it? That’s fine. You are not required to buy it. Please don’t knock Lemieux because you don’t care for this choice. That’s really silly. I’ll be very happy to have it.