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Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks Volume 16: Fillmore Auditorium 11/8/69 (Grateful Dead GD4036 3XCD)

Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, May 2000

ALTHOUGH GRATEFUL Dead tape archivist Dick Latvala died last year, his guiding hand still pushes along the project that carries his name. That Grateful Dead Records are continuing this series of concert recordings — culled from the group's secret stash — is good news for devoted Deadheads, whose appetite for Dead music is seemingly insatiable.

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