Dick's Picks Volume 35
Dick's Picks Volume 35 is the 35th installment of the Dick's Pick's series of  Grateful Dead concert recordings.  It is a four CD set that contains the complete show recorded on August 7, 1971 at Golden Hall in San Diego, California, and a substantial portion of the show recorded on August 24, 1971, at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.  It also includes bonus tracks from August 6, 1971, at the Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood, California.

The album was created using "the houseboat tapes," reel-to-reel soundboard recordings found in 2005 on a houseboat that was owned by Keith Godchaux's parents.  The tapes had been there since 1971.  Godchaux had been given the tapes to listen to shortly after joining the Grateful Dead, so that he could familiarize himself with the band's repertoire in preparation for their next tour.

Dick's Picks Volume 35 includes the only officially released recording of "Empty Pages", a rarely performed song, written and sung by Pigpen, that is not to be confused with the Traffic song of the same name.

Another live Grateful Dead album recorded during this same concert tour is Road Trips Volume 1 Number 3.

Caveat emptor
Each volume of Dick's Picks has its own "caveat emptor" label, advising the listener of the sound quality of the recording.  The one for volume 35 reads:

"Dick's Picks Volume 35 was mastered directly from the original 1/4 track stereo tapes, which had been stored in less-than-optimal conditions for nearly 35 years.  Miraculously, the tapes survived remarkably well, and have been resurrected from the ashes. Some minor sonic anomalies remain, resultant from the ravages of time and the unorthodox storage methods."

Track listing

Disc one
8/7/71 Golden Hall, San Diego, CA
 "Big Railroad Blues" (Noah Lewis, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 4:02
 "El Paso" (Marty Robbins) – 5:40
 "Mr. Charlie" (Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Robert Hunter) – 3:44
 "Sugaree" (Jerry Garcia, Hunter) – 7:24
 "Mama Tried" (Merle Haggard) – 3:05
 "Bertha" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:43
 "Big Boss Man"   (Al Smith, Luther Dixon) – 5:39
 "Promised Land" (Chuck Berry) – 3:56
 "Hard to Handle" (Allen Jones, Al Bell, Otis Redding) – 8:45
 "Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Hunter) – 5:36
 "Casey Jones" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:53
 "Truckin'" (Garcia, Lesh, Bob Weir, Hunter) – 10:08

Disc two
8/7/71 Golden Hall, San Diego, CA
 "China Cat Sunflower" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:28
 "I Know You Rider" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 5:59
 "Next Time You See Me" (William G. Harvey, Earl Forest) – 4:34
 "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 6:28
 "Sing Me Back Home" (Haggard) – 10:50
 "Me & My Uncle" (John Phillips) – 3:39
 "Not Fade Away" > (Charles Hardin, Norman Petty) – 6:25
 "Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad" > (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:10
 "Jam" > (Grateful Dead) – 4:08
 "Johnny B. Goode" (Berry) – 4:31
8/24/71 Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL
 "Uncle John's Band" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:12
 "Playing in the Band" (Weir, Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 5:04
 "Loser" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:09

Disc three
8/24/71 Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL
 "It Hurts Me Too" (Elmore James) – 7:48
 "Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 5:42
 "Empty Pages" (McKernan) – 5:22
 "Beat It On Down the Line" (Jesse Fuller) – 3:45
 "Brown-Eyed Woman" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:11
 "St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 5:31
 "Not Fade Away" > (Hardin, Petty) – 4:08
 "Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad" > (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 8:25
 "Not Fade Away" reprise (Hardin, Petty) – 3:13
 "Me and Bobby McGee" (Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster) – 6:18
 "Big Boss Man"   (Al Smith, Luther Dixon) – 4:30
 "Brokedown Palace" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:03

Disc four
8/24/71 Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL
 "Good Lovin'" (Arthur Resnick, Rudy Clark) – 11:37
8/6/71 Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, CA 
 "The Other One" > (Weir, Bill Kreutzmann) – 8:06
 "Me & My Uncle" >  (John Phillips) – 3:14
 "The Other One" (Weir, Kreutzmann) – 6:25
 "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:48
 "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 7:01
 "Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) – 11:29
 "Turn On Your Love Light" (Joseph Scott, Deadric Malone) – 25:42

Personnel

Grateful Dead
 Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals
 Bill Kreutzmann – drums
 Phil Lesh – electric bass, vocals
 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan – vocals, harmonica, organ, percussion
 Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals

Production 
  Rex Jackson – recording
 David Lemieux – tape archivist
Jeffrey Norman – CD mastering
Eileen Law – archival research
  Robert Minkin – cover art and package design
Chuck Pulin – photography
J.C. Overlock – photography
Emerson-Loew – photography