Dick's Picks Volume 25 Dick's Picks Volume 25 Dick's Picks Volume 25 is a four-CD album by the rock group the Grateful Dead. It is the 25th installment of the "Dick's Picks" live archival series. It was recorded May 10, 1978 at Veteran's Memorial Coliseum in New Haven, Connecticut, and May 11, 1978 at the Springfield Civic Center Arena in Springfield, Massachusetts, and released July 20, 2002. "Dick's Picks Volume 25" includes a rare cover version of the Warren Zevon song "Werewolves of London". The album contains essentially two complete concerts, recorded back-to-back on May 10, 1978 at the New Haven Coliseum and May
Warren Zevon acerbic lyrics, he was a guest several times on "Late Night with David Letterman" and the "Late Show with David Letterman". Zevon was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Beverly Cope (née Simmons) and William Zevon. His father was a Jewish immigrant from Russia, whose original surname was Zivotovsky. William Zevon worked as a bookie who handled volume bets and dice games for the notorious Los Angeles mobster Mickey Cohen; he worked for years in Cohen's Combination, in which he was known as Stumpy Zevon, and was best man at Cohen's first wedding. Warren's mother was from a Mormon