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 finally overcame severe alcohol and drug addictions. During this interim period, Zevon collaborated with Bill Berry, Peter Buck and Mike Mills (of R.E.M.), along with backup vocalist Bryan Cook to form a minor project called Hindu Love Gods. The group released the noncharting single "Narrator" for IRS Records in 1984, then went into abeyance for several years. Berry, Buck and Mills served as the core of Zevon's next studio band when he re-emerged in 1987 by signing with Virgin Records and recording the album "Sentimental Hygiene". The release, hailed as his best since "Excitable Boy", featured a thicker rock sound