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 look at life and lust in the L.A. music business (which was, in fact, about his long-time girlfriend and mother of his son, Jordan); and "Desperados Under the Eaves", a chronicle of Zevon's increasing alcoholism. In 1978, Zevon released "Excitable Boy" (produced by Jackson Browne and guitarist Waddy Wachtel) to critical acclaim and popular success. The title tune is about a juvenile sociopath's murderous prom night, referred to "Little Susie", the heroine of his former employer the Everly Brothers's song "Wake Up Little Susie", while songs such as "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" and "Lawyers, Guns and Money" used deadpan