Dick's Picks Volume 13
Dick's Picks Volume 13 is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete show recorded on May 6, 1981 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. Bob Weir dedicated "He's Gone" to Bobby Sands, a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on a hunger strike while imprisoned in HM Prison Maze on May 5, 1981. Enclosure. Included with the release is a single sheet folded in half, yielding a four-page enclosure. The front duplicates the cover of the CD, and  the back is mostly black, with a white stripe across the bottom above a circular grey outline of a skull with the number 13 inside. Inside the enclosure, the page on the left contains a single black-and-white photograph of the band on stage, taken looking down on them from an elevated position. The page on the right lists the contents of and credits for the release. 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 13" reads: "This release  was digitally remastered directly from the original cassette tapes. It is a snapshot of history, not a modern professional recording, and may therefore exhibit some minor technical anomalies and the unavoidable effects of the ravages of time." Personnel. Grateful Dead: Production: