Jicks Picks Mission Statement
Jicks Picks is a personal, non-commercial project made from fan traded/circulated recordings and broadcasts. What I love most about this band is their casual ability to make every show feel fun and unpredictable, not just in their jams, but the weirdo covers, the one-offs, the original songs that pop up out of nowhere only to disappear (and sometimes reappear in different form). After years of collecting & hoarding, this was my attempt to trace that feeling across all the shows and recordings I'd gathered, in the spirit of overly ambitious bootleg sets like "Duck Duck Chimp" or "Unsurpassed Masters" (or, yeah...Dick's Picks). Thanks to all who contributed and all the Jicks tapers over the years! The goal was to assemble everything in the lossless domain in best possible quality, but a small number of tracks were transcoded from mp3 and 'restored' as best as I could manage (I'm reaching back to the Napster/Limewire era for some of these ...