Victim Or The Crime

Grateful Dead

Built To Last, Grateful Dead, 1989
Without A Net, Grateful Dead, 1990
Dick's Picks, Vol. 17, Grateful Dead, 2000
View From The Vault II, Grateful Dead, 2001
Beyond Description, Grateful Dead, 2004

Live performances on official download releases
Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 9 - 4/2 & 3/89, Grateful Dead, 2006

Live performances on video/DVD
View From The Vault II, Grateful Dead, 2001

Bob Weir / Ratdog

Weir/Wasserman: Live, Bob Weir / Rob Wasserman, 1998
Wilkes-Barre PA: October 21, 2003, Ratdog, 2003
Milwaukee WI: November 1, 2003, Ratdog, 2003
Columbus OH: November 8, 2003, Ratdog, 2003
DeKalb IL: November 14, 2003, Ratdog, 2003
Memphis TN: November 21, 2003, Ratdog, 2003
Phoenix AZ, February 28, 2004, Ratdog, 2004
Seattle WA, March 8, 2004, Ratdog, 2004
Rochester NY, March 19, 2004, Ratdog, 2004
Philadelphia PA, March 26, 2004, Ratdog, 2004
Tulsa OK, September 15, 2004Ratdog, 2004
Las Vegas NV, February 6, 2005, Ratdog, 2005
Indianapolis IN, April 4, 2005, Ratdog, 2005
Norfolk VA, April 29, 2005, Ratdog, 2005
Charlottesville, VA, August 7, 2005, Ratdog, 2005
Chicago, IL, October 27, 2005, Ratdog, 2005
Mashantucket, CT, November 5, 2005, Ratdog, 2005
Santa Fe, NM, December 3, 2005, Ratdog, 2005
San Diego, CA, December 9, 2005, Ratdog, 2005
Portland, OR, December 16, 2005, Ratdog, 2005
North Charleston, SC, March 16, 2006, Ratdog, 2006
Northampton, MA, March 23, 2006, Ratdog, 2006
Syracuse, NY, March 30, 2006, Ratdog, 2006
Santa Rosa, CA, June 9, 2006, Ratdog, 2006
Morrison, CO, July 1, 2006, Ratdog, 2006
New York, NY, July 14, 2006, Ratdog, 2006
Mariaville, NY, August 19, 2006, Ratdog, 2006
Baltimore, MD, August 26, 2006, Ratdog, 2006
Westbury NY, October 31, 2006, Ratdog, 2006
Lowell MA, November 10, 2006, Ratdog, 2006
Boca Raton FL, November 18, 2006, Ratdog, 2006
Portland OR, February 16, 2007, Ratdog, 2007
Rochester NY, March 3, 2007, Ratdog, 2007
Boston MA, March 13, 2007, Ratdog, 2007
Asheville NC, March 23, 2007, Ratdog, 2007
Milwaukee WI, July 5, 2007, Ratdog, 2007
Cleveland OH, July 16, 2007, Ratdog, 2007
Morrison CO, July 24, 2007, Ratdog, 2007
Darien Center NY, August 19, 2007, Ratdog, 2007
Burlington, VT, November 2, 2007, Ratdog, 2007

Notes

Bob Weir spoke about the writing of Victim Or The Crime and it's emergence as a Grateful Dead song in an interview with Blair Jackson;

I had originally written it for the Grateful Dead in 1983 or 1984. I write a snatch of a chorus and then I showed that to my friend Gerrit Graham and we talked about it a little bit, and then he fleshed it out lyrically, and I fleshed out the music as well. When I originally brought it around to the band, the way I wrote it and the way it came together, it's a very complicated piece and it didn't get a whole lot of attention because there was a lot of other material we were working on at the time. So I did it a little bit with the Midnites, then did it solo, and then brought it around again a few months ago to a warmer response. SO at that point we started putting it together as a Grateful Dead song.

Garcia also spoke to Blair Jackson about the song;

It's a hideous song. It's very angular an unattractive sounding. It's not an accessible song. It doesn't make itself easy to like.. It just doesn't sound good, or rather, it sound strange. It has strange steps in it, but that's part of what makes it interesting to play. Bob's songs sometimes don't make sense in a direct, traditional way.