Grateful Dead – Oakland, CA (12/31/89)

Grateful Dead
December 31, 1989
Oakland Coliseum Arena
Oakland, CA

Notes:
Big Boss Man with Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt opened, you can find her show here.

Disc 1: Set One

01. Sugar Magnolia >
02. Touch Of Grey >
03. Man Smart, Woman Smarter
04. Big Boss Man *
05. Memphis Blues
06. Shakedown Street

Disc 2:
Set Two
01. NYE Countdown >
02. Iko Iko **
03. Victim Or The Crime *** >
04. Dark Star *** >
05. Drums *** >

Disc 3:
01. Space *** >
02. Dear Mr. Fantasy > Hey Jude Finale >
03. Goin’ Down The Road Feelin’ Bad >
04. Throwing Stones
05. Not Fade Away

Encore 1:
06. Brokedown Palace >
07. Sunshine Daydream
Encore 2:
08. Midnight Hour

Notes:

* – w/ Bonnie Raitt
** – w/ Taro Hart
*** – w/ Airto Moreira
New Grass Revival & Bonnie Raitt opened
LTP; 04/09/88
LTP; 07/31/88

I have three sources for this show.

Source: (OTS) Nakamichi CM-300 CP-4’s >TCD-D10
Lineage: Master DAT >Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800
Recorded, Transferred, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr
Extraction [CD >EAC >WAV >FLAC]: Brad Foster (6/27/10)
B&W Photos By OldNeumanntapr (Pentax MX w/80-200 f/4.5-5.6 Maraxar zoom w/T-Max 3,200 film)

OldNeumanntapr Notes; This was the fourth show that I recorded with my friend Gene’s Nakamichi CM 300 shotguns and Sony TCD-D10 DAT, and also my very first Grateful Dead New Year’s Eve show. It was my 31st concert recording overall that I had made. [I’m lumping the Bonnie Raitt opener in with the Dead as #31.] (This was also my very first ‘Dark Star’, though it was only the first verse.) I remember that right after the show on the 30th finished we got in line for priority tickets for NYE that would be handed out in the morning, and we stayed in the cold Oakland night air all night long. It was worth it because, with the addition of the priority tickets, we were able to get a decent spot in the tapers section.

Bonnie Raitt opened and she was blisteringly hot, coming off of a rocking comeback album. I wish I would have had a spare DAT blank and NP22H NiCad battery to re4cord her set. I recorded it with my D6, but the DAT sounded oh so much better!

I shot some photos with my Pentax MX of the NYE fireworks just before the second set started. I developed and printed them in the Cuesta College darkroom, because I was going to community college at the time and was on the newspaper staff. I think I even used newspaper film for this one because I was poor.

This was the first of three New Year’s Eve Grateful Dead shows that I would make it inside for. I recorded the 1989 and 1990 shows from the tapers section but the 1991 show we got shut out when we got inside and found that the entire tapers section had coats over the seats ‘reserving’ it for others. We ended up sitting in the nose bleed seats for that, last, NYE show with the taping gear still in the bag. I also recorded two ‘Other Ones’ New Year’s Eve shows at the Oakland Coliseum in 2000 and 2002. I included a scan of all three of my New Year’s Eve ticket stubs together, though I wasn’t able to record the 1991 NYE show.

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