Grateful Dead
February 5, 1989
Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center
Oakland, CA
–Set 1–
101-d1t01 – Tuning
102-d1t02 – Touch of Grey
103-d1t03 – Feel Like a Stranger ->
104-d1t04 – Franklin’s Tower
105-d1t05 – Little Red Rooster
106-d1t06 – Althea
107-d1t07 – We Can Run
108-d1t08 – Desolation Row
109-d1t09 – Don’t Ease Me In
–Set 2–
201-d1t10 – Tuning
202-d1t11 – Cold Rain & Snow ->
203-d1t12 – Man Smart (Woman Smarter)
204-d2t01 – Standing on the Moon ->
205-d2t02 – Playin’ in the Band ->
206-d2t03 – Drums ->
207-d2t04 – Space ->
208-d2t05 – I Will Take You Home ->
209-d2t06 – He’s Gone ->
210-d2t07 – I Need a Miracle ->
211-d2t08 – Morning Dew
–Encore–
212-d2t09 – Johnny B. Goode
OTS; Superscope EC-7 Cardioids (Near Coincident) >Sony WM-D6C Master (XLIIS) >CDR >FLAC Audience Master, Center Balcony: Transferred Via: Sony TC-D5M >HHb CDR 800 PRO. CD >FLAC (+ Tags) Via xACT 2.53 (Recorded, Transferred, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr)
OldNeumanntapr notes: I loved seeing the Dead at Henry J. Kaiser. It was much better than the cavernous Oakland Coliseum. I recorded this show with my 1st pair of mics, Marantz Superscope EC-7 cardioids >Sony WM-D6C. I saw the Dead for the first time at Kaiser, Feb 9th 1986. This was a good show. I always liked hearing Bobby do ‘Desolation Row.’ It amazed me how he could get all the words right and then screw up something like ‘Truckin’. These were my last Dead shows that I recorded at Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland, and from what I remember, it was the last time that the Dead would play at Kaiser. They were banned from the venue because of unruly Deadheads using the neighbor’s yards for bathrooms and also clogging the streets because Kaiser didn’t have good parking facilities. We always parked on the street bordering Peralta Park, or in the little cul-de-sac to the south of the convention center. I saw my first Grateful Dead concert at Kaiser on February 9 1986 and will never forget it.
These were the last two shows that I recorded with the Superscope EC 7 Cardioids.
Additional Notes [Sept 2024]; I remember that there were circular ramps at the corners of the building that we would run up on our way to the tapers section in the balcony. It was always a special place to see, and record, the Dead and from what I hear the convention center has been closed for a while because it is need for expensive renovations. Apparently the building, which held 7,000 people and opened in 1915, was closed in 2006 and is currently being renovated. The following paragraph was taken from an online article about the Kaiser renovations, Sept 9, 2022; “During its golden era, the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center hosted luminaries from the musical and political worlds. Elvis Presley, James Brown, and the Grateful Dead were among the artists that performed at the arena. World political figures like Bill Clinton, Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai Lama, and others also graced its hallways. In 1918, the auditorium served as a makeshift hospital during the Spanish flu pandemic. It served a less honorable purpose in 1924 when over 800 Klu Klux Klan members gathered inside the arena for a cross-burning ceremony. More recently, in 2012, Occupy Oakland protesters attempted to take over the building during its “move-in day,” which resulted in a violent clash with police and the arrest of over 400 people. This past March, a demolition crew discovered a mummified body inside one of the walls.” Two photos from the article; https://oaklandside.org/2022/09/09/tour-of-the-renamed-oakland-civic/ are reproduced here. The first is a photo of a backstage light switch that the Grateful Dead crew wrote on at one point in time, and the other is of the current renovations shot from the center of the balcony where the tapers section was. I remember this view really well! Do NOT Convert To MP3. Enjoy! Share freely, don’t sell, play nice, don’t run with scissors, etc. 😉