Grateful Dead – Oakland, CA (12/28/86)

Grateful Dead
12/28/86
Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center
Oakland, CA

Superscope EC-7 Cardioid Condensers (Near Coincident) >Sony TC-153SD [XLIIS]
Lineage: M-Cass >Sony TC-D5M >HHb CDR 800
Location: OTS, Balcony
Recorded/Transferred: OldNeumanntapr
Extraction (CDR >EAC >WAV >FLAC): Brad Foster
FLAC Tags Via xACT 2.53, Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Disc 1 / Set One: [48:33]

  1. Cold Rain & Snow
  2. Minglewood Blues
  3. Row Jimmy >
  4. El Paso
  5. Stagger Lee
  6. Box Of Rain >
  7. Big Railroad Blues >
  8. Promised Land

Disc 2 / Set Two: [46:01]

  1. Scarlet Begonias >
  2. Fire On The Mountain >
  3. Looks Like Rain >
  4. He’s Gone >
  5. Drums >

Disc 3 / Set Two+E: [37:45]

  1. Space >
  2. The Other One >
  3. Black Peter
  4. Sugar Magnolia

Encore:

  1. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue

OldNeumanntapr Notes:

  1. The segue from Big RxR Blues > Promised Land has a tape flip at the very beginning of Promised Land. A couple of words are lost. It looked like others had that same problem. I couldn’t flip sooner because Box Of Rain segued into Big RR Blues. I got the ‘Let Phil Sing’ chant recorded too.
  2. Scarlet starts right off. I guess I didn’t record the tuning before the set.
  3. In those days, I was starting the second set on the back side of the 1st tape (after the 1st set closure.) So there is a flip after He’s Gone with the jam into Drums starting the third disc.
  4. The encore is right after a tape flip, so there is a cut there.

Additional Notes Dec. 30 2016:
Wow! I can’t believe it’s been 30 years since I recorded this show. I look back and laugh, because I had no idea what I was doing then! In those days I paused the deck between songs in the first set and started the second set at the end of the first set tape, not realizing that would give me one extra tape flip. The TC-153SD was a good deck and I still have it, in its original box in the closet. I remember that it was cold in Oakland that night and the ‘Cold Rain’ opener was not that surprising. I was actually hoping for it. This was the first Kaiser show that I recorded.

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;

“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.”

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