Grateful Dead
10/4/87
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, CA
Source: (OTS/Lawn/Center) Superscope EC-7 Cardioid Condensers (Near Coincident) >Sony TC-153SD
Lineage: Cass/M > D5 > HHb 800 > EAC > CDWav > FLAC
Recorded/Transferred: OldNeumanntapr
Extraction: Brad Foster
FLAC >WAV >Audacity (Combine Tracks To A One-Track File, Amplify By 2.8db, Re-Track On Original Index Points) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53 (And Front-Cover Artwork) By OldNeumanntapr
Set One: [00:43:56]
Disc I:
- Jack Straw
- When Push Comes To Shove
- Walking Blues
- High Time
- Desolation Row
- Iko Iko
Set Two: [01:23:21]
Disc II:
- Hell In A Bucket
- Devil With The Blue Dress On >
- Good Golly Miss Molly >
- Devil With The Blue Dress On >
- Estimated Prophet >
- Eyes Of The World >
- Drums >
- Space >
Disc III:
- I Need A Miracle >
- Dear Mr. Fantasy >
- Wharf Rat >
- Not Fade Away >
- NFA crowd >
~ Encore ~ - Touch Of Grey
- Brokedown Palace
Total Tracks = [02:07:17]
Notes:
Desolation Row cuts right after the last note, only crowd cheering missing.
Final ‘Blue Dress’, Final ‘Good Golly.’
— Thanks to Jeff for sharing his master/transfer!
All discs extracted in secure/range mode, seamlessly joined to one file and re-tracked by set.
Enjoy!
OldNeumanntapr Notes:
My second Shoreline Dead show, following the previous night, and the last time the Grateful Dead tapers section would be up on the lawn. In subsequent years the tapers would be in Section 202 behind the soundboard. I thought the repeaters added a lot of punch to the sound. I think the Shoreline staff probably complained about microphone stands tearing up the grass because everyone tried to keep their stands from pitching forward on the steep slope. This was the weekend where I met ‘Taper Ron’, who patched into my Sony 153 for the Saturday show. We have been friends ever since, and I used to stay with him in the little house he rented on Wilson Street in Oakland when I would come to town to record the Dead. It was a blast getting to hear ‘Devil With The Blue Dress > Good Golly Miss Molly, and this would be the last time that Brent would perform those tunes.
I still have the advertisements in the SF Chronicle Pink Section for the cancelled 1986 Shoreline shows, which had to be rescheduled to 1987 because of Jerry’s diabetic coma.
[Remaster August 2024; I decided to take all the files into Audacity and raise levels and I think it makes this recording even more punchy. Nothing else has been done, other than to tag the files in xACT. I also decided to change the file names slightly from what Brad did and mark each disc separately, d1, d2, d3. MD 5 checksums for the original files will error now, but FFPs will not.
Do NOT Convert To MP3.
Enjoy! Share freely, don’t sell, play nice, don’t run with scissors, etc. 😉