Grateful Dead
02/13/88
Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center
Oakland, CA
OTS; Superscope EC-7 Cardioids (Near Coincident) >Sony TC-153SD [XLIIS]
Cassette Masters Transferred Via Denon DR-M12HR >Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48kHz)
WAV >Audacity (Amplify By 11db, Track Splits, Down Sample To 16bit/44.1kHz, Minor Edits [Tape Flips] & Fades) Fix SBEs >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53
Recorded, Transferred, Audacity Post Production, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr
Set I
Disc I:
- Tuning
- Hell In A Bucket >
- Sugaree
- New Minglewood Blues
- Friend Of The Devil
- Mama Tried >
- Big River (tape flip)
- Loser
Set II
Disc II:
- Iko Iko
- Looks Like Rain
- Gimme Some Lovin’ >
- Jam > *
- Drums > (tape flip)
Disc III:
- Space >
- The Other One >
- Wharf Rat >
- Good Lovin’ >
- One More Saturday Night
- Black Muddy River
Jerry Garcia – Guitar (Without Jerry *)
Bob Weir – Guitar
Brent Mydland – Keyboards
Phil Lesh – Bass
Bill Kreutzmann – Drums
Mickey Hart – Drums
OldNeumanntapr Notes;
I always liked the Kaiser Convention Center, mostly because it was smaller than the Oakland Coliseum Arena. I saw my very first Dead show at Henry J. Kaiser on Feb 9 1986, and we sat in the tapers section by accident because I wanted to be in the balcony and not on the floor dealing with standing room only. (I spent half of my time at my first show staring at the tapers and the other half watching the band. Afterward I understood the phrase, ‘When you absolutely have to be there, every night!’) I knew from my first show that I wanted to be a taper.
I remember thinking that it was odd that Jerry left the stage for the jam after ‘Gimme Some Lovin’.
I think it was one of these two shows that, as we were running in through the doors, another taper exclaimed to his friend that ‘We fulfill a Valuable archival purpose!’ I never forgot that because it rang true with me. It’s so amazing to go through my early masters all these years later because if a picture is worth a thousand words, an audio recording is a complete volume!
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 needed 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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