Jefferson Airplane & Hot Tuna – San Francisco, CA (09/30/89)

Jefferson Airplane & Hot Tuna
9/30/89
Polo Fields
Golden Gate Park,
San Francisco, CA
1989 Reunion Tour

Bob Weir and Rob Wasserman opened.

FOB; Aiwa CM-30 Stereo Cardioid >Sony WM-D6C
XLIIS Cassette Master Transferred: Sony TC-D5M >Tascam DR-100mkII (16bit/44.1kHz) >WAV

Sound Forge Pro 14.0 Build 140 [Boz Digital Labs T-Bone2 plug-in (tilt EQ) & normalize] >

Audacity (Track Splits) >Fix SBEs >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

Recorded, Transferred, Audacity, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr
Soundforge Post Production By Dennis Orr

Set I:
Disc I:

  1. She Has Funny Cars
  2. Somebody To Love
  3. Plastic Fantastic Lover
  4. Won’t You Try Saturday Afternoon?
  5. Today
  6. Good Shepard
  7. Lather
  8. Solidarity
  9. Wooden Ships
  10. America
  11. Freedom
  12. announcement*

Disc II:
Hot Tuna Acoustic Set:

  1. San Francisco Bay Blues
  2. Walkin’ Blues
  3. Death Don’t Have No Mercy
  4. I’ll Be Alright Someday
  5. 99 Year Blues
  6. Third Week In The Chelsea**

Set II:

  1. Panda
  2. Miracles
  3. The Wheel
  4. Paul, Grace announcement / thanks

Disc III:

  1. Ice Age
  2. band intros
  3. Summer Of Love
  4. True Love
  5. Planes
  6. White Rabbit
  7. Volunteers

Encore:

  1. It’s No Secret
  2. Rock Me Baby
  3. Crown Of Creation
  4. 3/5th Of A Mile In 10 Seconds

Paul Kantner – Electric Guitar, Vocals
Marty Balin – Vocals
Jack Casady – Electric Bass
Jorma Kaukonen – Electric Guitar, Vocals
Kenny Aronoff – Percussion
Grace Slick – Vocals
Randy Jackson – Keyboards
Peter Kaukonen – Keyboards
Tim Gorman – Keyboards

Bob Weir & Rob Wasserman Opened. Their set can be found here:
https://archive.org/details/bw1989-09-30.cm30.flac16

*Oxfam Announcement With Clayton Horton & Wavy Gravy
**w/Additional Airplane Band Members

Tape flips between tracks:

Disc 1: 09 & 10
Disc 2: 06 & 07
Disc 3: 06 & 07

OldNeumanntapr Notes;
This was billed as a free show, but we were still hesitant to bring the Nakamichi CM-300s. I wished I would have, because it was a completely free and open taping event. I even saw a Pro video camera there. I ran the Aiwa CM-30 microphone clipped to the outside of a hat, and stood as tall as I could. Weir & Wasserman opened for a reunited Jefferson Airplane, which was the highlight of the afternoon. Hot Tuna also played an acoustic set in the middle of the Airplane set. I thought that the sound at the show was heavy on midrange and it shows in the recording, unfortunately. Bill Graham made a comment during the show and said that he hoped both bay area baseball teams would square off for the World Series and they would close the Bay Bridge, for a party. It was amazing weather, which some people said felt like earthquake weather. 16 days later the big Loma Prieta Earthquake struck the bay area, collapsing freeways and closing down the Bay Bridge. Freaky. After this afternoon set was over, we hoofed it down to Shoreline for the Grateful Dead show that night, having also recorded the Dead show the night before. (What a weekend!) We got into the taper section late and only were able to record the second set.

My ex wife Nikki and I rode to San Francisco with my friend Taper Ron, from Oakland, because I was leery of parking two cars at Golden Gate Park, but maybe it would have been better if we had so we didn’t have to go back to Oakland after the show and make our way down 880 through the East Bay.

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