Grateful Dead – Oakland, CA (12/30/90)

Grateful Dead
12/30/90
Oakland Coliseum Arena
Oakland, CA

Set I
Disc I:

1. Tuning
2. Bertha
3. Feel Like A Stranger
4. Candyman
5. Me & My Uncle >
6. Maggie’s Farm
7. High Time
8. Memphis Blues
9. Tennessee Jed
10. Valley Road

Set II
Disc II:

1. Tuning
2. Mississippi Half Step
3. Looks Like Rain
4. Crazy Fingers >
5. Playin’ In The Band >
6. Drums >

Disc III:

1. Space >
2. Terrapin Station
3. Sugar Magnolia

Encore:

4. U.S. Blues

OTS, SEC 112; Nakamichi CM-300 CP-4 Shotgun Capsules >Sony TC-153SD [SA-X100]

SA-X100 Masters Transferred: Sony TC-D5M >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.25

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By Oldneumanntapr

OldNeumanntapr Notes”

This was the first and last time that I ever was present to record all four shows of the Grateful Dead NYE run, and the last time that I used my Sony TC-153SD cassette portable to master a show. I still miss Brent terribly, but I thought that Bruce Hornsby did a great job adding color to the band with tunes like ‘Valley Road’, to close out the first set. I remember experimenting with different microphone set ups on that run. I think I ran a different combo for the first couple of nights, but for the cavernous Oakland Coliseum, I thought that two Nakamichi CM-300 shotguns sounded best from the tapers section. It would be another eight years until I was able to upgrade to Neumann microphones so at the time, my CM-300×3 set was the best I had available. I still miss that trek to Oakland every December that we used to make to catch the New Years shows. Man was it cold and windy! Every time I hear Traffic’s ‘Rock And Roll Stew’, I think of tearing down my recording equipment after a Dead show in Oakland. Healy used to play that song for the house music after the show.

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