Grateful Dead – Sacramento, CA (06/09/90)

Grateful Dead
06/09/90
Cal Expo Amphitheater,
Sacramento, CA

OTS; Nakamichi CM-300s x3; Two CP-4 Shotgun Capsules + One CP-3 Super Omni Mixed With Radio Shack Mixer >Aiwa HD-X1 DAT >Sony WM-D6C (Patch) [TDK MA110s]

MA110 Masters Transferred Via Denon DR-M12HR Cassette Deck >Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48kHz)

WAV >Audacity (Amplify, Track Splits, Balance Chanel Levels, Minor Edits [Tape Flips], Fades) >Fix SBEs >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

(Audience Cassette Master Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr)

Set I
Disc I:

  1. Tuning
  2. Let The Good Times Roll
  3. Feel Like A Stranger
  4. Peggy-O
  5. Me & My Uncle >
  6. Mexicali Blues
  7. Loser
  8. When I Paint My Masterpiece
  9. Loose Lucy
  10. Cassidy >
  11. Don’t Ease Me In

Set II
Disc II:

  1. Victim Or The Crime >
  2. Touch Of Grey >
  3. Looks Like Rain >
  4. Terrapin Station >
  5. Drums >
  6. Space >

Disc III:

  1. Dear Mr. Fantasy >
  2. Hey Jude >
  3. All Along The Watchtower >
  4. Stella Blue >
  5. Turn On Your Lovelight

Encore:

  1. Black Muddy River

Jerry Garcia – Guitar
Bob Weir – Guitar
Brent Mydland – Keyboards
Phil Lesh – Bass
Bill Kreutzmann – Drums
Mickey Hart – Drums

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
This was the last time that I have been to Cal Expo to see the Dead, or any other band for that matter. I patched my Sony WM-D6C out of my friend John Lech’s Aiwa DAT and ended up buying his Nakamichi CM 300 microphones later in 1990 when he sold them to buy smaller stealth mics. Cal Expo was a nice smaller outdoor amphitheater and the first time I saw the Dead there was in May of 1986, the weekend that the Chernobyl radiation cloud passed over northern California. (Funny the things that you remember.) the 1986 Cal Expo shows were my very first attempt at recording the Dead and those tapes were a dismal failure, between the rain, the acid, and the mismatched hand-help microphones and boom box that I was trying to record with. Harkening back to a Monty Python quote from ‘The Holy Grail’,…”I Got Better!”

We camped at Folsom Lake, just east of Sacramento in the foothills, on Saturday night. My friend Tim Harris and his group were there so we joined their camp site.

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
Enjoy! Share freely, don’t sell, play nice, don’t run with scissors, etc. 😉

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