Grateful Dead – Oakland, CA (12/18/93)

Grateful Dead
12/18/93
Oakland Coliseum Arena
Oakland, CA

FOB; Nyquist Omnis >Sony TCD-D3 DAT

1st DAT Copy Transferred Via Tascam DA 30 >S/PDIF >HHb CDR 800 PRO
CD >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

Recorded By Jack Hunt
Transfer, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Set I
Disc I:

  1. Jack Straw >
  2. They Love Each Other
  3. Spoonful*
  4. Friend Of The Devil
  5. When I Paint My Masterpiece
  6. Tennessee Jed
  7. Easy Answers
  8. Deal

Set II
Disc II:

  1. Way To Go Home
  2. China Cat Sunflower >
  3. I know You Rider
  4. Playing In The Band >
  5. Uncle John’s Band >
  6. Jam >
  7. Drums >

Disc III:

  1. Space >
  2. I Need A Miracle >
  3. Stella Blue >
  4. One More Saturday Night

Encore:

  1. Box Of Rain
  2. Taper Walk Out

Jerry Garcia – Guitar
Bob Weir – Guitar
Vince Welnick – Keyboards
Phil Lesh – Bass
Bill Kreutzmann – Drums
Mickey Hart – Drums

*1st 54 Seconds Patched With SHINID 141525 To Cover Digital Errors On Master Tape

OldNeumanntapr Notes;
This was the show that I recorded with my Nakamichi CM 300s >D5 up in the tapers section and my friend Jack, who I got my D5 and Nyquist Omni’s from, taped up front. (The Nyquist Omni’s were custom-loaded capsules mounted in a baseball-type hat and built by an out-of-work at the time electrical contractor in Denver. Jack had one and I had one as well, and still do. Thankfully mine was rebuilt by Flying M after it died at a Neil Young concert in the early 2000s.

This was also the show where I first saw a Sony TCD-D7 DAT, The D7 was the first Sony DAT that would run on regular AA alkaline batteries, whereas the TCD-D3 used a rechargeable battery. I wasn’t able to afford a D7 until May of 1995 so in the meantime I used the D5 for live recording.

I guess I liked Jack’s FOB DAT far better than my tapers section masters because I can’t find my tapes anywhere. I would have liked to have also recorded up front but this was back in the days before cell phones were common and there was no way that I could get a hold of him. I remember that he came up to the balcony after the show with his friend John. Though I would return to record two later New Year’s Eve concerts when The Other Ones played in 2000 and 2002, this was the last time that I saw / recorded the Grateful Dead at the Oakland Coliseum Arena.

Jack Copied his DAT shortly after the show and I transferred it with my Tascam DA-30 and HHb CDR 800 CD recorder and converted those discs to FLAC. There were two nasty errors in the master tape near the beginning of ‘Spoonful’ that I repaired by patching 54 seconds from the FOB Neumann KM140 source, ID # 141525.

Jack mentions me in the ‘walk out’ and says, ‘Let’s go find…’. He and his friend John came up to the tapers section as I was packing down. Feel free to delete the last track if you so choose. I used my taper ticket stub for the artwork.

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

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