Furthur Festival
August 1 1996
Ventura Fairgrounds
Ventura, CA

FOB: Nyquist Omnis >Sony TCD-D7 (16bit/48khz)
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-P1 >S/PDIF >HHb CDR 800 PRO (16bit/44.1khz)*

CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.41**

*HHb CDR 800 Changed Sampling Rate Automatically During Digital Transfer.

**WAV >Audacity (Final Track Of Disc I [Happy Birthday To Jerry] Was Extended With A Patch From Disc II Track I To Make One Complete Track. Track I Disc II Was Deleted And Subsequent Tracks Renumbered.)

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Amended Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr
Recorded 40ft In Front Of Left PA Stack.

Missing: Opening Hot Tuna Electric Set, Last Few Songs Of Bruce Hornsby’s Set, And Mickey Hart’s Mystery Box Set

Disc I:

(Los Lobos)

1. Peace
2. Shakin’ Shakin’ Shakes
3. Will The Wolf Survive?
4. Revolution
5. Cinnamon Girl
6. Maricela
7. Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio
8. Let’s Say Goodnight*
9. Mas Y Mas
10. Bertha^

• – w/ Harvey Sorgen On Rubboard
  ^ – w/ Pete Sears On Keyboards

(Alvin Youngblood Hart)

11. Pony Blues
12. Them Fair Weather Friends
13. Joe Friday
14. Gallows Pole
15. Big Mama’s Door
16. Flying Karamazov Brothers wish Jerry Happy Birthday

Disc II:

(Bruce Hornsby)

1. Black Muddy River
2. Spider Fingers >
   xx. Tighten Up >
   (Tempus Fugit)
3. Night On The Town
4. Western Skyline >
5. Iko Iko
6. What A Time >
   –. Jacob’s Ladder
7. Mandolin Rain//
   xx. That Would Be Something > (missing)
   xx. Another Day (missing)

(Mickey Hart’s Mystery Box)
xx. Missing

(Hot Tuna Acoustic)

8. I Am The Light Of This World
9. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning
10. How Long Blues*
11. Let Us Get Together Right Down Here*
12. That’ll Never Happen No More*

• – w/ Hornsby’s Horn Section: Bobby Reed – Saxophone, Steve Berlin – Saxophone

Disc III:

(Ratdog)

1. Walking Blues
2. Wang Dang Doodle *
3. Eternity
4. Blackbird
5. Looks Like Rain +
6. Juke
7. It’s All Over Now
8. I Need A Miracle
9. The Winners >
10. Bass / Jam >
11. Turn On Your Lovelight

Disc IV

(Encores)

1. Playin’ In The Band *** >
2. Proud Mary *** >
3. One Way Out *** >
4. Knockin’ On Heavens Door ***

*-with Cindy Wasserman (Vocals); +-with Bruce Hornsby (Keys)
**-with Hornsby, Los Lobos, Hot Tuna, Mickey Hart, etc….

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
I was hoping for a board patch for the Furthur Festival, because I had heard from other tapers that they were allowing limited board access. (The bands would only allow board patches from Hot Tuna and Los Lobos, and occasionally by Bruce Hornsby, so the other bands were audience or nothing.) Unfortunately I got there late because of traffic and missed my opportunity to plug in because they were only giving access to a certain number of tapers. So, I had no choice but to record the festival up front and hope for a copy of the board tape later. (I had already missed the opening Hot Tuna set.) As it was, I met Jeff Lester at this show, who was fortunate enough to have plugged in with his TCD-D3, and he sent me a copy later of the Hot Tuna and Los Lobos sets. I had brought two 60 meter DAT blanks with me but ran out of tape on the 1st DAT and missed the end of the Hornsby set, and I didn’t notice this until just after the set. I also missed all of Mickey Hart’s Mystery Box because I wanted to conserve my second DAT blank. I like the Ventura Fairgrounds. I taped the Dead there in ’87 and actually had tickets for the ’86 show and drove all the way down before I found out that they were cancelled because of Jerry’s coma. I was there for Jerry in ’92 and ’94. I forgot a cable at the ’92 show and wasn’t able to record with my deck and I met some other tapers there and got a copy later, but I pulled a good one in ’94.

One think I always thought was cool about the beach right next to the fairgrounds is that when the waves would wash in, they would roll the cannon-ball sized rocks around and make a really surreal noise. (It was even better sounding if you were…partaking in party favors.) 🙂

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