Tag: 1989

Uncle Tupelo – St. Louis, MO (10/13/89)

UNCLE TUPELO
Cicero’s Basement Bar, St. Louis, MO
October 13, 1989

Uncle Tupelo Upgrade Series, Vol. 5

Source: Soundboard, likely master or first generation cassette, from the band’s archive

taper unknown (it may have been Tim Albert who ran sound at many of their early shows)

Transfer to DAT (by Shayne Stacy, 1994): cassette (from Uncle Tupelo’s archive) > consumer Aiwa belt drive deck > Sony DTC690 using monster audio cables > DAT (90M tape, 32 kHz)
Transfer from DAT (by mrpember, October 2020): DAT clone(1) > Tascam DA-20 > M-Audio Audiophile USB > PC > Audacity (minor edits, pitch correction) > CD Wave Editor (tracking) > TLC > Flac (8)

01- Otherside
02- Sin City [Flying Burrito Brothers cover]
03- Graveyard Shift
04- D.Boon
05- Flatness
06- Cocaine Blues [covered by everybody, most famously by Johnny Cash]
07- Outdone
08- Screen Door (electric version)
09- So Called Friend
10- Baby, Please Don’t Go [traditional]
11- Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door [Bob Dylan cover]
12- Train
13- Whiskey Bottle
14- Fortunate Son [Creedence Clearwater Revival cover]
15- Factory Belt
16- Mercedes Benz [Janis Joplin cover]
17- No Matter What [Badfinger cover]
18- That Year
19- Life Worth Livin’
20- Looking For A Way Out (fast “There Was a Time” version)
21- Mannish Boy (sort of) [Muddy Waters cover]
22- A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall [Bob Dylan cover]
23- Gimme, Gimme, Gimme [Black Flag cover]

LINEUP

Jay Farrar: guitar, harmonica, vocals
Jeff Tweedy: bass, vocals
Mike Heidorn: drums — and possibly the mystery vocalist on track 21?

The purpose of the Uncle Tupelo Upgrade Series is to circulate live recordings of Uncle Tupelo and related bands with known lineages, focusing on recordings taken directly from masters or from the cleanest, lowest generation copies available. Some are shows that have circulated online for years with unknown or incorrect lineages and others are shows that have not been widely circulated in the file-sharing era. I will share any information I have regarding the recordings, as well as any features of the shows themselves that make them special to me.

NOTES ON THE RECORDING

In late 1994, Uncle Tupelo’s management very generously allowed taper / collector / superfan Shayne Stacy access to their archive of live cassette tapes. That is if you consider a bunch of cassette that they had thrown in a box in the closet, many with very little or no identifying information, to be their “archives.” Most of those recording as well as an embarrassment of other great shows are available for streaming on Shayne’s website, https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/.

This recording is one of three shows from Cicero’s Basement Bar from 1989 that were in that box of cassettes, with the others from June 30 and August 25. It is hard to overstate how much these tapes meant to me and others at the time since there were no circulating tapes at all of the many, many shows they played at Cicero’s, which was their homebase during their early years. It was like this major piece of their development and history was completely undocumented. The fact that these soundboard tapes actually sounded pretty good was semi-astounding; Cicero’s was a tiny basement that maybe held 150 people, and Uncle Tupelo played very loud. If you’ve heard many board tapes of loud bands in small rooms you know that the mixes are usually awful, lots of drums and vocals with very little guitar, etc. These shows are quite raw but they sound good enough that I suspect that the sound engineer (possibly Tim Albert who did sound for them at many early shows, he also recorded some of their early demos) created separate 2-track mixes just for the tapes. As for the lineage of those tapes, the fact that no one had heard any of these before Shayne was given access to their archives makes me suspect that these cassettes in the box likely are the original masters and not copies; if a fan / taper had recorded these shows and the tapes in that closet were copies, I think they would have gotten spread around. The sound on this October 13 show is maybe a hair under the other two Cicero’s board tapes from ’89, and it is not complete (I suspect this show would have gone on at least another 30 minutes), but I don’t think it has circulated as widely and it is still a really fascinating listen if you are a fan of the early days of the band.

FYI, this version of Cicero’s closed in 1997, there is another Cicero’s down the street that still has live bands but the magic happened at the old location. That old location is now the site of the Duck Room which is below Blueberry Hill in the Delmar Loop.

NOTES ON THE SHOW

The recordings of these long, sloppy, beer-soaked early shows at Cicero’s would likely make the band members cringe if they heard them today (Jeff Tweedy has said he can’t listen to his voice from back then), but from a fan’s perspective they are an essential part of their story. I only saw them there a few times, the first time I was suprised to see so many people crowded up next to the tiny stage; it was raised maybe 6 inches so for crowded shows if you actually wanted to see the band you had to be within a few feet of the stage…and everybody wanted to see the band. And these were serious fans / friends who came to every show and sang along with all the originals and the covers. The tapes of these shows reflect what I remember perfectly, both the good and (occasionally) not so good. Like most young bands they didn’t have any type of a road crew or backup equiptment so long breaks between songs to tune or fix guitars were pretty standard. The band tightened up immensely in the few years after this when they started to seriously hit the road, but there is something about the freshness and spirit of those early shows that I still really love.

They started this set with the still unreleased “Otherside” which was included on the LIVE and OTHERWISE cassette in 1988 and (somewhat mysteriously) left out when all of their other old cassette demos were released as bonus tracks on CD re-issues over the years. I’m pretty sure it is the only song they wrote and played live that has not gotten an official release on CD or vinyl. That song is the band at their thrashiest (but dig how they slow down for the bridge and do some cool alternating lead vocals), and following that up with a cover of the Flying Burrito Brothers classic “Sin City” sort of neatly summarizes the early days of the band.

There are a bunch of highlights, blazing versions of most the songs that were recorded a few months later for first album NO DEPRESSION and several that were saved for their second album; it is interesting that Jeff Tweedy had a nearly complete “D.Boon” several years before it was recorded for STILL FEEL GONE. “Screen Door” was a fairly rare electric version and “So Called Friend” was pretty rare even when it was new. Almost half of the set was covers which was typical of the time, but in almost all instances they put their own very unique spin on those songs to the point where it almost didn’t matter if the songs were written by Jay, Jeff, Bob Dylan, John Fogarty, or Black Flag. The Badfinger cover is more than a bit rough (as Jay Farrar acknowledges), and I have no idea what was going on during “Mannish Boy,” but the spirit was there even if some of the lyrics were not.

Enjoy,

mrpember, October 2020

Van Morrison. – Birmingham, England (10/15/89)

Van Morrison
Hippodrome
Birmingham, England
October 15, 1989

Disc 1
01-I Will Be There
02-Whenever God Shines His Light
03-Cleaning Windows
04-It’s All In The Game
05-Orangefield
06-Tore Down A La Rimbaud
07-When Will I Ever Learn To Live In God
08-Beautiful Vision
09-Yeh Yeh(GF)
10-Funny How Time Slips Away
11-Help Me
12-Raglan Road
13-Carrickfergus
14-Full Force Gale
15-Summertime In England

Disc 2
01-Caravan
02-Moondance-Fever
03-Vanlose Stairway
04-Star Of The County Down
05-Northern Muse-Solid Ground-When Heart Is Open
06-In The Garden
07-Have I Told You Lately
08-These Are The Days
09-Gloria-Smokestack Lightning
10-She Moved Through The Fair

Lineup: Ritchie Buckley, Dave Early, Georgie Fame(GF), Steve Gregory,
Bernie Holland, Neil Drinkwater, Brian Odgers

Van Morrison – Belfast, Northern Ireland (08/21/89)

Van Morrison
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Grand Opera House
21 AUG 89

Disc 1

I Love The Life A Live (GF)
Catís Eyes (GF)
Funny How Time Slips Away (GF)
Yeh Yeh (GF)

Did Ye Get Healed
Whenever God Shines His Light
Cleaning Windows
It’s All In The Game
Orangefield
Tore Down a la Rimbaud
When Will I Ever Learn To Live In God
Help Me
Raglan Road
Carrickfergus
Full Force Gale,

Disc 2

Summertime In England
Northern Muse > When Heart Is Open
Caravan, Moondance > Fever
Gloria
Don’t Be Cruel
These Are the Days
Vanlose Stairway > Trans-Euro Train
In The Garden
Moondance (GF reprise)

Van Morrison – Sheffield, England (10/06/89)

Van Morrison
Oct 6 1989
Sheffield City Hall, Sheffield, England

Parchman Farm Blues
Cat’s Eyes
Funny How Time Slips Away
Wavelength
Whenever God Shines His Light
Cleaning Windows
It’s All in the Game / You Know What They’re Writing About
Orangefield
Tore Down a la Rimbaud
Beautiful Vision
When Will I Ever Learn to Live in God
Yeh, Yeh
Inarticulate Speech of the Heart No. 2 / Dweller on the Threshold
Raglan Road
Carrickfergus
Full Force Gale
Summertime in England
Caravan
Moondance/Fever
Vanlose Stairway / Trans-Euro Train
Star of the County Down
Northern Muse (Solid Ground) / When Heart Is Open
In the Garden
Have I Told You Lately
These Are the Days
Gloria / Smokestack Lightning
She Moved Through the Fair

Received in a trade with no source info.
Setlist taken from Setlist.fm

Grateful Dead – Oakland, CA (12/30/89)

Grateful Dead
12/30/89
Oakland Coliseum Arena
Oakland, CA

Disc 1:
Set One

  1. Bertha >
  2. Good Lovin >
  3. Sugaree *
  4. Walking Blues *
  5. Jack A Roe *
  6. When I Paint My Masterpiece *
  7. West L.A. Fadeaway * >
  8. The Music Never Stopped *

Disc 2:
Set Two

  1. Jack Straw >
  2. China Cat Sunflower * >
  3. I Know You Rider *
  4. Estimated Prophet * >
  5. Terrapin Station * >
  6. Drums * >

Disc 3:
Set Two cont/Encore

  1. Space * >
  2. I Will Take You Home * >
  3. The Other One * >
  4. Standing On The Moon * >
  5. One More Saturday Night *
    Encore:
  6. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue

*w/ Airto Moreira

Source: (OTS) Nakamichi CM-300 CP-4’s >TCD-D10
Lineage: DAT-M >Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800
Recorded, Transferred. Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr
Extraction [CD >EAC >WAV >FLAC]: Brad Foster (06/27/10)

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
After getting such good results at the two Great Western Forum shows I recorded with Gene’s new Sony D10 earlier in the month, he offered to ship out the recording gear to me so I could digitally record two of the shows in the ’89 NYE run at the Oakland Coliseum. Once again I used his CM 300 shotguns and Sony TCD-D10 DAT portable and once again I got some nice recordings. I remember thinking that the difference between the D10 DAT and my D6 PRO Walkman cassette was like night and day. The DAT recording had no hiss, an extremely wide frequency response, and a high signal-to-noise ratio. sadly I could not afford to purchase DAT gear for a few more years, but with Gene’s generosity we ‘shared’ the D10 and each recorded Dead shows on our respective coasts.

For these two shows Gene had purchased an additional NP-22H rechargeable NiCad battery for the deck so I didn’t have to shut down during Drums and Space to conserve battery power. Later we would split the cost of an ECO-Charge lead acid battery system.

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
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Grateful Dead – Mountain View, CA (09/30/89)

Grateful Dead
09/30/89
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, CA

Set 1:
d1t01 – Tuning
d1t02 – Bertha ->
d1t03 – Greatest Story Ever Told
d1t04 – West L.A. Fadeaway
d1t05 – Queen Jane Approximately
d1t06 – Row Jimmy
d1t07 – Let It Grow

Set II

  1. Tuning
  2. Iko Iko
  3. Estimated Prophet
  4. Truckin’ >
  5. Smokestack Lightnin’ >
  6. Drums > (tape flip)
  7. Space >

  1. I Will Take You Home >
  2. The Wheel >
  3. All Along The Watchtower >
  4. Touch Of Grey
  5. encore break

Encore:

  1. U.S. Blues

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

OTS, SEC 202, Row H, Seat 13; Nakamichi CM-300’s w/CP-4 Shotguns >Sony WM-D6C
XLIIS Master Transferred; Denon DR-M12HR Cassette Deck >Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48kHz)
WAV >Audacity (Amplify, Remove & Repair Left-Channel Dropouts In Iko Iko, Minor Edits [Tape Flip], Fades, Down Sample To 16bit/44.1kHz) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC, Tags, And Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
I remember THIS weekend well. After recording the Dead 0n Saturday, 9/29/89 at Shoreline, We started off Sunday afternoon by recording both Weir & Wasserman and the Jefferson Airplane reunion (including a Hot Tuna set sandwiched midway through the set) at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, and then had to book it down to Shoreline to tape the Dead show that evening. Of course we were late, because of bay area traffic. The parking lots at Shoreline were nuts if you weren’t there early, and we got stuck having to park in the back lot near the Christmas tree farm. We ran to the amphitheater carrying all of the recording equipment with the rest of the stragglers and my ex wife turned to me and said as we were running, ‘And now for the 100 yard dash for late tapers division!’ Funny. We got into the reserved section just as the house lights dropped and the band came on stage. The other tapers didn’t seem too happy to let us in after they were already set up and I really didn’t blame them. I remember whispering, ‘We were in the park taping the Airplane.’ Luckily I had my Mini Mag light to help find our seats. We had to sit through the first set and then set up the recording equipment durning the set break. Shoreline was always a good venue in which to see live music, and the Dead in particular. I always got good sounding tapes there and this one was no exception. This was my third year recording the Dead at Shoreline. Thanks to Gene for letting me borrow his Nakamichi CM 300s. This was the third show I used them for. I recorded two shows each at Cal Expo, Shoreline, the Los Angeles Forum, and the Oakland Coliseum Arena NYE run in 1989 with his microphones because I felt they sounded better than my Superscope EC7s.

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
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Grateful Dead – Inglewood, CA (12/10/89)

Grateful Dead
12/10/89
Great Western Forum
Inglewood, CA

Set One

Disc 1:

  1. Hell In A Bucket
  2. Sugaree *
  3. We Can Run
  4. When I Paint My Masterpiece
  5. Loser
  6. Victim Or The Crime
  7. C.C. Rider **
  8. I’m A Man **

Set Two

Disc 2:

  1. Jack Straw *** >
  2. China Cat Sunflower *** >
  3. I Know You Rider ***
  4. Man Smart (Woman Smarter) *** >
  5. Drums/Space >
  6. The Wheel >
  7. I Need A Miracle >
  8. Stella Blue >
  9. Good Lovin’ ***
    Encore:
  10. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue

Notes:

– w/ Bruce Hornsby on accordion
** – w/ Spencer Davis on guitar/vocals (sung as ‘Easy Rider’) & Bruce Hornsby on keyboard
*** – w/ Bruce Hornsby on keyboard (Bruce also sang a verse of ‘Good Lovin’)

Last ‘C.C. Rider’: 04-03-87 [218 shows]

Only ‘I’m A Man’
Extended intro on ‘Baby Blue’
Portions of Drums/Space were not recorded to conserve battery power

OldNeumanntapr Notes;The December ’89 Inglewood Forum shows were the only Dead concerts that I recorded in Los Angeles. My ex wife and I stayed with my friend John Lech, in Malibu, and I did the Saturday and Sunday shows. This was the first time that I used my friend Gene’s relatively new grey-market Sony TCD-D10 DAT. I think there was only one other DAT recorder in the tapers section and everyone wanted a look at the D10.

At least for the Sunday show we were able to ride to the show with John and his girlfriend Edie because I made sure he had his tickets, and I didn’t have to go through a repeat of yesterday’s struggles.

I remember the little low swinging gate that you had to go through to get onto the floor and I was thinking about the Lakers playing basketball there and walking through that same gate time after time.

We were in the second row of the tapers section directly behind the board. I had to shut the DAT off during most of Space and part of Drums because we only had two of the NP-22H NiCad rechargeable batteries and I didn’t want to run out of power. Between the Forum shows and the ’89 NYE run at the Oakland Coliseum Gene bought one additional NiCad battery so we could record the complete show.

I patched my Sony WM-D6C out of the D10 for these shows but was fortunately able to copy the DAT masters years later once I switched to DAT.

This was the only time that I have seen Spencer Davis, and this was the only time that ‘I’m A Man’ was performed by the Dead.

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
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Grateful Dead – Los Angeles, CA (12/09/89)

Grateful Dead
1989-12-09
Great Western Forum
Inglewood, CA

Source: Nakamichi CM-300s w/CP-4’s >Sony TCD-D10
Lineage: M-DAT >DAT/1 >Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO via analog i/o
Location: 2nd row OTS
Recorded, Transferred, FLAC Tags & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr
CDR >EAC >TLH (6 )>FLAC: Brad Foster (10/25/09)

Set One

Disc 1:

  1. Touch Of Grey
  2. Minglewood Blues
  3. Row Jimmy
  4. Mexicali Blues >
  5. Cumberland Blues
  6. Bird Song
  7. One More Saturday Night

Set Two

Disc 2:

  1. Foolish Heart
  2. Playin’ In The Band >
  3. Crazy Fingers >
  4. Uncle John’s Band >
  5. Playin’ Reprise >
  6. Drums/Space >
  7. Dear Mr. Fantasy* >
  8. Lovelight
    Encore:
  9. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

Notes:

  • – ‘Hey Jude’ finale
  • Bird Song appears on “Without A Net”
  • Portions of Drums/Space were not recorded to conserve battery.

OldNeumanntapr Notes;
The December ’89 Inglewood Forum shows were the only Dead concerts that I recorded in Los Angeles. My ex wife and I stayed with my friend John Lech, in Malibu, and I did the Saturday and Sunday shows. This was the first time that I used my friend Gene Juteau’s relatively new grey-market Sony TCD-D10 DAT. I think there was only one other DAT recorder in the tapers section and everyone wanted to look at the D10.

As I remember, once we got to the hotel where my other friend Gene Bellegarde was staying with his crew, John realized that he had forgotten his tickets and he and his girlfriend Edie went back and left Nikki and me at the hotel to ride to the show with Gene and his friends. Nikki and I were riding in the back of an old VW bus and we got lost trying to get to the Forum. I looked out the window and all I saw were ramshackle old houses painted in wild colors, like pink and purple, etc. I was really worried that we were going to get mugged and I was going to lose the D10 and with my menial job at the time it would have taken me a long time to pay it off!

Fortunately we got to the show OK and everything was fine, except that security briefly held up my ex wife at the doors because she had the microphone stand and they were flagging it as a weapon. (We used to work as a team. I would take the taping bag and sprint for the tapers section and she would follow with the stand.) I wondered why it took her a while to find me until she told me what happened. I asked her how she made it in and she said that when the security guy turned his head briefly after making her stop she took off running! (I THINK this happened on the Saturday show, 12/9/89 but I’m not absolutely certain.)

I remember the little low swinging gate that you had to go through to get onto the floor and I was thinking about the Lakers playing basketball there and walking through that same gate time after time.

We were in the second row of the tapers section directly behind the board. I had to shut the DAT off during most of Space and part of Drums because we only had two of the NP-22H NiCad rechargeable batteries and I didn’t want to run out of power. Between the Forum shows and the ’89 NYE run at the Oakland Coliseum Gene bought one additional NiCad battery so we could record the complete show.

I patched my Sony WM-D6C out of the D10 for these shows but was fortunately able to copy the DAT masters years later once I switched to DAT.

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

GratefulDead – Mountain View, CA (09/29/89)

Grateful Dead
9/29/89
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, CA

OTS, Section 202, Row H, Seat #5; Nakamichi CM-300 CP-4 Shotgun Capsules >Sony WM-D6C [XLIIS]

XLIIS Master Transferred: Sony TC-D5M >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.25
FLAC Tags Via xACT 2.53

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

Set I
Disc I:

  1. Tuning >
  2. Let The Good Times Roll
  3. Feel Like A Stranger
  4. Franklin’s Tower
  5. Wang Dang Doodle
  6. Jack A Roe
  7. Memphis Blues (tape flip)
  8. We Can Run But We Can’t Hide
  9. Bird Song
  10. Promised Land

Set II:
Disc II:

  1. Tuning >
  2. China Cat Sunflower >
  3. I Know You Rider
  4. Blow Away
  5. Tuning/Equipment Problem Break
  6. Playin’ In The Band >
  7. Terrapin Station >
  8. Drums > (tape flip)

Disc III:

  1. Drums >
  2. Space >
  3. I Need A Miracle >
  4. Death Don’t Have No Mercy >
  5. Sugar Magnolia

Encore:

  1. The Mighty Quinn

Last ‘Death Don’t Have No Mercy’ 3/21/70 Early [1334]

OldNeumanntapr Notes;
I remember THIS weekend well. Saturday’s show recording went pretty well. I was stunned to hear the first notes of ‘Death Don’t Have No Mercy’ in the second set. I remember thinking that the opening notes sounded vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place them at first. I got a chill when I realized that it was in fact the song that I thought it was. The crowd went nuts, seeing how it was going to be the first time this song had been played in 19 years! Jerry’s vocals were so chilling, and Brent’s vocals were amazing. I miss both of them so much.

We stayed Saturday night in Oakland with my friend Ron at the house he rented on Wilson St.

Sunday was an adventure. We started off recording Weir & Wasserman open for the Jefferson Airplane reunion (including a Hot Tuna set sandwiched midway through the set) at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco in the afternoon, and then had to book it down to Shoreline to tape the Dead show that evening. Of course we were late, because of bay area traffic. The parking lots at Shoreline were nuts if you weren’t there early, and we got stuck having to park in the back lot near the Christmas tree farm, which is like the ’lot from Hell’. We ran to the amphitheatre carrying all of the recording equipment with the rest of the stragglers and my ex wife turned to me and said as we were running, ‘And now for the 100 yard dash for late tapers division!’ Funny. We got into the reserved section just as the house lights dropped and the band came on stage. The other tapers didn’t seem too happy to let us in after they were already set up and I really didn’t blame them. Luckily I had my Mini Mag light to help find our seats. We had to sit through the first set and then set up the recording equipment during the set break.
(I was borrowing a set of Nakamichi CM-300s from a friend for this weekend’s shows. I was hesitant to take them into Golden Gate Park for the Airplane show because I didn’t know if taping would be allowed. It was, and I had ‘played it safe’ and left them locked up back in Oakland and had to use my Aiwa CM-30 for the SF gig. I ran the same Nakamichi CM-300s with CP-4 shotgun capsules with my WM-D6C for the Dead shows.)

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
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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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