Tag: 1991

Grateful Dead – Boston, MA (09/26/91)

Grateful Dead
Boston Garden
Boston, MA
September 26, 1991

Matrix

SBD:

Recording Info:
SBD -> Dat -> Cassette Master (TDK SA100)

Transfer Info:
Cassette Master (Sony TC-WE475) -> Apogee MiniMe ->
Samplitude Professional v7.02 -> FLAC
(2 Discs Audio / 2 Discs FLAC)

All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller
charliemiller87@earthlink.net
July 22, 2006

Notes:
— Last 2 seconds of Cumberland supplied by Jeff Fishman’s source
— Most of d2t01 supplied by Jeff Fishman’s source

AUD:

Sennheiser ME-80’s>Technics SV-MD1

DAT Master>Tascam DA-30MKII>Sound Devices 702>Wavelab 5(Fades, Sample Rate Conversion)>CDWAV>FLAC

Recorded, Transferred & Uploaded By Keith Litzenberger

Thank you to Charlie Miller for the SBD transfer,
and to Keith Litzenberger for recording the show and providing the AUD transfer.

Matrix by Hunter Seamons using Final Cut Pro (FLAC>AIFF>Final Cut>WAV>FLAC)
October 11, 2008

Set I

d1t01 – Tuning
d1t02 – Jack Straw ->
d1t03 – Cold Rain and Snow
d1t04 – Wang Dang Doodle
d1t05 – Candyman
d1t06 – Mexicali Blues ->
d1t07 – Cumberland Blues
d1t08 – Picasso Moon ->
d1t09 – Box of Rain

Set II

d2t01 – Tuning
d2t02 – Dark Star ->
d2t03 – Saint of Circumstance ->
d2t04 – Eyes of the World ->
d2t05 – Drums ->
d3t01 – Space ->
d3t02 – The Other One ->
d3t03 – Dark Star ->
d3t04 – Attics of My Life ->
d3t05 – Good Lovin’

Encores

d3t06 – Brokedown Palace ->
d3t07 – We Bid You Goodnight

Notes:

1) SBD source was about 1.5% fast.

2) Cut in the SBD between Cumberland and Moon, before encores, and for the first two minutes of the recording. Brief cut in the SBD near the end of Saint. Sizable Cuts in SBD and AUD during Space – these cuts did not overlap, so the whole song is now present. Brief dropout in the AUD mid Attics.

3) Because of just plain weirdness in the Tuning track of the SBD in set 2, which was mostly the Fishman patch, I opted to only have the AUD play.

4) I noticed some faint clicks/static in the SBD here and there.

Jerry Garcia Band – San Francisco, CA (05/22/91)

JERRY GARCIA BAND
Warfield Theatre
San Francisco CA
05-22-1991

101-s1t01 – How Sweet It Is
102-s1t02 – He Ain’t Give You None
103-s1t03 – That’s What Love Will Make You Do
104-s1t04 – Love in the Afternoon
105-s1t05 – I Second That Emotion
106-s1t06 – Like a Road
107-s1t07 – My Sisters & Brothers
108-s1t08 – Let’s Spend the Night Together

201-s2t01 – The Way You Do the Things You Do
202-s2t02 – You Never Can Tell
203-s2t03 – See What Love Can Do
204-s2t04 – Waiting for a Miracle
205-s2t05 – The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game
206-s2t06 – Tore Up Over You
207-s2t07 – Everybody Needs Somebody to Love

Robert Earl Keen – Hickory, NC (11/23/91)

Robert Earl Keen
Unknown Venue, Hickory NC
11-23-1991

01 Amarillo Highway
02 Whenever Kindness Fails
03 Road Goes On Forever
04 Mariano
05 Sonoraís Death Row
06 Going Down In Style
07 Itís The Little Things
08 Intro to Copenhagen
09 Copenhagen
10 Intro to Crazy Cowboy Dream
11 Crazy Cowboy Dream
12 I Would Change My Life
13 The Front Porch Song
14 Swerviní In My Lane (Cut)
15 The Five Pound Bass

SBD source

Solo acoustic performance, standard dehissed, retracked. Sound fluctuations on first track,
then occasionally through out rest of show as he alternates between strumming and finger picking.

Robert Earl Keen – St. Louis, MO (04/19/91)

Robert Earl Keen – Solo Acoustic Show
Off Broadway, St Louis MO
April 19, 1991

01 Intro to Mariano
02 Mariano
03 Sonoraís Death Row
04 Road Goes On Forever
05 My Baby Left Me (Please Send Her Home)
06 talk
07 Itís the Little Things
08 This Lowdown Lonely Fool
09 Intro to Copenhagen
10 Copenhagen
11 Intro to Jennifer Johnson
12 Jennifer Johnson And Me
13 talk
14 I Would Change My Life
15 Intro to Five Pound Bass
16 Five Pound Bass

01 //Front Porch Song
02 Amarillo Highway
03 Swerviní in My Lane
04 Intro to I’m the Man Around Here
05 Iím the Man Around Here
06 Talk
07 Blow You Away
08 Intro to Armadillo Jackal
09 Armadillo Jackal
10 Willie
11 Crazy Cowboy Dream
12 talk
13 Rolliní By
14 Talk
15 Loveís a Word I Never Throw Around
16 talk
17 Christabel//

Soundboard source

Townes Van Zandt & Guy Clark – Austin, TX (02/16/91)

Townes van Zandt and Guy Clark
Cactus Cafe, Austin TX
1991-02-16

01 No Lonesome Tune
02 LA Freeway
03 Mr Mudd and Mr Gold
04 Fraternity Blues
05 Old Friends
06 Marie
07 Texas 1947
08 Home Grown Tomatoes
09 Let Him Roll
10 intro to Pancho and Lefty
11 Pancho and Lefty
12 Snowiní on Raton
13 Desperados Waiting for a Train

FM > ??? > CDR > EAC > WAV > FLAC

Grateful Dead – Oakland, CA (12/27/91)

Grateful Dead
12/27/91
Oakland Coliseum Arena
Oakland, CA

Nakamichi CM-300×3; Two CP-4 Shotguns + One CP-1 Cardioid >Boss BX-4 Mixer >Sony WM-D6C [w/Dolby C] Cassette Master (MX-S 100)
Masters Transferred Via: WM-D6C (Original Record Deck w/Dolby C Engaged) >HHb CDR 800
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.25

OTS, Low And Center (Exact Row, Seat # Not Recorded)

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

Set I
Disc I:

  1. Tuning >
  2. Cold Rain & Snow
  3. Little Red Rooster
  4. They Love Each Other
  5. Mama Tried >
  6. Mexicali Blues
  7. Loose Lucy
  8. Memphis Blues
  9. Stagger Lee
  10. The Music Never Stopped

Set II
Disc II:

  1. Scarlet Begonias >
  2. Fire On The Mountain >
  3. Looks Like Rain >
  4. Terrapin Station >
  5. Drums > (tape flip)

Disc III:

  1. Space >
  2. The Wheel >
  3. All Along The Watchtower >
  4. Black Peter >
  5. Around & Around

Encore:

  1. It’s All Over Now Baby Blue

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
These shows were kind of a let down, emotionally, after Bill Graham’s passing in the helicopter accident a few months previous. I recorded the 10/27/91 and 10/31/91 shows on the Halloween run. 10/27 was very somber, as it was the first Dead show since Bill’s death, opening with Bill’s favorite song Sugar Magnolia. 10/31/91 was perhaps the most intense Dead show I’ve ever seen, with a stellar song selection and even a visit from Ken Kesey to mark the passage of Bill’s life.

The 12/27/91 show was decent, in my memory, in both song selection/playing and in the recording. It was always nice to see a Scarlet >Fire, and I liked Bobby’s rendition of Dylan songs such as Memphis Blues. Music Never Stopped to end the first set was always a favorite, and the Cold Rain & Snow opener was always to be expected on a cold Oakland night.

I had tickets for the 12/31/91 show, and hoped to record from the OTS. Still, even with priority tickets, we still found ALL of the tapers section had been saved with coats/tape, by the time we got inside. As I remember, few tapers got into the section that night. It was mostly non tapers. We had to sit up in the nosebleeds on Jerry’s side and I didn’t tape at all, even though I had my little Sony quartz lock FM tuner as a back up. I was just too disgusted. The NYE celebration was really lame too, since Bill was not there. All they did was show old NYE Dead footage on the big screen.

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Grateful Dead – Oakland, CA (10/31/91)

Grateful Dead
10/31/91
Oakland Coliseum Arena
Oakland, CA

OTS; Nakamichi CM 300 CP4s >Sony WM-D6C [MX-S 100s w/Dolby C]
MX-S Cassette Masters Transferred Via Denon DR-M12HR w/Dolby C Engaged >Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48kHz)
WAV >Audacity (Amplify, Track Splits, Down Sample To 16bit/44.1kHz, Minor Edits [Tape Flips] & Fades) >Fix SBEs >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

Set I

  1. Tuning
  2. Help On The Way >
  3. Slipknot! >
  4. Franklin’s Tower
  5. Little Red Rooster
  6. Loser
  7. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (tape flip)
  8. Let It Grow

Set II
Disc II:

  1. Tuning
  2. Scarlet Begonias >
  3. Fire On The Mountain >
  4. Truckin’ >
  5. Spoonful > *
  6. Dark Star > *
  7. Ken Kesey Rap $
  8. Drums > (tape flip)

Disc III:

  1. Space >
  2. Dark Star > *
  3. The Last Time *
  4. Standing On The Moon >
  5. Throwing Stones > (tape flip)
  6. Not Fade Away

Encore:

  1. Werewolves Of London *

Final performance of Werewolves Of London

Jerry Garcia – Guitar
Bob Weir – Guitar
Vince Welnick – Keyboards
Bruce Hornsby – Piano, Accordion
Phil Lesh – Bass
Bill Kreutzmann – Drums
Mickey Hart – Drums
Gary Duncan – Guitar *
Ken Kesey – Rap $

OldNeumanntapr Notes;
This was probably the best Dead show I’ve ever seen, and recorded, both in terms of set list and performance. This was my only Halloween show that I’d seen of the Dead, and the band was ON FIRE! After retiring ‘Help On The Way > Slipknot’ for so long it was nice to hear it return. This was my third ‘Dark Star’, and probably the best of the three, and was the only time I’d seen them do ‘Werewolves Of London’. It was quite appropriate for Halloween. Gary Duncan made a return from playing on the 27th and it was cool to see and hear him on ‘Spoonful’ and ‘Dark Star’. This was also the only time I’d seen Ken Kesey and that was really special. There was a guy going through the tapers section that night passing out little raised stick-on pumpkins for Halloween, so I took one and stuck it to the front of my D6. It’s still there!

I went to this show with my ex wife Nikki and my friend Dave. This was the night that I got flustered driving through Oakland going to the Coliseum and accidentally made a left turn onto the railroad racks before making a quick getaway. Hey, I never liked city driving! Dave laughed at me, of course.

When we were coming home, back to San Luis Obispo County, we stopped for a late meal at the Denny’s restaurant in Gilroy. I remember that there were two guys in the lobby talking loudly on big oversized cell phones of the day, and Dave looked at me and said, ‘What do you bet they’re talking to each other!’ Too funny.

We took our new ’91 Honda Civic sedan to this show and Dave was impressed with the cruise control on the way home through the Salinas Valley.

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Grateful Dead – Oakland, CA (10/27/91)

Grateful Dead
10/27/91
Oakland Coliseum Arena
Oakland, CA

Set I
Disc I:

  1. Tuning
  2. Sugar Magnolia >
  3. Sugaree
  4. Walkin’ Blues
  5. Althea
  6. When I Paint My Masterpiece (tape flip)
  7. Candyman
  8. Cassidy
  9. Touch Of Grey
  10. Announcements From David Graham

Set II
Disc II:

  1. China Cat Sunflower >
  2. I Know You Rider >
  3. Samson & Delilah >
  4. Ship Of Fools >
  5. Iko Iko > *
  6. Mona > * (tape flip)
  7. Drums >

Dias III:

  1. Space >
  2. The Wheel >
  3. I Need A Miracle >
  4. Wharf Rat >
  5. Good Lovin’ (tape flip)

Encore:

  1. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

First performance of Mona since March 25, 1972
Last performance of Mona

Jerry Garcia – Guitar
Bob Weir – Guitar
Vince Welnick – Keyboards
Bruce Hornsby – Piano, Accordion
Phil Lesh – Bass
Bill Kreutzmann – Drums
Mickey Hart – Drums
Carlos Santana – Guitar *
Gary Duncan – Guitar *

OTS; Nakamichi CM 300 CP4s >Sony WM-D6C [MX-S 100s w/Dolby C]

MX-S Cassette Masters Transferred Via Denon DR-M12HR Cassette Deck w/Dolby C Engaged >Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48kHz)

WAV >Audacity (Amplify, Track Splits, Balance Channel Levels, Minor Edits [Tape Flips], Fades, Downsample To 16bit/44.1kHz) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53 [Sept. 2024]

(Audience Cassette Master Recorded, Transferred, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr)

OldNeumanntapr Notes;
This was the first Grateful Dead show after Bill Graham’s death from the helicopter crash. It was a very somber night, and they opened with ‘Sugar Magnolia’ in honor of Graham, as it was Bill’s favorite Dead song. ‘Mona’ was a treat to hear. I’d never seen Gary Duncan, from Quicksilver Messenger Service before, and Carlos is always special. I finally managed to drag Shane, my best friend from high school, along to a Dead show, and as I was setting up the recording gear in the tapers section he turned to me and said ‘This looks too much like work!’ I smiled and said that it wasn’t work, it was fun. He had fun watching all the deadheads but still just doesn’t get it. I guess the bus came by but he didn’t get on.

I was up and back from SLO County to the Bay Area three times in a row that week. Once for this show, once for the 10/31/91 Halloween show, and once for the Bridge Benefit on Saturday night followed by the Bill Graham memorial concert in Golden Gate Park on Sunday. It was quite a week!

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Arlo Guthrie – Ventura, CA (03/23/91)

Arlo Guthrie
3/23/91
Ventura Theater
Ventura, CA

1st Row, Left-Side Balcony: Nakamichi CM-300 CP-1’s >Sony WM-D6C,
XLIIS Cassette Master Transferred: Sony TC-D5M >HHb CDR 800 PRO,
Tayio Uden CD Masters Extracted To One-Track WAV Files >Audacity (Track Splits, Minor Edits, Amplify, & Normalize) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Disc I:

  1. Chilling Of The Evening
  2. I Ain’t Got No Home
  3. When The Ship Comes In
  4. The Motorcycle Song
  5. Darkest Hour
  6. Coming Into Los Angeles
  7. Keep The Dream Alive
  8. Wake Up Dead

Disc II:

  1. Oklahoma Nights
  2. Gabriel’s Mother’s Highway Ballad #16
  3. When A Soldier Makes It Home
  4. City Of New Orleans
  5. Amazing Grace
  6. All Over The World
  7. Can’t Help Falling In Love
  8. Highway In The Wind

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
This was the first time that I had seen / recorded Arlo and I was stoked to finally get to see him. My ex wife Nikki was six months pregnant with our daughter Lucy. I had her take my Sony D6 in for me with an ace bandage under her skirt, and I took the microphones, cables and blank tapes. I remember that there was a search going in and one person was stopped because they had an 110 Instamatic camera, and the bouncer made them take it back to their car. They tried to say that there was only a few frames left on the roll but the bouncer wasn’t buying it. We sailed in without a hitch because NO One wants to frisk a pregnant woman! The Ventura Theater was built in the late 1920s in the architecture of Spanish Colonial Revival, and first opened in 1928. It’s a really cool old theater and makes for a great place to see a live show. The seats were taken out years ago on the floor and that level, in three tiers, was converted to a dinner theater. The best seats are up front, but it’s also the riskiest place in which to record from. I recorded this show from the front row of the balcony. It’s a little boomy up there, but far safer for recording. You can actually hear the fan in the spotlight during the quiet parts. There were two spotlights in the balcony and I was sitting about three seats to the left of one of them, on the left side. The last time I have been to the Ventura Theater (The new owners modified the name to the Majestic Ventura Theater in the early to mid 90s) was to record John Prine in 1999. I have been told that the balcony is now closed off permanently and a sound wall was built between the back of the floor section and the bar area, which is under the balcony. This was possibly to improve the sound in the front part of the theater. I ran the Nakamichi microphones in a modified Levi jacket. I had holes sewn into the bottom of each front pocket, so only the capsule/wind screens would protrude from the jacket. I had long hair that I would wear down, to hide the mics from view, and used shortened XLR >RCA cables to connect to my recorder which I kept in a small hip pack. I wish I could have used the CP-4 shotgun capsules but that would have been far more noticeable, at least to the spotlight operator. My friend Jim used to tape his stereo mic to the top of the railing at the front of the balcony and drape his coat partially over the top. Whatever works, I guess. I liked the set list, and got to hear both The Motorcycle Song and The City Of New Orleans, so I was happy. Arlo told some great stories, as usual, and he talked a bit about the Gulf War. He said that he wanted to write a song about it but ‘it kept changing’. I was able to get my ticket signed after the show. Tape flips have been edited in Audacity. There was one after the sixth song on the first disc, and one in the middle of ‘Amazing Grace’.

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Hot Tuna – Ventura, CA (03/02/91)

Hot Tuna
March 2 1991
Ventura Theater
Ventura, CA

Aiwa CM-30 Stereo Cardioid >Sony WM-D6C Cassette Master

(Recorded, Transferred, Audacity, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr)

Front Row Balcony, Left Hand Side.

Maxell MX-S Masters Transferred: Sony TC-D5M >Tascam DR-100mkII (24bit/48kHz),
Left Channel Y’d To Mono Due To Bad Right Channel In Stereo Microphone.
WAV >Audacity (Track Splits, 30 Milliseconds Of Delay Added To Right Mono Channel To Approximate A Pseudo Stereo Effect, Minor Edits, Down Sample / Dither To 16 Bit 44.1k) >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.35

FLAC >WAV >Audacity (Combine Tracks To A One-Track File, Amplify By 4.6db, Re-Track On Original Index Points) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53 (July 2024)

Disc I:
Electric:

  1. Walkin’ Blues
  2. I See The Light
  3. Hit Single #1
  4. It’s Just My Way
  5. 99 Year Blues
  6. I Am The Light Of This World
  7. Ice Age
  8. Love Gone Flat
  9. AK-47*
  10. Bring It On Home To Me
  11. Big Fish

Acoustic:

  1. Hesitation Blues
  2. I’ll Be All Right Someday

Disc II:

  1. Let Us Get Together Right Down Here
  2. I Want You To Know
  3. Candy Man
  4. Watch The North Wind Rise
  5. Trouble In Mind
  6. San Francisco Bay Blues*

Electric:

  1. Bulletproof Vest
  2. Brand New Toy
  3. Death Don’t Have No Mercy
  4. Baby What You Want Me To Do
  5. Key To The Highway
  6. Junkies On Angel Dust

Encore:

  1. Parchman Farm

Lineup:
Jorma Kaukonen – Guitar, Vocals
Jack Casady – Bass
Michael Falzarano – Guitar, Vocals
Harvey Sorgen – Drums

*Tape Flip At End Of Song

Show Was All One Set But Broken Up With An Acoustic Portion In The Middle

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
This was my VERY FIRST recording made at the Ventura Theater, and was recorded with one of my two Aiwa CM-30 stereo microphones, but unfortunately this particular mic had a problem with the right channel. I was able to repair the missing channel and add some digital delay in Audacity, details described above in transfer notes.

I probably should have used my Nakamichi CM-300s for this show, but I went with the Aiwa to be on the safe side. I did use the Naks for Arlo Guthrie later in March of ’91 at the Ventura Theater and they did sound a bit better.

The Ventura Theater was built in the 1920s and is of ‘Spanish Colonial’ architecture. It was converted to a dinner theater at some point and all the seats on the floor area removed to make room for large dinner tables arranged in three tiers (because of the original sloped floor of the theater.) The PA was upgraded in the late 90s and sounded much better, whereas before it could sound boomy, especially in the balcony being at the back of the hall, but it was a safer bet for recording as compared to up front in the dining area. The crowd was always quieter in the balcony and there was less security. In later years a wall was built at the back of the main part of the theater behind the dinner tables and the balcony, which was over the bar, was permanently closed off. I have recorded there several times during the 1990s but I don’t think I’ve been there since.

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