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:

6. 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.

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Grateful Dead
06/10/90
Cal Expo Amphitheater
Sacramento, CA

Set I
Disc I:

1. Tuning
2. Bertha
3. Jack Straw
4. Phil refutes rumor
5. Dire Wolf
6. Wang Dang Doodle
7. Row Jimmy
8. Picasso Moon
9. Tennessee Jed >
10. Promised Land

Set II
Disc II:

1. Tuning
2. Box Of Rain >
3. Eyes Of The World >
4. Playing In The Band >
5. Crazy Fingers >
6. Playing In The Band Reprise >
7. Drums >

Disc III:

1. Space >
2. Gimme Some Lovin’ >
3. Standing On The Moon >
4. Throwing Stones >
5. Not Fade Away

Encore:

6. The Last Time

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 Channel Levels, Minor Edits [Tape Flips], Fades, Downsample To 16bit/44.1kHz) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53 [August 2024]

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

Phil announces that rumors of him leaving the band “are a bullshit lie” after Jack Straw

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

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
This was my ‘Last Time’ recording the Dead at Cal Expo. It was a really long drive from San Luis Obispo County, but I really enjoyed that venue. For these shows I elected to patch my Sony WM-D6C into my friend John’s Nakamichi CM300x3 rig, which I ended up buying from him later that year when he decided to purchase a set of Audio Technica AT-853a stealth microphones.

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.

This was the show where I met Bear Owsley. He came into the tapers section and borrowed a cable from my friend John, and John turned to me and said, “Do you know who this IS? This is Bear!” I said hi to him and he gave me a dirty look when I asked if he had any ‘samples’! I remember that he was really short, and that he had a little leather case of some of the Grateful Dead-related jewelry that he had made and was selling.

This was the last show that I was able to see Brent, as he overdosed later in the sumner of 1990. I was on a camping trip in Colorado when another deadhead told me it happened, when I was in Leadville. I was devastated. He was so talented in both his playing and his singing. I wanted to put his photo on the cover of this show as a tribute. I included two clippings that I saved from the SF Chronicle about Brent’s death.

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