Grateful Dead, Jackson Browne, Santana, CSNY & More
November 3, 1991
Golden Gate Park – San Francisco, CA
Polo Field – Bill Graham Memorial Concert
- Star Spangled Banner – Bobby Mcferrin
- For A Dancer – Jackson Browne
- World In Motion – Jackson Browne
- Always With You, Always With Me – Joe Satriani
- The Crush Of Love – Joe Satriani
- Spirits Dancing – Santana
- Somewhere In Heaven – Santana
- Trilogy: Coltrane>??>Third Stone From The Sun – Santana) >
- Oye Como Va – Santana + Los Lobos & Bobby Mcferrin
- Bertha – Santana + Los Lobos
- I Love You Too Much – Santana
- Jingo Va – Santana
- More Than A Few Words – Robin Williams
- Faithfully – Journey
- Lights – Journey
- All That You Have Is Your Soul – Tracy Chapman
- Where The Soul Never Dies – Tracy Chapman
- Introduction / Teach Your Children – CSN&Y
- Love The One You’re With – CSN&Y
- Long May You Run – CSN&Y
- Long Time Gone – CSN&Y
- Southern Cross – CSN&Y
- Only Love Can Break Your Heart – CSN&Y
- Wooden Ships – CSN&Y
- Ohio – CSN&Y
Grateful Dead :
01 – Wavy Gravy
02 – Tuning
03 – Hell In A Bucket
04 – China Cat Sunflower >
05 – I Know You Rider
06 – Wang Dang Doodle
07 – Born On The Bayou
08 – Green River
09 – Bad Moon Rising
10 – Proud Mary
11 – Truckin’ >
12 – The Other One >
13 – Wharf Rat >
14 – Sunshine Daydream
Encore:
15 – Encore Break
16 – Forever Young
17 – Touch Of Grey
18 – Amazing Grace
19 – Greensleeves (Played through PA for Bill Graham)
Notes:
— Wang Dang Doodle with John Popper
— Born On The Bayou thru Proud Mary with John Fogerty
— Forever Young with Neil Young
— Amazing Grace is only Joan Baez and Kris Kristofferson
I have three sources for the Dead show. The OldNeumanntapr source is the only one with the other music. His notes are listed below:
Nakamichi CM-300×3: Two CP-4 Shotguns + One CP-1 Cardioid >Boss BX-4 Mixer >Sony TC-153SD Cassette Master (TDK SA-X100s) SA-X100 Masters
Transferred: Sony TC-D5M >Tascam DR-100mkII (24 bit/48k),
WAV >Audacity (Track Splits, Minor Edits, Amplify, Down Sample / Dither To 16 Bit / 44.1k) >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.35 >FLAC Tags Via xACT 2.35
(Recorded/Transferred/ FLAC’d & Tagged By OldNeumanntapr) Recorded 3/4 Of The Way Between Stage And Repeater Stacks, On The Right Side. Cut Into Discs As You See Fit.
ONT Notes-
This show was so very emotional, being Bill’s tribute concert. I had mail order tickets to both the 10/27 and 10/31 shows, and recorded both of those in the taper section. 10/27/91 was the 1st show after Bill’s unfortunate accident, and 10/31/91 was most definitely the most powerful Dead show I’ve ever witnessed, with Ken Kesey coming out during Drums / Space. We had recorded Neil Young at the Bridge Benefit at Shoreline the night before the memorial show in the park. After the Bridge show I stayed the night in my VW bus parked in front of a friend of a friend’s place in Atherton. We got up the next morning and drove up to Golden Gate Park. Even early in the morning the crowds were terrible. This was the last trip that I had made in my restored ’67 VW camper bus. I retired it right after and it sat in the garage for a year before I sold it. I always thought that the Bill Graham memorial was a fitting ‘last ride’. I recorded the memorial show with my triple set of Nakamichi CM-300s->Sony TC-153SD cassette portable. I also ran my D6 so I could give masters to a friend. We were 3/4th of the way back between the stage and the repeaters, on the right side. (I shot some b&w photos with a Pentax MX and 50 mm f/1.7 lens. I was working as a darkroom tech at Photo Ad then, and made large proof sheets of my film on graphic arts paper after the show. I scanned some of the frames to put with the music files.) I remember thinking that it started of crowded and got progressively more packed with people as the day wore on. I think the Chronicle said something like 300,000 people in the park. I believe it! It reminded me of something that I saw on Sesame Street when I was a little kid in the early 70s. They took a large pickle jar and filled it with small stones. ‘Is it full? No, we can add more.’ And they poured in small ball bearings. ‘Is it full? No, we can add more’. Then they added sand, and then water. Finally it was full. The crowd at the Polo Fields that day brought back that memory, with more and more people pushing their way in. I remember all the bands that day and also Robin Williams who did some stand up comedy between sets. I also remember the plane that dropped flowers. The Dead closed the show, before the encores, with ‘Sunshine Daydream, having played ‘Sugar Magnolia (Bill’s favorite Grateful Dead song) to open the 10/27/91 show, to complete the piece. John Fogerty played with the Dead and sounded ragged, but good, but at least it was nice to hear him. It was only about two years before that he played with Bobby and Jerry at the Oakland Stadium AIDS Benefit. I remember thinking that there had been a lot of historical shows in the park at that spot and this was going to be another one. I’ll never forget it. 🙁
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