Branford Marsalis
Bruce Hornsby
Grateful Dead
12/31/90
Oakland Coliseum
Oakland, CA

Brandford Marsalis Opener

1. Bill Graham Intro
2. Unknown Song
3. Kevin’s Country
4. White Wheeled Limousine

Track 3 with Bruce Hornsby, Track 4 w/ Hornsby and Rob Wasserman. 2nd Opening act for the Dead that evening (1st was Rebirth Brass Band)

Grateful Dead

Set 1:
d1t01 – Radio Intro/Tuning
d1t02 – Hell in a Bucket
d1t03 – Jack-a-Roe
d1t04 – Wang Dang Doodle
d1t05 – Row Jimmy
d1t06 – Mexicali Blues >
d1t07 – Big River
d1t08 – Bird Song *
d1t09 – Promised Land *
d1t10 – 1st set Recap
d1t11 – John Barlow on Brent Mydland’s death
d1t12 – Ken Nordine’s Flibberdy Jib
Set 2:
d2t01 – Countdown to Midnight >
d2t02 – Not Fade Away > *
d2t03 – Eyes of the World > *
d2t04 – Dark Star > *
d2t05 – Drums > **
d3t01 – Space > *
d3t02 – The Other One > *
d3t03 – Wharf Rat > *
d3t04 – Not Fade Away (reprise) *
Encore:
d3t05 – The Weight *
d3t06 – 2nd Set Recap
d3t07 – Johnny B. Goode *
d3t08 – Radio Credits

* With Branford Marsalis on Tenor & Soprano Sax
** With Hamza El Din on Percussion

Branford Notes:
Nakamichi CM-300s With CP-4 Shotgun Capsules->Sony TC-153SD Master SEC. 111, Row N, Seat # 3 (Taper Section) [TDK SA-X90 Master

Transferred Via: Sony TC-D5M >HHb CDR 800 PRO] CD >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.53
Recorded, Transferred, FLAC, Tags (Via xACT 2.53) & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Branford was one of the opening sets for the Dead’s 1990 New Year’s Eve show. I recorded all four shows of the New Years run that year with my newly-purchased Nakamichi CM 300s that I bought from my friend John Lech when he decided to buy Audio Technica AT-853a stealth cardioids. This was my second Grateful Dead New Years show, following the 1989 NYE show when Bonnie Raitt opened.

Grateful Dead Notes:

Nakamichi CM-300 CP-4 Shotguns >Sony TC-153SD (TDK SA-X Masters) Cassette Masters

Transferred: Sony TC-D5M >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.25 OTS; SEC 111, Row N, Seat #3

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

B&W photos: Pentax MX w/80-200 f/4.5-5.6 Maraxar Zoom Lens [T-Max 3,200 Pushed To 12,500 ASA] Shot From Tapers Section.

OldNeumanntapr Notes: This was the final night of my first four-night NYE run, and the second-to-last time that I used the Sony TC-153SD to master a show with. (The final time was the Bill Graham Memorial concert in Golden Gate Park in November of 1991.) This was probably the best of the NYE shows that I have recorded. Enjoy! I had my Pentax MX with me at this show and got some good photos from the tapers section, including a great shot of the bungee jumpers falling through the ceiling of the Coliseum at midnight. (Please don’t SELL it, it’s one of the best spur-of-the-moment shots I ever got.) I developed and printed the black & white film in the Cuesta College darkroom, when I was going to school there. These were the first shows that I used my newly-purchased, from my friend John, Nakamichi CM 300×3 set to record with.

I included a scan of all three of my New Year’s Eve ticket stubs together, though I wasn’t able to record the 1991 NYE show.

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