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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.

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Grateful Dead – Oakland, CA (02/06/89)

Grateful Dead
02/06/89
Henry J Kaiser Convention Center
Oakland, CA

OTS; Center Balcony; Superscope EC-7 Cardioids (Near Coincident) >Sony WM-D6C Master (XLIIS) >CDR >FLAC

Cass Masters Transferred Via Sony TC-D5M >HHb CDR 800 PRO
CD >FLAC + Tags Via xACT 2.53

Set I
Disc I:

  1. Beer Barrel Polka Tuning
  2. Not Fade Away
  3. Sugaree >
  4. Wang Dang Doodle
  5. Jack A Roe
  6. Queen Jane Approximately
  7. Brown Eyed Women
  8. Cassidy >
  9. Tennessee Jed

Set II
Disc II:

  1. Hell In A Bucket >
  2. Scarlet Begonias >
  3. Looks Like Rain >
  4. Terrapin Station >
  5. Drums > *

Disc III:

  1. Space >
  2. The Other One
  3. Stella Blue >
  4. Turn On Your Lovelight
  5. Black Muddy River

Dragon Parade *

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

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
These were my last Dead shows that I recorded at Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland, and from what I remember, it was the last time that the Dead would play at Kaiser. They were banned from the venue because of unruly Deadheads using the neighbor’s yards for bathrooms and also clogging the streets because Kaiser didn’t have good parking facilities. We always parked on the street bordering Peralta Park, or in the little cul-de-sac to the south of the convention center. I saw my first Grateful Dead concert at Kaiser on February 9 1986 and will never forget it.

These were the last two shows that I recorded with the Superscope EC 7 Cardioids.

Additional Notes [Sept 2024];
I remember that there were circular ramps at the corners of the building that we would run up on our way to the tapers section in the balcony. It was always a special place to see, and record, the Dead and from what I hear the convention center has been closed for a while because it is need for expensive renovations. Apparently the building, which held 7,000 people and opened in 1915, was closed in 2006 and is currently being renovated. The following paragraph was taken from an online article about the Kaiser renovations, Sept 9, 2022;

“During its golden era, the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center hosted luminaries from the musical and political worlds. Elvis Presley, James Brown, and the Grateful Dead were among the artists that performed at the arena. World political figures like Bill Clinton, Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai Lama, and others also graced its hallways. In 1918, the auditorium served as a makeshift hospital during the Spanish flu pandemic. It served a less honorable purpose in 1924 when over 800 Klu Klux Klan members gathered inside the arena for a cross-burning ceremony. More recently, in 2012, Occupy Oakland protesters attempted to take over the building during its “move-in day,” which resulted in a violent clash with police and the arrest of over 400 people. This past March, a demolition crew discovered a mummified body inside one of the walls.”

Two photos from the article;
https://oaklandside.org/2022/09/09/tour-of-the-renamed-oakland-civic/ are reproduced here. The first is a photo of a backstage light switch that the Grateful Dead crew wrote on at one point in time, and the other is of the current renovations shot from the center of the balcony where the tapers section was. I remember this view really well!

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Grateful Dead – Oakland, CA (12/29/88)

Grateful Dead
12/29/88
Oakland Coliseum Arena
Oakland, CA

OTS; AKG D-190E Dynamic Cardioids (ORTF) >Sony WM-D6C >(patch) >Sony WM-D6C [MX90]

Cassette Masters Transferred Via Denon DR-M12HR >Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48kHz)
WAV >Audacity (Amplify, Track Splits, Down Sample To 16bit/44.1kHz, Minor Edits [Tape Flips] & Fades) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

Recorded, Transferred, Audacity Post Production, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Set I
Disc I:

  1. Tuning
  2. Hell In A Bucket >
  3. Sugaree
  4. New Minglewood Blues
  5. Friend Of The Devil
  6. Queen Jane Approximately (tape flip)
  7. To Lay Me Down >
  8. Let It Grow

Set II
Disc II:

  1. Tuning
  2. Playing In The Band >
  3. Crazy Fingers >
  4. Samson & Delilah >
  5. Playin’ Reprise >
  6. Eyes Of The World >
  7. Drums > (tape flip)

Disc III:

  1. Space >
  2. The Other One >
  3. Stella Blue >
  4. Throwing Stones >
  5. Not Fade Away (tape flip)

Encore:

  1. The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo)

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

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
This was the first show that I recorded with my, at the time, brand new Sony WM-D6C PRO. I had purchased an adapter to convert the 1/4′ phone plugs from my microphones to work with the 1/8″ stereo microphone input but I had inadvertently bought a headphone adapter and didn’t realize that it only worked in one direction and was not compatible for my purpose. I was frantic when sound checking my gear to find that I was only getting one channel so I had no choice but to take a patch from the taper to my left who was also using a D6 and running AKG microphones. A BIG thanks to whoever that taper was, because I have long ago forgotten.

I have ticket stubs, and my ex wife Nikki’s handwritten set list in my setlist book, for the previous night’s show on December 28 at the Coliseum, so I was definitely there, but I have no idea why I didn’t at least try to record that one. I also included scans of those stubs, along with that set list, with this show from the 29th. It’s a mystery that I have no memory at all of. I definitely remember the 29th show as being the first time I had taken a patch from another taper (I liked to be self contained and use my own microphones) but if I was to have discovered that I had a problem with the cables for my new D6 I would have thought that it would have been apparent the night before on 12/28. I always tried to record every show I went to, starting with the Mother’s Day show at the Frost on 5/11/86. If I had found the problem with the microphones at the first show, I don’t know why I didn’t at least try to get a patch the night before, but maybe I wasn’t able to buy the adapter until the 29th. Who knows. (These things bother me.) 😉

After recording the 12/29/88 Dead show at the Coliseum, and apparently watching the 12/28/88 show, we trouped off to San Francisco on the 30th to see Hot Tuna acoustic at the Fillmore on the off night. I didn’t attempt to record that one because I still didn’t feel comfortable attempting a stealth recording yet, (my first stealth show wasn’t until Miles Davis at Cal Poly SLO in 1990), but I helped out my friend Dick who took in his Marantz PMD-430 in while ace bandaged to his lower back and padded with hotel towels. The doorman kept patting him down and said, ‘You’re really tight. Do you work out?’ and he said ‘Yeah’. Too funny! My friend Taper Ron tried to bring his D6 into the Fillmore and they found it on the pat down and made him bring it back to the truck. I remember the bouncers that kept coming by and shining flashlight beams under all the cocktail tables, where we were sitting. I don’t know if they were looking for drugs, alcohol, or taping gear, or maybe any and all of the above. At the end of the show I took the master tape out with me because Dick, Dave, and their friends were also staying for the late show and all Ron, Nikki and I had tickets for was the early show and Dick wanted the master tape from the early set to be safe. Looking back now his recording was really poor and I was happy to eventually find digital soundboards of both the early and late Tuna sets. On the way back to Oakland we stopped at Giant Burger for a late dinner. We recorded the Dead’s New Year’s Eve show off of KFOG FM from Ron’s house in Oakland, so at least I felt I was a part of all of those shows in that run. Later, I bought good quality Switchcraft adapters to use my Superscope EC7s with my new D6 and was all set for the February ’89 Kaiser Dead shows.

I think this was the first time that I used Metal Tape, as my Sony TC-153SD was built before that formulation was available.

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Grateful Dead – Oakland, CA (02/14/88)

Grateful Dead
02/14/88
Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center
Oakland, CA

OTS; Superscope EC-7 Cardioids (Near Coincident) >Sony TC-153SD [XLIIS]

Cassette Masters Transferred Via Denon DR-M12HR >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

Recorded, Transferred, Audacity Post Production, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Set I
Disc I:

  1. Crowd
  2. Touch Of Grey
  3. Feel Like A Stranger
  4. Franklin’s Tower
  5. Walkin’ Blues
  6. When Push Comes To Shove
  7. Cassidy

Set II
Disc II:

  1. China Cat Sunflower >
  2. I Know You Rider
  3. Samson & Delilah
  4. Terrapin Station
  5. Drums >

Disc III:

  1. Space >
  2. I Need A Miracle >
  3. Stella Blue
  4. Throwing Stones
  5. Turn On Your Lovelight
  6. The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo

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

Valentines Day

OldNeumanntapr Notes;
I always liked the Kaiser Convention Center, mostly because it was smaller than the Oakland Coliseum Arena. I saw my very first Dead show at Henry J. Kaiser on Feb 9 1986, and we sat in the tapers section by accident because I wanted to be in the balcony and not on the floor dealing with standing room only. (I spent half of my time at my first show staring at the tapers and the other half watching the band. Afterward I understood the phrase, ‘When you absolutely have to be there, every night!’) I knew from my first show that I wanted to be a taper.

I think it was one of these two shows that, as we were running in through the doors, another taper exclaimed to his friend that ‘We fulfill a Valuable archival purpose!’ I never forgot that because it rang true with me. It’s so amazing to go through my early masters all these years later because if a picture is worth a thousand words, an audio recording is a complete volume!

Additional Notes [Sept 2024];
I remember that there were circular ramps at the corners of the building that we would run up on our way to the tapers section in the balcony. It was always a special place to see, and record, the Dead and from what I hear the convention center has been closed for a while because it is need for expensive renovations. Apparently the building, which held 7.000 people and opened in 1915, was closed in 2006 and is currently being renovated. The following paragraph was taken from an online article about the Kaiser renovations;

“During its golden era, the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center hosted luminaries from the musical and political worlds. Elvis Presley, James Brown, and the Grateful Dead were among the artists that performed at the arena. World political figures like Bill Clinton, Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai Lama, and others also graced its hallways. In 1918, the auditorium served as a makeshift hospital during the Spanish flu pandemic. It served a less honorable purpose in 1924 when over 800 Klu Klux Klan members gathered inside the arena for a cross-burning ceremony. More recently, in 2012, Occupy Oakland protesters attempted to take over the building during its “move-in day,” which resulted in a violent clash with police and the arrest of over 400 people. This past March, a demolition crew discovered a mummified body inside one of the walls.”

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Grateful Dead – Oakland, CA (02/13/88)

Grateful Dead
02/13/88
Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center
Oakland, CA

OTS; Superscope EC-7 Cardioids (Near Coincident) >Sony TC-153SD [XLIIS]

Cassette Masters Transferred Via Denon DR-M12HR >Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48kHz)
WAV >Audacity (Amplify By 11db, Track Splits, Down Sample To 16bit/44.1kHz, Minor Edits [Tape Flips] & Fades) Fix SBEs >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

Recorded, Transferred, Audacity Post Production, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Set I
Disc I:

  1. Tuning
  2. Hell In A Bucket >
  3. Sugaree
  4. New Minglewood Blues
  5. Friend Of The Devil
  6. Mama Tried >
  7. Big River (tape flip)
  8. Loser

Set II
Disc II:

  1. Iko Iko
  2. Looks Like Rain
  3. Gimme Some Lovin’ >
  4. Jam > *
  5. Drums > (tape flip)

Disc III:

  1. Space >
  2. The Other One >
  3. Wharf Rat >
  4. Good Lovin’ >
  5. One More Saturday Night
  6. Black Muddy River

Jerry Garcia – Guitar (Without Jerry *)
Bob Weir – Guitar
Brent Mydland – Keyboards
Phil Lesh – Bass
Bill Kreutzmann – Drums
Mickey Hart – Drums

OldNeumanntapr Notes;
I always liked the Kaiser Convention Center, mostly because it was smaller than the Oakland Coliseum Arena. I saw my very first Dead show at Henry J. Kaiser on Feb 9 1986, and we sat in the tapers section by accident because I wanted to be in the balcony and not on the floor dealing with standing room only. (I spent half of my time at my first show staring at the tapers and the other half watching the band. Afterward I understood the phrase, ‘When you absolutely have to be there, every night!’) I knew from my first show that I wanted to be a taper.

I remember thinking that it was odd that Jerry left the stage for the jam after ‘Gimme Some Lovin’.

I think it was one of these two shows that, as we were running in through the doors, another taper exclaimed to his friend that ‘We fulfill a Valuable archival purpose!’ I never forgot that because it rang true with me. It’s so amazing to go through my early masters all these years later because if a picture is worth a thousand words, an audio recording is a complete volume!

Additional Notes [Sept 2024];
I remember that there were circular ramps at the corners of the building that we would run up on our way to the tapers section in the balcony. It was always a special place to see, and record, the Dead, and from what I hear the convention center has been closed for a while because it is needed for expensive renovations. Apparently, the building, which held 7.000 people and opened in 1915, was closed in 2006 and is currently being renovated. The following paragraph was taken from an online article about the Kaiser renovations;

“During its golden era, the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center hosted luminaries from the musical and political worlds. Elvis Presley, James Brown, and the Grateful Dead were among the artists that performed at the arena. World political figures like Bill Clinton, Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai Lama, and others also graced its hallways. In 1918, the auditorium served as a makeshift hospital during the Spanish flu pandemic. It served a less honorable purpose in 1924 when over 800 Klu Klux Klan members gathered inside the arena for a cross-burning ceremony. More recently, in 2012, Occupy Oakland protesters attempted to take over the building during its “move-in day,” which resulted in a violent clash with police and the arrest of over 400 people. This past March, a demolition crew discovered a mummified body inside one of the walls.”

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Grateful Dead – Oakland, CA (12/28/87)

Grateful Dead
12/28/87
Oakland Coliseum Arena
Oakland, CA

OTS; Superscope EC-7 Cardioid Condensers (Near Coincident) >Sony TC-153SD [XLIIS]

Cass Masters Transferred Via Denon DR-M12HR Cassette Deck >Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48kHz)

WAV >Audacity (Amplify By 4.2db, Index Tracks, Down Sample To 16bit/44.1kHz, Minor Edits [Tape Flips], & Fades) Fix SBEs >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

[Recorded, Transferred, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr] (August 2024)

Set I
Disc I:

  1. Feel Like A Stranger >
  2. Franklin’s Tower
  3. New Minglewood Blues
  4. Row Jimmy
  5. Far From Me (tape flip)
  6. When I Paint My Masterpiece >
  7. Sugaree
  8. Hell In A Bucket

Set II
Disc II:

  1. China Cat Sunflower >
  2. I Know You Rider
  3. Cumberland Blues >
  4. Man Smart (Woman Smarter) >
  5. Drums >
  6. Space > (tape flip)

Disc III:

  1. The Wheel >
  2. Truckin’ >
  3. Smokestack Lightning >
  4. Black Peter >
  5. Sugar Magnolia

Encore:

  1. Black Muddy River

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

OldNeumanntapr Notes;
This, and the previous night, was the second time that I had recorded the Dead at the Oakland Coliseum Arena, the first time being December 17 1986. The first time I was at the Coliseum was another near disaster, similar to my Ventura Fairgrounds 1986 excursion. I had mechanical problems with my ’67 VW bus, and I forgot and left the new pack of double A batteries back in the bus and had to buy a pair from another taper. My Superscope EC7s ran on AA batteries.

In 1986 the tapers section was on risers between the soundboard area and the front of the balcony. When people stomped their feet the risers shook and the sea of microphone stands swayed back and forth. For this series of Coliseum shows the tapers section was in the actual balcony and we were farther from the stage and closer to the rafters. I think that Bill Graham wanted that space where the risers had been to stage his pre-show volleyball games.

These particular masters of mine have never been digitized and I had to borrow a Denon cassette deck from a friend because my decks have all quit working. Tracking the show out in Audacity I am realizing that I had a bad habit of pausing the tape between some songs. I don’t remember what my reasoning was for this but I ended up clipping the beginning of some songs and leaving a really disjointed-sounding recording in the process. I guess I was trying to avoid ‘dead air’ between songs but it didn’t work out really well in the long run. The continuity is a little unsettling at times because of the pauses between some songs, but overall I think the sound quality is decent. The vocals sound really upfront and open, as compared to the Nakamichi CM 300 shotgun source. Not bad for a 22 year old who had only been recording live shows for a year and a half.

I used the Superscope EC7 cardioid microphones from late 1986 to early 1989 when a friend started letting me borrow his Nakamichi CM 300s. The Superscope’s, which were made by Marantz, had a more open sound, especially on the vocals, but they tended to be a bit boomy on the low end, especially at indoor venues. I never tried them in an x/y pattern. Maybe that would have been an improvement. I think the EC7s had similar sound to Sony ECM-22P’s, but (I’ve heard) that the Sonys were a bit better. I think I liked the Kaiser Convention Center better for recording because it was a bit smaller than the Oakland Coliseum and didn’t sound as reverberant.

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Grateful Dead – Oakland, CA (12/27/87)

Grateful Dead
12/27/87
Oakland Coliseum Arena
Oakland, CA

OTS; Superscope EC-7 Cardioid Condensers (Near Coincident) >Sony TC-153SD [XLIIS]

Cass Masters Transferred Via Denon DR-M12HR Cassette Deck >Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48kHz)

WAV >Audacity (Amplify By 5.7db, Index Tracks, Down Sample To 16bit/44.1kHz, Minor Edits [Tape Flips], & Fades) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

[Recorded, Transferred, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr] (August 2024)

Set I
Disc I:

  1. crowd
  2. Touch Of Grey
  3. Jack Straw
  4. Peggy-O
  5. Walkin’ Blues
  6. Ramble On Rose
  7. Me & My Uncle >
  8. Big River (tape flip)
  9. It Must Have Been The Roses
  10. Desolation Row >
  11. Don’t Ease Me In

Set II
Disc II:

  1. Playing In The Band >
  2. Uncle John’s Band >
  3. Estimated Prophet >
  4. Eyes Of The World
  5. Drums > (tape flip)

Disc III:

  1. Space >
  2. Dear Mr. Fantasy >
  3. Stella Blue >
  4. Throwing Stones >
  5. Turn On Your Lovelight (tape flip)

Encore:
The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo)*

*Missing

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

OldNeumanntapr Notes;
This, and the following night, was the second time that I had recorded the Dead at the Oakland Coliseum Arena, the first time being December 17 1986. The first time I was at the Coliseum was another near disaster, similar to my Ventura Fairgrounds 1986 excursion. I had mechanical problems with my ’67 VW bus, and I forgot and left the new pack of double A batteries back in the bus and had to buy a pair from another taper. My Superscope EC7s ran on AA batteries.

In 1986 the tapers section was on risers between the soundboard area and the front of the balcony. When people stomped their feet the risers shook and the sea of microphone stands swayed back and forth. For this series of Coliseum shows the tapers section was in the actual balcony and we were farther from the stage and closer to the rafters. I think that Bill Graham wanted that space where the risers had been to stage his pre-show volleyball games.

These particular masters of mine have never been digitized and I had to borrow a Denon cassette deck from a friend because my decks have all quit working. Tracking the show out in Audacity I am realizing that I had a bad habit of pausing the tape between some songs. I don’t remember what my reasoning was for this but I ended up clipping the beginning of some songs and leaving a really disjointed-sounding recording in the process. I guess I was trying to avoid ‘dead air’ between songs but it didn’t work out really well in the long run. There are some minor flaws, (set two starts abruptly), and the continuity is a little unsettling at times because of the pauses between some songs, but overall I think the sound quality is decent. The vocals sound really upfront and open, as compared to the Nakamichi CM 300 shotgun source. Not bad for a 22 year old who had only been recording live shows for a year and a half.

I used the Superscope EC7 cardioid microphones from late 1986 to early 1989 when a friend started letting me borrow his Nakamichi CM 300s. The Superscope’s, which were made by Marantz, had a more open sound, especially on the vocals, but they tended to be a bit boomy on the low end, especially at indoor venues. I never tried them in an x/y pattern. Maybe that would have been an improvement. I think the EC7s had similar sound to Sony ECM-22P’s, but (I’ve heard) that the Sonys were a bit better. I think I liked the Kaiser Convention Center better for recording because it was a bit smaller than the Oakland Coliseum and didn’t sound as reverberant.

Because the encore was recorded at the end of the first set, I must have accidentally recorded over it years ago when I added filler to the tape. Another casualty of too much cannabis in my youth.

This seems to be the first show that I recorded where I started the second set on a fresh tape.

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B.B. King – Oakland, CA (11/09/69)

B.B. King
Oakland Coliseum
Oakland, CA
November 9, 1969
The Late Show

Source: Reel to Reel [Mono] Audience Master > Wav > EAC > TLH [sector boundary aligned] > Flac (Level 8)

kingrue upload #332

45 years ago today !!

The quality is really good considering the size of the venue.
Opening for the Rolling Stones on this tour.
Track 2 is something I’ve never heard anywhere before and I’ve heard a lot of BB.
In fact this entire recording is unique and wasn’t really played like this again after this tour.
This is a valuable piece of history and insight to BB’s past.
I just wish more was recorded, but I’ll take this 15 minutes.
I suggest all blues fans get a copy of this.

01 Instrumental
02 You’re Choking Me
03 Instrumental

Total TIme = 15:03 min

Enjoy

George

Grateful Dead – Oakland, CA (12/28/86)

Grateful Dead
12/28/86
Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center
Oakland, CA

Superscope EC-7 Cardioid Condensers (Near Coincident) >Sony TC-153SD [XLIIS]
Lineage: M-Cass >Sony TC-D5M >HHb CDR 800
Location: OTS, Balcony
Recorded/Transferred: OldNeumanntapr
Extraction (CDR >EAC >WAV >FLAC): Brad Foster
FLAC Tags Via xACT 2.53, Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Disc 1 / Set One: [48:33]

  1. Cold Rain & Snow
  2. Minglewood Blues
  3. Row Jimmy >
  4. El Paso
  5. Stagger Lee
  6. Box Of Rain >
  7. Big Railroad Blues >
  8. Promised Land

Disc 2 / Set Two: [46:01]

  1. Scarlet Begonias >
  2. Fire On The Mountain >
  3. Looks Like Rain >
  4. He’s Gone >
  5. Drums >

Disc 3 / Set Two+E: [37:45]

  1. Space >
  2. The Other One >
  3. Black Peter
  4. Sugar Magnolia

Encore:

  1. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue

OldNeumanntapr Notes:

  1. The segue from Big RxR Blues > Promised Land has a tape flip at the very beginning of Promised Land. A couple of words are lost. It looked like others had that same problem. I couldn’t flip sooner because Box Of Rain segued into Big RR Blues. I got the ‘Let Phil Sing’ chant recorded too.
  2. Scarlet starts right off. I guess I didn’t record the tuning before the set.
  3. In those days, I was starting the second set on the back side of the 1st tape (after the 1st set closure.) So there is a flip after He’s Gone with the jam into Drums starting the third disc.
  4. The encore is right after a tape flip, so there is a cut there.

Additional Notes Dec. 30 2016:
Wow! I can’t believe it’s been 30 years since I recorded this show. I look back and laugh, because I had no idea what I was doing then! In those days I paused the deck between songs in the first set and started the second set at the end of the first set tape, not realizing that would give me one extra tape flip. The TC-153SD was a good deck and I still have it, in its original box in the closet. I remember that it was cold in Oakland that night and the ‘Cold Rain’ opener was not that surprising. I was actually hoping for it. This was the first Kaiser show that I recorded.

Additional Notes [Sept 2024];
I remember that there were circular ramps at the corners of the building that we would run up on our way to the tapers section in the balcony. It was always a special place to see, and record, the Dead and from what I hear the convention center has been closed for a while because it is need for expensive renovations. Apparently the building, which held 7.000 people and opened in 1915, was closed in 2006 and is currently being renovated. The following paragraph was taken from an online article about the Kaiser renovations;

“During its golden era, the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center hosted luminaries from the musical and political worlds. Elvis Presley, James Brown, and the Grateful Dead were among the artists that performed at the arena. World political figures like Bill Clinton, Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai Lama, and others also graced its hallways. In 1918, the auditorium served as a makeshift hospital during the Spanish flu pandemic. It served a less honorable purpose in 1924 when over 800 Klu Klux Klan members gathered inside the arena for a cross-burning ceremony. More recently, in 2012, Occupy Oakland protesters attempted to take over the building during its “move-in day,” which resulted in a violent clash with police and the arrest of over 400 people. This past March, a demolition crew discovered a mummified body inside one of the walls.”

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Grateful Dead – Oakland, CA (12/17/86)

Grateful Dead
12/17/86
Oakland Coliseum Arena
Oakland, CA

OTS (Risers); Superscope EC-7 Cardioids (Near Coincident) >Sony TC-153SD [XLIIS]

Cassette Masters Transferred Via Denon DR-M12HR >Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48kHz)
WAV >Audacity (Amplify, Track Splits, Down Sample To 16bit/44.1kHz, Minor Edits & Fades) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

Recorded, Transferred, Audacity Post Production, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Set I
Disc I:

  1. Crowd/Tuning
  2. Alabama Getaway >
  3. Promised Land
  4. West L.A. Fadeaway
  5. Tons Of Steel >
  6. Little Red Rooster
  7. Tennessee Jed (tape flip)
  8. Desolation Row
  9. When Push Comes To Shove >
  10. The Music Never Stopped

Set II
Disc II:

  1. Saint Of Circumstance >
  2. Cumberland Blues >
  3. Samson & Delilah (tape flip)
  4. Ship Of Fools
  5. Man Smart (Woman Smarter) >
  6. He’s Gone >
  7. Drums > * (tape flip)

Disc III:

  1. Space >
  2. The Other One >
  3. Black Peter >
  4. Throwing Stones >
  5. Not Fade Away >

Encore:

  1. Brokedown Palace //

Jerry Garcia – Guitar
Bob Weir – Guitar
Brent Mydland – Keyboards
Phil Lesh – Bass
Bill Kreutzmann – Drums
Mickey Hart – Drums
Sikiru Adepoju – Talking Drum *
Jose Lorenzo – Berimbau, Hand Percussion *

OldNeumanntapr Notes;
This was my 5th Dead show, and the 2nd that I recorded. It was also my first time being in the Oakland Coliseum. I had recently purchased a pair of Marantz Superscope EC-7 cardioid microphones and a Sony TC-153SD cassette recorder and this was the 1st show that I recorded with that combo. I thought that the cardioids reproduced the vocals well, but they did allow a lot more room noise so they could sound boomy in large rooms like the Coliseum. I guess it’s a trade off, because years later when I started using CM-300 shotguns I felt that though they did a good job of limiting the reverberant room noise, they also had lower vocal response. I almost didn’t make it to this show, because I was having mechanical problems with my old ’67 VW bus. It had a couple of interesting problems. One was that the accelerator pedal would stick wide open if you pushed it to the floor. I had to stop the bus on an off ramp in San Jose because it stuck, and the only way to get it unstuck was to throw it into neutral, shut the engine off, coast to a stop and pull the counterweights down on the carburetor. Because I had stopped on a banked off ramp, the bus was leaning to the right, and gas was leaking out of the gas tank because the gas cap had a bad seal. The other problem that the bus had was that the electrical system would build up resistance once the motor got hot and the starter wouldn’t work unless you took a screw driver and shorted across the terminals on the starter motor. Well, the bus wouldn’t start and there was gas leaking out of the tank, so I was worried that a spark would cause an explosion. I told my ex wife to get way back out of the way and I crawled under, held my breath, and shorted the starter, which broke the resistance. Luckily the bus didn’t catch fire and we were able to make it to the show OK. I forgot to bring in my new AA batteries for the microphones and I couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t getting a signal when I hooked my recording equipment together! I ran up the aisle in the taper section with a $5 bill and bought two batteries from another taper. To whomever that was that night, a big THANK YOU!!! The taper section was on the risers for that series of shows and I remember the mic stands all swaying when the crowd got going. I don’t remember the risers ever being used again at the Oakland Coliseum for the tapers. In later years Bill Graham had his pre-show volleyball games there, right behind the board. I was really happy at that show because, 1. I made it there alive, and 2., Jerry was playing again! These were the first shows after his diabetic coma. We had driven down to the Ventura Fairgrounds earlier in the summer only to find that those shows had been cancelled because Jerry had gone into the hospital. We stayed over after the Oakland show that night in the bus in the parking lot of the Coliseum, (remember when they let you do that?) and drove home the following morning. This was a good show for me, because it was the 1st time that I had seen an ‘Alabama Getaway’ opener, and I wouldn’t see another one until the June 1995 shows at Shoreline. I always enjoyed hearing Bobby do ‘Desolation Row’, and the ‘Music’ 1st set closer was really nice too. In retrospect I wish I had not paused the tape between songs in the first set, but I was still learning and didn’t really know what I was doing. At least this recording sounded better with the addition of a decent recorder like the 153, as compared to my old Sharp boom box with auto levels, which is what I recorded the May 11 1986 Frost show with. Sadly the end of the Brokedown Palace encore is cut because I ran out of tape. For some reason I would start the second set at the end of the first set tape when I first started taping, which was dumb because it would give me one extra tape flip to deal with. Again, I was green but I got better.

This was the first ‘Not Fade Away’ since Jerry’s coma, and the ‘Not Fade Away Fadeaway’ went on FOREVER! I think the whole track was over 11 minutes long! You could really feel the love in the crowd for Jerry’s return because, at least for me, there was a time when I wasn’t sure that he was Coming back.

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