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Furthur Festival – Ventura, CA (08/01/96)

Furthur Festival
August 1 1996
Ventura Fairgrounds
Ventura, CA

FOB: Nyquist Omnis >Sony TCD-D7 (16bit/48khz)
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-P1 >S/PDIF >HHb CDR 800 PRO (16bit/44.1khz)*

CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.41**

*HHb CDR 800 Changed Sampling Rate Automatically During Digital Transfer.

**WAV >Audacity (Final Track Of Disc I [Happy Birthday To Jerry] Was Extended With A Patch From Disc II Track I To Make One Complete Track. Track I Disc II Was Deleted And Subsequent Tracks Renumbered.)

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Amended Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr
Recorded 40ft In Front Of Left PA Stack.

Missing: Opening Hot Tuna Electric Set, Last Few Songs Of Bruce Hornsby’s Set, And Mickey Hart’s Mystery Box Set

Disc I:

(Los Lobos)

  1. Peace
  2. Shakin’ Shakin’ Shakes
  3. Will The Wolf Survive?
  4. Revolution
  5. Cinnamon Girl
  6. Maricela
  7. Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio
  8. Let’s Say Goodnight*
  9. Mas Y Mas
  10. Bertha^
  • – w/ Harvey Sorgen On Rubboard
    ^ – w/ Pete Sears On Keyboards

(Alvin Youngblood Hart)

  1. Pony Blues
  2. Them Fair Weather Friends
  3. Joe Friday
  4. Gallows Pole
  5. Big Mama’s Door
  6. Flying Karamazov Brothers wish Jerry Happy Birthday

Disc II:

(Bruce Hornsby)

  1. Black Muddy River
  2. Spider Fingers >
    xx. Tighten Up >
    (Tempus Fugit)
  3. Night On The Town
  4. Western Skyline >
  5. Iko Iko
  6. What A Time >
    –. Jacob’s Ladder
  7. Mandolin Rain//
    xx. That Would Be Something > (missing)
    xx. Another Day (missing)

(Mickey Hart’s Mystery Box)
xx. Missing

(Hot Tuna Acoustic)

  1. I Am The Light Of This World
  2. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning
  3. How Long Blues*
  4. Let Us Get Together Right Down Here*
  5. That’ll Never Happen No More*
  • – w/ Hornsby’s Horn Section: Bobby Reed – Saxophone, Steve Berlin – Saxophone

Disc III:

(Ratdog)

  1. Walking Blues
  2. Wang Dang Doodle *
  3. Eternity
  4. Blackbird
  5. Looks Like Rain +
  6. Juke
  7. It’s All Over Now
  8. I Need A Miracle
  9. The Winners >
  10. Bass / Jam >
  11. Turn On Your Lovelight

Disc IV

(Encores)

  1. Playin’ In The Band *** >
  2. Proud Mary *** >
  3. One Way Out *** >
  4. Knockin’ On Heavens Door ***

*-with Cindy Wasserman (Vocals); +-with Bruce Hornsby (Keys)
**-with Hornsby, Los Lobos, Hot Tuna, Mickey Hart, etc….

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
I was hoping for a board patch for the Furthur Festival, because I had heard from other tapers that they were allowing limited board access. (The bands would only allow board patches from Hot Tuna and Los Lobos, and occasionally by Bruce Hornsby, so the other bands were audience or nothing.) Unfortunately I got there late because of traffic and missed my opportunity to plug in because they were only giving access to a certain number of tapers. So, I had no choice but to record the festival up front and hope for a copy of the board tape later. (I had already missed the opening Hot Tuna set.) As it was, I met Jeff Lester at this show, who was fortunate enough to have plugged in with his TCD-D3, and he sent me a copy later of the Hot Tuna and Los Lobos sets. I had brought two 60 meter DAT blanks with me but ran out of tape on the 1st DAT and missed the end of the Hornsby set, and I didn’t notice this until just after the set. I also missed all of Mickey Hart’s Mystery Box because I wanted to conserve my second DAT blank. I like the Ventura Fairgrounds. I taped the Dead there in ’87 and actually had tickets for the ’86 show and drove all the way down before I found out that they were cancelled because of Jerry’s coma. I was there for Jerry in ’92 and ’94. I forgot a cable at the ’92 show and wasn’t able to record with my deck and I met some other tapers there and got a copy later, but I pulled a good one in ’94.

One think I always thought was cool about the beach right next to the fairgrounds is that when the waves would wash in, they would roll the cannon-ball sized rocks around and make a really surreal noise. (It was even better sounding if you were…partaking in party favors.) 🙂

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
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Jerry Garcia Band – Ventura, CA (05/14/94)


Jerry Garcia Band
Ventura Fairgrounds – Ventura, CA
Saturday – May 14th, 1994

Disc 1 – Set 1:
d1t01 – Cats Under The Stars
d1t02 – C’est La Vie
d1t03 – Get Out Of My Life Woman
d1t04 – Like A Road
d1t05 – Lay Down Sally
d1t06 – My Sisters & Brothers
d1t07 – Deal

Disc 2 – Set 2:
d2t01 – Second That Emotion
d2t02 – He Ain’t Give You None
d2t03 – Struggling Man
d2t04 – Money Honey
d2t05 – Don’t Let Go
d2t06 – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
d2t07 – Midnight Moonlight

(FOB) Nyquist Omnis >Sony TCD-D3
DAT Master Transferred Via: Tascam DA-P1 >S/PDIF >HHb CDR 800 PRO
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53
Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr.

Jerry Garcia – guitar/vocals
John Kahn – bass
Donny Baldwin – drums
Melvin Seals – keyboards
Jaclyn LaBranch – backing vocals
Gloria Jones – backing vocals

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
I was only able to see the Jerry Garcia Band three times, I’m sorry to say, but interestingly enough they were all out doors: Once at Squaw Valley in ’91 and twice at the Ventura Fairgrounds; 1992 and this show in ’94, a day before my 29th birthday. I remember that I didn’t have my own DAT portable yet (I was still using the Sony D6) so my friend Jack in Salt Lake City Fed Ex’d me his Sony TCD-D3 DAT and the Nyquist Omnis, which were a set of custom-loaded microphones in a hat, so I could record this show digitally. I picked up the package at the Fed Ex office at the Santa Maria airport and drove down to the show, taking my other friend Little Jack the dwarf with me. I remember sitting in the cab of my F-150 in the parking lot by the beach trying to figure out how to run the deck before I went into the show because I’d never used the D3 before. There was a guy who walked by, saw me fumbling with the deck and said, ‘Pirate radio at its finest!’. I never forgot that! I went up front and found a good spot to record from and watched a great show. I was DEAD Center, about 25 to 30 feet back from the stage. I remember that there were other tapers there but this isn’t a show that you see listed much. I wonder why? At the end of the first set Jerry said, ‘Try and stay warm out there if you can’, and a guy next to me said, ‘Wow, he Talked! He Never talks!’ (The fog had rolled in and it was getting cold.) I remember that Jerry and Melvin Seals had really good interplay that night and I was thinking how different the Garcia Band sounded compared with the Dead. Jerry really liked the psychedelic Motown sound! Sadly this was the last time that I would see the Jerry Garcia Band. I recorded the Dead about 50 times between 1986 and ’95 but for some reason the money was never there when JGB tickets went on sale. Much sadness. 🙁

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