Grateful Dead
Date 1983-08-26
Memorial Coliseum
Portland OR

set 1
d1t01 - Bertha ->               #
d1t02 - Promised Land           &
d1t03 - Peggy-O
d1t04 - Me and My Uncle ->
d1t05 - Big River
d1t06 - West L.A. Fadeaway     //
d1t07 - New Minglewood Blues
d1t08 - Loser ->
d1t09 - Let it Grow

set 2
d2t01 - tuning
d2t02 - Scarlet Begonias -> Fire on the Mountain
d2t03 - Man Smart/Woman Smarter
d2t04 - equipment break*
d2t05 - He's Gone ->           //
d2t06 - Drums ->
d2t07 - Space ->
d2t08 - Truckin'->
d2t09 - Wang Dang Doodle ->      %
d2t10 - Stella Blue ->           +
d2t11 - Sugar Magnolia
d2t12 - encore U.S. Blues

recording notes:
// tape flip
# Sound is rough for first few minutes, took them a while to dial the PA in.
  Overall Sound quality not as good on set 1, surely due to distance from PA;
  does seem to get "better" in the middle of Minglewood.
& paused between songs
* very long stop between Woman and He's Gone (must have been equipment problems)
% First time played (h/t dead.net)
+ extra reverb in Bob's vocals adds odd echoness to Sugar Magnolia
Tour story in the setlist file

Source Audience Recording: Beyer M 201c;1st gen TDK MA metal 90
Location: set 1: 100 feet from stage|DFC
          set 2:  70 feet from stage|DFC
Lineage: Master was: Beyer M201's (hyper cardiod)X-Y >> Sony TCD5M w Maxell MX 90| Dolby B ON
         1st Gen copied to TDK MA metal 90 Sony TCD5M -> Sony TCD5M
Playback: Nakamichi CR-5A ->Tascam DR-680 24/48
Processing: i7Windows7 Audacity > cdwav editor > TLH flac level 8
This is a 24 bit fileset.
Taped by Kyle Holbrook & Chris Kidwell
Transferred by Kyle Holbrook
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The tour story:
Up the West Coast we drove. This was only my second and Chris' first time driving North from the San Francisco Bay area. We had met up with a friend of the Maine crew, Tristan, while at the second show and spent some time at the magnificent beach house he was house sitting at in near Half-moon. From Half-Moon we set out up 101 and eventually took the I-5 up through that mystical part of the California/Oregon border. We stopped somewhere south of Eugene and spent the night in our car. I recall driving past Eugene and through Portland thinking it odd we would back to Eugene AFTER we went to Seattle from Portland. Years later on 1996 H.O.R.D.E. tour we realized we had driven through St. Louis 4 times to other cities before we went back a fifth time to play there! I flashed back to Chris and I in Portland, Seattle and Eugene in 1983. We had a friend of Chris' to meet in Portland and I was excited to tour the Rose Garden museum there. We arrived the night before the show and met up with Chris' friend in a suburb of Portland, had a nice meal and was able to shower in a real bathroom and slept great that night. This was both our first time in Portland Oregon and since Chris lived in Portland Maine we kept a running line that we drove from Portland to Portland to follow the Grateful Dead on this tour. Our mission the next day was to locate metal bias cassette tapes in Portland.

The cassette seeking took us some phone calls and we wound up at a Hi-Fi store selling high end equipment and I'm sure paid a lot of money for Nakamichi and Denon Metal tapes; we could not locate the Maxell or TDK Metal we were starting to prefer. Afterward we headed toward the famed Portland Rose gardens and then had lunch near Chris' friends place, heading over to the Coliseum early. We bought tickets from the box office and they were still selling them after the show started as we found out. I have a distinct memory that it had a front entrance like Nassau Coliseum, tall glass frontage with about 20 doors spaced across the front. Of course, it is only about 1/2 the size of Nassau. As we were entering, we had our gear in backpacks and the guards were not stopping recording gear BUT no backpacks were allowed. They made us go back to the car where loaded up mic cables around our waist and stuffed mics in our pockets with decks carried in our hands. They let us through like that carrying the mic stand even! Just no backpacks; damn Oregon and their crazy consideration for others even back then! So, after we get inside, Chris realized we were missing something critical such as batteries or tapes. I go outside to the car, get what it was and buy another ticket at the box office to get back inside! We wound up in seats just in front of the soundboard about 100 feet from stage. We found better seats during the set break and moved forward for the second set which can be heard in these recordings, the second set has much more presence and clarity than the first set.

The Scarlet > Fire was a 25 minute dive into the dancin boogie with all sorts of Jerry/Bob interplay as well as some nice keyboard work by Brent. Mr. Mydland also shines on The Woman is Smarter which is a well orchestrated version with Jerry playing slow calypso stylings and the rhythm just hugs the boundaries of the leads. Phil was having a blast with his new 6 string bass and his playing on this song and really throughout the whole tour is notable for this era of Dead. The Truckin > Wang Dang Doodle out of space was unique in that I do not recall such a bluesy version of Wang Dang and Bobby's vocal intensity was top notch. Deadbase tells us this was the very first time the Grateful Dead played the Willie Dixon tune. The Sugar Magnolia had Bob in top screaming mode at the end.
The U.S. Blues encore sent us packing and into the night.  We had a short, but significant drive to Seattle ahead.

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