Grateful Dead
Date 1984-04-26
Providence Civic Center
Providence RI

Set 1
d1t01 - Shakedown Street        /#
d1t02 - C C Rider              /##
d1t03 - Loser
d1t04 - Hell In A Bucket
d1t05 - Brown Eyed Women
d1t06 - Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication >
d1t07 - Deal

Set 2
d2t01 - crowd/tuning
d2t02 - Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain
d2t03 - Estimated Prophet > //
d2t04 - Eyes Of The World >
d2t05 - Space >
d2t06 - Never Trust A Woman >
d2t07 - Drums >
d2t08 - Space >
d2t09 - Morning Dew >
d2t10 - Throwing Stones >
d2t11 - Not Fade Away
d2t12 - Encore break
d2t13 - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

Recording Information:
/# Shakedown taken from two sources first 04:29 from a Neumann source otherwise unknown info.
/## CC Rider until Supplication  master cassette had channel dropout issues; fixed as best I could.
// Tape flip

Source:
set 1: MAUD CA: Sennheiser MKE2002 Binaurals mounted on dummy head 50 feet from stage DFC >Sony TCD6M >
        TDK MA 90s No Dolby - Master copy from 2nd deck run by SM.
set 2: MAUD CA: Beyer M201's (Hypercardioid) 50 feet from stage 6'high DFC >Sony TCD5M >
        TDK MA90x2.5; No Dolby - Master copy from lead deck run by KH.
Transfer: Nakamichi MR-2 > Marantz PMD661|24/48 SD
Processing: SD| Audacity | cdwav editor | TLH | FLAC
Recorded by: Executive Crew: Chris Kidwell; Sean Murtha; Tom Pinney; Kyle Holbrook; Gary Steele
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The tour story:
Getting near the end of this tour and my memory is a bit fuzzy on details. Did we stay in Providence or elsewhere on the day off? I recall a HUGE throwdown at a Marriott or Hilton initiated by the Maine crew and iirc this is where I met Matt Kidwell. Sean, Gary, Pinney and I stayed at someone's apartment at Brown university copying lots of tapes. Sean and I definitely made a shopping visit to an Army Navy store where we purchased three medium sized ammo boxes, as we had been discussing how to best store tapes in while we traveled. We figured they protect ammunition from getting wet so they would work for traveling around the country winding up in every climate possible. Each of us still has them to this day, and I still use mine for taping trips when a festival with car camping is involved.

The recording of set 1 is fraught with problems. The Beyer recording is unlistenable with channel dropouts and blank sections everywhere. On the Binaural rig we missed the first 4.5 minutes of Shakedown which has been patched with an unknown Neumann source for this version. After Shakedown, until we flipped at the end of Lazy Lightning, the sound quality is muddled, no where close to the typical Sennheiser binaural sound quality. Best digital processing methods and practices were used and this is as good as I could get it with 5-6 hours of sorting through the three sources. Takeaway- Shakedown is OK and end of Lazy Lightning > Deal is OK, the rest is highly processed and not great sounding.

As for the show, the first set was only seven songs but over an hour of music. The 13 minute Shakedown is probably the highlight, with the Lazy Lightning jam my second highlight of this set. The second set Scarlet > Fire sound quality is much better. The jam out of Scarlet is slow and meandering with Jerry playing that sweet Mellotron tone through a plucky Fire on the Mountain. Brent adds counterpoint piano riffs in the jam foreshadowing his pulling out the Never Trust a Woman leading into rhythm devils. No, the tape speed isn't off for te Eyes of the World, which was played at typical 1984 breakneck speed. The Morning Dew came out of space a bit unexpectedly as they had already played it twice this tour, the most recent only four shows prior. Jerry's vocals are sweet even at the end screaming section. I always dug it when Baby Blue was the encore selection, and this ushered us out into the streets of Providence, looking forward to one more show in that interesting old New England city.

- - - - - shntool


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