Grateful Dead
Date 1984-12-28
San Francisco Civic Center
San Francisco, CA

Set 1
d1t01 - Touch of Grey
d1t02 - Greatest Story Ever Told
d1t03 - Dire Wolf
d1t04 - Tons of Steel           **
d1t05 - Down in the Bottom/I Ain't Superstitious
d1t06 - Dupree's Diamond Blues
d1t07 - Me & My Uncle
d1t08 - Mexicali Blues
d1t09 - West LA Fadeaway
d1t10 - Might as Well

set 2 +
d2t01 - China Cat Sunflower >
d2t02 - I Know You Rider
d2t03 - Looks Like Rain      #
d2t04 - He's Gone
d2t05 - Spoonful
d2t06 - drums
d2t07 - space
d2t08 - The Other One
d2t09 - Wharf Rat
d2t10 - Sugar Magnolia
d2t11 - encore break
d2t12 - Day Tripper (encore)      **

#  St. Stephen Tease before He's Gone
** First Tons of Steel; First Day Tripper; last of five Spoonfuls in 1984- (cite- Deadbase|Scott|Dolgushkin|Nixon)
There are 3-4 slight tape speed variations during Wharf Rat through the end of the show.

***The Sennheiser MKE2002 binaural microphones were pressure gradient "omni" type capsules designed to be worn on a human head or the supplied dummy head. For the optimal listening experience wear headphones or earbuds; for playback on stereo speakers you may choose to increase bass slightly.***

Recording Information:
Source: Master AUDCA: Sennheiser MKE2002 Binaurals on dummy head, 4" square pressure plates behind ears > lead Sony TCD5M >
        Maxell MX 90s No Dolby -lead deck run by CK.
Location: 10th row balcony 125 feet from stage DFC on axis with top stack of speakers
Transfer: Nakamichi MR-2 > Marantz PMD661|24/48 SD
Processing: SD| Audacity | cdwav editor | TLH | FLAC
Recorded by: Executive Crew: Chris Kidwell; Tom Pinney; Kyle Holbrook; JJ Hance; Mike Davis; Johnny B Goode
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The tour story:
This story starts back at home in Texas in October. We had to talk John Goode's mother into letting him fly with us to San Francisco for these shows; he was 17 years old. His mom said she trusted me and gave John her permission. Very misplaced trust I will say, but we all came home safely. John survived his first set of GD shows wearing his walkman radio crawling the halls inside the venue listening to the local FM frequency Dan Healy would set up for these local shows. This would also mark Mike Davis' 4th GD show and his first with the Executive Crew, he was still not a taper per se, but his height helped us block. Then the story moves to San Francisco which had no idea of what kind of havoc the Executive Crew could wreak on a city. We stayed at the world infamous Argyle hotel, a dive if ever there was one. For some reason we figured we needed to stay as close as physically possible to the venue, which was located on Market in the heart of the downtown, rundown part of the city. So we had two rooms there and when we left, they probably looked like the shell of a car which caught fire.

The second set began with a shining China > Rider, then a short but sweet Looks Like Rain. They seemingly address the death in the family+ with a soulful He's Gone with an odd, playful spacey transition into Spoonful. Incredibly strong entrance to the Other One out of space, which followed a strong drums segment that I am certain was expressing the pain and sorrow the band was feeling. Bob and Brent were stabbing out discordant notes and effects into the lead up of The Other One and Jerry simply soars! You can almost hear Jerry crying during Wharf Rat, his vocals were that poignant. Bobby was screaming at the top of his lungs during Sunshine Daydream. The GD debut of Day Tripper was extremely anticipated by tour heads who had heard of them soundchecking it more than once since the BCT run in early November.

+ One serious note about this run of shows is that Steve Parrish's wife and child were killed in a car wreck sometime on the 28th. The tenor of the shows can be felt knowing this fact. From dead.net:" During the break we got word Steve Parrish' wife and daughter were killed in an accident on the bridge. It was horrible news. I asked my friend who had full backstage access; what the Dead were going to do. He said they were about to come back for the 2nd set and play their hearts out." And they did just that. Here is a prime example of their playing on that mournful night.


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