Grateful Dead
Date 1986-03-30
Civic Center
Providence RI

Set I
d1t01 - tuning
d1t02 - Hell In A Bucket     ++
d1t03 - Sugaree
d1t04 - El Paso
d1t05 - Cumberland Blues
d1t06 - Tons Of Steel
d1t07 - C C Rider
d1t08 - Dupree's Diamond Blues     // **
d1t09 - tuning & coughing
d1t10 - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
d1t11 - Deal

Set II
d2t01 - Touch Of Grey
d2t02 - Samson And Delilah
d2t03 - Terrapin Station
d2t04 - Man Smart (Woman Smarter) >
d2t05 - Drums >      //
d2t06 - Space >
d2t07 - Why Don't We Do It In The Road
d2t08 - Stella Blue
d2t09 - Throwing Stones
d2t10 - Not Fade Away
d2t11 - Encore	Not Fade Away crowd
d2t12 - The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo)

Comments
Final Grateful Dead version of "Why Don't We Do It In The Road"
++ Major microphone pre-amp/battery distortion most of song
** missed start due to poor tape flip
// tape flips
There is a grinding sound from the PA, thought to be Weir's rig distorting, throughout this entire spring tour. It is present only when they are playing, not during breaks.
I listened to several FOB audience sources from this tour and they all have this "noise".

Source: MAUD CA
Microphones: AKG c422 cardioids (X-Y at 90') |AKG B18
Recorder: Sony TC-D5M| Maxell MX 90's no Dolby (2nd in line)
Location: OTS approximately 200 feet from stage; 30 feet LOC
Transfer:  Nakamichi CR-5A > Sonic AD2k @24/48 > Marantz PMD661|24/48 SD
Processing: SD| Audacity | cdwav editor | TLH | FLAC| foobar 2000 tagger
Recorded by: Executive Crew; Mike Davis, Kyle Holbrook, Tom Pinney, John Hance, Kenny Davis, Sean Murtha
Transferred: Kyle Holbrook
This Executive Crew AKG c422 recording is dedicated to Kenny Davis RIP
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the tour story
After doing these stories since summer 1982 tour, I am going to shift directions a bit. I am going to discuss the Grateful Dead scene overall in 1986, rather than focusing on the personal travel tales. In a large way Jerry's "health issues" were front and center to all of us "tourheads", having had a Mikel and several other flyers going around the parking lot discussing Jerry's "failing health". I am hoping to attach some of those if I can locate them in time. I would also like to dispel the notion seen so often in print about the band and the quality of their performances being terrible during this timeframe. This was simply untrue. Some nights Jerry or Bob were off and not fully there, but plenty of nights when they would just wail and put out some fine sets. Yes, most of 1986 has short sets, some first sets are barely one hour long. My premise here is that if you listen carefully enough to the entire seven months before Jerry's diabetic coma you will hear some of the weirdest, worst, and best the Grateful Dead had to offer.

For this specific show, the recording is marred by the fact we were in the rafters of the OTS, literally 200 feet from the stacks and about 30 feet off center. The reason we were so far back was a good one I suppose. The previous night Mike and Sean had gone to Martha's Island for their first Radiators show. Someone at the Portland show had told us about it and Mike decided they should go with the 422 an wound up with a crazy onstage recording. So, they were late arriving in Providence after that slog from the Island, VW van on the ferry and all. Alas, this was the ninth show of the tour and we finally made it to the Official Tapers Section. sigh

Performance wise, the "Hell in a Bucket" was a lengthy warm-up with very little Bobby improvising at the end. The "El Paso" is in an odd early slot and has some sound issues sounding like Healy was setting some EQ near the end with a giant woosh of the low frequency cabinet EQ's. "Cumberland Blues" has some good bluegrass type jamming in the middle but seems rushed a bit. "Tons of Steel" was one of my Brent favorites, this one has some sweet Brent singing. "C.C. Rider" has some nice moments with Jerry doing a short first solo then Brent hammering it home on the Hammond B3. Phil busts out "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues", another of the Dylan tunes getting prepped to play the upcoming summer tour with Dylan/Petty. For the second set a somehwat odd combination of "Touch of Grey" > "Samson & Delilah" started off with some nice jamming with drums in Samson. "Women Are Smarter" had some nice jamming with the drums taking on a calypso flavor on this night. The track titled "encore Not Fade Away" is because when Bobby comes back onstage to find the drummers never left stage the crowd was chanting "You know our love will not fade away" while Bob sang the Bop Bops with Mickey and Billy drumming the fade away as the crowd chants with them. They then start "Mighty Quinn" quickly and lead us out the door knowing their would be two more nights in Providence.

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