Grateful Dead
Date 1986-05-04
Cal Expo Amphitheatre
Sacramento CA

set 1
d1t01 - tuning
d1t02 - One More Saturday Night ^
d1t03 - Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
d1t04 - Little Red Rooster
d1t05 - equipment break
d1t06 - Candyman
d1t07 - equipment breaks again
d1t08 - Me And My Uncle
d1t09 - Mexicali Blues
d1t10 - China Cat Sunflower >
d1t11 - I Know You Rider         ++

Set 2
d2t01 - tuning
d2t02 - Gimme Some Lovin' >
d2t03 - Playing In The Band >
d2t04 - Drums >
d2t05 - Space >
d2t06 - Uncle John's Band >
d2t07 - Playing In The Band >
d2t08 - I Need A Miracle >
d2t09 - Wharf Rat >
d2t10 - Around And Around >
d2t11 - Good Lovin'
d2t12 - encore break
d2t13 - encore	Box Of Rain


^  There is massive bass distortion at start of Saturday Night, then until they dial it in, there is random Phil bomb distortion. The sound starts to get solid around China-Rider
++  At the segue between China > Rider the master tape was flipped, so we spliced it putting the entire suite onto side two during the first generation copying in 1986. It is a bit whooshy at the splice for about 3 seconds and then a distinct change in sound quality results.

Recording Information: *** This is a 16 bit fileset ***
Source: 1GEN AUDCA    speed corrected 1.5%
Microphones: AKG c422 cardioid (X-Y at 90') chest level|AKG B18
Recorder: Sony TC-D5M| Maxell MX 90's no Dolby (1st in line)
Location: approximately 30 feet from stage; DFC
original transfer: Sony TC-D5M > Sony TC-D5M
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, Tom Pinney, Kenny Davis, John Goode
Transferred: Kyle Holbrook
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the tour story:
Cal Expo is a great venue on the campus of California State University situated on part of the interior valley known defining Sacramento. It is basically in the valley between the two mountain ranges which define North Central California, hence the town further North named Grass Valley. It can get hot in Sacramento. Often in May. I loved that venue for the Grateful Dead. It was outdoors, but small, and in 1986 still only had wooden bleachers on two sides of the stage with a dusty bowl for the floor. This was like a second home to the Bill Graham Presents team and often you would see Bill stalking the grassy area on the sides of the stage just behind the barricades.

Kenny and Mike drove out for these shows in the VW Van with Stella the dog and met up with Aaron and his crew. For this show, they wound up setting the AKG c422 up next to their crew FOB way up close to the stage. You can hear the vocals almost "blowing by" the microphones at times. The crowd is at points very quiet, and other points, talkative. Bob opened up saying, "we're going to play last night's encore", as they launched onto the "One More Saturday Night" on a Sunday afternoon(the showtime was 2 PM). The Half-Step starts the juices flowing as Jerry and Brent played off of each other. Brent joins Bobby on vocals for "Lil' Red Rooster" giving the tune that bluesy barroom flavor. Healy has it dialed in by that point. "Candyman" had a nice, slow swing to it with Phil's bass licks were practically singing the melody under the vocals. Bobby flubs the intro to "Me and My Uncle" resulting in laughter from the crowd. The pace of China > Rider was led by a bouyant Phil bouncing all around under Jerry's leads and topped by the drummers shimmying on the cymbals.

"Gimme Gimme Some Lovin'" starts off the second set with a bang and then they do an odd pre-drums thing and play only one more song, "Playing in The Band". They play it for about five minutes then do this ten minute long "Jam" including some sweet interplay between all six players. Drums and Space led nicely into "Uncle John's Band" which developed into a full fledge Grateful Dead songfest replete with a "Playin' in the Band (reprise)", "I need a Miracle" (Weir messes up lyrics at start of Miracle) into a splendid "Wharf Rat". They finished the set with a short "Good Lovin" featuring a Bobby rap which includes references to the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster which had happened the week before.

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