Grateful Dead
08/05/89
Cal Expo
Sacramento, CA

OTS; Nakamichi CM 300s w/CP 4 Shotgun Capsules >Sony WM-D6C [Sony Metal ES 90s]

Cassette Masters Transferred Via Denon DR-M12HR >Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48kHz)
WAV >Audacity (Balance Channel Levels, Amplify, Track Splits, Down Sample To 16bit/44.1kHz, Minor Edits [Tape Flips] & Fades) Fix SBEs >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

Recorded, Transferred, Audacity Post Production, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Set I
Disc I:
01. Tuning
02. One More Saturday Night
03. Cold Rain & Snow
04. We Can Run
05. Stagger Lee
06. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
07. Row Jimmy  (tape flip)
08. Let It Grow


Set II
Disc II:
01. Tuning
02. Hey Pocky Way >
03. Playing In The Band >
04. I Know You Rider >
05. Terrapin Station >
06. Drums >  [short drums, Billy walks off stage] (tape flip)]

Disc III:
01. Space >
02. Standing On The Moon >
03. Throwing Stones >
04. Not Fade Away

Encore:
05. U.S. Blues


Jerry Garcia - Guitar
Bob Weir - Guitar
Brent Mydland - Keyboards
Phil Lesh - Bass
Bill Kreutzmann - Drums
Mickey Hart - Drums

OldNeumanntapr Notes;
This was my second excursion to Cal Expo in Sacramento, the first being May 3rd and 4th 1986. I remember that it was hot as hell in Sacramento in August, and our old 1970 Datsun truck had never heard of air conditioning!

This was the very first show that I used my friend Gene's Nakamichi CM 300 shotguns in which to record. I didn't ask him. He volunteered them. I met Gene at the Saturday, June 13 1987 Ventura Fairgrounds Dead show when he patched a Marantz 420 into my Sony TC-153SD. We've been friends ever since. Later in 1989 he would purchase a grey-market Sony TCD-D10 DAT recorder, before the US Government was even letting them into the country. In his words, 'You can buy ANYTHING off a truck in New York City!"

The Nakamichi microphones were a definite step up from my old Superscope EC 7 cardioid condensers, but I still think I like the vocals better from the cardioids. (In later years I switched to running the Nakamichi CP 1 cardioid capsules on the CM 300s at venues like Shoreline where we were outdoors and didn't need the extreme side rejection of the 'guns.) The CP 4 shotgun capsules did really help to tame the reverberant sound from large indoor arenas but they could sound midrange heavy and kind of flat and lifeless. In 1990 at Cal Expo we would experiment with mixing one CM 300 with a CP-3 Pinpoint Omni capsule with two CM 300 shotguns and open up the sound a bit more. The three-mic mix worked well for cassette masters, where the analog tape hiss tended to help cover up the noise that the mixer induced, but when we switched to DAT in the 90s' it was really apparent that the mixer lowered the signal-to-noise ratio.

This was the night that I met my friend Jack, from Salt Lake City, when he patched his D6 into mine. Again, we have been friends ever since. I'm sure that I'm not the only one who has developed long lasting friendships from meetings in the tapers section at Dead shows!

It was either the Saturday or Sunday '89 Cal Expo show that a person wandered into the tapers section while obviously way too high and freaked out and ran through to the other side. Whoever it was just barely missed stepping on my deck. I remember a couple of tapers who ran after the guy, through the right side. I would like to think that the person didn't mean to cause any harm and blundered in by mistake but one never knows. People would often try to walk through the tapers section at outdoor shows in the dark because they would see a big black open area and not realize the vast amounts of recording gear that was there in their way. One of the 'Taper Creeds' was that you ALWAYS helped out your neighbors by turning your flashlight on and pointing it at their gear when someone tried to saunter through the section. I have had drunks try and brace themself by grabbing my microphone stand to steady themselves and I would always cringe and try to get rid of them quickly and send them on their way.

The drum solo on the Saturday show was really short, and I have it in my notes that Billy walked off stage abruptly.

After the show on Saturday my ex wife Nikki and I stayed the night in the camper shell of our green 1970 Datsun truck while parked in the parking lot of a Denny's restaurant. We were poor and couldn't afford a motel room so I picked a Denny's parking lot because it was a 24 hour restaurant and figured that no one would notice a truck parked there all night. I do remember using the restroom at the Denny's and washing my face and accidentally leaving my eye glasses on the sink. Of course they were gone when I realized what I had done the next morning and I had to deal with my nearsightedness for the Sunday Dead show and also with the 300 mile drive back to San Luis Obispo County. (I had silver 'Art-Craft Circles' which were English glasses that were like the glasses that John Lennon wore. I had to order a new pair immediately.)

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
Enjoy! Share freely, don’t sell, play nice, don’t run with scissors, etc. ;)

;flac fingerprints generated by xACT 2.50 on 2024-09-09 08:23:58 +0000

gd1989-08-05cm300.d1t01.flac:9d906d2052aad18000a84ef17a914b7c
gd1989-08-05cm300.d1t02.flac:906e791e411881353d027a633b1f9a7c
gd1989-08-05cm300.d1t03.flac:8880c317ffdfec0b4668315731287de0
gd1989-08-05cm300.d1t04.flac:a5a19061dae2d8369f58ccb8102b43e8
gd1989-08-05cm300.d1t05.flac:8977e6f69786c731c77ae81f5663f0fc
gd1989-08-05cm300.d1t06.flac:e0815015793afa3e435bbfe33cb393bb
gd1989-08-05cm300.d1t07.flac:97a0b4f2d7ecb982a9e354d13476e2a1
gd1989-08-05cm300.d1t08.flac:3e49048e7adffbe281a50f0326c02a8f
gd1989-08-05cm300.d2t01.flac:8f07da7ba6210f0b2bcefe56dffb497a
gd1989-08-05cm300.d2t02.flac:1d8c951b8baa87e3e6630c5c82e018ba
gd1989-08-05cm300.d2t03.flac:7360cb7308797303518c65f8b76e2079
gd1989-08-05cm300.d2t04.flac:6461ba64ae04265cea75aba2f1c69922
gd1989-08-05cm300.d2t05.flac:7aa676237653e9142e67e6ef75335130
gd1989-08-05cm300.d2t06.flac:1b72f01ae7098dba811f0e10d13f4d27
gd1989-08-05cm300.d3t01.flac:2ffa5d531c842507480af7262af7844b
gd1989-08-05cm300.d3t02.flac:c7a743acf35e8a39fd8a16115fab98dc
gd1989-08-05cm300.d3t03.flac:7c72e5414a574d5b19722084bf886d8e
gd1989-08-05cm300.d3t04.flac:a943875e3b19a4bc163c52561932cd12
gd1989-08-05cm300.d3t05.flac:377c5fd2ec7a4fcaa40129673032d96c

#MD5 checksums generated by xACT 2.50 on 2024-09-09 08:24:08 +0000

127c551e42d026e47f12af24dfeeba2e *gd1989-08-05cm300.d1t01.flac
6724b8bd11926ad72fd9c641b6bf9c6a *gd1989-08-05cm300.d1t02.flac
77fc38afb3b21635acfc5f77b8e0ff2a *gd1989-08-05cm300.d1t03.flac
e7a4f94969fa1d0fb518b8be868e3849 *gd1989-08-05cm300.d1t04.flac
0b36e557eace697dd05a51745725935e *gd1989-08-05cm300.d1t05.flac
60cc91a9895730668af1396a6e1fb046 *gd1989-08-05cm300.d1t06.flac
ccd6d6b32c37aaad436bf8cd27d26e65 *gd1989-08-05cm300.d1t07.flac
489ba90871f15f580a8b516320965e80 *gd1989-08-05cm300.d1t08.flac
5767b4ba95d074d37764ac711d4ecd41 *gd1989-08-05cm300.d2t01.flac
d5d589dab064c6eb3938c52197edf9df *gd1989-08-05cm300.d2t02.flac
8808148512a2f23594cab5c6100b9569 *gd1989-08-05cm300.d2t03.flac
2a305f21fba580ad59f4219cb453895e *gd1989-08-05cm300.d2t04.flac
e50fee6378ec950c6051fb30279cfb44 *gd1989-08-05cm300.d2t05.flac
7d9c8c24ae090cc76dab07fe5efedc7b *gd1989-08-05cm300.d2t06.flac
ba5627d2dc73842fb9fc3235be1f3606 *gd1989-08-05cm300.d3t01.flac
b2ec889b69aa49809b6cdd871ba78b34 *gd1989-08-05cm300.d3t02.flac
03be732f156297744371cfc74e7ac8bc *gd1989-08-05cm300.d3t03.flac
be51441c79c18bcdacd35ebee513dd92 *gd1989-08-05cm300.d3t04.flac
6ba92be09d258509e577055b5b2899ee *gd1989-08-05cm300.d3t05.flac