Oh how I miss those nights back in Hamburg! This show was a bit low energy, the band didn't seem to be quite firing on all cylinders. I heard later that Jerry may have been under the weather... That said, it's still a good show, with a nice setlist...may have been the smallest venue of the E90 tour, wasn't much bigger than a high school gym. 10/24/90 Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany I: Feel Like A Stranger, Cold Rain & Snow, Little Red Rooster, They Love Each Other, Me & My Uncle> Big River, West L.A. Fadeaway, Queen Jane Approximately> Iko Iko II: Help On The Way> Slipknot> Franklin's Tower> Truckin'> He's Gone> Drums> Space> I Need A Miracle> The Wheel> Goin' Down The Road> Around & Around E: U.S. Blues
Making my way through the new Ultramatrix/Miller source of 12/28/89. This Let It Grow is next level! Great sound and performance here... Code: Grateful Dead - December 28, 1989 Oakland Coliseum Arena - Oakland, CA Recording Info: UltraMatrix SBD > Cassette Master (TDK MA-X90) Transfer Info: Cassette Master (Nakamichi CR-7A) > Tascam DA-3000 (DSF 1-bit/5.6MHz) > Tascam Hi-Res Editor (WAV 24-bit/96k) > Adobe Audition 2020 > Samplitude Pro X6 Suite > FLAC/24 (1 DVD FLAC) Patch Info: AKG 414 > DAT (shnid=142684) supplies: Space (4:09 - 4:26) All Transfers and Mastering by Charlie Miller [email protected] October 15, 2021 Notes: -- Drums with Willie Green III -- Recorded by Dan Healy and Don Pearson -- Thanks to Ted Mattes for the patch source -- Thanks to Joe B. Jones for the pitch correction settings Set 1: 01 - Tuning 02 - Let The Good Times Roll 03 - Feel Like A Stranger 04 - Dire Wolf 05 - Little Red Rooster 06 - Ramble On Rose 07 - Queen Jane Approximately 08 - Just A Little Light 09 - Let It Grow Set 2: 10 - Tuning 11 - Foolish Heart > 12 - Looks Like Rain > 13 - Eyes Of The World > 14 - Drums > 15 - Space > 16 - Gimme Some Lovin' > 17 - All Along The Watchtower > 18 - Stella Blue > 19 - Turn On Your Lovelight Encore: 20 - Tuning 21 - U.S. Blues
Yeah, that was before I got shown the light (or even join the forum) so I didn't contribute but give me a bit and I could give me two cents on the road maps I have in my Robert Christgau/Mark Prindle influenced manner.
I like pretty much any show with a second-set H>S>F and this one is no exception. I didn't go to Europe but I listened to this tape a lot, along with 10-20 from Berlin.
Listening to the opening Here Comes Sunshine from the last show of the box, never knew that song started with the lyric “Wake of the Flood”.
I was looking for comments in this vast thread about 10/30/73 and found some choice nuggets stretching back all the way to 2015: An alternative opinion: And finally, from our long-lost friend Frosst:
I doubt I'm the first to post this -- as the event took place a few days ago -- but I thought it was cool that a snippet of "Help on the Way" (I'm pretty sure that was the song) was used as "bumper music" during an inning change during one of the Major League Playoff games.
Jerry mighta had a great change-up due to his missing finger. Since "Three-Finger Brown" made the Hall of Fame, I think "Four-Finger Garcia" had a shot at (Dupree's) diamond greatness.
Thinking on this a bit more, I don't disagree with this view either: death had obviously touched the rock scene a bit by this point (Brian Jones, Jimi, Janis & Jim), but perhaps these losses were viewed as accidents or simply people choosing their time to check out, whilst there was little general inkling in the rock scene of what longer-term substance abuse &/or peoples congenital issues might eventually do. As Garcia said shortly after this timeframe, everyone expected Pigpen to die in September '71 so his surviving that episode (even at the massive cost to his underlying constitution) probably suggested a certain invulnerability to his fellow bandmembers, and even his much-reduced physical state probably didn't register for the warning sign that it was. Anyway, that's just me reflecting a bit more - Another Guy on the Internet here!
I read Phil’s book and if I’m not mistaken, I remember him saying Pigpen’s death came as a shock. They all knew he was sick, but thought all he had to do was cut back his drinking, and that he wasn’t actually going to die. It was a “we were still young and naive” kind of thing,” I think I remember him writing.
Me said this My opinion has changed. In listened to the big jam a couple of days ago and I like it a lot. The first part of Dark star is excellent. 6.18>=yummy
25 October 1973- Dane County Coliseum The perfect day for a complete listen. This show really needs an official release.
There’s a real good He’s Gone, from 10/20/84 Syracuse, plus a ball buster of a Jack Straw, just out-of-nowhere great. If you want Jerry-fire, you'll get it here. 10/20/84 (DUsborne Matrix)
Oh goody! Disc 3 of my burned version of 25 October 1973- Dane County, has part of 1 Nov 1973- Northwestern University, Set II, as filler: Morning Dew > Playing In The Band > Uncle John's Band > Playing In The Band Killer filler!
Things I’m more fond of than the Dead in the mid-eighties Include dog-paddling the length of the Euphrates
