Grateful Dead Date 1985-07-13 Ventura County Fairgrounds Ventura CA Set I d1t01 - tuning d1t02 - One More Saturday Night > * d1t03 - Fire On The Mountain * d1t04 - Walkin' Blues d1t05 - Dupree's Diamond Blues + d1t06 - Mama Tried > d1t07 - Big River // d1t08 - Bird Song d1t09 - The Music Never Stopped Set II d2t01 - Touch Of Grey d2t02 - Man Smart (Woman Smarter) d2t03 - Terrapin Station > d2t04 - Drums > d2t05 - Space > d2t06 - The Wheel > d2t07 - Cryptical Envelopment > d2t08 - The Other One > d2t09 - Comes A Time > d2t10 - Around And Around > d2t11 - Sugar Magnolia d2t12 - Encore U.S. Blues + Sound level adjustments until ~30 seconds in, then steady // Tape Flip * must have had the limiter on or Dolby on, then switched off, as these tracks sound "different" than the rest of the recording. This tape GRAPHICALLY recorded the sound system problems that plagued the sound crew the entire summer and fall of 1985. IT seemed to have something to do with the low end. The tapers later circulated a story that it was Phil's new Bass pickups that were cross wired and caused his rig to freak out the PA's subwoofers. This distortion is all during this show, it occurs at least 20 times. Recording Information: *** This is a 16 bit fileset *** Source: Master AUDCA: Beyer M88's XY > 2nd Sony TCD5M in line no nr > Maxell MX 90s No Dolby Location: 65 feet from stage DFC, shoulder height Transfer: Nakamichi 582ZX > Benchmark Sonic AD2K @24|48 > Marantz PMD 661|SD Processing: SD| Audacity | cdwav editor | TLH | FLAC Recorded by: Executive Crew: Tom Pinney, Kyle Holbrook, Mike Davis, Kenny Davis, Pat Gillies ==================================================================== the tour story: What an amazing experience, the Dead on a beach! As it is said, it is the journey not the destination. Mike, Kenny and I wound up in his VW van with Stella the Golden Retriever. We headed out about July 10th for shows 24 hours driving time and three days from departure. As we got into the mountains above Albequerque the van started acting up, ultimately needing a carbeurator adjustment in a rest area. We wound up at the Ventura County Fairgrounds a bit late, about 10 AM on a day when showtime was 2 PM. The tiny venue was of course sold out and tickets were SCARCE. Two tickets came our way for about twice face value and Mike bought them. It was going to be Mike and Kenny going in with me staying out in the van with Stella. Close to when they were headed into the show, Mike decided to hang with Stella and gave me his ticket saying he'd get one probably. I went in with a D5 and found Tom and patched out of him. Once the show started this car a few over from the van started honking with the auto alarm. The dude at the car wasn't the owner but was without a ticket and hanging in the lot. In order to shut off the alarm Mike helped him break into the hood and disconnect it from the battery (1985 technology people!). Somehow Mike wound up with a ticket out of the deal! I recall the show being one of those short first sets due to the hot weather and a sweet second set. Listening back the band is in our faces from the get go with the opening "One More Saturday Night" and a rare 1980's first set "Fire on the Mountain". They moved through some equipment issues into a solid run of cowboy tunes with a "Duprees Diamond Blues" sandwiched in between. They landed on a gorgeous "Birdsong" ending with a solid "The Music Never Stopped". The second set was well played with an EXTENDED jam at the end of "Terrapin Station" which lked into a great Drummers and Jerry space jam. The post drums was pure 1985 GD, this was the moments everyone writes about. Did the band still have IT in the mid 1980s is always asked. Even Phil is quoted as saying the "Heineken years" were poor playing in his estimation. This playing and choices to do the "Cryptical Envelopment" with the "Other One" and then "Comes a Time" exemplifies the good or great moments of those years. The night after the second show we drove to LA to stay at a hotel with John Borg as he had a job interview with the L.A. Times the next day. He let us stay in his room to shower and be leisurely etc after he left for the interview. At the shows we added a rider, a recently made friend from the VA crew, Pat Gillies. Not sure how Pat wound up with us after the shows but we had decided to head home via Las Vegas after an aborted attempt to go to Disneyland. We drove through an incredible desert rainstorm about 100 miles before Vegas. Pat's memory starts with: "We decide to split town and drove east. I was asleep in the van when I was loudly awakened and told to get out and push. Being a good team member, I jumped out and found myself in the middle of the strip at night with many cars and about a 100million flashing lights. We pushed the van to a parking lot and got a very cheap room. I don’t remember the rain, but that image of the strip at night upon awakening from a dead sleep is burned into my soul" Once there we secured a motel room, probably out on Flamingo Ave, and proceeded to hit the strip as this would be all of ours first time in Las Vegas. Little did we realize that Pat being under 21 would amount to zero entry to casinos for him. So Pat and I hung out on the strip while Mike and Kenny went in to gamble a bit. Then it rained some more, heavily. In the morning as we left for Texas, the streets of Las Vegas were flash flooding with water almost above the hubcaps on the van as we sailed East. In the desert just outside of town we experienced the wonders of nature as the desert was in full bloom with yellow, orange and red flowers as well as all sorts of birds and creatures rising up from the massive downpour. 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