Grateful Dead
Date 1986-07-06
RFK Stadium
Washington DC

Set I
d1t01 - tuning and Bobby's gear broken
d1t02 - Hell In A Bucket
d1t03 - Sugaree
d1t04 - Me And My Uncle
d1t05 - Big River
d1t06 - equipment break
d1t07 - Row Jimmy
d1t08 - Cassidy
d1t09 - Althea
d1t10 - Let It Grow

Set II
d2t01 - Saint Of Circumstance    **
d2t02 - Iko Iko
d2t03 - equipment break again
d2t04 - Looks Like Rain >
d2t05 - He's Gone >
d2t06 - Drums >
d2t07 - Space >
d2t08 - Stella Blue >
d2t09 - Throwing Stones >
d2t10 - Not Fade Away
d2t11 - encore break
d2t12 - encore	Brokedown Palace

** missed start
Recording Information:
1st GEN AUDCA
Microphones: AKG c422|AKG B18 X-Y handheld
Recorder: Sony TC-D5M| Maxell MX-90's
Location: 75' from stage DFC
1st transfer: Sony TC-D5M to Sony TC-D5M (Maxell XLII 90 x2) no nr
Digital Transfer: Nakamichi LX-5 > Benchmark Sonic AD2k > Marantz PMD-661
Recorded by: Mike Davis, Kenny Davis, Tom Pinney, Sean Murtha
Transfer: Kyle Holbrook
Processing: John Hance
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the tour story:
This is the second to last show before Jerry had his diabetic coma on July 26th of 1986. The RFK stadium show was a sold out event and the weather was about 100 degrees at show time. At the start of the show you hear some distortion then Phil and Jerry make fun of Bobby's "newfangled cordless rig" which had broken. Phil says, "Bobby's gonna have to use a cord like the rest of us". They get four songs into the set and Bob's rig needs another repair. "We'll get this puppy right" he says and the crowd cheered. I title these "equipment breaks" only if they are longer than one minute, this one was over two!

Of course, in the second set, Jerry's rig breaks and in a very unusual timing, they stop playing after two songs, fix his rig and move on. But Bob does say something. At which time soundman Dan Healy decided to play around with some crazy sound effects while Bob, Phil, and Jerry hassled the equipment crew.

Musically, the "Row Jimmy", "Cassidy", and "Let It Grow" are well played with some tasty Brent highlights on both the B3 and piano. The second set is Bobby heavy as we now know Jerry was barely able to stand onstage for one hour with his developing diabetes and the extreme heat close to 100 degrees on that day. Nevertheless, the set opener of "Saint Of Circumstance" was unusually placed. A very disjointed "Iko-Iko" preceded the equipment break and it sounds as if Jerry's amplifier stopped working. A very typical Grateful Dead songlist followed after another second set oddity, "Looks Like Rain" featuring the usual screaming by Bobby at its' end. The "Brokedown Palace" is possibly the worst version of it I've ever heard, but we all know why now, which we did not know then.

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