Grateful Dead
Date 1986-04-04
Hartford Civic Center
Hartford CT

Set I
d1t01 - tuning
d1t02 - Jack Straw
d1t03 - Dire Wolf
d1t04 - C C Rider
d1t05 - Candyman
d1t06 - It's All Over Now
d1t07 - Crazy Fingers >
d1t08 - Greatest Story Ever Told
d1t09 - Keep Your Day Job

Set II
d2t01 - tuning
d2t02 - Touch Of Grey
d2t03 - Looks Like Rain >
d2t04 - He's Gone >
d2t05 - Smokestack Lightnin' >
d2t06 - jam >
d2t07 - Drums >
d2t08 - Space >
d2t09 - The Wheel >
d2t10 - Stella Blue >
d2t11 - Throwing Stones >
d2t12 - Turn On Your Lovelight
d2t13 - encore Box Of Rain

Comments:
Final Grateful Dead version of "Keep Your Day Job"
Phil says "Thank you all, good night" after "Box of Rain" instead of Bobby

Recording Information:
Source: MAUD CA
Microphones: AKG c422 crossed figure 8's (at 90') head level|AKG B18
Recorder: Sony TC-D5M| Maxell MX 90's no Dolby (first in line)
Location: approximately 75 feet from stage; DFC
Transfer:  Nakamichi LX5 > 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, Kyle Holbrook, Tom Pinney, Sean Murtha, Gary Steel
Transferred: Kyle Holbrook
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the tour story:
For the final show we went to the meat and potatoes as JJ called it, about 75 feet from the stage, maybe 30 feet in front of the soundboard riser. As these were reserved seating shows, I'm pretty sure we bought the tickets from a scalper. Then we put the AKG c422 on a stand in Blumlein mode, crossed figure 8 patterns. It appears we ran them straight into the Sony TC-D5M's as opposed to the Nakaminchi 550 we used as a mic master earlier in the tour.

For this specific show, "Jack Straw" gets a bit better than typical opener status with a nice, lazy, "we are just getting started" feel to it. "Direwolf" and "CC Rider" were short but tight and sweet with some Brent Hammond B3 craftiness on "CC Rider". "Candyman" was a pure Jerry highlight. His vocal phrasing was nice with Bob adding some harmony. "Crazy Fingers"! In the first set, a most unusual slot for an already rare tune. Deadbase says 4 were played in 1986 and this was the first one of the year. Of course, final show of the tour an all, Jerry flubs the lyrics in the first verse and teh crowd gives sort of a Bronx cheer when he starts the lyric again. They even play an outro jam as they would for a second set version sequeing into "Greatest Story Ever Told".

Second set opener, "Touch of Grey", led into a Healy infused Bobby vocal delay sequence during "Looks Like Rain". A very rough voice Jerry soldiered through "He's Gone" which led into probably one of the most tentative beginnings of "Smokestack Lightning" I ever heard ("izzat Spoonful, Nobody's Fault, what izzit?"). in 1986, they didn't jam it out as long as they once had, but throwing out Smokestack was a nice treat for the faithful on this last night of the East coast tour. "The Wheel" dropped out of space rather abruptly, Phil and Jerry traded off leads playing a trippy intro. They played a nice, band version of Wheel with all three guys singing the vocals. Then surprisingly Jerry headed into "Stella Blue" and treated it with such tender vocal and guitar lines as Phil landed some truly gut smacking bass lines. "Throwing Stones" led into an extremely short "Turn On Your Lovelight". Continuing the Spring '86 tour theme, the boys returned and played "Box of Rain" for the encore.

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