Grateful Dead
Date 1984-07-22
Ventura County Fairgrounds
Ventura CA

Set 1
d1t01 - tuning 
d1t02 - Dancin' In The Streets > 
d1t03 - Bertha
d1t04 - My Brother Esau
d1t05 - Loser
d1t06 - Cassidy
d1t07 - Ramble On Rose
d1t08 - Hell In A Bucket > 
d1t09 - Day Job 

Set 2
d2t01 - tuning
d2t02 - Samson & Delilah
d2t03 - Ship of Fools/ 
d2t04 - I Just Want To Make Love To You >    +
d2t05 - Women Are Smarter > 
d2t06 - Terrapin Station > 
d2t07 - Drums > 
d2t08 - Space >
d2t09 - Morning Dew > 
d2t10 - Throwing Stones > 
d2t11 - Not Fade Away /// 
d2t12 - encore break 
d2t13 - Midnight Hour >     #
d2t14 - Brokedown Palace

+   first time played since 11-29-1966
#   first time played since 12-31-1983
/   tape paused between tunes to save tape
/// tape swapped back to tape I

Recording Information: ** This is a 16 bit fileset **
Source: MAUD Beyer M88 (Cardioid) XY 90' > Sony TCD5M|Maxell MX 90 x2 no NR (SM mic master)
Location: 75 feet from stage DFC
Lineage: Nakamichi LX5 > Marantz PMD661|SD >WIN10 Audacity|cdwav|TLH Flac level8
Recorded By: Executive Crew Sean Murtha, John Hance
Transferred: Kyle Holbrook 
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Ventura County Fairgrounds. Always windy as the venue stage is 100 yards from the beach. It was a beautiful, small place to catch the Dead in those years. Capacity was maybe 7 or 8,000.

Set 1 Dancing in the Streets is a joyous and well presented opener. The song wound down and then goes into a slick segue for the rare Bertha which was not in its' usual opening slot. They work through a tight 'Esau' and a lazy, summer at the beach Loser with growling Jerry vocals and a mean solo. Then they land into what to my ears is the set highlight of 'Cassidy' then 'Ramble on Rose'. Cassidy was obviously such a crowd favorite, you can hear the wave of sunburnt appreciation as they start the tune. You can hear the band was in top form and fine spirits for both these shows.

Set 2 Samson & Delilah, Jerry's leads! Ripping sound quality. Bobby plays great dissonant chords in 'Ship Of Fools'. The crowd was surprised at the bustout of 'I Just Want to Make Love to You' but even more interesting to me musically was the transition into 'Women Are Smarter' out of the bluesy Willie Dixon tune. Bobby on the Bop Bops after NFA. 'Midnight Hour' had not been played yet on summer tour and that knowledge as well as the two song encore sent the deadheads home music filled.

- - - - - - shntool

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