Grateful Dead
Date 1985-07-13
Ventura County fairgrounds
Ventura, CA


Field Equipment:  Nakamichi CM-100 mics w/CP-4 Shotgun caps > Sony TC-D5M Analog Cassette Recorder > Maxell MX-90 tapes
Transfer: MAC > Tascam 112 Analog Cassette Recorder > Edirol UA-5 > 24/96 > PC > Audacity > Trader's Little Helper > FLAC 24/96
Recorded, transferred, edited, tracked and FLAC'd by Greg Holtz

Set One:

d1t01  - One More Saturday Night
d1t02  - Fire On The Mountain
d1t03  - Walkin' Blues
d1t04  - Dupree's Diamond Blues
d1t05  - Mama Tried
d1t06  - Big River
d1t07  - Bird Song
d1t08  - The Music Never Stops

Set Two:

d2t09  - Touch Of Grey
d2t10 - Women Are Smarter
d2t11 - Terrapin Station
d2t12 - Drums
d2t13 - Space
d2t14 - Wheel
d2t15 - That's It For The Other One
d2t16 - Comes A Time
d2t17 - Round & Round
d2t18 - Sugar Magnolia

Encore:

d2t19 - U.S. Blues




June 2015 Recollection:

It was a hot sunny weekend in Ventura, and the sea breeze was kicking up the sand in the rodeo arena.  We had to keep the tape decks covered with a towel to protect them from the dust, and for at least one of the shows (I think it was the 14th) we put socks over the foam windscreens to try and minimize the wind noise on the mics.

The Saturday show started in the hot afternoon sun, and there were fires burning on the mountains east of the faigrounds, so it was fitting to open up the first show with One More Saturday Night and Fire On The Mountain.  It was also kind of cosmic when they sang "ashes ashes all fall down" during the end of Throwing Stones (again on the 14th) as there were ashes falling down out of the sky all weekend from the fires.  As usual, Ventura delivered with some of the greatest camping scenes ever, with bands playing, old school movies to watch on the "big screen", thriving hippy bazaar, and lots of food, drink, smoke, music and other goodies to share with everybody.

The recordings came out great, save for a bit of wind noise.  It was terribly good fun making these recordings, and I hope that you enjoy this show in 24/96 resolution.

Greg Holtz


