Grateful Dead
Date 1985-07-14
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  - Hell In A Bucket
d1t02  - They Love Each Other
d1t03  - Brother Esau
d1t04  - Althea
d1t05  - Cassidy
d1t06  - Big Railroad Blues
d1t07  - Looks Like rain
d1t08  - Might As Well

Set Two:

d2t09  - China Cat Sunflower
d2t10 - I Know You Rider
d2t11 - Samson & Delilah
d2t12 - Ship Of Fools
d2t13 - Estimated Prophet
d2t14 - Eyes Of The World
d2t15 - Drums
d2t16 - Space
d2t17 - Truckin'
d2t18 - Smokestack Lightning
d2t19 - Black Peter
d2t20 - Throwing Stones
d2t21 - Not Fade Away

Encore:

d2t22 - Keep Your Day Job




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 this show on the 14th that had the strong sea breeze) 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 (on this show 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..Pacific Ocean Beachfront, 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


