Grateful Dead Date 1984-06-14 Red Rocks State Park Amphitheatre Morrison CO d1t01 - Iko Iko d1t02 - Cassidy d1t03 - It Must Have Been the Roses d1t04 - New Minglewood Blues d1t05 - Brown Eyed Women d1t06 - Jack Straw d1t07 - Day Job d2t01 - Shakedown Street > d1t02 - Playin' in the Band > d2t03 - Dear Mr. Fantasy > d2t04 - drums > d2t05 - space > d2t06 - Playin' in the Band > d2t07 - Black Peter > d2t08 - Throwin' Stones > d2t09 - Not Fade Away d2t10 - U.S. Blues *** Listening to this recording on headphones will greatly enhance the experience as the binaural recording method uses microphones at the ears. Recording Information: MAUD CA: Sennheiser MKE2002 Binaurals on dummy head > Sony TCD5M|maxell MX90 x2 no NR Location: 140 feet from stage 15' ROC Transfer: Nakamichi MR2 > Marantz PMD661|SD Recorded By: Executive Crew Chris Kidwell, Sean Murtha, Tom Pinney, Kyle Holbrook Transferred: Kyle Holbrook ==================================================================================================================== The tour story: Night 3 on the Rocks. For the 1984 run Barry Fey was forced to schedule the band during the week hoping they would contain the relative mania of crowds showing up without tickets by not playing on a weekend. It certainly did not work this year. This was the Thursday night show closer of the run and the weather turned out much better than the day before, however we were a bit late showing up so we wound up several rows behind the soundboard area. Also this year the security was outrageous in their searching for recording gear, several tapers were shut out on night 1 and for this night's sneaking in we had resorted to Sean's idea of putting a $500 Sony recorder in a Ritz cracker box inside a paper bag full of food (food, cans, no bottles were allowed) as well as hiding 2 D5's in double plastic bags UNDER the bags of ice in our cooler. We also had Lynn carry in a Marantz Superscope under her dress as if she was pregnant. Alice Walsh, my ex-wife's sister, was on tour with us and she wore a mic stand under her dress this day. The job had to get done, and we did it! The rain from the previous night had soured everyone's mood a bit but had built up a bit of expectation for this show and I can say at the start it seemed it might be a disappointment. Once the Iko-Iko was over and they had only played a seven song first set we truly expected fireworks for set 2 and got a three song pre-drums which had Bobby barely able to play. Jerry was tearing it up, Brent was doing his part but Bobby was not all there this night. I know the altitude can mess with performers up there in the mountains and usually the medics have lots of oxygen available but I suspect something else. Listening back to this several times I can hear the moment in the Playin' jam that Jerry and Phil push for the China Doll but Bobby wanted nothing to do with it, so Phil gives up and Bobby is about to leave the stage when Jerry looks at Brent and they start these chords, sort of China Doll but not...then...what? "Dear Mr. Fantasy play us a tune, something to make us all happy". DAMN! What would later become a Brent Mydland staple had its' first ever playing by the Dead and smiles of joy were seen from Left rock to Right rock; we were there for a breakout and it felt INCREDIBLE. Experts claim this version isn't perfect, there were better ones played etc.; they more than likely weren't there with all of us experiencing the sheer joy of this unexpected live music. From humdrums to hallelujah's all at the turn of a note. While the rest of this show is pretty pedantic, that one moment, the sound of the band discovering a new musical path and the audience accepting it then screaming wildly then grooving to the tune. Notice that although Brent starts the first verse Jerry sings harmony on the first refrain then they almost trade off line for line as to who leads. For the last two verses Jerry's voice is strong, riding over top of Brent's. I realize I'm biased as I was there, but to my memory, this makes my top 10 Grateful Dead moments of 1984; huge bustout, awesome original tune they just threw into their songbook, and what a way to send us all home after three tough days at the Red Rocks State Park Amphitheatre. shntool: length expanded size cdr WAVE problems fmt ratio filename 8:19.520 143861804 B cxx -- ---xx flac 0.7168 gd1984-06-14mke2002-24d1t01.flac 5:23.013 93027884 B cxx -- ---xx flac 0.7160 gd1984-06-14mke2002-24d1t02.flac 6:22.373 110123564 B cxx -- ---xx flac 0.7099 gd1984-06-14mke2002-24d1t03.flac 8:11.920 141673004 B cxx -- ---xx flac 0.7264 gd1984-06-14mke2002-24d1t04.flac 5:44.947 99344684 B cxx -- ---xx flac 0.7225 gd1984-06-14mke2002-24d1t05.flac 5:54.627 102132524 B cxx -- ---xx flac 0.7370 gd1984-06-14mke2002-24d1t06.flac 4:18.789 74531306 B cxx -- ---xx flac 0.7259 gd1984-06-14mke2002-24d1t07.flac 13:45.067 237619244 B cxx -- ---xx flac 0.7177 gd1984-06-14mke2002-24d2t01.flac 9:47.133 169094444 B cxx -- ---xx flac 0.7118 gd1984-06-14mke2002-24d2t02.flac 6:48.587 117673004 B cxx -- ---xx flac 0.7215 gd1984-06-14mke2002-24d2t03.flac 9:54.067 171091244 B cxx -- ---xx flac 0.6944 gd1984-06-14mke2002-24d2t04.flac 6:35.187 113813804 B cxx -- ---xx flac 0.6799 gd1984-06-14mke2002-24d2t05.flac 2:55.760 50618924 B cxx -- ---xx flac 0.7134 gd1984-06-14mke2002-24d2t06.flac 7:27.187 128789804 B cxx -- ---xx flac 0.7066 gd1984-06-14mke2002-24d2t07.flac 7:54.387 136623404 B cxx -- ---xx flac 0.7218 gd1984-06-14mke2002-24d2t08.flac 6:28.253 111817004 B cxx -- ---xx flac 0.7251 gd1984-06-14mke2002-24d2t09.flac 4:49.040 83243552 B cxx -- ---xx flac 0.7130 gd1984-06-14mke2002-24d2t10.flac 120:39.856 2085079198 B 0.7147 (17 files) App\Http\Controllers\Api\FileDownloadController::download(): Return value must be of type string, none returned