Grateful Dead

1984-04-13

Hampton Coliseum
Hampton VA

Source:Sennheiser MKE2002 Binaurals mounted on fake head 60 feet from stage >Sony TCD5M >Maxell Metal 100s No Dolby - Master copy from lead deck run by CK.
Transfer: Nakamichi LX-5 >ESI Juli@ at 24/48> Wavelab >FLAC
Recorded by executive crew (SM,CK (owner of MKE2002s),TP,KH)
Transferred by Kyle Holbrook (kyle@rocksuitcase.com)

Set 1

01] Day Job
02] Minglewood Blues
03] Dire Wolf
04] Beat It On Down The Line >
05] West L.A. Fadeaway
06] It's All Over Now
07] Bird Song
08] crowd
09] Hell In A Bucket>
10] Don't Ease Me In

Set 2

01] Scarlet Begonias >Fire On The Mountain# >
02] Estimated Prophet >
03] Space >
04] Drums# >
05] Space >
06] The Wheel >
07] Truckin'>
08] Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad >
09] Around & Around >
10] Good Lovin'
Encore:
11] U.S. Blues

Notes: # Mickey Hart on Djimbe. This is from the legendary 1984 Spring Tour run the first time they sold tour booklets, one ticket to every show that tour- we bought several. The second set Scarlet >Fire is considered one of the top ten ever performed. Listen to Mickey on "talking drum" during Fire; the space/drums/space following Estimated is far far out there.

Recording Notes:
1] The Sennheiser binaurals were pressure gradient "omni" type capsules designed to be worn on a human head or the supplied dummy head. This is one of the best representations of how they sounded in this type of live environment. this will sound BEST through headphones; through a stereo you may choose to increase bass slightly.
2] First set tape was stopped between every song break; we must have been trying to conserve batteries. Second set same method until after drums.
+ Tape flip ~41.05
3] First minute has recording level variations; the Sound crew doesn't get it set for levels until start of second song.
4] During the first set, first four songs have variable levels and some very fast up and down points. After that, the sound is consistent, although the second set is somewhat "better" then the first.



