Grateful Dead
October 31, 1980
Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY

Source: 10â€ 1/4 track SBD Feed Master Reels @ 7.5ips
(Total Running Time: 04:42:29)

Lineage: 10â€ 1/4 track Reels (Revox A-77 playback) -> Lexicon Lambda (24/96) -> Logic (mastering: speed correction, track indexing, dithering to 16/44.1) -> AIFF -> Xact (sbe correction) -> wav -> flac

Transfer (October 2009) and mastering (December 2017) by Alan Bershaw

Personnel:
Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
Bob Weir - guitar, vocals
Brent Mydland - keyboards, vocals
Phil Lesh - bass, vocals
Bill Kruetzman - drums, percussion
Mickey Hart  - drums, percussion

pre-show
1 101 crowd noise 00:47
2 102 Frankin & Davis preshow 06:33

Set 1 (acoustic)
3 103 Brent Intros "Frank & David" 00:27
4 104 Frankin & Davis intro 02:04
5 105 tuning & banter 04:28
6 106 Heaven Help The Fool 05:59
7 107 tuning & banter. 02:25
8 108 Sage And Spirit 02:44
9 109 Little Sadie 02:42
10 110 tuning & banter 00:44
11 111 The Monkey & The Engineer 02:28
12 112 tuning & banter 00:53
13 113 It Mustve Been The Roses 06:26
14 114 tuning & banter 00:53
15 115 Cassidy 05:44
16 116 tuning & banter 01:45
17 117 Bird Song -> 09:30
18 118 Ripple 04:40
19 119 ambience 02:00

Break 1
20 120 Jerry's Kids Telethon 01:42
21 121 Jerry Garcia Interview 00:56
22 122 Steve Parrish Interview #1 02:00
23 123 Are You Too High 01:29
24 124 Hassles In Hempstead 01:07
25 125 Drummers Interview 02:16
26 126 Bathroom Navigation 01:17
27 127 Drug Warning #1 00:32
28 128 Jerry's Kids Update 01:11
29 129 Deadheads 01:03
30 130 Dr. Henry Kissinger 02:42
31 131 Jerry's Kids Update 00:26
32 132 Sharon Interview 00:51
33 133 Bob Weir Interview 03:06
34 134 Brunswick Check Presentation 02:22

Set 2
35 201 tuning & banter 03:35
36 202 Jack Straw 06:10
37 203 Cold Rain And Snow 06:14
38 204 tuning & banter 01:50
39 205 Me And My Uncle-> 02:58
40 206 Mexicali Blues 04:23
41 207 tuning & banter 01:21
42 208 Ramble On Rose-> 07:52
43 209 Little Red Rooster 10:13
44 210 tuning & banter 01:45
45 211 Brown Eyed Women-> 05:11
46 212 Looks Like Rain-> 06:53
47 213 Deal 06:19
48 214 Break announcement & crowd 00:36

Break 2
49 215 Jerry's Kids Update/Missing Finger 01:11
50 216 Trivia Question 00:56
51 217 Steve Parrish Interview #2 02:12
52 218 Phil Lesh Interview 02:24
53 219 Trivia Question 01:22
54 220 Brent Mydland Interview 02:00
55 221 Trivia Question 02:04
56 222 Jerry's Kids Update 01:26
57 223 Drug Warning #2 02:37
58 224 More Brunswick & Tripping Tom 02:54

Set 3
59 301 tuning and banter 12:14
60 302 Don't Ease Me In-> 03:36
61 303 Lost Sailor-> 06:05
62 304 Saint Of Circumstance-> 06:30
63 305 Franklin's Tower-> 09:01
64 306 Drums-> 12:16
65 307 Space-> 04:12
66 308 Fire On The Mountain-> 10:17
67 309 Not Fade Away-> 06:24
68 310 Stella Blue-> 09:48
69 311 Going Down The Road Feeling Bad-> 06:13
70 312 Good Lovin' 06:37
71 313 encore applause & banter 06:00
72 314 Uncle John's Band 08:05
73 315 applause 00:47

post-show
74 316 Frankin & Davis outro & crowd 03:15


Notes:
This is a previously uncirculated soundboard direct recording of this show. All three sets and some of the break material were recorded in mono onto three 10" 1/4 track reels at 7.5ips. All three sets run seamlessly with nothing missing.

This was recorded surreptitiously from a monitoring feed in one of the executive offices at RCMH. All of the music was captured on the 10" reels except for the complete encore, where the 3rd reel ran out at 1:45 into "Uncle John's Band." Cassettes existed for the rest of the same feed, but were recorded on TDK D-60s without Dolby and sound vastly inferior to the reels. To keep this entire recording from a single source, the cassette transfers seamlessly patch the remainder of â€œUncle Johnâ€™s Bandâ€ to the end of the recording. Ditto for tracks 30 to 34 during break 1 and tracks 51 to 58 during break 2 which were not recorded on the 10" reels. Other than the patch to complete UJB, every second of all 3 sets is sourced from the 10" reels which do not suffer from any notable flaws.

I don't think anything this complete has circulated before. Even after all these years, the backstage segments with bandmembers and the Jerry's Kids telethon material is still relatively funny and sure to bring back memories for those of us who were there. And as I can testify, a whole lot we forgot about - like Bob Weir or Al Franken joking about underage girls in ways that don't sound funny anymore (if they ever did). Almost all of it is custom-tailored humor for Deadheads circa 1980, so if you take Franken & Davis in context, you may enjoy much of the previously uncirculated break material.

I've wanted to share this recording for a long time, but officially released material prevented me from doing so - despite all of this music being a significantly different mix than anything commercially available. If you enjoyed the previous night from this same source, you'll find this recording equally enjoyable.

Happy New Year!

Alan


