Grateful Dead
Date 1984-06-10
Cal Expo Ampitheatre
Sacramento CA

Set I
d1t01 - Feel Like a Stranger
d1t02 - They Love Each Other
d1t03 - Beat It On Down The Line
d1t04 - Dire Wolf
d1t05 - My Brother Esau
d1t06 - Bird Song
d1t07 - New Minglewood Blues
d1t08 - Might As Well

Set II
d2t01 - China Cat Sunflower >  ## I Know You Rider >
d2t02 - Samson And Delilah
d2t03 - He's Gone >
d2t04 - Don't Need Love >
d2t05 - Drums >
d2t06 - Space >
d2t07 - Truckin' >
d2t08 - Throwing Stones >
d2t09 - Not Fade Away
d2t10 - encore break
d2t11 - Brokedown Palace

// Tape Flip
## PA distortion at start
MAUD CA: Beyer M88's XY > Sony TCD5M|Maxell MX90 x2 no NR
Location: 40 feet from stage head height
Transfer: Nakamichi MR2 > Marantz PMD661|SD
Recorded By: Executive Crew - Tom Pinney, Kyle Holbrook
Transferred: Kyle Holbrook

shntool

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     8:24.560     145313324 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7274  gd1984-06-10beyerm88-24d1t02.flac
     3:36.493      62350124 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7464  gd1984-06-10beyerm88-24d1t03.flac
     3:48.800      65894444 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7252  gd1984-06-10beyerm88-24d1t04.flac
     4:53.053      84399404 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7322  gd1984-06-10beyerm88-24d1t05.flac
    11:14.587     194281004 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7231  gd1984-06-10beyerm88-24d1t06.flac
     7:15.133     125318444 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7323  gd1984-06-10beyerm88-24d1t07.flac
     4:41.287      81010802 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7344  gd1984-06-10beyerm88-24d1t08.flac
    12:25.920     214825004 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7222  gd1984-06-10beyerm88-24d2t01.flac
     7:50.067     135379244 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7338  gd1984-06-10beyerm88-24d2t02.flac
    12:47.667     221088044 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7124  gd1984-06-10beyerm88-24d2t03.flac
     5:45.973      99640364 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7165  gd1984-06-10beyerm88-24d2t04.flac
    11:07.813     192330284 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6878  gd1984-06-10beyerm88-24d2t05.flac
    10:11.267     176044844 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7021  gd1984-06-10beyerm88-24d2t06.flac
     7:51.187     135701804 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7325  gd1984-06-10beyerm88-24d2t07.flac
     7:48.960     135060524 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7295  gd1984-06-10beyerm88-24d2t08.flac
     6:18.787     109090604 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7344  gd1984-06-10beyerm88-24d2t09.flac
     1:01.373      17675564 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6916  gd1984-06-10beyerm88-24d2t10.flac
     5:29.651      94939514 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7087  gd1984-06-10beyerm88-24d2t11.flac
   141:35.685    2446758104 B                            0.7207  (19 files)


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the tour story:
Night two at Cal Expo. This being our first Cal Expo shows, and needing to check out of the room by noon, we spent a bunch of time cruising through the Cal State University campus there in Sacramento. Cal Expo, later named Bill Graham Amphitheatre, was a very small, outdoor venue built like a high school football field with bleachers on the sides and rear. It was pretty run down, or at least not highly maintained at that time. But the vibe of the crowd and the BGP "blue jackets" who came over from the Bay area to work the event put this venue on the top of my list to return to as many times as I could over the years. Such a cool place for the Dead, and a wonderful place to see them work their mojo, as the crowd and vibe carried them through some great shows there.

This night starts off with a spirited 'Feel Like a Stranger'; moreover a MUCH improved sounding PA system was quite noticeable. I'm sure that was due to the sound crew's previous nights fit and starts. We also found a nicer recording location for this one so these tapes came out pretty consistent compared to the previous night. 'They Love Each Other' features a sweet Brent piano jam in the middle with Phil and the boys providing the structure. Jerry lets loose a bouncy solo and the audience vibe was also loose. One could tell it was going to be a nice ride on this Sunday. A nice walk through BIOTDL and 'Dire Wolf' with Jerry's vocals strong but raspy leading up to a beautiful 11 minute 'Bird Song'. The set closers Minglewood and 'Might as Well' were typical but fun.

The second set opened with a mellow vocal intro to China > Rider and contained some nice harmonies during the 'I Know You Rider' Intro. The couplet wound up in a relatively standard place, weaving into 'Samson and Delilah', Bob's way of reminding us all it was a Sunday show. Brent really pulls out the Hammond B3 tones for this rendition; this was the timeframe when he started really stretching out and/or filling in for some of Jerry's sparse periods. This lead into one of the Brent jams, "I Don't Need Love"++ which was only played a handful of times. Truckin' was a bit sloppy toward the ending and Bob led into No Jerry ending with a 'Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away' ending in the now typical Crowd chant at the end. Jerry shows up for 'Brokedown Palace', but it certainly wasn't the best version ever.

++ Funny story about 'I Don't Need Love': I recall sitting in someones van when a dude came by selling T shirts or something and heard the tune playing from the van's speakers: "Man, I don't know what Brent is preaching here; seems like the antithesis of the band's usual 'Good Lovin' motto- maybe they should make it into a more positive tune". After he walked away, someone joked, I wonder what his opinion of 'Never Trust a Woman [Who Wears her Pants too Tight]' is?



