Grateful Dead
Date 1984-06-12
Red Rocks State Park Amphitheatre
Morrison CO

Disc One:
d1t01 - Alabama Getaway
d1t02 - Greatest Story
d1t03 - Friend of the Devil
d1t04 - Little Red Rooster
d1t05 - Big Railroad Blues
d1t06 - Me and My Uncle >
d1t07 - Mexicali Blues    //
d1t08 - Althea
d1t09 - Looks Like Rain
d1t10 - Might as Well

Set Two:
d2t01 - Scarlet Begonias >
d2t02 - Touch of Grey >
d2t03 - Estimated Prophet
d2t04 - Eyes of the World
d2t05 - Drums            //
d2t06 - Space
d2t07 - The Other One
d2t08 - Wharf Rat
d2t09 - Around and Around
d2t10 - Johnny B. Goode
d2t11 - encore break
d2t12 - U. S. Blues

//   Tape flip
Recording Information:
MAUD CA: Beyer M88 cardiod XY > Sony TCD5M|maxell MX90 x2 no NR
Location: 80 feet from stage DFC
Transfer: Nakamichi MR2 > Marantz PMD661|SD
Recorded by: Executive Crew Tom Pinney, Sean Murtha, Chris Kidwell, Kyle Holbrook
Transferred by: Kyle Holbrook

shntool

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     4:01.893      69665324 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7287  gd1984-06-12beyerm88-24d1t02.flac
     8:24.707     145355564 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7214  gd1984-06-12beyerm88-24d1t03.flac
     7:51.080     135671084 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7316  gd1984-06-12beyerm88-24d1t04.flac
     5:35.507      96625964 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7323  gd1984-06-12beyerm88-24d1t05.flac
     3:18.067      57043244 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7203  gd1984-06-12beyerm88-24d1t06.flac
     4:43.013      81507884 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7282  gd1984-06-12beyerm88-24d1t07.flac
     8:15.493     142702124 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7340  gd1984-06-12beyerm88-24d1t08.flac
     8:04.000     139392044 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7350  gd1984-06-12beyerm88-24d1t09.flac
     4:06.219      70911230 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7515  gd1984-06-12beyerm88-24d1t10.flac
     9:23.200     162201644 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7331  gd1984-06-12beyerm88-24d2t01.flac
     6:01.267     104044844 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7475  gd1984-06-12beyerm88-24d2t02.flac
    10:09.067     175411244 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7311  gd1984-06-12beyerm88-24d2t03.flac
    10:01.333     173184044 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7387  gd1984-06-12beyerm88-24d2t04.flac
     9:15.427     159962924 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7081  gd1984-06-12beyerm88-24d2t05.flac
     8:36.333     148704044 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6843  gd1984-06-12beyerm88-24d2t06.flac
     8:18.787     143650604 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7247  gd1984-06-12beyerm88-24d2t07.flac
     8:56.120     154402604 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7210  gd1984-06-12beyerm88-24d2t08.flac
     3:50.893      66497324 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7428  gd1984-06-12beyerm88-24d2t09.flac
     4:10.253      72073004 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7505  gd1984-06-12beyerm88-24d2t10.flac
     0:32.640       9400364 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6840  gd1984-06-12beyerm88-24d2t11.flac
     4:51.998      84095360 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7469  gd1984-06-12beyerm88-24d2t12.flac
   143:52.937    2486286830 B                            0.7281  (22 files)


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the tour story:
What a long drive from Sacramento California to Denver/Golden Colorado! Tom and I had one off day to do the drive but it took us all of that and then some. We didn't arrive until early on that Tuesday June 12th. The plan was to meet up with Kidwell and my GF Fran as well as Murtha's crew was to be there. We wound up at the Days Inn in Golden where, of course, the place was packed with deadheads. When I called home on the 11th I was told that Fran couldn't make it, supposedly a term paper due or something, so she sent her sister Alice along with Kidwell in Chris' car. Tom and I had driven out to California in my brand spanking new white Honda Civic college graduation gift from my grandparents. The plan was to meet up at Red Rocks then after the shows all drive to Syracuse as the Toronto Canada's Wonderland shows were only 6 days from our departure date. By the time we were all in one room, we had three pairs of microphones and 5 Sony decks including Tom's brand new one replacing his beloved tour worn Marantz Superscoope.

The Grateful Dead roadies, sound crew and Robbie Taylor were all told by the band's new management to harsh out on the tapers this summer tour and it was absolute hell attempting to get gear in. Rock Scully rarely cared to stop the tapers nor did the band seem to care that much until this summer. On the first night, 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 tape deck 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! There were only three sources on LMA until our two sources just made it up in 2019. I know at least 5-6 sets of mics were flying that night so not sure where others' copies are- unless they got ruined in the nasty weather conditions of the weekend.

Day one had just slight rain/drizzle in the 4-6 PM hour after opening the park at about 2 PM. Every day of this run, it would be upper 80's almost 90 degrees then the clouds would come in and temperature would drop 20 degrees or more and it would either drizzle, rain or hail for 20-30 minutes, clouds roll away, sun back out and 90 degrees again! So even after the drizzle the crowd was in a reasonable mood and certainly ready for the show to start. This was the last year of the Dead's shows where the state park allowed the normal daytime park activites to go on, for instance rock climbers were allowed to climb up until 5 PM or something. Well, someone fell off the backside of the left rock and died. No one in the audience really knew about it until after the show.

At the time I recall thinking it was a pretty good start to a three day run, but listening back I can say the band was in pretty good playing shape after their journey from Cali. A solid first set with a text book rendition of Me and My Uncle > Mexicali Blues giving way to a very nice and topical Looks Like Rain. The second set featured the infamous Scarlet > Touch, which must not have been played too much, if ever again, as a combination. A nice, typical for that timeframe second set followed then we all filed out of the amphitheatre to a cool mountain evening.

