Grateful Dead
Date 1984-06-21
Kingswood Amphitheatre
Toronto Canada

A benefit for the SEVA Foundation

Set 1
d1t01 - tuning
d1t02 - Hell in a Bucket
d1t03 - They Love Each Other       &
d1t04 - C.C. Rider
d1t05 - Bird Song
d1t06 - Beat it on Down the Line
d1t07 - Dupree's Diamond Blues
d1t08 - Looks Like Rain
d1t09 - Might As Well

Set 2
d2t01 - Intro (Ken Kesey?)
d2t02 - Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain
d2t03 - Never Trust a Woman/Good Time Blues
d2t04 - Samson and Delilah
d2t05 - Terrapin Station >
d2t06 - drums >
d2t07 - space >     //
d2t08 - The Wheel >
d2t09 - Throwin' Stones >
d2t10 - Not Fade Away
d2t11 - crowd
d2t12 - New Orleans     **
d2t13 - Big Boss Man >  **
d2t14 - Iko Iko         **
d2t15 - Wavy Gravy

Notes:
The Band Opened
& Bobby said: "So this is the Dead at Wonderland?" to cheers in the crowd.
** W/Members of the Band Rick Danko & Levon Helm
// tape flip
This is a 24 bit fileset
Recording Information:
MAUD CA: Beyer M88's XY > Sony TCD5M|Maxell MX90 x2 no NR
Location: 100-120 feet from stage DFC
Transfer: Nakamichi MR2 > Marantz PMD661|SD >WIN10 Audacity|cdwav|TLH Flac level8
Recorded By: Executive Crew Chris Kidwell, Sean Murtha?, Tom Pinney, Kyle Holbrook
Transferred: Kyle Holbrook

shntool

    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
     2:49.027      48679724 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6959  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s1t01.flac
     6:00.587     103849004 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7363  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s1t02.flac
     8:11.573     141573164 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7278  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s1t03.flac
     6:51.600     118540844 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7363  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s1t04.flac
    11:01.800     190598444 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7273  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s1t05.flac
     3:03.800      52934444 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7543  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s1t06.flac
     6:25.213     110941484 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7418  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s1t07.flac
     8:18.187     143477804 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7276  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s1t08.flac
     4:37.210      79836506 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7521  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s1t09.flac
     1:47.227      30881324 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7265  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s2t01.flac
    24:06.653     416636204 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7534  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s2t02.flac
     9:26.853     163253804 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7492  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s2t03.flac
     7:18.040     126155564 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7554  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s2t04.flac
    11:44.293     202836524 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7328  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s2t05.flac
     9:31.800     164678444 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7012  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s2t06.flac
     6:04.467     104966444 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7068  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s2t07.flac
     5:05.000      87840044 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7308  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s2t08.flac
     8:12.533     141849644 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7344  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s2t09.flac
     9:10.640     158584364 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7346  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s2t10.flac
     0:32.000       9216044 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6863  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s2t11.flac
     3:06.387      53679404 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7345  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s2t12.flac
     3:24.880      59005484 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7433  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s2t13.flac
     5:42.573      98661164 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7489  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s2t14.flac
     2:45.080      47543084 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7128  gd1984-06-21beyerm88-24s2t15.flac
   165:17.423    2856218958 B                            0.7354  (24 files)


=======================================================================================================================
the tour story:
The Band, The Grateful Dead, Toronto, Canada's Wonderland- why the hell not? This venue was set up to be a blast for deadheads. A water park and theme park with amphitheatre and the show was a benefit for SEVA, Wavy Gravy's charity to combat blindness in India. They titled it "The Third Eyeball". To top that off, they sold these Circle of Gold tickets which got you a "performers reception" with the band after the show. It even had a drink ticket attached to the ticket stub! So of course we got as many Circle of Gold's as GDTS said we could. The venue was spacious and somehow, with New York license plates on my Honda, one Canadian, and several non New Yorkers in our two cars, we made it over the Canadian border without being hassled. Tom, Lynne, and Fran were in my car and Will's car was full as well. If I recall, my Fraternity brothers Phil, Steve and Bob drove up separately as did John Borg in his Audi.

The show was fun but long, especially for me, following the schedule I (and Tom) had been through in the previous 12 days. We started June 9th in Sacramento California, caught the Red Rocks run, drove home starting the 15th. My Girlfriend's birthday was the 18th; more driving was involved to get to her folks in Binghamton and back to Syracuse, then leaving for Canada late night on the 20th. All in my 1984 Honda, I was the main driver of all that distance due to being under 25 and my insurance supposedly wouldn't cover other drivers. So I was so exhausted, I barely made it through the show falling asleep in our chairs during drums. When they all headed to go to the Circle of Gold party I couldn't make it. They left me at my car to sleep. I missed a pretty cool gathering according to Tom then and the internet now. Apparently Bob sang with a local act, Sylvia Tyson, they had on a small bandstand; every GD member except Jerry made it to the reception. As Tom got in the car, he joked he should have kept the gear and taped the party; he then drove us home (insurance company be damned). I was so exhausted I do not recall waking up until we got to our apartment in Syracuse.

The show was fantastic. I'll only cover the Dead's sets, but we did record the Band, which will make it to circulation. The Band were great sounding and both Levon and Rick gave extra thanks to the Grateful Dead and Wavy Gravy for having them on the bill. After a speech by Wavy the Dead came on with a tentative 'Hell in a Bucket', a seriously gorgeous TLEO and basically took the hammer out and nailed the rest of the show. For my money, the 'Beat it on Down the Line' through 'Might as Well' are as good first set fare as 1984 got. After a really pretty, unhurried, rendition of 'Scarlet > Fire' the second set got odd with the addition of a Brent song, Good Time Blues, an unusually placed 'Samson and Delilah' before 'Terrapin Station' and a multi song encore set with all members of The Band. That set included 'New Orleans', 'Big Boss Man' and 'Iko-Iko'. All were having fun on the stage and I recall Phil had a huge smile on his face at that point.
Wavy closed with "We'll See you next time, THESE are the good old days"

