Grateful Dead
Date 1984-04-24
New Haven Coliseum
New Haven CT

Set 1
d1t01 - tuning
d1t02 - Bertha->                     *
d1t03 - Greatest Story Ever Told
d1t04 - Candyman
d1t05 - Little Red Rooster
d1t06 - Bird Song
d1t07 - My Brother Esau              //
d1t08 - Ramble On Rose
d1t09 - It's All Over Now
d1t10 - Don't Ease Me In

Set 2
d2t01 - China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider >
d2t02 - Women Are Smarter
d2t03 - He's Gone >
d2t04 - Drums >      // +
d2t05 - Space >
d2t06 - The Other One > ++
d2t07 - Stella Blue >
d2t08 - Sugar Magnolia
d2t09 - encore break
d2t10 - U.S. Blues

Recording Information:
*  vocals low in PA first 45 seconds of Bertha
// Tape flip
+  drums cut to save tape
++ channel cut outs at start

Source: MAUD CA: Sennheiser mke2002 Binaural on dummy head 45 feet from stage 6'high DFC >Sony TCD5M > Sony TCD6M
        Maxell XLIIS90; No Dolby - Master copy from second deck run by SM.
Transfer: Nakamichi LX-5 > Marantz PMD661|24/48 SD
Processing: SD| Audacity | cdwav editor | TLH | FLAC
Recorded by: Executive Crew: Chris Kidwell; Sean Murtha; Tom Pinney; Kyle Holbrook; Gary Steel
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the tour story:
the tour story:
After the previous night's show, while copying tapes at the hotel, Sean and I had a rather crazy idea to drive all the way back to NYC and buy him a D5, or Sony TCD5M, the full size cassette recorder many of the GD tapers preferred. We talked about it for a while and convinced ourselves to do it first thing in the morning. We needed tapes for about 4 decks all the rest of the tour and figured we would drive to the city, buy a bunch of tapes and get a full size deck for Sean. This is an example of hard core Deadhead taping mentality- we were scheduled to be back in the NYC area one week, 4 shows later for the Nassau run, but Sean decided he just HAD to get it, and we were going to need tapes anyway.......

We left Gary, Sean's tour partner, with Greg and Tom, headed in to the city with a bunch of cash and a wild hair. Sean can tell the story of the lady in the diner challenging him that he couldn't eat two huge plates of pancakes all at once- he did! I had been buying quite a lot of tapes at Uncle Steves on Houston over the past few months so we drove there. After ordering up a deck and about 100 tapes paying cash for everything, Uncle Steve's realized they were out of stock on the Sony TC-D5M, and while refunding us for the deck, they also refunded us for the tapes which we received. We walked out of the store paying about $12 for the 100 Maxell tapes! So we get out of Uncle Steves with 100 free tapes or the "Steal of a Deal" as Sean called it, and headed uptown to J&R Music on 33rd street. We basically ran in the store, purchased the Sony deck for $450 and walked out 15 minutes later. We eventually got out of the city onto I-95 by Noon or so, eating at the diner where we had two meals at one time; we made it to New Haven barely in time to get everything together for using Sean's new Sony TCD5M at this show. We met Gary and Greg at the motel and headed to the venue.  Sean has two masters of that April 24th show, one from his Sony TCD8 and one from his new D5.

Judging from the lack of sources on archive.org there must have been some heavy security this night. Of the AUD sources there is only three sources, two accurately identified and the Da Weez-D5Scott Beyer M160 version is the best of those. The Beyer M201 and this Binaural make up the final two AUD recordings of this night.

The show had a nice long first set. The Bertha took a minute or so to start sounding right as typical Healy, but then the band was tight and it seemed motivated. Jerry's vocals were rough out of the gate but even Bobby's On Greatest Story were as well by this point of the tour.  The Candyman and Bird Song were well played, with a long ending jam. Brent had a great synthesizer and piano riffs with Phil bouncing around alongside him. Jerry delivered a Ramble on Rose which for me, was the highlight of the set. Jerry does a nice, loping solo with cracklin vocals and the crowd singing back at him.

A short but tight China > Rider ended on a Jerry jam outro and Iko-Iko tease Bobby turned into Women Are Smarter. Jerry actually sings the ending duet style with Bob much to the crowd's delight! A pretty He's Gone gave way to a spacey jam sounding as if it would lead somewhere but just gave way to drums as Jerry left first, and only Bobby stayed until the drums took over. A slow lead into the Other One with some nice Phil bombs. They finish with a well played but standard setlist. The Sugar Magnolia is a hip shaker, even all these years later!

A mention regarding the GDTS (Grateful Dead Ticket Sales) crew. Eileen Law, Steve Marcus and friends got the OK and contractual inclusion from Cameron Sears to create booklets of tickets, one per each venue, for their fans. This spring tour they sold a booklet of 13 tickets for the incredible price of $121 + shipping. You had to request the tickets in a lottery of sorts by sending your Postal Money Order with a 3 x 5 card you had to write very specific instructions on. Of course, Tom and Sean and I took advantage of this and we had a total of four tour booklets. If you look through the jpg files of these archive.org posts and on the header pages you will see many of these lovingly designed images on the ticket stubs. Eileen was also in charge of the Grateful Dead archives and helped arrange delivery of the extensive catalog in 2009 to the UC Santa Cruz.
https://guides.library.ucsc.edu/c.php?g=743149&p=7248746
https://www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead/comments/dlbexv/a_memory_of_eileen_law_and_the_wonderful_people/

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