Grateful Dead
Date 1985-06-27
Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Saratoga Springs, NY

Set I
d1t01 - tuning
d1t02 - In The Midnight Hour
d1t03 - Bertha >
d1t04 - Little Red Rooster       ***
d1t05 - Bob & Phil yell at crowd
d1t06 - Stagger Lee
d1t07 - El Paso
d1t08 - Crazy Fingers >
d1t09 - Supplication > //
d1t10 - High Time          +
d1t11 - equipment break    /
d1t12 - Hell In A Bucket >
d1t13 - Don't Ease Me In

Set II
d2t01 - tuning
d2t02 - Feel Like A Stranger >
d2t03 - Eyes Of The World >
d2t04 - Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad >
d2t05 - Man Smart (Woman Smarter) >
d2t06 - Drums >
d2t07 - Space >              //
d2t08 - Truckin' >
d2t09 - Spoonful >
d2t10 - Black Peter >      |||
d2t11 - Turn On Your Lovelight
d2t12 - Encore break
d2t13 - Johnny B. Goode
d2t14 - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

*** Bobby: Ugh, Ugh, the management has requested that you don't hang off there.
//+  tape flip; missed start
/    tape paused to save tape
//   tape flip
|||  tape stopped/started on master; Rt channel missing 8 seconds

Recording Information: *** This is a 16 bit fileset ***
Microphones: AKG C422|AKG S42 XY s1:60Âº cardioid s2: 90Âº cardioid [-10dB pad on]
Recorder: Sony TC-D5M [mic master]
Location: Lawn ~175' from stage DFC
This Source: Master AUDCA Maxell MX90 No NR [SM]
Transfer:  Nakamichi 582ZX > Sonic AD2k @24/48 > Marantz PMD661|24/48 SD
Processing: SD| Audacity | cdwav editor | TLH | FLAC
Recorded by: Executive Crew; Kenny Davis, Sean Murtha, Tom Pinney
Transfer by: Kyle Holbrook
Fourth AKG C422 recording made by the Executive Crew. Dedicated to Kenny Davis RIP
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the tour story:
I flew up to Albany and my grandparents house, met Kenny where they gave me a ride to the show and dropped me back in Schenectady as they continued on to Hershey and we all met up at Merriweather and Sean's house. My favorite moment of the show was when Phil and Bobby yelled at the dude to get off the balcony. I had decided to go and check out my pavilion ticket seat to look for SU friends at about that same time. I had made it past the first row of security but was stuck on the side near the left hand pavilion entrance and was about to head out and toward the balcony ramp when they stopped playing and the ridicule began. Having had Bobby tell the old joke about how does the dog smell, we all laughed, loosened up a bit and had a grand time at that extremely crowded amphitheatre.

First set had some excellent moments highlighted by the "Crazy Fingers" ** and "High Time"++. Each tune was rare enough, but first set slots for either were very rare historically, and the last time a Crazy Fingers had been in the first set was 9-21-1982. After High Time they must have had a serious front line breakdown as they took a solid 5 minutes to start back into the set closers "Hell in a Bucket" > "Don't Ease Me In".

Set two: The "Feels Like A Stranger" opener got the evening moving into overdrive followed by the mellowing, but oddly upbeat "Eyes of the World". GDTRFB is "spirited" almost sounds fast but the vocals are on pitch, the drums are almost double timeing Jerry's lead. The space into "Truckin'" was nice, and a laid back rendition was thrown at us - "New York, got the Ways and Means". This bounced into a playful "Spoonful". This tape cuts at this transition so we get Black Peter at the very beginning. Jerry sings a nice one with Healy messing with the tone during the vocals. They followed with a bouncy "Lovelight" and serenaded the 40,000 who overran the New York State park that day out of SPAC with a two song encore. Onward to Hershey the troupe went.

** There were only ten Crazy Fingers played in 1985; until April 1985, the last time played had been OCT 1983. None of the rest were first set slots.
++ There were only five High Time played in 1985. Three of which were first set slots.
H/T Deadbase; Scott-Dolgushkin-Nixon

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