The Radiators
Cooter Brown's
New Orleans, LA
1984-02-27

Source:   SBD > C(x) via Bruce Barnum
Transfer: C(x) (XLII 90) > Nak CR-7A > Tascam DA-3000 (DSF 1-bit/5.6 MHz) > Tascam HRE > PCM @ 2496
          Recorded w/ Dolby B on; playback with Dolby off
Master:   Wavelab 11 (tracking, remove pops, DDI Codec / Dolby B (-23.4 dBFS), levels, pitch correction, reample, dither) > FLAC 1644

Thanks to Joe B. Jones for pitch correction information.

01. Straight Eight
02. Honey From The Bee
03. One-Eyed Jack
04. Dixie Chicken >
05. GDTRFB >
06. Wake Up Lady >
07. All Meat Off The Same Bone
08. Hard To Tell
09. Swamp Rat (dedicated to Larry)
10. Lost Getaway // (dedicated to Eileen on her birthday)
11. Nothing But A Party //
12. // Nothing But A Party
13. So Long
14. Kickin' Mule
15. Slow Down >
16. I've Got A Feeling
17. Texas Chainsaw Massacre >
18. Lucinda >
19. Cissy Strut
20. Creepin' Terror >
21. Hold Back The Flood

A seemingly uncirculated Radiators show with a mellow vibe.  There is a tape flip after Swamp Rat, and the messy remnants of Nothing But A Party are probably the result of tape flips in earlier generations.  Unfortunately, most of the song is missing.

Bruce Barnum was a Deadhead and an avid taper from the early 1980’s until his death in 2017 at age 48.  Over the years, he taped dozens of Dead shows throughout the Northeast, as well as other concerts, some of which have not been heard since then.  After his death, about 60 of his master cassettes turned up in a used record store in Hudson, NY, where some had been bought by random people nostalgic for the days of cassettes.  The rest were purchased by a fellow Deadhead and archivist.  Bruce’s daughter, Jessica, had more, and was kind enough to lend them to be digitized.  Many of these recordings sound excellent for their age.  They are Bruce's legacy.

Enjoy!

--mhg :: 2022-02-10


