Go Ahead
w/ Bob Weir

November 28, 1987
saturday 8pm+

Fenders Grand Ballroom
Long Beach, Ca

Brent Mydland - keys - vox
Billy Kreutzmann - drums
Jerry Cortez, guitar - vox
Alex Ligertwood - guitar  / vox
Dave Margen - bass
Bob Weir - acoustic set (setII begin), and, second set of Go Ahead

Go Ahead were a short lived group that featured Bill Kreutzmann and Brent Mydland.
Other band members included Jerry Cortez (guitar and vocals),
Alex Ligertwood (guitar and vocals) and Dave Margen (bass and vocals).
The non-dead players were from Santana


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Set I
t01) audience in....
T02) Not Fade Away
T03) She's Not There
T04) Far From Me
T05) Devil With A Blue Dress > Good Golly Miss Molly > Devil With A Blue Dress
T06) Billy's Band Intro
T07) Black Magic Woman
T08) Satisfaction > Jam > Satisfaction
T09) Good Times Blues (Never Trust A Woman)
T10) Tons Of Steel
T11) Hey Pocky Way
T12) Aiko-Aiko
<<disc break point>>
T13) Good Lovin'

Set II
Weir Solo Set (acoustic):
T01) Walkin' Blues
T02) When I Paint My Masterpiece
T03) City Girls
T04) Victim, Or the Crime
T05) Throwin' Stones
Weir With Go Ahead:
T06) Bombs Away
T07) Youngblood
T08) Book Of Rules
T09) Salt Lake City
T10) Easy To Slip
T11) Shade Of Grey

~Encore~
T01) Women-R-Smarter
T02) Josephine
T03) Lovelight


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Ambient Recording
Mike French - tdarian - John Corso
Tapers From Hell - A Journey to the Impact Zone

Sennheiser MKE2002 HRTF -> _*Sony WM-D6C_ -> Sony WM-D6C
From the first table to the left of the center line, about 5' from the stage(?)
Close to stagelip.
This is an old WWII era ballroom with very low ceilings (7'), and a raised ceiling
area in front of the stage (9') (it has since burned to the ground).
We were within the raised ceiling area - upfront.

These are the "Down in Front Tapes", as I was standing, as an HRTF mic stand
(the Mike Stand). This was due to a really noisy gal that was next to me.
She was smacking her dentures, yammering on, hog calling, you name it.
So I looked to tdarian, and John, and got the nod, and I stood up,
and caught flack for it from behind -> DOWN IN FRONT.
Hopefully all these years later, people will appreciate my standing,
and not sitting closer to the loud noise-maker. The music drowns her out.

Mike

g33k stuff:
*Master source cassette / master deck w/ azimuth adjustment - no dolby n.r.
playback -> Sound Devices 722 at 24.48
Sound Studios 2.2.4 for Mac OS-X to process, edit, split, dither, etc.
xACT for sbeok, and encoding to level 8
November 22, 2007 transfer to 24.48

additional comment from db.etree.org:
Comment
From Mike (Stand)French:
11-28-87 would be the date. This was billed as Go Ahead w/ Bob Weir, not the
Midnites.
Sennheiser MKE2002 omni's HRTF > Sony WM-D6C "B"n.r.
Mics in hair, over either ear, pointed forward....
HRTF (Head Reference Transfer Function)
I was at the stage lip, FOB/DFC, in stealth mode. My friend Tom D. was controlling
the tape decks.
Transfer was via master deck D6C "B" n.r. > Tascam DA-20mkII DAT 48k sample >
Tascam CDRW 700 Hardware transfer

The way to tell if this is this show is that people were yelling at me quite a bit
to sit down as I was standing directly in the center at the stage lip.
I'm a big guy, and take up considerable view. I held my ground and pissed a lot of
people off. So you here SIT DOWN..!!!, Down in front......... etc.
Another note on the mics....
They are set up similar to a doctors stethoscope.
The mics are connected by a plastic bridge that is "U" shaped and the mic caps are
at the ends of the "U" pointed up or forward.
The "U" goes around the back of my head, which puts the mics over either ear,
pointed forward.
