Grateful Dead
Date 1986-03-23
Philadelphia Spectrum
Philadelphia PA

Set I
01. tuning
02. Gimme Some Lovin' [4:57] >
03. Deal [7:14]
04. Willie And The Hand Jive [4:37]
05. equipment break
06. Candyman [6:15]
07. Cassidy [5:25]
08. West L.A. Fadeaway [7:20] //
09. Mama Tried [2:41] >
10. Big River [4:46]
11. Might As Well [4:22]

Set II
12. tuning
13. Shakedown Street [11:52] >
14. Samson And Delilah [7:24]
15. He's Gone [11:37] >   ##
16. Spoonful [5:19] >   ##
17. Drums [8:57#] >    ##
18. Space [6:34] >
19. The Other One [6:29] >
20. Comes A Time [7:35] >
21. Good Lovin' [8:06]
22. Encore	Keep Your Day Job [3:49]

##- not on the master tapes; replaced with SHN ID:111956; https://archive.org/details/gd1986-03-23.111956.beyer-senn.daweez.d5scott.flac16

Comments:
First known Grateful Dead version of "Willie & The Hand Jive"
There is a grinding sound from the PA, thought to be Weir's rig distorting, throughout this entire spring tour.
It is present only when they are playing, not during breaks.
I listened to several FOB audience sources from this tour and they all have this "noise".

Recording Information:
Microphones: Beyer m201 (hypercardioid) XY 90Âº
Recorder:    Sony TC-D5M No Dolby
Location:    40' from stage; DFC; chest height on stand
This Source: 1st Gen AUDCA Maxell MX90 No NR [KH; SM master]
Transfer:  Nakamichi LX-5 > Sonic AD2k @24/48 > Marantz PMD661|24/48 SD
Processing: SD| Audacity | cdwav editor | TLH | FLAC
Recorded by: Executive Crew; Mike Davis, Kenny Davis, Sean Murtha, Gary Steel? Kyle Holbrook? Tom Pinney
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the tour story:
After doing these stories since summer 1982 tour, I am going to shift directions a bit. I am going to discuss the Grateful Dead scene overall in 1986, rather than focusing on the personal travel tales. In a large way Jerry's "health issues" were front and center to all of us "tourheads", having had a Mikel and several other flyers going around the parking lot discussing Jerry's "failing health". I am hoping to attach some of those if I can locate them in time. I would also like to dispel the notion seen so often in print about the band and the quality of their performances being terrible during this timeframe. This was simply untrue. Some nights Jerry or Bob were off and not fully there, but plenty of nights when they would just wail and put out some fine sets. Yes, most of 1986 has short sets, some first sets are barely one hour long. My premise here is that if you listen carefully enough to the entire seven months before Jerry's coma you will hear some of the weirdest, worst, and best the Grateful Dead had to offer.

In the "best" category might be the new song selections. On this recording the Bob Dylan cover, "Visions of Johanna" stands out. Of course, we know now, but did not in March 1986 that the band would announce the summer tour with Bob Dylan and Tom Petty as his backup band. That hindsight goes a long way toward understanding the emergence of so many Dylan tunes during this year. And back to the earlier point, how in the hell could Bob and Jerry recite the lengthy lyrics to those songs but forget the words to Truckin'? Amazing and puzzling at the same time. Put the flubbed lyrics and short first sets in the worst category. Then there was the weird. They ended Philadelphia The Spectrum 3-24-1986 with one song, Morning Dew, out of space. The reason, confirmed after all these years with video evidence, was "sometime late in the show, Bill was hit by a bottle and was totally angry and flipped off the crowd and that was why they left the stage".

For this specific show, we were treated to Phil singing "Gimme Gimme Some Lovin" for the opener with Brent adding in on harmony. Back on the weird category is The "Willie and the Hand Jive" which we learn is the first known time they ever played it as the GD. The crowd had a hard time recognizing the tune, you can hear the tapers' talking about it at the beginning of the tune. Even the "Deal' was in an odd second tune slot, which of course truncated it for them as they usually (by 1986) jammed it out as set closer. The rest of the first set was a few cowboy tunes surrounding a lengthy "West L.A. Fadeaway" featuring Brent and Bob Bralove on the newly minted MIDI synthesizer. The "Shakedown Street" second set opener had some fine moments with some great psychedelic bluegrass leaderless jamming at the end. A quick transition into Samson & Delilah reminded us it was a Sunday with Weir singing this one with flair. The set closed out post drums with a "Comes A Time" which Jerry pulled off without too many flubs. A "Dayjob" encore sent the first night crowd out the door happy but expecting some more excitement over the next two shows.

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