Grateful Dead
Date 1986-03-31
Civic Center
Providence RI

set I
d1t01 - tuning
d1t02 - Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
d1t03 - (I'm A) Road Runner >
d1t04 - West L.A. Fadeaway
d1t05 - tuning
d1t06 - My Brother Esau
d1t07 - tuning
d1t08 - Ramble On Rose
d1t09 - Desolation Row
d1t10 - Might As Well      ++

Set II
d2t01 - Feel Like A Stranger
d2t02 - Ship Of Fools
d2t03 - Willie And The Hand Jive
d2t04 - Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad >
d2t05 - Jam >
d2t06 - Drums >
d2t07 - Space >
d2t08 - Comes A Time >
d2t09 - Truckin' >
d2t10 - Johnny B - Goode
d2t11 - Crowd no encore

Comments
++ missed on master: borrowed entire track from:
https://archive.org/details/gd1986-03-31.139471.FOB.SennME80.Hessberg.Miller.Noel.t-flac24
// tape flips
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".

Source: MAUD CA
Microphones: AKG c422 cardioids (X-Y at 90') |AKG B18 > Nakamichi 550 mic deck
Recorder: Sony TC-D5M| Maxell MX 90's no Dolby (2nd in line)
Location: OTS approximately 175 feet from stage; Center
Transfer:  Nakamichi CR-5A > Sonic AD2k @24/48 > Marantz PMD661|24/48 SD
Processing: SD| Audacity | cdwav editor | TLH | FLAC| foobar 2000 tagger
Recorded by: Executive Crew; Mike Davis, Kyle Holbrook, Tom Pinney, John Hance, Kenny Davis, Sean Murtha
Transferred: Kyle Holbrook
This Executive Crew AKG c422 recording is dedicated to Kenny Davis RIP
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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 diabetic coma you will hear some of the weirdest, worst, and best the Grateful Dead had to offer.

For the weird or unusual we go with the setlist, or song selection. The sequence of songs in the second set pre-drums I submit never again occurred in that order of those four songs. "Ship of Fools" almost seems like a perfect fit out of Stranger but Deadbase claims that combo was played once in 1986 and only 9 times between 1980 and 1990.  Of course, the fact no encore was played is most unusual. The story goes that yet another bottle was thrown onstage and hit the drums. So, no encore for you, Providence night two! For the love of Pete, I cannot, nor could not then, figure out the mentality of a person who was musically understanding enough to sit through 2/3d's of a Dead show then throw a bottle at the stage.

For this specific show. Another short first set. "Mississippi Uptown Toodeloo" felt nice and slow, not rushed. This is another tune I feel got wasted as a warm-up, tune up the PA, opener. The "Roadrunner" has some tight bass lines; the band seemed to be playing it differently than the first time in Philly. This was to be the last time the GD played this tune.  The odd sequence of set 2 was already mentioned, "Feel Like A Stranger" opens the second set and has a great steady unrushed vibe. Jerry sang the "Ship of Fools" better than the guitar playing and I note Phil was doing a very steady supportive lead bass under it all. The GDTRFB was a very sweet complex jam leading into drums. A ten minute jam followed the GDTRFB before drums with all players thriwing down some ideas which had a China Doll chord structure for about 30 seconds then depleted into loose bass and keys almost Twilight Zone tone. [Ed note: Recall the band with Merl Saunders did the new theme song for the 1985 CBS remake of the series ##] "Comes A Time" emerged from a similarly themed "Space" with Jerry telling us, "I Can't see much difference between the dark and light". "Truckin'" and "Johnny B. Goode" led the band off stage not to return for an encore.


## https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_grateful_deads_theme_for_the_1985_reboot_of_the_twilight_zone
https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/grateful-dead-in-the-twilight-zone-1985

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