Radiators
Maple Leaf
New Orleans, LA
1985-06-15

Source:   SBD > C(2) via Bruce Barnum
Transfer: C(2) (tape 1, XLII-S 90; tape 2 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, cross-fades, DDI Codec (Dolby B @ -23.4 dBFS), levels) > FLAC 2496

Set I
01. Spanish Moon
02. First Snow
03. UFOs Exactly
04. Wake Up Lady >
05. All Meat Off The Same Bone
06. Shoot Out The Lights
07. Drivin' Wheel
08. Hardcore Medley
09. Can't Stand The Rain
10. You Can't Always Get What You Want
11. Give Me A Rainbow

Set II

12. Down On The Corner
13. Grief Snafu
14. Good Things
15. Kamikazee
16. Let The Red Wine Flow
17. Brown Eyed Girl
18. Bad Taste
19. Kickin' Mule >
20. Nightmare On The Misery Train >
21. Take Your Dead Ass Home

Set III

22. Blind Crippled & Crazy
23. Dead Flowers >
24. Last Getaway
25. Summertime
26. Start Breaking Down
27. Overboard
28. Hard To Handle
29. Let Your Light From Your Lighthouse Shine
30. Come On In My Kitchen
31. Defying Gravity
32. Cold Cold Cold//

A solid SBD, don't let the lineage scare you off.  The end of Set III and the encore, if there was one, are missing.

Some sort of discontinuity in Shoot Out The Lights has been improved but not eliminated.  A second gap in the middle of Good Things is hard to find unless you know the lyrics and notice the "I've got a woman" verse is half missing.  A third, at the tape switch during Let The Red Wine Flow, has been improved but at least several seconds are missing.  A final gap, also probably a tape flip, during Last Getaway, has been smoothly crossfaded.

Bruce Barnum was a Deadhead and an avid taper from the early 1980â€™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.  Bruceâ€™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 :: 2022-12-30

