Dead of the Day: 04-19-1982

Baltimore Civic Center

Baltimore, Maryland

Our Dead of the Day takes us to Baltimore for an epic end to the spring ’82 East Coast tour. The Dead open with a tight Jack Straw, and the first set keeps delivering from there. The They Love Each Other is one of the sweetest versions, with a nice, long early Brent solo. Then, in the middle of the set, the boys set off on a rapturous Peggy-O, follow up with a lovely Cassidy, and then go on to a wonderful It Must Have Been the Roses, keeping the same intense, lilting aura throughout each while they jam off on different trajectories. The Rooster and Cumberland are both also hot, but the first set is really defined by those three sumptuous middle tunes.

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Dan Healy’s Master Soundboard Cassettes (Sony TC-D5M/TDK MA-R90/dolby B)> Frank Streeter’s 1st generation 1/4 track Reels @ 3.75 ips (Sony TC770/Maxell UD35-90B)
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Notes: – Thanks to Frank Streeter for the 1st generation reels – Thanks to Matt Smith for the transfer – Thanks to Charlie Miller for coordinating this effort – Thanks to Steven Martin for the shnid19420 modified Nakamichi 700 source which supplies the beginning of “Jack Straw” (0:08 total- the tuning before “Jack Straw” is the soundboard source, which cuts, and then is missing the first few notes of “Jack Straw”), a 0:41 patch in “Little Red Rooster”, the beginning of Weir’s intro into “Man Smart (Woman Smarter)” (0:13 total), as well as 0:15 and 0:02 patches in “Truckin'” – Wheel space included in “The Wheel” – Thanks to Joe B. Jones for his assistance with the pitch correction Mastered by Scott Clugston January 2019
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Set I
Jack Straw
They Love Each Other
On The Road Again
Peggy-O
Cassidy
It Must Have Been The Roses
Little Red Rooster
Cumberland Blues >
Man Smart (Woman Smarter) >
Might As Well
Set II
Feel Like A Stranger >
Franklin’s Tower >
Estimated Prophet >
Terrapin Station >
Drums >
Space > *
The Wheel >
Truckin’ >
Stella Blue >
Around & Around >
Good Lovin’

Encore:
Brokedown Palace


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Phil recites The Raven *

Jerry Garcia – Guitar
Bob Weir – Guitar
Brent Mydland – Keyboards
Phil Lesh – Bass
Bill Kreutzmann – Drums
Mickey Hart – Drums
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1st generation Reels (Akai GX-625)> Tascam DA-3000 (DSF 1bit/5.6 MHz) > dBpoweramp 24/96 > Adobe Audition CC 2019 > TLH flac2496
Transferrer:
Matt Smith, Scott Clugston, Charlie Miller
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gd82-04-19 s1t02 Jack Straw
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gd82-04-19 s1t03 They Love Each Other
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gd82-04-19 s1t04 On The Road Again
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gd82-04-19 s1t05 Peggy O
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gd82-04-19 s1t06 Cassidy
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gd82-04-19 s1t07 It Must Have Been The Roses
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gd82-04-19 s1t08 Little Red Rooster
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gd82-04-19 s1t09 Cumberland Blues
05:20
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gd82-04-19 s1t10 Man Smart (Woman Smarter)
07:32
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gd82-04-19 s1t11 Might As Well
04:38
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gd82-04-19 s2t01 Tuning
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gd82-04-19 s2t02 Feel Like A Stranger
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gd82-04-19 s2t03 Franklin’s Tower
13:27
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gd82-04-19 s2t04 Estimated Prophet
12:13
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gd82-04-19 s2t05 Terrapin Station
13:15
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gd82-04-19 s2t06 Drums
06:42
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gd82-04-19 s2t07 Raven Space
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gd82-04-19 s2t08 The Wheel
06:40
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gd82-04-19 s2t09 Truckin’
06:58
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gd82-04-19 s2t10 Stella Blue
09:39
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gd82-04-19 s2t11 Around & Around
03:52
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gd82-04-19 s2t12 Good Lovin’
09:30
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gd82-04-19 s2t13 Brokedown Palace
05:28
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Stranger starts them back on the path in the second set, entering into some wild exploration at the end before setting off on a monstrous Franklin’s Tower. From there, Bobby takes us into Estimated, which itself heads off into some splendid terrain before transitioning to Terrapin. Uncharacteristically, the Terrapin is just good, not stratospheric, but it does send the drummers right off into a frenzy once the rest of the band leaves the stage. Before long, the beam makes an appearance and then not too much later, the boys come back together for one of the more memorable Spaces: Phil’s trippy Raven Space, going off on Poe in the writer’s hometown. Out of the horror, though, comes the exquisite rising of a resplendent Wheel. Then Truckin’ – with Weir’s “sex change” lyrics – serves as a hot interlude before a stunning Stella. The boys put away the night and the tour with a fabulous, yet haunting Brokedown.

Mickey had been using the beam since 1979, when Mickey first created it for the Apocalypse Now Sessions. After Francis Ford Coppola attended a Dead show, he asked Billy and Mickey if they would record for his movie. For the session, the two drummers collected percussion instruments from around the world and also crafted a few new ones, including the beam. While screening an early cut of the film, the Rhythm Devils – which included Phil on bass, guitarist Mike Hinton, vocalist Flora Purim, the Brazilian drummer Airto Moreira, Sly and the Family Stone drummer Greg Errico, and percussionists Jim Loveless and Jordan Amarantha – played along, morphing through every emotion, intensity, and exploration imaginable. Some of the music made it into Apocalypse Now, and the Rhythm Devils released the recording as an album, which Smithsonian Folkways re-released in the early 90s. After the session, Mickey and Billy incorporated the beam – along with a massive series of bass drums called the beast – into their Dead setup.

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  1. Thom Reed Avatar
    Thom Reed

    Wait, Mickey AND Billy used the beam? How come I’ve never seen anybody but Mickey on it?

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