07-02-1989

Sullivan Stadium

Foxboro, Massachusetts

To get it started on that sweltering evening, Jerry comes on stage and asks the crowd, “how y’all doin’?” sending them into pandemonium despite the heat. Another rarity comes next: a show-opening Playin’, short and trippy before it segues a little awkwardly into Crazy Fingers. A bouncy Wang Dang Doodle comes roaring out of the weightlessness of the previous tune before Brent takes the reins for a poetic, preachy, and utterly gorgeous We Can Run. A crispy Tennessee Jed takes it from there with Jerry crushing the vocals and solos. A song later, a rare To Lay Me Down thrills the Foxboro crowd. And, after Bobby comes back with Cassidy, the Dead close out the set with a rocking Don’t Ease Me In.

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Identifier:
gd1989-07-02.134395.MOTB.droncit.flac16
Source:
Source: Audience FOB Recording; Media: AKY Recording Supply Custom Wound BASF 100% CrO2 Cassette;
Notes:
Droncit Notes: This was a request for an interesting show in need of an upgrade/restoration. This is my attempt. The original has vocals dominating and the music sounds like it’s more in the background. I’ve tried to bring it up front. I used a mutifilter with a paragraphic equalizer, channel blender, virtual vale simulator, Dynamic noise filter in ‘enhancer’ mode, and a de-esser. I also concatenated the tracks and re-cut them. All work with DC8.5 Forensics and Traders Little Helper. 9/28/15
Description:
Set 1 Playin’ In The Band-> Crazy Fingers-> Wang Dang Doodle, We Can Run But We Can’t Hide, Tennessee Jed, Queen Jane Approximately, To Lay Me Down, Cassidy, Don’t Ease Me In Set 2 Friend Of The Devil, Truckin’-> He’s Gone-> Eyes Of The World-> Drums-> Jam-> The Wheel-> Dear Mr. Fantasy-> Hey Jude Reprise-> Sugar Magnolia, E: The Mighty Quinn
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FOB AKG C460b pre’s with ck61uls heads > Uher 240 > Nak DR-1 >Apogee 200 Rosetta >Firewire >Apple G5 >Bias Peak(24/96WAV) > Wavelab 5 > Waves L3 Multimaximizer (threshold -3.0 dB/ceiling -0.1 dB) > rendered to 16 bit/44.1 KHz WAV using UV22-HR>CDWAV 1.9 >FLAC (level 8); Taper: Danny Thomson; Transfer: Derek McCabe
Transferrer:
Remaster by droncit
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00:00
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Crowd
02:15
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Playin’ In The Band->
05:23
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Crazy Fingers->
07:36
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Wang Dang Doodle
08:11
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We Can Run But We Can’t Hide
05:22
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Tennessee Jed
08:20
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Queen Jane Approximately
06:33
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To Lay Me Down
10:57
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Cassidy
06:01
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Don’t Ease Me In
03:10
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Friend Of The Devil
11:24
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Truckin’ >
07:12
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He’s Gone >
13:49
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Eyes Of The World >
10:42
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Drums >
10:23
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Jam->
07:59
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The Wheel->
04:58
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Dear Mr. Fantasy->
07:00
19
Hey Jude Reprise->
03:51
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Sugar Magnolia
09:13
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E: The Mighty Quinn
05:21
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Friend of the Devil brings us back to the action, a bit up-tempo and unusually placed, the perfect accompaniment to the sun setting in the background. Truckin’ shoots out next, mighty as ever with a powerful crescendo before the transition fizzles. The crowd doesn’t pay it any mind, though, clapping and hooting along as soon as the band finds He’s Gone. The last several minutes of the tune becomes a spacey, meditative romp with some steely, purposeful noodling, magical percussion, and serious vamping before the boys just sparkle into Eyes. The Eyes itself is captivating, sending us off on a billowy trip through the countryside, eventually ceding the controls to Mickey and Billy. And after some powerful beats, they enter into a percussive spaciness into which the rest of the band slowly returns. The boys finally claw back from the distant reaches in order to soar off on a fluffy Wheel. Dear Mr. Fantasy gathers from the ashes of The Wheel, building into a raging cauldron that rolls right over into Hey Jude, which is itself bursting with tremendous vamping that is just off the charts. From there, the drummers pound it into Sugar Mags for a joyous end to the set. A fun, sing-along Quinn encore caps off a tremendous night of music with Rich Stadium and the rest of the East Coast summer swing beckoning.

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