Our Dead of the Day comes from the second night of a two-night run at Nassau Coliseum back in ’73. Bertha gets the show rolling with Phil way up in the mix early on. A song later, a mellow, pregnant, and, at the same time piercing Sugaree really gets things started. As the first set goes on, it becomes more and more apparent that Bobby is on fire this evening. By the Tennessee Jed, he is throwing in tasty runs right alongside Jerry. In the Looks Like Rain that follows, Bobby commands the vocals, but never really takes over on guitar. He does, however, play with a resonant sweetness that sets off Jerry’s soaring and relaxed jams, which are marred only by the tape cut. Up next, Brown Eyed Women, Jack Straw, and Row Jimmy are all superb. And then the first full Weather Report Suite comes on the scene. From the Prelude through the Let It Grow, it is absolutely sublime. Following that, they bust out a Roll Out The Barrel that is surreal, especially as it comes right in the middle of that awesome Let It Grow and a tasty first-set Eyes of the World. After the tremendous Eyes, the early going finishes off in splendid fashion with a moving China Doll. Out of the break, the band comes out with Greatest Story Ever Told. Greatest Story and the two tunes that follow – Ramble On Rose and Big River – are all excellent, but things get interesting with the first Sing Your Blues Away – Keith’s only composition for the band – as Donna and the boys screw up the song so badly it is almost comical. But then they come out with a scorching China> Rider, making up for it completely. From there, a short El Paso takes us to a phenomenal He’s Gone; undoubtedly, Pigpen, who would have been twenty-eight on this day, was on the minds of everyone as the band came together for the awesome and moving rendition. Afterwards they head right into Truckin’, coming back, probably with Pig still on their mind, to the autobiographical song about their life together on the road, jamming it to the hilt. Next Billy’s drums lead the rest of the Dead into Not Fade Away, storming through it and, with a simple drumroll, into Going Down The Road Feeling Bad. Tumbling and rocking along, they finally head back to NFA by way of the cymbals to end the set. But the band comes back out for a killer Stella Blue, erupting into One More Saturday Night to send the night out on a tear.
Identifier:
gd1973-09-08.mtx.tobin.126079.flac16
Source:
Matrix 2 Source Mix – SBD (shnid=183) SBD> master reel> cassette> Dat >HD> shn; transfer by T. Wul + AUD (shn id 126070) source: aud cassette master; taped by Jim Cooper; sony ecm22p’s > hitachi trq-222; nak dragon > benchmark adc1 24/96 > adobe audition cs6 16/44.1 > flac; transfer & seed – Rob Berger – matrix mixing by Kevin Tobin
Notes:
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– Mixed by kevtobin@yahoo.com
– FLAC conversion 05-NOV-2013 – Trader Little Helper
– Tagged 05-NOV-2013 – Tag&Rename
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Multitrack Mixdown Settings
SET ONE
Stereo Matrix
SBD -0.5
AUD -1.5
SET TWO
Stereo Matrix
SBD -0.5
AUD -1.5
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Audio Patches:
1) At the start of the 1st set, 39.837 seconds were missing from the audience and were added from the soundboard. This included the first notes of Bertha.
2) Between Bertha and Me And My Uncle, 21.624 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience.
3) Between Me And My Uncle and Sugaree, 51.399 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience.
4) About a minute into Sugaree, 1 minute and 09.173 seconds were missing from the audience and were added from the soundboard.
5) Between Sugaree and Beat It On Down The Line, 32.000 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience.
6) Between Beat It On Down The Line and Tennessee Jed, 14.303 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience.
7) Between Tennessee Jed and Looks Like Rain, 1 minute and 00.242 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience. This includes the first notes of Looks Like Rain.
8) About 4 minutes into Looks Like Rain, 32.482 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience.
9) Between Looks Like Rain and Brown Eyed Women, 43.383 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience.
10) Between Brown Eyed Women and Jack Straw, 57.974 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience.
11) Between Jack Straw and Row Jimmy Row, 1 minute and 24.774 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience.
12) Between Row Jimmy Row and Weather Report Suite, 1 minute and 03.763 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience.
13) After Let It Grow, 1 minute and 22.619 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience to ends disc 1.
14) At the beginning of disc 2, 1 minute and 33.698 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience. This includes part of Roll Out the Barrel.
15) Between Roll Out The Barrel and Eyes Of The World, 1 minute and 49.563 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience.
16) To start the 2nd set, 2 minutes and 11.564 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience. This includes the first notes of Greatest Story Ever Told.
17) Between Greatest Story Ever Told and Ramble On Rose, 1 minute and 28.823 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience.
18) About 4 minutes into Ramble On Rose, 4.448 seconds were missing from the audience and were added from the soundboard.
19) Between Ramble On Rose and Big River, 3 minute and 12.471 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience. This includes Bobby talking about a busted string.
20) Between Big River and Let Me Sing Your Blues Away, 1 minute and 12.794 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience.
21) Between Let Me Sing Your Blues Away and China Cat Sunflower, 9.317 seconds were missing from the audience and were added from the soundboard.
22) With about 2 minutes left of I Know You Rider, I switched to the soundboard as the timing reference due to what Mr. Berger refered to as a battery/pitch problem. The soundboard had been running consistently slow about 1.5 seconds per minute so I compensated for that before switching as the audience went extremely slow at this point to almost 4 seconds per minute. Switched back to the audience as the timing reference with He’s Gone.
23) Between I Know You Rider and El Paso, 1 minute and 50.286 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience.
24) About 1 minutes into El Paso, 7.393 seconds were missing from the audience and were added from the soundboard.
25) To end disc 2 and between El Paso and He’s Gone, 1 minute and 37.995 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience. He’s Gone starts disc 3.
26) About 11 minutes into He’s Gone, 3.496 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience.
27) About 4 minutes into Truckin’, 1 minute and 26.560 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience.
28) Between Truckin’ and Not Fade Away, 09.318 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience. This includes the first notes of Not Fade Away.
29) About 1 minute into Not Fade Away, 01.414 seconds were missing from the audience and were added from the soundboard.
30) Between 2nd Not Fade Away and Stella Blue, 43.921 seconds were missing from the soundboard and were added from the audience.
31) Also between 2nd Not Fade Away and Stella Blue, 23.655 seconds were missing from the audience and were added from the soundboard.
Brokedown House Production
Description:
Set 1
Bertha, Me & My Uncle, Sugaree, Beat It On Down The Line, Tennessee Jed, Looks Like Rain, Brown Eyed Women, Jack Straw, Row Jimmy Row, Weather Report Suite Prelude-> Weather Report Suite Part 1-> Let It Grow, Eyes Of The World-> China Doll
Set 2
Greatest Story Ever Told, Ramble On Rose, Big River, Let Me Sing Your Blues Away, China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider, El Paso, He’s Gone-> Truckin’-> Not Fade Away-> Goin’ Down The Road Feelin’ Bad-> Not Fade Away, E: Stella Blue-> One More Saturday Night
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