Author: Mark Binder

“There Is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert!” Grateful Dead Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, CA 2/19/91 SBD > DAT > Soundforge> CDR > WAV > SHN Very clean SBD. First show of a stellar year. Thanks to Charlie Miller for the seeds. One audience recording circulates, along with this one magnificent, finely-detailed soundboard… Disc 1 […]

“There Is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert!” Grateful Dead The Fabulous Forum (the Great Western Forum to the non-locals) Inglewood, CA February 12, 1989 Audience recording: Sean Weber Small rig, Schoeps cmc?? (cardioid caps on mic bodies) ORTF -> Oade pre (m118?) > Sony F1/Beta rig, line out > Sony TC-D5M analog cassette master […]

“There Is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert!” Grateful Dead Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, CA February 5, 1989 SBD > Cassette Master (Sony TC-D5M/Maxell MX90/Dolby B) All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller “Thanks to Joani Walker and Paul Scotton for the tapes” “Thanks to Joe B. Jones for his help with the […]

“There Is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert!” Grateful Dead San Francisco Civic Auditorium ,San Francisco, CA January 29, 1987 Healey  soundboard ultramix: PCM > Cassette Master > wav > mkw > shn Ramrod’s cassette master. “Dan Healy was a pioneer in rock sound system innovation, and helped Bear along with Ron Wickersham of Alembic […]

“There Is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert!” Jerry Garcia Band Phoenix Theater, Petaluma, CA January 22, 1983 SBD:MC (TDK SA-90) > DAT > CDR > EAC > SHN A really nice soundboard, missing only the “Dear Prudence” > Midnight Moonlight” second-set ending. Disc One: 1. How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You […]

“There Is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert!” In light of today being the birthday of Martin Luthor King, combined with all the repression, regression, upward wealth distribution, and outright racism in the United States today, I am bypassing my usual opaening theme to feathre the following: “Flowers In The Night”, Music & Lyrics: Jack […]

“There Is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert!” Still hard to find a Dead or Dead Family concert this time of year, buut here we have: Phil Lesh & Friends Dead Of Winter, Terrapin Crossroads Bar, San Raphael, CA January 10, 2017 Neumann KMF 4i >Tascam DR-40 (96-24), Right side, 2nd row DR-40 > USB […]

“There Is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert!” Splintered Sunlight Brownie’s 23 East, Ardmore, PA   January 3, 2013 Soundboard > Zoom H4N @ 48/24 > Sound Forge 10 (mastering) > WAV @ 44.1/16 > Gold Wave 5.66 (file editing) > Flac16 Taped and transferred by buckster Once a month or so I step out […]

“There Is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert!” Grateful Dead Curtis Hixon Convention Hall, Tampa, FL December 18, 1973 SBD > Reel master > cassette > DAT > CDR (unknown gens) > EAC > SHN Extraction and shortening by G.S. Hamilton I have had cassettes of both the 12/18 & 19/73 shows since the early […]