The latter half of second set at The Forum Dec 10 1989 makes striking comparison between the soundboard and the audience recordings—what sounds, in the soundboard (or sounded strongly to me at first, second, and now third listens here at Tapers’ Section), as “calamitously untogether” playing in “Need a Miracle” (eventually, by its middle), “Stella Blue,” and “Good Lovin’” has some partial explanation and mitigation from better hearing the audience’s part in the proceedings (via an audience recording posted on the Archive at https://archive.org/details/gd1989-12-10.fob.french.brown.83792.sbeok.f…). The band seems (humorously, by evidence clear in the soundboard) to’ve been taken aback (and Jerry maybe discombobulated some?) by the audience’s singing of “I need a miracle every day” in the most volumetric audience-back-at-ya song delivery I’ve ever heard in a Grateful Dead performance. And, in those three songs, the audience recording’s whole-hall sense of things smoothes out what otherwise, in the recording posted here, sounds like bad awkwardness and breakdowns in the band ensemble—especially in “Stella Blue,” in which the audience recording has it sounding not (or nearly not) untogether at all, due to the music’s occurring among the audience’s role in it. (And Bob does a fine job [if a little too overt] with lots of redeeming feedback.) Yet there is that remarkable blaring pinched twang that Jerry for some reason puts onto his playing in the verses—terrible! And even in the audience recording some real breakdown’s evident ~6:40 in to “Stella Blue.” (And what's with Jerry's muted near-absence in first few minutes of "Good Lovin'"?) —A good case for matrix of aud & sbd here, if releasing this show ever gets full-on consideration. One’s on the Archive now (using the aud recording referenced above): https://archive.org/details/gd1989-12-10.mtx.tobin.102402.flac16.

Nice DL interview: http://consequenceofsound.net/aux-out/taping-the-dead-the-origins-of-live-recording-legend-david-lemieux/

Byrd, Well, I guess I can see why he hasn't responded to your requests!! No soup for you!! DoDa Man

Thanks, Dave. Always been curious about those Long Beach shows!

y'all be cool. ignore the, uh, dissenting voice below.