started by Tommo

Grateful Dead
The Los Angeles (Great Western) Forum

2/12/89 (with very special guests)
12/8/89

Both shows are high quality soundboards, with more
audience in the mix than most SB's, so they sound
very "live". They are not matrixed- my guess is that
the audience was mic'd and mixed into the recorder feed.

1 DVD data disc with FLAC files, and 5 audio CD's.

known flaws:

2/12/89: The tape oversaturates a little when the
Kodo Drummers are going full blast, and there is a very
brief total dropout near the end of "Not Fade Away".
12/8/89: Smoothly patched with a very nice audience
recording in 2 places, as noted below.
Otherwise both recordings are just exactly perfect.
Thank you Charlie Miller.

special guests for 2/12/89 show (in order of appearance):
Spencer Davis (guitar & vocal - 2 songs first set)
Bob Dylan (guitar - most of 2nd set, & vocals on 1.5 songs)
The Kodo Drummers (Drums segment)

The 2/12 show was the only Grateful Dead concert where
I was right on the rail at the foot of the stage, between
Jerry and Bobby, and it was a very, very fun show. The Boys
were having a blast, especially Jerry, who was grinning and
laughing all night long. There are a few lapses in precision,
especially near the beginning of the 1st set, but the playing
is exuberant throughout.

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Details:

Grateful Dead - February 12, 1989
Great Western Forum - Inglewood, CA

Recording Info:
SBD -> Cassette Master -> Dat (48k)

Transfer Info:
Dat (Sony R500) -> Sound Devices 744T -> Samplitude
Professional v10.0.1 -> FLAC (2 Discs Audio / 2 Discs FLAC)

All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller
charliemiller87@earthlink.net
December 22, 2007

Notes:
-- Disc change is seamless
-- * With Spencer Davis
-- ** With Bob Dylan
-- *** With The Kodo Drummers

Set 1:
d1t01 - Cold Rain And Snow
d1t02 - Hell In A Bucket
d1t03 - Row Jimmy
d1t04 - Beat It On Down The Line ->
d1t05 - The Promised Land
d1t06 - West L.A. Fadeaway
d1t07 - How Long Blues*
d1t08 - Gimme Some Lovin'*

Set 2:
d1t09 - Tuning
d1t10 - Iko Iko**
d1t11 - Monkey And The Engineer**
d1t12 - Alabama Getaway**
d2t01 - Dire Wolf**
d2t02 - Cassidy**
d2t03 - Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again** ->
d2t04 - Drums ->
d2t05 - Space ->
d2t06 - The Other One*** ->
d2t07 - Stella Blue ->
d2t08 - Foolish Heart

Encore:
d2t09 - Not Fade Away** ->
d2t10 - Knockin' On Heaven's Door**

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Grateful Dead - December 8, 1989
Great Western Forum - Inglewood, CA

Recording Info:
SBD -> Dat -> Cassette Master (TDK MA-XG90)

Transfer Info:
Cassette Master (Nakamichi DR-1) -> Apogee MiniMe (24bit/48k) ->
Samplitude Professional v9.1.1 -> Cool Edit Pro v2.0 -> FLAC/16
(3 Discs Audio / 2 Discs FLAC)

All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller
November 9, 2007

Patch Info:
Unknown Mics -> Dat -> CD -> Samplitude supplies:
Drums (3:12 - 6:53)
Not Fade Away (5:27 - end of show)

Notes:
-- Set 2 is seamless
-- Thanks to Paul Scotton and Joani Walker for the tapes
-- Thanks to Joe B. Jones for his help with the pitch correction

Set 1:
d1t01 - Let The Good Times Roll
d1t02 - Feel Like A Stranger
d1t03 - Stagger Lee
d1t04 - Beat It On Down The Line
d1t05 - Ramble On Rose
d1t06 - Cassidy
d1t07 - Blow Away

Set 2:
d2t01 - Help On The Way ->
d2t02 - Slipknot! ->
d2t03 - Franklin's Tower ->
d2t04 - Looks Like Rain ->
d2t05 - He's Gone ->
d2t06 - Drums ->
d3t01 - Space ->
d3t02 - I Will Take You Home ->
d3t03 - The Other One ->
d3t04 - Wharf Rat ->
d3t05 - Throwing Stones ->
d3t06 - Not Fade Away

Encore:
d3t07 - U.S. Blues