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Grateful Dead Live at State Fairgrounds on 1980-09-06

by Grateful Dead

Publication date: 1980-09-06 ( check for other copies)

Topics: Audience, FOB, Tim Friend, Andrew F.

Collection: GratefulDead

Band/Artist: Grateful Dead

Resource: DeadLists Project

Set 1

Alabama Getaway-> Greatest Story Ever Told, Sugaree, Me & My Uncle-> Mexicali Blues, Tennessee Jed, Feel Like A Stranger, Friend Of The Devil, Far From Me, Little Red Rooster, China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider-> Promised Land

Set 2

Shakedown Street, Lost Sailor-> Saint Of Circumstance, Althea, Playin' In The Band-> Uncle John's Band-> Drums-> Not Fade Away-> The Wheel-> Uncle John's Band-> Playin' In The Band-> Sugar Magnolia, E:One More Saturday Night-> E: Brokedown Palace

Roy Bucanan then Levon Helm Opened

Notes

Notes: There is no wind noise on this recording. Tape
flips patched with ID-93783: Rooster 7:42 > 7:55, crowd
at end of Saint 6:06 > 6:28, and Drums 12:04 > 12:19.

Addeddate: 2009-10-02 06:24:45

Identifier: gd1980-09-06.nak300.friend.andrewf.101685.flac16

Lineage: MAC > Nakamichi DR-2 > Edirol FA-66 > Wavelab > CD-Wave > R8Brain > TLH > FLAC 1644

Location: Lewiston, ME

Run time: 209:05.26

Source: 2x Nakamichi CM300 w/CP4 shotguns > Nakamichi 550 > Maxell XL-II 90's. Mics on stand FOB, near the soundboard.

Taped by: Tim Friend

Transferred by: Andrew F.

Type: sound

Venue: State Fairgrounds

Year: 1980

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Reviewer: HardyWeinberg - - November 4, 2015
Subject: best recording of this show

This is the best recording of this show, I have checked them all out over and over. I actually got a tape of this recording in like 1981, was really glad to see the original finally get digitized and distributed.

This is also pretty much their last best show (so let that color your interpretation of my first assertion). If they had broken up the next night and detoxed for a while, they would have left an amazing legacy and been better off for it. I spent the 80s chasing a show like this and they never lived up to it, as far as I can tell. Came close in Augusta ME in 1984, but still more of an imitation than an expansion.

Reviewer: Chris U. - - July 24, 2011
Subject: Yo Charlie

Are you sure the bass was that loud during the FOTD? Seems mighty fxcking weird.

You want to hear a great Sailor->Saint check out 5-22-82 Greek Theatre. All other versions take a back seat (tho this one aint bad at all, and includes some righteous audience handclaps) ....

Probably the most magnificently effed up Stranger ever played by a long shot, though. My god.

Reviewer: jratner - - July 15, 2011
Subject: Wow!

This recording is incredible! I was at this show and it sounds like you're standing right in front of the board. Great job busting this version out. One of THE BEST dead shows that I've ever witnessed. The energy is crackling. I wept openly during the Sugaree...insane stuff! The boys were all over it on this beautiful end of summer day in central Maine.

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