Thanks to all who made this possible, that was a great day.

Hey GD folks, like the above review mentions this is a outstanding audience source. I've always liked two sets of mic's with a blend and this recording comes out just great! Kudos to Healy on the Front of House mix on the PA; He really was pioneer of that style of concert sound. It's really tough to mix a band with two drummers and then run the PA in true stereo, outstanding. Many audience recordings suffer from phase issues because the taper's location isn't really in the best location to yield a true stereo image. This recording captures the show as if you really are at the show with Garcia on the right side and Lesh on the left ...it's truly amazing. I have the pleasure of listening to these recordings on my studio Focal monitors in my sound treated studio control room. The bass presence is almost too much, but it's cool that no post mixing was done, so you are hearing it raw; and that is still impressive. I suppose a matrix of the U-87 Silberman and this source would rival a commercial broadcast quality release. The show is pretty good too, for me it's a typical 1984 show. Certainly, worthy of a download ! Also, a big kudos to the Miller and Co. for all the transfer of the sources... it's a great job ! Keep it up !!!

This show was recorded from about the 14th row center/left of the isle. In the Civic Center an isle ran right down the middle of the venue so it was impossible to get an FOB dead center. Ross (?) was the lead taper along with his buddy. They combined their systems together and made nice recordings of the shows. I met Ross at SPAC in 1983 while recording that show from the lawn. I believe he was from Boston and went to school in Berkely. For the entire run I had between 8th and 15th row seats, which were used for all the recordings. At times there were up to 12 decks patched out and daisy chained.

I should add that although this was recorded with Naks and Senn 421's IMO, this recording stands along with the best audience pulls from this night. Do not rule this recording out based solely on the mics used. This is a great example of how where you are set up can often trump equipment. The sound stage is deep and wide and the timbres are much more pure and organic then systems set up back further in the hall.