Grateful Dead Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on 1987-08-12
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- Publication date
- 1987-08-12 ( check for other copies)
- Topics
- Soundboard, Charlie Miller, Joani Walker, Paul Scotton
- Collection
- GratefulDead
- Band/Artist
- Grateful Dead
- Resource
- DeadLists Project
Set 1
Hell In A Bucket ->
Sugaree
Yankee Doodle Tuning
Never Trust A Woman
Cumberland Blues ->
Mexicali Blues
Friend Of The Devil
My Brother Esau
Bird Song ->
The Music Never Stopped
Set 2
China Cat Sunflower ->
I Know You Rider
Man Smart (Woman Smarter) ->
Terrapin Station ->
Drums ->
Space ->
The Other One ->
Dear Mr. Fantasy ->
Wharf Rat ->
Turn On Your Lovelight
Encore
The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo)
Hell In A Bucket ->
Sugaree
Yankee Doodle Tuning
Never Trust A Woman
Cumberland Blues ->
Mexicali Blues
Friend Of The Devil
My Brother Esau
Bird Song ->
The Music Never Stopped
Set 2
China Cat Sunflower ->
I Know You Rider
Man Smart (Woman Smarter) ->
Terrapin Station ->
Drums ->
Space ->
The Other One ->
Dear Mr. Fantasy ->
Wharf Rat ->
Turn On Your Lovelight
Encore
The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo)
Related Music question-dark
Versions - Different performances of the song by the same artist
Compilations - Other albums which feature this performance of the song
Covers - Performances of a song with the same name by different artists
Song Title | Versions | Compilations | Covers |
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Tuning | |||
Hell In A Bucket -> | |||
Sugaree | |||
Never Trust A Woman | |||
Cumberland Blues -> | |||
Mexicali Blues | |||
Friend Of The Devil | |||
My Brother Esau | |||
Bird Song -> | |||
The Music Never Stopped | |||
China Cat Sunflower -> | |||
I Know You Rider | |||
Man Smart (Woman Smarter) -> | |||
Terrapin Station -> | |||
Drums -> | |||
Space -> | |||
The Other One -> | |||
Dear Mr. Fantasy -> | |||
Wharf Rat -> | |||
Turn On Your Lovelight | |||
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Notes
Patch Info:
Nakamichi 100 -> Cassette Master -> Dat -> CD supplies:
Space (4:25 - 4:35)
Notes:
-- 2nd Set is seamless
-- Thanks to Paul Scotton and Joani Walker for the tapes
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- 2008-04-16 00:08:45
- Identifier
- gd1987-08-12.sbd.walker-scotton.miller.81677.sbeok.flac16
- Lineage
- Cassette (Tascam 122mkII) -> Apogee MiniMe (24bit/48k) -> Samplitude Professional v8.01 -> FLAC/16
- Location
- Morrison, CO
- Run time
- 136:40
- Transferred by
- Charlie Miller
- Type
- sound
- Venue
- Red Rocks Amphitheatre
- Year
- 1987
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Reviews
Reviewer:
Dark Star 101
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August 13, 2020
Subject: Cool Colorado Rain!
Subject: Cool Colorado Rain!
Don’t know if it was raining at this Red Rocks run like all the others, but the Cool Colorado Rain line In Rider just sent a chill up my spine with great memories! Jerry really belts it out and the crown responds in kind. Very nice show, great energy and fantastic recording!
Reviewer:
Mind Wondrin
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February 4, 2020
Subject: Fons et origo
You found it. So glad you made it. A favorite show, this was also my first copy of a board patch. I was lucky to get a tape off the master [from a total tweaker who made you part of his OCD before you could leave his house]. Later, when I invested in an early burner - when we called them WORM drives - and processing software, this was the show I chose to digitize and burn for people. Traders weren't used to getting a show on CD (especially as a bonus for reliable dubbers) and were jazzed. It was also something new when a couple people much later offered it to me in the same quality. We were so used to generational degradation.
Much of what was an apex in person translates to tape. The night was just so exciting, and I think this was partly a combination of the buzzing, now larger scene outside, and the fact that so many of us were ticketed for Telluride, along with the band having a night where it all fell together. Even if other '87s hold up with higher profile (9/18, 4/11), this had an immeasurable experiential component that perhaps still resonates: the entire Dead package with all its angles, spirals, swirls and contours; its tours of this galaxy and that nebula. A single show was sad when it was over, but when you were doing a run or a tour, and a show was this good, and you knew there was more coming, all you had to do was recharge and maybe drive...
First Set. Hellina for a slick opener. It was tightened like an expansion bolt for this tour. Almost had to be: the vid shoot was coming at the end of the tour (hoping for a one-two at MTV that didn't pan). Check Brent too. After a fine Sugaree, Brent does a Yankee Doodle tuning and then launches his rarity Never Trust a Woman. Often labeled "Gonna See Some Good Times" on trades, the title that Brent published is "Goin' to the Country" (earlier calling it Good Time Blues). Although it seems like someone should have labeled it "Pants Too Tight". One of the better versions - Brent is having a great set. That ingredient continues in Cumberland, where the song is pushed by a Phil/Brent axis. After a perfunctory Mexicali there's a We Want Phil chant that comes and goes all the way into the next night. Friend of the Devil is good (I lit out one week), but My Brother Esau is drummer soup, with Jer a bit ahead/behind. But damn does he make up for it with this resplendent Bird Song. Music Never Stopped is plenty to leave 'em happy for the break [which, for whatever conjunction of reasons was one of the weirdest, with mini-groups of goings-on over on the southern outer steps].
Second Set. The crowd was just massively elevated, unlike I had seen before, giving the weirdest of meltdown walk-arounds an anxious edge, all made good again when strains of an oncoming China Cat were strung overhead on self-unwinding tinsel. When it launched, the whole place just swirled with sheer intense happiness erupting from/re-absorbing into 9000 souls, and volleyed again. The Rider is legerdemain. Maybe I can't distance myself, but something is there if it made me listen to it a hundred times hence. I have never gotten over how Jer plays in this. I once spent months learning Jer's leads - the weird, non-intuitive but intricate fret sequences. I wanted to live inside them, and then analyze them while away on vacation. I could write a review about each of the 11mins of China>Rider. That said, Bobby is incredible too, and when he sang Sun Gonna Shine My Backdoor he made thousands lose their shit. That only built everyone up to the top rung of the ladder, so that Jer's Cool Colorado Rain made us take that last step and float. The Phil bombs at Northbound Train made me cry because they were so beautiful, and because the frequency wave rolled through our chests in the 11th row, up the amphitheater, and are even now reaching the center of the Milky Way. Joyful tears streaked more faces than mine. For the final solo, Jer pauses at the start and then spits the notes forcefully, emphatically, sending mortar shots skyward to engender Chinese blooms. Grounding everybody with no less excitement is the ace Dewiminna. Mickey gets complex and Bobby adds wonderful rhythm fillips. Brent is great again, and check Jer starting @5:04. Of the 20 or so times I saw Terrapin, this was the most powerful - and the loudest. The lighting was different too, and though that doesn't stick to the tape, the quality does. After a punchy Terrapin, Drums is fittingly intense. How else could it be? Riveted heads; no bathroom break. Space is likewise, the band's excitement as palpable as a twenty foot beach ball hovering over the 5th row. Jer starts riffing The Other One pretty early. The eventual payoff is brilliance: one of the year's best TOOs. Mr. Fantasy sparkles with energy that carries over into Wharf Rat, making it uptempo and unbogged. Check how active Mickey is for this set. Same for the Lovelight; relatively brief but pepped. I was stoked when we got a Quinn the Eskimo encore instead of a Brokedown (or U.S Blues or Black Muddy), even if it wasn't as good as Ventura in June. This show rewards repeat listening, but has become more obscure than it once was; maybe now a hidden gem.
1st Set: B-
2nd Set: A
Overall = 4½ stars
Highlights:
Hell in a Bucket - well wound
Bird Song - of a pair with 7/26
China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider - incomparable versions
Man Smart (Woman Smarter) - each player adds
Terrapin Station - powerful
Drums>Space - fittingly intense
The Other One - fruition of amazing sequence
SOURCES: The walker-scotton_miller_81677 is the clearest. However the pitch is fast needing -1% correction; except the encore, which needs -2%. Given that my copy of the first set is slightly better, there must be another source out there. The gastwirt_gems_77164 is good for hearing the show with different freqs. The miller_95684 is a bit boomy.
Subject: Fons et origo
You found it. So glad you made it. A favorite show, this was also my first copy of a board patch. I was lucky to get a tape off the master [from a total tweaker who made you part of his OCD before you could leave his house]. Later, when I invested in an early burner - when we called them WORM drives - and processing software, this was the show I chose to digitize and burn for people. Traders weren't used to getting a show on CD (especially as a bonus for reliable dubbers) and were jazzed. It was also something new when a couple people much later offered it to me in the same quality. We were so used to generational degradation.
Much of what was an apex in person translates to tape. The night was just so exciting, and I think this was partly a combination of the buzzing, now larger scene outside, and the fact that so many of us were ticketed for Telluride, along with the band having a night where it all fell together. Even if other '87s hold up with higher profile (9/18, 4/11), this had an immeasurable experiential component that perhaps still resonates: the entire Dead package with all its angles, spirals, swirls and contours; its tours of this galaxy and that nebula. A single show was sad when it was over, but when you were doing a run or a tour, and a show was this good, and you knew there was more coming, all you had to do was recharge and maybe drive...
First Set. Hellina for a slick opener. It was tightened like an expansion bolt for this tour. Almost had to be: the vid shoot was coming at the end of the tour (hoping for a one-two at MTV that didn't pan). Check Brent too. After a fine Sugaree, Brent does a Yankee Doodle tuning and then launches his rarity Never Trust a Woman. Often labeled "Gonna See Some Good Times" on trades, the title that Brent published is "Goin' to the Country" (earlier calling it Good Time Blues). Although it seems like someone should have labeled it "Pants Too Tight". One of the better versions - Brent is having a great set. That ingredient continues in Cumberland, where the song is pushed by a Phil/Brent axis. After a perfunctory Mexicali there's a We Want Phil chant that comes and goes all the way into the next night. Friend of the Devil is good (I lit out one week), but My Brother Esau is drummer soup, with Jer a bit ahead/behind. But damn does he make up for it with this resplendent Bird Song. Music Never Stopped is plenty to leave 'em happy for the break [which, for whatever conjunction of reasons was one of the weirdest, with mini-groups of goings-on over on the southern outer steps].
Second Set. The crowd was just massively elevated, unlike I had seen before, giving the weirdest of meltdown walk-arounds an anxious edge, all made good again when strains of an oncoming China Cat were strung overhead on self-unwinding tinsel. When it launched, the whole place just swirled with sheer intense happiness erupting from/re-absorbing into 9000 souls, and volleyed again. The Rider is legerdemain. Maybe I can't distance myself, but something is there if it made me listen to it a hundred times hence. I have never gotten over how Jer plays in this. I once spent months learning Jer's leads - the weird, non-intuitive but intricate fret sequences. I wanted to live inside them, and then analyze them while away on vacation. I could write a review about each of the 11mins of China>Rider. That said, Bobby is incredible too, and when he sang Sun Gonna Shine My Backdoor he made thousands lose their shit. That only built everyone up to the top rung of the ladder, so that Jer's Cool Colorado Rain made us take that last step and float. The Phil bombs at Northbound Train made me cry because they were so beautiful, and because the frequency wave rolled through our chests in the 11th row, up the amphitheater, and are even now reaching the center of the Milky Way. Joyful tears streaked more faces than mine. For the final solo, Jer pauses at the start and then spits the notes forcefully, emphatically, sending mortar shots skyward to engender Chinese blooms. Grounding everybody with no less excitement is the ace Dewiminna. Mickey gets complex and Bobby adds wonderful rhythm fillips. Brent is great again, and check Jer starting @5:04. Of the 20 or so times I saw Terrapin, this was the most powerful - and the loudest. The lighting was different too, and though that doesn't stick to the tape, the quality does. After a punchy Terrapin, Drums is fittingly intense. How else could it be? Riveted heads; no bathroom break. Space is likewise, the band's excitement as palpable as a twenty foot beach ball hovering over the 5th row. Jer starts riffing The Other One pretty early. The eventual payoff is brilliance: one of the year's best TOOs. Mr. Fantasy sparkles with energy that carries over into Wharf Rat, making it uptempo and unbogged. Check how active Mickey is for this set. Same for the Lovelight; relatively brief but pepped. I was stoked when we got a Quinn the Eskimo encore instead of a Brokedown (or U.S Blues or Black Muddy), even if it wasn't as good as Ventura in June. This show rewards repeat listening, but has become more obscure than it once was; maybe now a hidden gem.
1st Set: B-
2nd Set: A
Overall = 4½ stars
Highlights:
Hell in a Bucket - well wound
Bird Song - of a pair with 7/26
China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider - incomparable versions
Man Smart (Woman Smarter) - each player adds
Terrapin Station - powerful
Drums>Space - fittingly intense
The Other One - fruition of amazing sequence
SOURCES: The walker-scotton_miller_81677 is the clearest. However the pitch is fast needing -1% correction; except the encore, which needs -2%. Given that my copy of the first set is slightly better, there must be another source out there. The gastwirt_gems_77164 is good for hearing the show with different freqs. The miller_95684 is a bit boomy.
Reviewer:
kee-zee
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April 21, 2013
Subject: Sleep in the stars
Subject: Sleep in the stars
Dead on the Rocks..very nice sound..Love the Bird song and in all a well played show..Give it a whirl
Reviewer:
bigmed777
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February 8, 2012
Subject: thanks ;) ;) ;)
Subject: thanks ;) ;) ;)
Thank you for allow me to relive one of my greatest moments on tour and my life.. only to top it off a couple days later in Telluride!!! smile,smile,smile ;) ;) ;)
Reviewer:
A Crist
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August 31, 2011
Subject: Thanks!
Subject: Thanks!
- Im dumb this isn't a matrix. but it still sounds great!
Reviewer:
Longnstrange
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February 3, 2010
Subject: Oh yea!
Subject: Oh yea!
Seems like it all comes down to the summer of '87. Hey, we all have our opinions,no? I'm open to hearing Dead recordings as good as '87... really. I know there are some great seventies clasic boards and all but... If you think the Dead sounded better, let me know.
Reviewer:
Dub_Irie
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November 9, 2008
Subject: Exceptional 87
Subject: Exceptional 87
This show is a powerful example of how hot the Dead were in 87. They always did good shows at Red Rocks and this rivals the great b78-07-08 show easily. Excelent soundboard transfer. Thanks Mr Miller.
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