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Warren Oates's Collection

Grateful Dead   10/01/1976

Market Square Arena, Indianapolis, IN
Source AudMC > DAT > WAV > SHN > CD
Media cdr   3 discs
Notes Aud Recorded by Jerry Moore about 20 rows from the stage on center axis with 2 hand held Sony ECM-33Ps > Sony TC-153 deck. Maxell UD-120 cassettes, with Dolby B ON. see tech notes. Jerry Moore's original J-Card

Tech Notes GRATEFUL DEAD
Friday, October 1, 1976
Market Square Arena - Indianapolis, IN
Audience Recording

AudMC > DAT > WAV > SHN

Recorded by Jerry Moore about 20 rows from the stage on center axis with 2 hand held Sony ECM-33Ps > Sony TC-153 deck. Maxell UD-120 cassettes, with Dolby B ON.

Analog > DAT transfer by Mark Cohen, January 2003
DAT > SHN/CD by Noah Weiner (noahbw@attbi.com) January 2003

Tascam 122MKIII cassette deck (MC playback) > Tascam DA40 DAT deck (record) > Fostex D5 DAT deck (playback) > Turtle Beach Montego II Digital I/O > Soundforge (wav editing and track IDs) > SHNTOOL (SBE fix) > MKW (shn)

DISC ONE [71:21]
set one:
01 [00:18] crowd
02 [07:01] Bertha
03 [04:22] Mama Tried
04 [05:44] Deal
05 [05:00] Cassidy
06 [10:06] Friend Of The Devil
07 [07:40] Big River
08 [06:31] Brown Eyed Woman
09 [07:48] All Over Now
10 [12:25] Scarlet Begonias
11 [04:26] Promised Land

note: There is a brief "Close To You" tease after Mama Tried, and a "Good Morning Little" School Girl tease after FOTD

DISC TWO [45:51]
set two-a:
01 [01:34] crowd & tuning
02 [06:12] Might As Well
03 [08:38] Samson And Delilah
04 [04:47] Help On The Way >
05 [13:07] Slipnot! >
06 [11:33] Franklin's Tower

DISC THREE [54:05]
set two-end:
01 [00:25] crowd
02 [07:54] Dancin' In The Streets >
03 [01:59] Drums* >
04 [05:34] The Wheel >
05 [03:29] Jam >
06 [07:42] Ship Of Fools >
07 [03:44] Dancin' In The Streets >
08 [07:50] Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad >
09 [09:45] One More Saturday Night
encore:
10 [05:43] US Blues

*tape flip in Drums cross faded at 1:01

note: Bobby teases Dancin' at the start of the Jam after Wheel. But the rest of the band won't take his lead.
J-Card Comment Noah Weiner - 08:34pm Aug 28, 2000
10/01/76 review:

Right off the bat it must be said that this Audience recording is in a whole league of its own. There is simply nothing to be faulted. If you've wondered how an audience recording could actually stand up to, and over a SBD, then listening to this one will give you the goods.

After a nice feeling first set, and a terrific Scarlet Begonias (again!), the jewel of this show is The Help>Slip>Frank. On this night it has an entirely different feel that the last one played back on 9/27. Here we find the tempo brought way down to a more traditional pace. Where 9/27 had sparks flying in all directions at lightning speed from that spiraling sunset, 10/01 has more of an undulating ocean feel. Great swells rising in random patterns all around. The ocean is deep, and each instrument is clearly pronounced in a wash of luminous coral colors rising from far below. This evenings performance of this classic trilogy is so well crafted that it feels very much like the quintessential textbook example of itself. And the tempo has everything to do with it, especially on the Franklin's Tower.

During the Slipknot jam, which is a monster, Jerry's presence is felt less in the sporadic bursts of luscious phrases evident on 9/27, but rather more in evolving themes like paragraphs in a story. He rides the flow of ocean waves all the way up and all the way down. The difference is striking. The band is less on auto-pilot this time. Things are more thought out and deliberate, but still possess a remarkable spontaneity. And everything is so darn clean. You can just reach out a hand and touch Jerry's guitar on this recording. The same goes for Bobby. But don't get in their way. The band is striking a chord deep within, and you can't help but be drawn into it as it resonates throughout the hall. The Slipknot goes on and on. There is a point where it seems like they are wrapping things up and the crowd voices its appreciation of the past many minutes of music. But the boys can't quite turn things off so fast, and they tumble through the comfortable jam for a few more minutes.
Then they make it to Franklin's Tower. The best way I can describe this version is by calling it "pristene." It is so perfectly paced, so filled with a Grateful Dead vibe, that you may be drawn from your seat into the dancing (yes, perhaps even twirling) crowd. It is everything that any great Franklin's has ever been built from. This version is not necessarily the "best ever" Franklin's. But is exactly what Franklin's Tower should feel like. And it is that feeling that is pronounced so perfectly in this version. Somehow, Jerry's 1976 face is brought clearly to my mind as he sings this song. And he is smiling the whole way through.

I must say that the energy and brilliance of the H>S>F is not well carried over into the rest of the second set to my ears. I've given it a number of tries, but it still come off flat to me. Your Mileage May Vary.


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