The Grateful Dead
Greensboro Coliseum
Greensboro, NC
1991-04-01

Lineage: Sennhieser 421’s 20’ spread at “rail” OTS > Casio DA-7 DAT @ 16/48 kHz (unknown taper)
Transfer 1: DAT > spdif > Marantz 650 (sample rate conversion) > 44.1 kHz > Roland VS880EX > CDR (Donnie Loeffler, 1995?)
Transfer 2: CDR > spdif > Mac > Audacity > FLAC (Donnie Loeffler August 2024)

Files provided by Donnie Loeffler and Charlie Miller

Set I
01. Jack Straw >
02. Peggy-O
03. It’s All Over Now
04. Candyman
05. Tom Thumb Blues
06. Picasso Moon
07. Birdsong

Set II
08. China Cat Sunflower * >
09. I Know You Rider
10. Looks Like Rain
11. Dark Star >
12. Drums >
13. Space >
14. Dark Star >
15. Playing in the Band Reprise >
16. Black Peter >
17. Turn On Your Lovelight
18. encore break

Encore:
19. Baby Blue #

* glitches 1:00 approx
# low volume left channel

Donnie Loeffler's notes:  As far as I know , this source is uncirculated?  I got this in the early 90s on a DAT trade.  The glitches were on my tape.  I can’t recall who I got the tape from and I don’t know the exact lineage, but my notes were Sennhieser 421’s with a 20 foot spread at the “rail” in the back of the taper’s section.  No doubt, this is a early DAT source as in 1991 most folks were not using DAT, and the Casio DA-7 was really the 1st “commercial portable DAT” machine on the market.  What we get is a really nice sound that resembles a old school FM broadcast, nice sweet sound from the PA.  Caveats are:  some digital glitches in the opening of China Cat Sunflower, and the low level on the right channel on Baby Blue.  Also, the second set can be seamed as I always leave enough room to mend the cut in post … we really didn’t have that kind of DAW stuff in 1995 .  If anyone has a better source with out glitches PLEASE put into circulation !  Great Show, Great Recording!

Enjoy!

--mhg :: 2024-09-07

