Grateful Dead

June 27, 1985
Saratoga Performing Arts Center,
Saratoga Springs, NY
Sets I & II

Source: Two x Audio Technica 835b + One x AKG D12e center fill > Realistic 32-1105A, 4 channel stereo mixer > Sony D5 > Master Cassettes
Location: From the lawn, underneath the overhang.
Transfer: Master Cassettes > Kyocera D811 > Oade modified Grace Design Lunatec V3 > M-Audio MicroTrack II > WAV 24/48 > Adobe Audition > xACT > FLAC 24/48

Recorded, Transferred & Mastered by Ray Ackerman
Edited & Processed by Joe Noel
March 23, 2026

Patch info:
- shnid 25000, Schoeps CMC441, recorded by Jim Oade supplies;
- Yo, Butch!; 00:02 - 00:49

Notes:
- Last & final show at SPAC
- Attendance record set (40,231)
- Checksum & tags created in xACT.

Thanks to
- Ray Ackerman for sharing his masters
- Jim & Doug Oade & Darrin Sacks for the patch source

- Set I -
[crowd - tuning]
Midnight Hour ->
Bertha ->
Lil Red Rooster
[Yo, Butch!]
Stagger Lee ->
El Paso
Crazy Fingers ->
Supplication ->
High Time
Hell in a Bucket ->
Don't Ease Me In
rt; 1:02:52.000

- Set II -
[crowd - tuning]
Feel Like A Stranger ->
Eyes of the World ->
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad ->
Man Smart (Woman Smarter) ->
Drums ->
Space ->
Truckin' ->
Spoonful ->
Black Peter ->
Turn On Your Lovelight
- encore -
Johnny B. Goode ->
It's All Over Now Baby Blue
rt; 1:28:00.426
TRT: 2:30:52.426

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[J.Noel 26 March 2026]


