Grateful Dead
Hampton Coliseum
Hampton, Virginia
March 23, 1987

Nakamichi CM-100's with CP-4 shotgun 
capsules>>Sony D-5 cassette recorder 
- located just at the right front lip 
of the soundboard.
Recorded by Greg Holtz & Mike Rice
master cass> tascam112mkII>presonus firestudio>firewire>wavelab6.0
a GEMS transfer at 32bf/96kHz, crystal resampler to 16/44.1 in wavelab 6.0 by Jamie Waddell


Trac'ed cdwave,Flac'ed Flac Frontend level 8

Disc I - Set I
01  Crowd/Tuning
02  Touch Of Grey > 
03  Little Red Rooster 
04  Althea 
05  Me And My Uncle > 
06  Big River 
07  Iko Iko 
08  Tons Of Steel
09  Feel Like A Stranger 
10  Don't Ease Me In 
Set II
11  Crowd/Tuning
12  Box Of Rain 
13  Man Smart (Woman Smarter)

Disc II - Set II 

01  Ship Of Fools 
02  Truckin >
03  Drums >
04  Space >
05  The Other One >
06  Stella Blue >
07 Throwing Stones >
08  Turn On Your Lovelight
09  Crowd
10  U.S. Blues



Hampton was buzzin' from the previous 
night's show, and the crowd was more 
than ready for the second post-coma 
East Coast show. I recall feeling a 
sense of familiarity washing through 
the parking lot crowd this day...like 
a "we're back" feeling.  It was very 
mellow, and a happy day.  Once again, 
we entered the venue hours before 
showtime, mostly to secure a piece of 
real estate for the taping rig, but 
also again to explore all the nooks 
and crannies of the coliseum...that 
place has some really cool (and hot) spots if 
you are in the right place at the 
right time...during the show there 
are some VERY intense places to 
be.....same as most shows I suppose.  
Anyway, this show, to me, was one of 
those warmup feeling sets, almost 
like they were picking up on what 
songs were gonna get worked out on 
this tour...ya gotta remember, Jerry 
was still very much reworking his 
chops, so this version of the 
Grateful Dead was a group on the 
mend...but still trying to forge 
ahead....and pretty much succeeding.  
I remember this show had a few 
highlights, the first of course was 
the Touch of Grey opener with it's I 
will survive" cry.  The East Coasters 
were gonna shout that one out from on 
high.  We got a bouncy  Iko in the 
middle of set 1, and, well, you give 
it a listen.  There were no surprise 
breakouts, no real unifying mind meld 
crescendos (Not til the Terrapin on 
the next night!), but this was a 
really well-played show.  I am not 
much for reviewing a show, as each 
one is as unique to each 
individual...

Many thanks to Jamie & 
Rich for their fine work in getting 
this old analog snapshot of history 
into the public realm.


Greg Holtz
March 2008
RIP Mike Rice