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While getting ready to do a blog post on Microsoft’s MVC Web API I dumped my CouchDB database of Grateful Dead Internet Archive tapes into SQL Server 2008.  To test the full text search on SQL Server I produced this list.  I hope you enjoy it.  Here is a list of Soundboard or Matrix concert recordings on the Internet Archive where Scarlet Begonias and Fire On The Mountain are played during the same concert.  This is a computer generated list.  There are 163 concerts listed here. There are 217 concert recordings with this song combination if we were to include audience tapes also.

Click On the image below of a list of ‘best’ SB –> FOTM concert Recordings

[this is a hypertext list - click on a date and you will jump to the Internet Archive Music Player for that concert]

1977-03-18 – Winterland Arena

1977-04-23 – Springfield Civic Center Arena

1977-04-27 – Capitol Theatre

1977-05-04 – The Palladium

1977-05-05 – New Haven Coliseum

1977-05-08 – Barton Hall

1977-05-11 – St. Paul Civic Center Arena

1977-05-13 – Auditorium Theatre

1977-05-17 – Memorial Coliseum

1977-05-25 – Mosque

1977-10-02 – Paramount Theatre

1977-10-09 – McNichols Sports Arena

1977-11-06 – Broome County Arena

1977-12-27 – Winterland Arena

1977-12-31 – Winterland Arena

1978-01-31 – Uptown Theater

1978-04-08 – Veterans Memorial Coliseum

1978-04-11 – Fox Theater

1978-04-16 – Huntington Civic Center

1978-04-24 – Horton Field House – Illinois S

1978-05-07 – Field House – Rensselaer Polyte

1978-07-07 – Red Rocks Amphitheatre

1978-09-02 – Giants Stadium

1978-10-17 – Winterland Arena

1978-11-18 – Uptown Theatre

1978-12-16 – Nashville Municipal Auditorium

1978-12-30 – Pauley Pavilion – University of

1979-01-17 – Veterans’ Memorial Coliseum

1979-02-10 – Soldier’s And Sailors Memorial

1979-04-16 – Unknown studio

1979-04-22 – Spartan Stadium – San Jose Stat

1979-05-05 – Baltimore Civic Center

1979-08-05 – Oakland Auditorium

1979-09-05 – Madison Square Garden

1979-10-24 – Springfield Civic Center Arena

1979-11-01 – The Nassau Coliseum

1979-11-08 – Capitol Center

1979-11-30 – Stanley Theatre

1979-12-03 – Uptown Theater

1979-12-10 – Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Aud

1979-12-30 – Oakland Auditorium Arena

1980-03-30 – Capitol Theatre

1980-05-11 – Cumberland County Civic Center

1980-05-30 – Milwaukee Auditorium

1980-08-17 – Kansas City Municipal Aud

1980-08-30 – The Spectrum

1980-10-22 – Radio City Music Hall

1980-10-27 – Radio City Music Hall

1980-11-30 – Fox Theatre

1980-12-26 – Oakland Auditorium Arena

1980-12-31 – Oakland Auditorium Arena

1981-02-27 – Uptown Theater

1981-03-10 – Madison Square Garden

1981-03-20 – Rainbow Theater

1981-05-11 – Veterans’ Memorial Coliseum

1981-05-15 – Athletic Center – Rutgers U

1981-08-16 – MacArthur Court – University of

1981-08-31 – Aladdin Theater

1981-09-12 – Greek Theatre, U. Of California

1981-09-25 – Stabler Arena

1981-10-04 – Rainbow Theater

1981-10-19 – Sports Palace

1981-12-03 – Dane County Coliseum

1981-12-09 – Events Center, U of Colorado

1981-12-26 – Oakland Auditorium

1982-02-17 – Warfield Theater

1982-03-14 – Recreation Hall – University of

1982-04-03 – Scope

1982-04-15 – Providence Civic Center

1982-05-23 – Greek Theatre – University of C

1982-07-25 – Compton Terrace Amphitheatre

1982-07-31 – Manor Downs

1982-08-06 – St. Paul Civic Center

1982-09-20 – Madison Square Garden

1982-11-25 – Bob Marley Performing Arts Cent

1982-11-26 – Bob Marley Performing Arts Cent

1982-12-27 – Oakland Auditorium

1983-03-26 – Aladdin Theatre

1983-04-13 – The Patrick Gymnasium, U of V

1983-06-18 – Saratoga Performing Arts Center

1983-06-27 – Poplar Creek Music Theater

1983-07-31 – Ventura County Fairgrounds

1983-09-04 – Park West Ski Resort

1983-09-13 – Manor Downs

1983-10-14 – Hartford Civic Center

1983-10-21 – The Centrum

1983-12-27 – San Francisco Civic Center

1984-03-31 – Marin County Veterans Aud

1984-04-13 – Hampton Coliseum

1984-04-20 – Philadelphia Civic Center

1984-04-26 – Providence Civic Center

1984-06-21 – Kingswood Music Theatre

1984-07-13 – Greek Theatre – University of C

1984-10-15 – Civic Center

1984-10-30 – Berkeley Community Theater

1984-12-31 – San Francisco Civic Auditorium

1985-02-20 – Henry J. Kaiser Convention Cent

1985-06-16 – Greek Theater, U. of California

1985-07-01 – Merriweather Post Pavilion

1985-09-15 – Devore Field

1985-11-11 – Brendan Byrne Arena

1986-02-12 – Henry J. Kaiser Convention Cent

1986-05-03 – Cal Expo Amphitheatre

1986-12-28 – Henry J. Kaiser Convention Cent

1987-01-29 – San Francisco Civic Center

1987-03-01 – Henry J. Kaiser Convention Cent

1987-04-02 – The Centrum

1987-04-09 – UIC Pavilion – University of Il

1987-05-10 – Laguna Seca Raceway

1987-06-14 – Ventura County Fairgrounds

1987-06-30 – Kingswood Music Theatre

1987-07-08 – Roanoke Civic Center

1987-08-15 – Town Park

1987-08-23 – Calaveras Co. Fairgrounds

1987-11-15 – Long Beach Arena

1988-03-16 – Henry J Kaiser Convention

1988-03-27 – Coliseum

1988-04-15 – Rosemont Horizon

1988-06-28 – Saratoga Performing Arts Center

1988-07-15 – Greek Theater – University of C

1988-09-02 – Capital Centre

1989-03-27 – The Omni

1989-04-06 – Crisler Arena – University of M

1989-04-16 – Mecca

1989-08-06 – Cal Expo Amphitheatre

1989-10-20 – The Spectrum

1990-02-26 – Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum

1990-03-22 – Copps Coliseum

1990-06-15 – Shoreline Amphitheatre

1990-07-04 – Sandstone Amphitheatre

1990-07-21 – World Music Theatre

1990-09-10 – The Spectrum

1990-09-14 – Madison Square Garden

1990-10-19 – Internationales Congress Centru

1990-12-09 – Compton Terrace Amphitheatre

1990-12-27 – Coliseum Arena

1991-03-21 – Capital Centre

1991-03-27 – Nassau Veterans Memorial

1991-04-27 – Sam Boyd Silver Bowl, U.N.L.V.

1991-06-25 – Sandstone Amphitheatre

1991-08-16 – Shoreline Amphitheatre

1991-09-04 – Richfield Coliseum

1991-09-13 – Madison Square Garden

1991-12-27 – Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum

1992-05-21 – Cal Expo Amphitheatre

1992-05-31 – Sam Boyd Silver Bowl

1992-06-12 – Knickerbocker Arena

1992-06-22 – Star Lake Amphitheater

1992-12-17 – Oakland Coliseum Arena

1993-03-28 – Knickerbocker Arena

1993-06-21 – Deer Creek Music Center

1993-08-25 – Shoreline Amphitheatre

1993-09-13 – The Spectrum

1993-09-24 – Boston Garden

1993-12-10 – Los Angeles Sports Arena

1993-12-19 – Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum

1994-03-16 – Rosemont Horizon

1994-03-30 – The Omni

1994-06-19 – Autzen Stadium – University of

1994-10-01 – Boston Garden

1994-10-14 – Madison Square Garden

1995-05-26 – Memorial Stadium

(More Concert Info is available by clicking on the image below)

Set 1

I haven’t written about the Grateful Dead for a while now.  Many of the XMas shows of the Dead are not of the best quality.  This is a combination of unavailability of quality soundboard tapes and (often) less than inspired playing on the bands part.  This 1977 show is an exception.  Listen to the whole show on the Internet Archive here.  This tape is re-mastered by “Bertha” from a master reel source by Jay Ashley.  Excellent sound processing of a great show.  The first set ends with a strong “The Music Never Stopped” but the second set is on fire (so to speak).  I personally think this is a better show that Dick’s Pick 10 (1977-12-29) – and its free.

Not to be missed.

Bertha ->

Good Lovin‘

Brown Eyed Women

Cassidy

Peggy-O

Looks Like Rain

Dire Wolf

Passenger

Candyman

El Paso

Friend Of The Devil

The Music Never Stopped

Set 2

Cold Rain And Snow

Lazy Lightnin’ ->

Supplication

Scarlet Begonias ->

Fire On The Mountain ->

Estimated Prophet ->

He’s Gone

Truckin‘ ->

Wharf Rat ->

Around And Around

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I only saw the Grateful Dead once.  I was a student (barely) at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and it was November 1971.  The Dead played with The New Riders and Jerry joined them during the second half of their set.  A had gone to the concert with a couple of true Dead Heads from my dorm.  How Dead were they? While they had been following the dead tour since school had started in the fall and this was the first time we saw them in Albuquerque this semester.  During the first par to the NRPR set there was ol’ Jerry wandering around the back of the auditorium.

Many Dead Heads swear by Dick’s Pick #18 as a definitive sample of the Grateful Dead in the late 1970’s.  This was recorded in America’s  heartland, Iowa on  1978-02-03 and 1978-02-05.  For capturing not only the Godchaux’s (Donna and Keith). Canonical version of  Scarlet Begonias and Fire On The Mountain.  Donna not in the best of voice that night.  Besides the internet archive makes the  music from this era available for free  (but not 1978-02-03 and 1978-02-05).  I have documented elsewhere how to get to the Grateful Dead recordings on the Internet Archive and how to make copies of even the streaming versions of the Dead shows on the Internet archive (Steal This Show!). The (free) music available at this site is more varied than the releases in the Dick’s Picks Series and (in my opinion) is often mixed with a more exciting and live style.  Some of the official archive show releases from the Dead organization seem to have the life sucked out of them in the re-mixing process.  As good as the February, 1978 shows are I suggest that you take a listen at some of the May, 1977.  The Dead has a great run of shows that month.

St. Paul Civic Center Arena on 1977-05-11 (Charlie Miller Sound Board Recording)

Mosque on 1977—5-25 (Charlie Miller Sound Board Recording)

Barton Hall on 1977-05-08 (Matrix Recording)

My IPod Playlist of 05/1977 is set up like this:

There are many Blogs for the seriously involved Dead Head:

Dead Blog; and this one, and this one.

Table of Contents

• 1989 Tour Statistics & Notes
• Dead.Net Releases From 1989
• Sound Board Recording of 1989 Concerts on the Internet Archive
• Internet Archive Usage Notes
• Scarlet Begonia -> Fire On The Mountain  in 1989
• Fantasy Dead Sets 1989: Whats On My IPOD

1989 Tour Statistics & Notes

Spring 1989 California

Spring 1989 East Coast

Dead.Net Releases From 1989

• 890704 Truckin’ Up To Buffalo Rich Stadium
• 891016 Nightfall Of Diamonds  Meadowlands Arena
• 890707  Crimson White & Indigo – JFK Stadium
• 1989 – 1990 Without a Net
• Alpine Valley Music Theater in 1989  DVD

West L.A. Fadeaway Alpine Valley Music Theater in 1989

The Buffalo and Meadowlands concerts are not, in my opinion, the best of 1989.  Nightfall of Diamonds in particular falls short of being a great show.   However, like all Dead.Net releases the sound remixing is great.  The vocals are far richer on these releases than on the more raw tapes found on the Internet Archive.   Crimson White & Indigo is based on the  89/07/07 JFK Stadium Concert.   This is a Dead.Net release which I do not own, so I am going on what I hear on the raw non-sound board recordings on the Internet Archive.  The show includes a  nice Scarlet Begonia ->Fire On The Mountain combination and a ‘big arena’ sound that some may find exciting.  Without A Net was produced by Phil.  Three cuts are from 1989.    The production seems a little ‘cold’ to me.  There is a DVD concert video which is a lot of fun: Alpine Valley Music Theater in 1989 DVD you can rent this at many video stores (or watch clips of the concert DVD available on YouTube and elsewhere).

Internet Archive Dead Soundboard Recordings – 1989

There are some interesting shows here and some fantastic (and unique)  performances of individual songs.  Brent and Jerry are interacting with amazing grace.  Phil is flying.  Jerry is in fine voice and guitar form.  I am listing in this section only shows on the Internet Archive with sound board recordings for 1989.  There are other gems out there on the Internet Archive which are available only in audience recordings.  I have concentrated here on Soundboard (and where possible, Matrix) recordings of these two tours.

• 890327  The Omni: Those strange vocal effects you hear are not mistakes but a feature of this concert.
• 890406 Crisler Arena: Nice show.
• 890709 Giants Stadium: A nice, fast version of West L.A. Fadeaway.
• 890806 Cal Expo: Scarlet Begonias->Fire On The Mountain rocks
• 890930 Shoreline: Nice show.
• 891020 The Spectrum: Jerry is in full voice.  The Dead preform “California Earthquake” – which they only preformed twice.  A MUST listen.
  
  The version of “The Other One” is very new age-y – very unusual treatment.

Internet Archive Usage Notes

In a prior post I explained two ways to capture “streaming media” off the Internet Archive.  In this post I will give some pointers on finding Grateful Dead recordings on the Internet Archive.  A good place to start is the Grateful Dead Collection Home Page.  Try the link:  Grateful Dead Shows on This Day in History.  Listen to what others are downloading.

The Internet Archive supports an advanced search option.  You can use the search templates provided here to narrow your search.  Just change the date and/or target song phrases to match your needs and paste the text into the search Box.

Template:

collection:(GratefulDead) AND date:1989-??-??

returns all Grateful Dead recordings for 1989

Template:

collection:(GratefulDead) AND date:1989-??-?? AND (subject:”Soundboard” OR subject:”Matrix”)

returns all Grateful Dead recordings for 1989 in either soundboard or Matrix format

Template:

collection:(GratefulDead) AND date:1989-??-?? AND (subject:”Soundboard” OR subject:”Matrix”) AND “Fire On The Mountain”

returns all Grateful Dead recordings for 1989 in either soundboard or Matrix format of Fire On The Mountain

Scarlet Begonias -> Fire On The Mountain in 1989

In general this song series is not as strong here as in the golden years (1977-1981), but interesting none the less.

• 890707 JFK Stadium – Three Stars (Note: This is Not A Sound Board Recording)
• 890806 Cal Expo – Four Stars
• 890406 Crisler Arena – Four Stars

Fantasy Dead Sets: 1989.  What’s On My IPOD

California Earthquake: The Spectrum 891020

Touch Of Gray: Truckin’Up To Buffalo

I’m A Man: Great Western LA Forum 891210

Feels Like A Stranger: Cal Expo Amphitheater 890806

West L.A. Fadaway:  Giants Stadium 890708

Bird Song: Cal Expo Amphitheater (Hear Jerry ‘play’ the flute – guitar driven Synclavier. Unbelievable!!) 891209

The Wheel: Great Western LA Forum 891210

The Other One: The Spectrum 891020

Scarlet Begonias -> Fire On The Mountain:  Cal Expo Amphitheater 890806

Estimated Prophet: The Omni 890327

Not Fade Away: Truckin’Up To Buffalo

Build To Last: Nightfall Of Diamonds

All Along The Watchtower: Truckin’Up To Buffalo

Around And Around: Crisler Arena 890406

Breakdown Palace: Crisler Arena 890406

West L.A. Fadeaway :  Shoreline 891020

Feels Like A Stranger: Hampton Collage 891009