Grateful Dead
12-30-89
Oakland Coliseum Arena
Oakland, CA

Source: Ultramatrix (SBD/AUD mix)
Lineage: DAT> CD> SHN

Disc 1
1. Bertha
2. Good Lovin'
3. Sugaree
4. Walkin' Blues
5. Jack-a-roe
6. When I Paint My Masterpiece
7. West LA Fadeaway
8. The Music Never Stopped

Disc 2
1. Jack Straw
2. China Cat Sunflower
3. I Know You Rider
4. Estimated Prophet
5. Terrapin
6. drums

Disc 3
1. space
2. I Will Take You Home
3. The Other One
4. Standing on the Moon
5. One More Saturday Night
6. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (encore)

I believe this is the first copy of this Matrix source on CD. I looked long and hard for a soundboard for this excellent show, and traded at least five times over two years for supposed Matrix recordings, only to find each time that set I was a Matrix and set II was an audience recording. D'oh! This is -- FINALLY! -- the real deal. Thanks to Rob Harrison for the DAT>CD transfer, and for abandoning his 8-track disco recordings to make time to supply these discs! Whoo-hoo! Let me get a whoop-whoop for my main dog Rob! (God help me.)

Known issues
Airto Moriera plays on Sugaree > West LA in set I, and I Know You Rider > One More Saturday Night on set II. He is sometimes audible and often not.

Intermittent diginoise in Jack Straw has been replaced with a patch from the Matrix (oops I mean audience) source, from 4:24 to 5:18.

Drums and space are seamless, and can be reassembled effortlessly when those DVD burners finally become popular and we're all listening to recordings by mind-travel.

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Seeded by Peter Braverman (braverman@earthlink.net), April 2002.