Late 80s
Saturday, April 13, 1985
Show stats
- Saturday
- Day 103 of 1985
- Show #
- 23 of 73
- Era
- Late 80s
- Keys
- Brent
- Recordings
- 8
- Top rating
- ★ 5.00 (2)
- Top-rated tape
- SBD
- Total dl
- 60,126
- Songs played
- 17 · 3 sets
- Show length
- 1h 56m
- Longest track
- Terrapin Station · 12:13
Curator Score
How this is computed →From the tapers · archive.org · 3
- ★★★★★ · One of the best of the last year of the Grateful Dead · Chris U. · 2011
For a long time I had a muddy sounding audience tape of this show ... but that tape was still great. What was in the Dead's water in 1985? We may never know. They had some great new songs. And occasionally on the summer tour in 1985 they simply transcended themselves for entire concerts or close to it. This isn't one of those shows with the "best Sugaree ever" or some other bogus descriptor. It's just well-played and inspired throughout, with a minimum amount of excessive cheese piled on.
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- ★★★★★ · LA crowd motivates band · Matthew Xavier · 2004
The Dead played differently in LA venues compared to the SF Bay Area. It was especially true at Irvine Meadows where the hard edged crowd was nearly always vocal in high volume in their enthusiasm for the band. The LA crowd was crazier too. I found some people at LA shows sometimes rude and obnoxious where at a Bay Area show, I always encountered kindness and consideration. Did this affect the Dead playing? I believe it effected their song choices and their efforts.
- ★★★★★ · Just hum us the song Jer!!! · David Bolewski · 2006
I cant find a fault in These shows. All Jer has to do is hum the tune. My Dad saw Frank Sinatra during his last tour and his voice was not what is used to be. Missing notes and whatnot but his band was impecable and someone in the audience yells 'Just hum the song Frank!'and everybody cheered. P.S. Saw the Stones last night in Chicago. WOW!
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Bust-outs & rarities
- ◦Why Don't We Do it in the Roadonly 7 plays ever
Setlist
Set 1
Set 2
Encore
Setlist from CMU Dead archive (mleone/gdead)
Recordings on archive.org · 8
Top-rated source
gd1985-04-13.122198.sbd.miller.flac16
SBD -> Cassette Master -> Cassette (Maxell XLIIS-90) · ★ 5.00 (2 reviews) · 4,690 dl
Compare all 8 sources
- gd1985-04-13.122198.sbd.miller.flac16SBD -> Cassette Master -> Cassette (Maxell XLIIS-90) · ★ 5.00 · 4,690 dl
- gd1985-04-13.123130.sbd.miller.flac24SBD -> Cassette Master -> Cassette (Maxell XLIIS-90) · ★ 4.00 · 5,642 dl
- gd1985-04-13.124884.chasingwilma.flac24lineage: sennheiser 421 (fob)>d-5> d-5> sony tc we435> sony pcm m-10 24bit/96khz> soundforge> cdwave> traders little helper encoding option 8; conversion rate: 96000/24 bit · ★ 2.60 · 1,624 dl
- gd1985-04-13.fix-shnid-77348.tetzeli.83071.sbeok.flac16Patch fix of shnid 77348 see info file · ★ 3.75 · 5,100 dl
- gd1985-04-13.nak100.holtz.jaz.97199.flac16Nakamichi cm 100's W/shotguns -> Sony D-5 · ★ 3.00 · 2,950 dl
- gd1985-04-13.sbd.miller.77348.sbeok.flac16SBD -> Cassette Master -> Cassette (Maxell XLIIS-90) · ★ 4.29 · 9,294 dl
- gd1985-04-13.senn421.mccue.ford.32595.sbeok.shnfMAC: (FOB) Sennheiser 421's* > Sony D5 > Maxell XLII-S 90(Set I) & Maxell MX 90(Set II) · ★ 5.00 · 7,840 dl
- gd85-04-13.sbd.popi.6146.sbeok.shnfsbd> mc> reel> dats> wav> shn · ★ 4.38 · 22,986 dl