Final
Monday, July 23, 1990
Notable Moment
Brent Mydland's last show
World Music Theatre, Tinley Park IL. Brent dies three days later of a morphine + cocaine overdose at his home in Lafayette CA, age 37.
Show stats
- Monday
- Day 204 of 1990
- Show #
- 41 of 78
- Era
- Final
- Keys
- Brent
- Recordings
- 19
- Top rating
- ★ 5.00 (1)
- Best source
- SBD
- Total dl
- 323,693
- Songs played
- 17 · 3 sets
- Show length
- 2h 17m
- Longest track
- Terrapin Station · 14:38
- ◆ Brent Mydland's final show.
Curator Score
How this is computed →From the tapers · archive.org · 3
- ★★★★★ · Boy, I miss Brent · Alpine7784 · 2004
I couldn't make the first two shows of this run because of work, so I was happy to get up to Chicago to catch the last show of the tour. This show gave me my best Grateful Dead memory. I had just broken up with my girlfriend at the time and had a bad attitude over it. My pals and I were 15th row center (the best seats I ever had at a Dead show). I really wanted to hear "Good Times Blues" (AKA "Never Trust A Woman") due to my mood.
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- ★★★★★ · Thank you WanderingMonk · Leee14 · 2010
It's so nice to hear that other Deadheads loved Brent as much as I did. No wonder he never felt truly at home within the band, I wonder how much "hate mail" he got from Deadheads basically telling him that he sucked and didn't fit in. The poor guy already had self-esteem issues and the constant criticism from the "the dead sucked after 1980" crowd must have really done a number on him. Even Jerry admitted that he was the best singer in the band, while he and Bob "just croaked along".
- ★★★★★ · Brent went out on top · etrain · 2008
Brent saved the band during a time when Jerry was at his unhealthiest and from day to day no one knew if Garcia would make it to the next show. During the 80's rumours would circulate that JERRY was dead and for days on end the band members themselves didnt even know if it was true or not. Brent carried the band during their last days. The 5 years that followed his passing were simply a brief "wind down" that ended with Garcias passing as u all know.
Community reviews from archive.org, not the Curator.
Setlist
Set 2
Set 3
Encore
Setlist from CMU Dead archive (mleone/gdead)
Recordings on archive.org · 19
Best source
gd1990-07-23.147719.ultramatrix.sbd.miller.flac24
UltraMatrix SBD > Cassette Master (TDK MA-X90) · 5,475 dl
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- gd1990-07-23.133843.sbd.chasingwilma.flac16lineage: sbd/aud matrix>dat>cd> eac> traders little helper encoding option 8 · 2,820 dl
- gd1990-07-23.135062.bltz.flac2496Source: Schoeps CMC-34 Cardioids, 110° ORTF, Up Front/FOB-> ProLink Cables -> Neumann Power Supply -> SV25 -> Nak 682ZX -> TDK MA 110 Cassette Tape -> JVC TD-W354 -> Zoom H6 96/24 WAV -> Audacity -> FLAC 96/24 · 1,904 dl
- gd1990-07-23.138985.FOB.Schoeps.Katzeff.Ammons.Noel.t-flac16flac16/48kHz ; Rick Katzeff FOB Recording: Schoeps CMC54 at 110 degrees ORTF > Panasonic SV250; John Ammons · 1,080 dl
- gd1990-07-23.142006.FOB.Schoeps.Brotman.Mattes.Miller.Noel.t-flac1648flac16/48kHz ; Dave Brotman FOB Recording using Ted Mattes' rig: Schoeps CMC3 MK4 ORTF > DAT (Panasonic SV250); Location info: Row 26 Center mics on stand @ 6'3"; Charlie Miller · ★ 0.00 · 1,720 dl
- gd1990-07-23.147601.mtx.tobin.flac16SBD + AUD Matrix 2 Source Mix (44/16) · 1,254 dl
- gd1990-07-23.147602.dts.tobin.flac16DTS-Audio-CD 5.1 Mix · 356 dl
- gd1990-07-23.147604.5-1.tobin.flac16485.1 LPCM Surround Sound Mix (48k) · ★ 1.00 · 1,512 dl
- gd1990-07-23.147719.ultramatrix.sbd.miller.flac24UltraMatrix SBD > Cassette Master (TDK MA-X90) · 5,475 dl
- +11 more on archive.org