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It's just exactly perfect! And Jerry is reasonably well chorded tonight, which is a big, big plus. The sound is clean and clear with just exactly the right amount of reverb / sustain. It reminds me of being 'right there' - twenty rows up standing DFC and elbow to elbow with my crew (I can see the band now, right in front of me).

Personally, I don't mind a little hootin', hollerin', and talkin' on my downloads. All that needs to be done is graft Mike Darby's crowd source to make this a natural five star standout. But quite honestly, that artificial mix wasn't necessary. I'm hoping some of the notable editors / matrix magicians will take up the challenge. Darby does a great job keeping his finger off the pause button, though the recording is one step down from this, losing some top end fidelity and crispness being farther back in the Sports Center. And thanks Wiley for the upload! There is much to work with here.īut this upload needs allot of attention with fade-out / fade-in meshing Mike Darby's crowd. Or have the luck of San Rafael mailing him tickets to the best seats in the house. Pausing aside, thank you to whoever chose not to accept the mediocrity of that five-years-in institution and choose to muscle his way into the Mouth Of The Beast. And even then, nothing really substituted for close proximity to the stage. section and the loss of crisp distinction of sound - unless you had really good cardioid shotguns. If there was one thing I detested in '84 when the Taper's Section was initiated, it was the added distance from the stage of that new B.O.B. But the poor recorder editing knocks this version back down to four stars.

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This sweet sweet sound is five star stellar and just incredible!!! Absolutely phenominal!!! Though I don't care much for about half the first set, the show is very good at four plus where I'd sneak in five overall for show and sound. It's a TRUE BLUE Dead Fucking Center Front Of Board 'Sweet Spot' recording.

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You are correct Captain Toke - it's well centered, close to the stage, full and heavenly. If you listen closely on Jerry's quieter songs, you can distinguish Billy's splash and hi-hats from his baby rides. It's the crispy-ness of the instruments and the vocals and the balance that's the tell. Yes, the crowd is very noticeable because this is a hand-held or stealth hat or cane recording deep in the throng.

And that's a damn shame because this guy or gal must have been a newbie hitting the pause button the second each song was over in the first set and early in the second. So you have the best and worst of both worlds in this upload. It was a crime and just godawful for this crowd maven.

But the recorder had no idea what he/she was doing in chopping off each outro reaction to the songs. This is a fabulous capture being smack dab in the most primo position you could hope for and one of the best audience recordings of the band I've ever heard (and I've heard a lot of them). But they're Dead wrong! It's not the crowd noise that's the problem for me, it's the inexperienced 'Pause' butchery this recorder demonstrates. Having read some of the other reviews that there isn't as much interest in this capture because of the crowd noise, I can appreciate them.