The Dinosaurs
Parker's Ballroom, Seattle WA
1987-05-17

Source: soundboard recording on unknown cassette deck
Lineage: master cassette > cassette > CDR
Encoding: EAC > waves > flac level 8
Recorded by: unknown
Transfer by: unknown


Disc One: [75:28]

01 [04:09] /Get It All Together*
02 [04:46] Save The Whales*
03 [02:28] Save The Whales (reprise, with audience participation)*
04 [03:58] Bring Back The Sixties, Man*
05 [02:58] For What It's Worth*
06 [01:41] /Who Makes The Moves
07 [04:50] Wake Up Everybody In The Neighborhood
08 [06:56] Band intros, Boogie On Reggae Woman
09 [09:07] Do I Move You?
10 [03:06] Blind Man
11 [07:38] Motel Party Baby
12 [16:39] Got Love-> The Dance
13 [07:08] /After Midnight

Disc Two: [79:01]

01 [09:14] Sugaree
02 [10:23] Little Red Rooster#
03 [06:29] Thirty Days#
04 [13:40] Built For Comfort-> Mona/

Bonus Tracks

05 [05:58] Strange Way
06 [12:49] The Dance
07 [04:35] Good Old Rock and Roll
08 [15:50] The Jealous Kind-> Wake Up Everybody In The Neighborhood/

Tracks 5, 6 & 7 are from the Portland show; track 8 is from the Eugene show.


John Cipollina: Guitar, Vocals
Barry Melton: Guitar, Vocals
Peter Albin: Bass, Vocals
Merl Saunders: Keyboards, Vocals
Spencer Dryden: Drums

* Country Joe McDonald
# with Rob Moitoza on vocals and blues harp and Jerry Miller on guitar

I got this show in a trade. There are lots of issues, some clipping, some hiss, some bad cuts (in and out), sloppy tracking and what have you. It's a case of "it is what it is." I considered doing some editing to try to smooth out some of the horrendous cuts (like the one at the end of "Mona") and fix the tracking, but it was taking too long and I was afraid it might never get done. So here it is, warts and all.

Sorry, I don't have details about how it was recorded or transferred. I only know that the cassette source was a 1st gen tape, and it was transferred on to a standalone CD burner. Tracking was done on the fly, so there is some awkward indexing. The master was recorded casually by promotors of the show, with less than ideal care and attention (not that I'm complaining too much). The mix is also not absolutely ideal. It's a monaural recording. Thanks to gergsnave for the discs. Check samples before downloading! And please help me out with the setlist, I'm pretty sure that some of the song titles are wrong. Thanks.

I have one more Dinosaurs show (04-27-1984 in Seattle) from the same source, only in that case I have the 1st gen cassette. Again, lots of problems, but one of these days I'll get it transferred and see if it can be made to sound reasonable.