Radiators
Toad's Place
New Haven, CT
1991-04-07

Source: FM (WPLR) > MC (MX-90 and MA-90) by Bruce Barnum
Transfer: MC > Nak CR-7A > Tascam DA-3000 (DSF 1-bit/5.6 MHz) > Tascam HRE > PCM @ 2496
Recorded w/ Dolby B on; playback with Dolby off
Master: Wavelab 11 (tracking, cross fades, glitch removal, DDI Codec / Dolby B (-23.0 dBFS), remove DC offset, pitch correction, resample, Lin dither) > FLAC 1644

Thanks to Joe. B. Jones for pitch correction information.

01. MC Intro
02. Everything Gets In The Way
03. Zigzaggin' Thru Ghostland
04. Honey From The Bee
05. Strangers
06. Let The Red Wine Flow >
07. Soul Deep >
08. Mood To Move
09. Grain Of Salt
10. Doctor Doctor
11. crowd + banter
12. Green Arrow
13. River Run
14. Good As Gone
15. Love Is A Tangle
16. This Wagon's Gonna Roll
17. Oh Beautiful Loser
18. Monkey In Her Heart >
19. Never Let Your Fire Run Out
20. Good Mornin' Miss Brown >
21. Devil's Dream
22. Like Dreamers Do
23. WPLR Station ID + crowd
24. March On Down To Valentine
25. Party Till Your Money Runs Out
26. The Weight
27. The Wheel's On Fire
28. WPLR outro

Touch of FM static in Let The Red Wine Flow, and the occasional station ID pops up. Otherwise, a very nice and clean recording, sounding very much like an FM broadcast. WPLR was and still is a New Haven rock station.

Bruce Barnum was a Deadhead and an avid taper from the early 1980’s until his death in 2017 at age 48. Over the years, he taped dozens of Dead shows throughout the Northeast, as well as other concerts, some of which have not been heard since then. After his death, about 60 of his master cassettes turned up in a used record store in Hudson, NY, where some had been bought by random people nostalgic for the days of cassettes. The rest were purchased by a fellow Deadhead and archivist. Bruce’s daughter, Jessica, had more, and was kind enough to lend them to be digitized. Many of these recordings sound excellent for their age. They are Bruce's legacy.

Enjoy!

--mhg :: 2022-02-14