Grateful Dead

Starlight Theater
Kansas City, MO
8-3-82
Sick Bits Vol. 12

Source: Matrix:
SBD: (shnid=19228)
Lineage:SBD>MC>PCM>DAT>CDR
AUD: (shnid=5984)
FOB: 27th Row, by Paul Hogan, Senn 441's > Sony TC-D5 > DAT > CD

Via: Paul Bottiglio

[complete text files for each source appended at end]

Transfer/Editing:
All sources were snh files downloaded from the LlaMA and converted to
WAV > Vegas 5 (matrix) > WAV > CD Wave > FLAC 16 (level 8)

Matrixed by Chris Chappell
ScarFire@liquidcity.com

9/01/05

Set 1:
d1t01 - Mississippi Half-Step ->
d1t02 - Franklin's Tower ->
d1t03 - Minglewood Blues
d1t04 - Peggy-O
d1t05 - El Paso ->
d1t06 - Cumberland Blues
d1t07 - Althea
d1t08 - Cassidy
d1t09 - Big Railroad Blues
d1t10 - Women Are Smarter
d1t11 - Might As Well

Set 2:
d2t01 - Shakedown Street ->
d2t02 - Samson & Delilah
d2t03 - To Lay Me Down
d2t04 - Let It Grow ->
d2t05 - Jam (Weir & Drummers) ->
d2t06 - Drums ->
d3t01 - Space ->
d3t02 - He's Gone ->
d3t03 - The Other One ->
d3t04 - Stella Blue ->
d3t05 - Sugar Magnolia

Encore:
d3t06 - Casey Jones

Total Times:
Disc 1 [78:47]
Disc 2 [54:33]
Disc 3 [54:43]
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General Notes:

As requested, this show (which came in a close second place in the voting from
Sick Tidbits #1) is a matrix of two sources that are not great on their own,
but together they work very nicely, even a better combo (IMO) than the show
from 3 nights earlier at Manor Downs (Sick Bits Vol. 11), which has both a
better SBD and AUD, but for some reason the combination doesn't sound as
sweet as this one. Don't get me wrong, both shows are amazing.

The FOB AUD is a vast improvement over a widely circulated AUD, which is used
as the patch on the SBD source; however, the FOB suffers from previously
employed NR to the point where some phasiness is noticeable even when coupled
with the SBD. It also has some harsh mids around 2k which needed cutting.
The SBD is balanced with everyone in the mix, but like most boards from this
era, it's heavy in the mids. Aside from the fact that the SBD is lightly
compressed with SBEs on every track, plus the AUD has some harsh mids
and heavy NR, amazingly the two sources work well. The only bummer is that
there is no SBD after the cut in Stella for the rest of the show, so no matrix.
Also, there is only about 2.5 minutes of Cassidy in SBD (multiple cuts).


This show is a true classic, featuring an incredible Half-Step-> Franklin's
(one of the best transitions into Franklin's out of any song), a cool
Shakedown with some awesome Brent piano, a rare first set Womer R and a rare
second set TLMD (only 3 in '82), and an inspired Let It Grow. Pretty much
every Jerry tune shines, including the Space-> He's Gone which is the beginning
of at least 35 minutes of music in the key of E. The encore, Casey Jones,
is one of only two played in '82, and it's also stashed for almost 2 years.

Comments from Deadbase:

- "I've never been to the Greek Theater in Berkeley, but the Starlight seems
to me to be as close to the Greek as a midwesterner can get." "...the stage
is framed by castle-style towers on either side, covered by ivy and with a
distinct Medieval feel."

Reviews from archive.org:


- "My girlfriend and I were following the Dead around for a couple weeks of this
tour but certainly this one was the best show we saw. What a beautiful venue.
The crowd was wonderful. We'd been a bit disappointed with Jerry's '40th Show'
at Zoo Ampitheater, though that was actually a pretty decent gig but this one
blew us out of our seats. Really the power of the show can't be transmitted
through a recording."


- "104 degrees that day and the place was electric...every song was played tight
and flowed from to the next.."

- "This whole show smokes: from the raging 1/2 Step>Franklin's Tower right through
ALL of the 2nd set. I would give almost anything to have been there this night
... 5 stars for performance."

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