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Grateful Dead
Hampton Coliseum
Hampton, Virginia
March 23, 1987

Nakamichi CM-100's with CP-4 shotgun
capsules>>Sony D-5 cassette recorder
- located just at the right front lip
of the soundboard.
Recorded by Greg Holtz & Mike Rice
master cass> tascam112mkII>presonus firestudio>firewire>wavelab6.0
a GEMS transfer at 32bf/96kHz, crystal resampler to 16/44.1 in wavelab 6.0 by Jamie Waddell


Trac'ed cdwave,Flac'ed Flac Frontend level 8

Disc I - Set I
01 Crowd/Tuning
02 Touch Of Grey >
03 Little Red Rooster
04 Althea
05 Me And My Uncle >
06 Big River
07 Iko Iko
08 Tons Of Steel
09 Feel Like A Stranger
10 Don't Ease Me In
Set II
11 Crowd/Tuning
12 Box Of Rain
13 Man Smart (Woman Smarter)

Disc II - Set II

01 Ship Of Fools
02 Truckin >
03 Drums >
04 Space >
05 The Other One >
06 Stella Blue >
07 Throwing Stones >
08 Turn On Your Lovelight
09 Crowd
10 U.S. Blues



Hampton was buzzin' from the previous
night's show, and the crowd was more
than ready for the second post-coma
East Coast show. I recall feeling a
sense of familiarity washing through
the parking lot crowd this day...like
a "we're back" feeling. It was very
mellow, and a happy day. Once again,
we entered the venue hours before
showtime, mostly to secure a piece of
real estate for the taping rig, but
also again to explore all the nooks
and crannies of the coliseum...that
place has some really cool (and hot) spots if
you are in the right place at the
right time...during the show there
are some VERY intense places to
be.....same as most shows I suppose.
Anyway, this show, to me, was one of
those warmup feeling sets, almost
like they were picking up on what
songs were gonna get worked out on
this tour...ya gotta remember, Jerry
was still very much reworking his
chops, so this version of the
Grateful Dead was a group on the
mend...but still trying to forge
ahead....and pretty much succeeding.
I remember this show had a few
highlights, the first of course was
the Touch of Grey opener with it's I
will survive" cry. The East Coasters
were gonna shout that one out from on
high. We got a bouncy Iko in the
middle of set 1, and, well, you give
it a listen. There were no surprise
breakouts, no real unifying mind meld
crescendos (Not til the Terrapin on
the next night!), but this was a
really well-played show. I am not
much for reviewing a show, as each
one is as unique to each
individual...

Many thanks to Jamie &
Rich for their fine work in getting
this old analog snapshot of history
into the public realm.


Greg Holtz
March 2008
RIP Mike Rice

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