Grateful Dead—Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA. w/ The New Riders of the Purple Sage, August 6, 1971
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One of the best-known audience tapes from the early seventies, this Rob Bertrando field recording is something else. The tape, produced with a Sony 770 portable 7-inch reel deck and two battery-powered ECM-22 condenser mikes, is close to perfect with soundboard quality instrument separation and a good balance of crowd noise. Bertrando was one of the original Grateful Dead tapers who, along with Relix founders Les Kippel and Jerry Moore, worked their cunning magic back when recording shows demanded coming up with wily methods for getting gear into concert venues. This was long before tapers’ sections were the norm at Dead shows, and stories abound about the band’s sound and road crews putting the stops to every recording operation they witnessed. Cords were cut, tape decks smashed, and tapes were often confiscated. It’s amazing that bootlegs like this Palladium gig ever got made in the first place.
Grateful Dead—Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA. w/ The New Riders of the Purple Sage, August 6, 1971
Grateful Dead—Hollywood Palladium, Los…
Grateful Dead—Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA. w/ The New Riders of the Purple Sage, August 6, 1971
One of the best-known audience tapes from the early seventies, this Rob Bertrando field recording is something else. The tape, produced with a Sony 770 portable 7-inch reel deck and two battery-powered ECM-22 condenser mikes, is close to perfect with soundboard quality instrument separation and a good balance of crowd noise. Bertrando was one of the original Grateful Dead tapers who, along with Relix founders Les Kippel and Jerry Moore, worked their cunning magic back when recording shows demanded coming up with wily methods for getting gear into concert venues. This was long before tapers’ sections were the norm at Dead shows, and stories abound about the band’s sound and road crews putting the stops to every recording operation they witnessed. Cords were cut, tape decks smashed, and tapes were often confiscated. It’s amazing that bootlegs like this Palladium gig ever got made in the first place.