Summer Magic 1985 [High Definition Digital Download]

Summer Magic 1985 [High Definition Digital Download]

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High Definition Digital Download

192/24: 24 Bit. 
Sourced from the original Sony F1 tapes. Mastered at 192k

 

WHAT'S INSIDE:

Seven Previously Unreleased Shows:

  • Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA (6/14/85)
  • Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA (6/15/85)
  • Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA (6/16/85)
  • Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY (6/27/85)
  • Hershey Park Stadium, Hershey, PA (6/28/85)
  • Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD (6/30/85)
  • Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD (7/1/85)

Recorded By Dan Healy
Mastered By Grammy® Award-Winning Engineer David Glasser At Airshow Mastering

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Just Like Grandma Moses
Just Like Auld Lang Syne
Play The Change, However Strange
And Get It Right This Time!

It's Been A Hard Haul
20 As The Crow Flies,
When Your Back's To The Wall
Got To Play It As It Lies

Let There Be Music, Dance, And The Beating of The Drum
Drop Whatever You're Doing And Come On The Run
Twenty Years Later The Groove Is Just Starting To Click
It's All Variations On Some Impossible Lick

- Excerpt From The 20th Anniversary Rag By Robert Hunter

Come on the run with us as we revisit the Grateful Dead's groove starting to click again during their high-octane "Twenty Years So Far" anniversary tour. SUMMER MAGIC 1985 is comprised of seven previously unreleased concerts - all three official 20th anniversary shows at the Greek (6/14-6/16/85); Saratoga Performing Arts Center (6/27/85); Hershey Park Stadium (6/28/85); Merriweather (6/30/85) and (7/1/85) - that find the band recapturing their unique spiritual fusion of communal energy, musical improvisation, and psychedelic style. This untamable synergy shines through countless somewhat-rare and stellar moments (such as “Midnight Hour,” “Dupree’s Diamond Blues,” a first-set “Crazy Fingers,” “Supplication” jam, the “Crypticals,” “Down In The Bottom”>“I Ain’t Superstitious,” and “Keep On Growing) and through not one, not two, but THREE double encores. 'Twas a hot summer, indeed!

Arriving September 18th, SUMMER MAGIC 1985 was recorded by Dan Healy and has been mastered by Grammy® Award-Winning Engineer David Glasser at Airshow Mastering.

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  • Track Listing

14-Jun-85  Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA

  1. Dancing In The Street
  2. West L.A. Fadeaway
  3. CC Rider
  4. Peggy-O
  5. Hell In A Bucket
  6. Keep On Growing
  7. Stagger Lee
  8. Let It Grow>
  9. Deal
  10. Encore:
  11. Keep Your Day Job
  12. Morning Dew>
  13. Playing In The Band>
  14. China Doll>
  15. Jam>
  16. Drums>
  17. Space>
  18. Truckin'>
  19. Smokestack Lightning>
  20. Comes A Time>
  21. Sugar Magnolia

 

15-Jun-85 Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA

  1. Touch Of Grey
  2. New Minglewood Blues
  3. Friend Of The Devil
  4. Cassidy
  5. Dupree's Diamond Blues
  6. Me and My Uncle>
  7. Big River>
  8. Might As Well
  9. China Cat Sunflower>
  10. I Know You Rider
  11. Lost Sailor>
  12. Saint Of Circumstance>
  13. Terrapin Station>
  14. Drums
  15. Space>
  16. The Wheel>
  17. Gimme Some Lovin'>
  18. Throwing Stones>
  19. Not Fade Away
  20. She Belongs To Me
  21. U.S. Blues


16-Jun-85 Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA

  1. In The Midnight Hour>
  2. Bertha
  3. Walkin' Blues
  4. Tennessee Jed
  5. My Brother Esau
  6. Big Railroad Blues
  7. Looks Like Rain
  8. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
  9. Promised Land
  10. Scarlet Begonias>
  11. Fire On The Mountain>
  12. Samson and Delilah
  13. That's It For The Other One>
  14. i. Cryptical Envelopment
  15. ii. The Other One
  16. iii. Cryptical Envelopment
  17. Drums
  18. Space>
  19. Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad>
  20. I Need A Miracle>
  21. Wharf Rat>
  22. Turn On Yoru Lovelight
  23. Brokedown Palace


27-Jun-85 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY

  1. In The Midnight Hour>
  2. Bertha
  3. Little Red Rooster
  4. Stagger Lee
  5. El Paso
  6. Crazy Fingers>
  7. Supplication Jam>
  8. High Time
  9. Hell In Bucket>
  10. Don't Ease Me In
  11. Feel Like A Stranger>
  12. Eyes Of The World>
  13. Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad>
  14. Man Smart (Woman Smarter)>
  15. Drums
  16. Space>
  17. Truckin'>
  18. Spoonful>
  19. Black Peter>
  20. Turn On Your Lovelight
  21. Johnny B. Goode
  22. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue


28-Jun-85 Hershey Park Stadium, Hershey, PA

  1. Cold Rain and Snow>
  2. Promised Land
  3. Ramble On Rose
  4. Down In The Bottom>
  5. I Ain't Superstious
  6. Bird Song>
  7. Comes A Time>
  8. Deal
  9. The Music Never Stopped
  10. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
  11. Estimated Prophet>
  12. Terrapin Station>
  13. Drums
  14. Space>
  15. I Need A Miracle>
  16. Morning Dew>
  17. Throwing Stones>
  18. Not Fade Away
  19. Keep Your Day Job


30-Jun-85 Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD

  1. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo>
  2. CC Rider>
  3. Brown-Eyed Women
  4. Mama Tried>
  5. Mexicali Blues
  6. Keep On Growing
  7. Big Railroad Blues
  8. Looks Like Rain>
  9. Don’t Ease Me In
  10. Shakedown Street>
  11. Samson and Delilah
  12. Gimme Some Lovin'>
  13. He's Gone>
  14. Cryptical Envelopment>
  15. Drums
  16. Space>
  17. The Other One>
  18. Stella Blue>
  19. Around and Around>
  20. Sugar Magnolia
  21. U.S. Blues


1-Jul-85  Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD

  1. Dancing In The Street
  2. Dupree's Diamond Blues
  3. Walkin' Blues
  4. Jack-A-Roe
  5. My Brother Esau
  6. Stagger Lee
  7. Let It Grow>
  8. Keep Your Day Job
  9. Scarlet Begonias>
  10. Fire On The Mountain
  11. Playing In The Band>
  12. Uncle John's Band>
  13. Drums
  14. Space>
  15. Dear Mr. Fantasy>
  16. Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad>
  17. Good Lovin'
  18. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction>
  19. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Track Listing

14-Jun-85  Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA

  1. Dancing In The Street
  2. West L.A. Fadeaway
  3. CC Rider
  4. Peggy-O
  5. Hell In A Bucket
  6. Keep On Growing
  7. Stagger Lee
  8. Let It Grow>
  9. Deal
  10. Encore:
  11. Keep Your Day Job
  12. Morning Dew>
  13. Playing In The Band>
  14. China Doll>
  15. Jam>
  16. Drums>
  17. Space>
  18. Truckin'>
  19. Smokestack Lightning>
  20. Comes A Time>
  21. Sugar Magnolia

 

15-Jun-85 Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA

  1. Touch Of Grey
  2. New Minglewood Blues
  3. Friend Of The Devil
  4. Cassidy
  5. Dupree's Diamond Blues
  6. Me and My Uncle>
  7. Big River>
  8. Might As Well
  9. China Cat Sunflower>
  10. I Know You Rider
  11. Lost Sailor>
  12. Saint Of Circumstance>
  13. Terrapin Station>
  14. Drums
  15. Space>
  16. The Wheel>
  17. Gimme Some Lovin'>
  18. Throwing Stones>
  19. Not Fade Away
  20. She Belongs To Me
  21. U.S. Blues


16-Jun-85 Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, CA

  1. In The Midnight Hour>
  2. Bertha
  3. Walkin' Blues
  4. Tennessee Jed
  5. My Brother Esau
  6. Big Railroad Blues
  7. Looks Like Rain
  8. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
  9. Promised Land
  10. Scarlet Begonias>
  11. Fire On The Mountain>
  12. Samson and Delilah
  13. That's It For The Other One>
  14. i. Cryptical Envelopment
  15. ii. The Other One
  16. iii. Cryptical Envelopment
  17. Drums
  18. Space>
  19. Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad>
  20. I Need A Miracle>
  21. Wharf Rat>
  22. Turn On Yoru Lovelight
  23. Brokedown Palace


27-Jun-85 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY

  1. In The Midnight Hour>
  2. Bertha
  3. Little Red Rooster
  4. Stagger Lee
  5. El Paso
  6. Crazy Fingers>
  7. Supplication Jam>
  8. High Time
  9. Hell In Bucket>
  10. Don't Ease Me In
  11. Feel Like A Stranger>
  12. Eyes Of The World>
  13. Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad>
  14. Man Smart (Woman Smarter)>
  15. Drums
  16. Space>
  17. Truckin'>
  18. Spoonful>
  19. Black Peter>
  20. Turn On Your Lovelight
  21. Johnny B. Goode
  22. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue


28-Jun-85 Hershey Park Stadium, Hershey, PA

  1. Cold Rain and Snow>
  2. Promised Land
  3. Ramble On Rose
  4. Down In The Bottom>
  5. I Ain't Superstious
  6. Bird Song>
  7. Comes A Time>
  8. Deal
  9. The Music Never Stopped
  10. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
  11. Estimated Prophet>
  12. Terrapin Station>
  13. Drums
  14. Space>
  15. I Need A Miracle>
  16. Morning Dew>
  17. Throwing Stones>
  18. Not Fade Away
  19. Keep Your Day Job


30-Jun-85 Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD

  1. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo>
  2. CC Rider>
  3. Brown-Eyed Women
  4. Mama Tried>
  5. Mexicali Blues
  6. Keep On Growing
  7. Big Railroad Blues
  8. Looks Like Rain>
  9. Don’t Ease Me In
  10. Shakedown Street>
  11. Samson and Delilah
  12. Gimme Some Lovin'>
  13. He's Gone>
  14. Cryptical Envelopment>
  15. Drums
  16. Space>
  17. The Other One>
  18. Stella Blue>
  19. Around and Around>
  20. Sugar Magnolia
  21. U.S. Blues


1-Jul-85  Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD

  1. Dancing In The Street
  2. Dupree's Diamond Blues
  3. Walkin' Blues
  4. Jack-A-Roe
  5. My Brother Esau
  6. Stagger Lee
  7. Let It Grow>
  8. Keep Your Day Job
  9. Scarlet Begonias>
  10. Fire On The Mountain
  11. Playing In The Band>
  12. Uncle John's Band>
  13. Drums
  14. Space>
  15. Dear Mr. Fantasy>
  16. Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad>
  17. Good Lovin'
  18. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction>
  19. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue