July 4, 1987
Sullivan Stadium
Foxborough, MA, U.S.A.

Mostly soundboard with audience master splices to make a new version without the annoying fades between each song that is on the soundboard alone version. Excellent sound quality and very listenable despite the numerous transitions between sources - check the samples to get an idea for yourself how it sounds. Sorry but "Slow Train" and "Joey" have been removed due to official release on the album from this tour.

01 [5:13] The Times They Are A-Changin'
02 [5:04] Man of Peace
03 [5:22] I'll Be Your Baby Tonight [w/Jerry Garcia on Pedal Steel guitar] 
04 [6:45] John Brown
05 [4:37] I Want You 
06 [5:44] Ballad of A Thin Man
07 [6:51] Memphis Blues Again
08 [6:42] Queen Jane Approximately
09 [7:20] The Chimes of Freedom
Slow Train [removed due to official release] 
Joey [removed due to official release]
10 [4:51] All Along The Watchtower
11 [6:41] Knocking On Heaven's Door
12 [0:09] announcer and crowd
total - 65:19

Bob Dylan - guitar, vocals
Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
Bob Weir - guitar, vocals
Brent Mydland - keyboards, vocals
Phil Lesh - bass guitar
Bill Kreutzmann - drums
Mickey Hart - drums

LINEAGE:
Primary source: Soundboard Sony multi-track PCM master > mixdown cassette [recorded on Sony TCD5M] > Sony F1 PCM Beta tape > PCM Beta clone > CD [digital transfer with HHB standalone].

with splices from:
Secondary source: FOB Sennheiser me80 microphones > audience cassette master > shn files [downloaded from www.archive.org] [note: the audience source was speeded up by approx. 3.6 percent - adjusted with Pro Tools to match speed of soundboard source which was correct].

Combination REMASTER info:
Audience files from Archive.org extracted and soundboard CD received in trade > Macintosh with DigiDesign AudioMedia III soundcard > Pro Tools [speed match, seamless edits, normalization and tracking] > AIFF > xACT (FLAC level 8 files with sector boundaries verified). md5 file created with checkSUM+. No equalization or noise reduction was used in the remastering process.

Notes: The six summer of 1987 Dylan/Dead shows were interesting because it seems that a lot of Bob Dylan fans who were not also Grateful Dead fans thought it to be a low point of Dylan's career while Bob Dylan himself and the Dead band members loved the experience (as did the Deadheads of course). The problem for Dylan's fans was that although the musicians had run through a huge number of songs during the early June rehearsals, nothing was heavily practiced and the Dead members had no clue of the setlists until shortly before each show. None of this bothered Dylan, The Dead or the Deadheads much, but Dylan fans who wanted a slick backing band were disappointed.

The mastering deck for this tour's soundboard recordings was a Sony digital multitrack wide tape PCM format from which mixed-down preview copies were made on cassettes for Dylan and the Dead members to pick out which songs would be used for the planned album release. 

PLEASE do not ask for the missing songs to be posted elsewhere. If you really want them PLEASE go buy them OFFICIALLY!
they can be spliced right in and bands that allow this site to trade their music will be a little happier about it all...


Final note: The town that this was recorded in is spelled Foxborough despite the stadium being commonly known as "Foxboro Stadium" in a later incarnation (info from wikipedia).

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