50 Years Ago Today | Miami 6/22/1974

Miami Jai-Alai Fronton (now Magic City Fronton/Casino Miami)
Miami, Florida
Set 1
The Promised Land
Bertha
Greatest Story Ever Told
Deal
Me And Bobby McGee
Scarlet Begonias
Jack Straw
Loose Lucy
Mexicali Blues
Sugaree
The Race Is On
It Must Have Been The Roses
Playing In The Band
Set 2
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Me And My Uncle
Ship Of Fools
El Paso
Eyes Of The World
Wharf Rat
Sugar Magnolia
Encore
Johnny B. Goode
"Jai-Alai frontons make natural concert venues. I didn't go to this show, but I've been to the venue. I used to travel to Florida a lot when I was younger and one time I visited Miami Jai-alai with my parents. I noticed that the fronton is basically a large auditorium with a huge stage, caged in at the front. My first impression of the place was that any band could take it over when the Jai-alai players were off. The auditorium was a perfect venue for a concert. I know that Jimi Hendrix was scheduled to play here in July 1970 but I am not sure that the gig actually took place. Iron Butterfly also was booked a few months later. I am not surprised to learn that the Dead set up shop here for some shows in '74. I wonder how many recent concerts were booked at frontons. They are definitely good venues."
-Cryptical70, dead.net
"I went to this concert and it was terrific! The Jai-Alai Fronton was a great place to see the Dead perform, sat in the 3rd row center stage and I think the tickets were about $20.00*. The Miami Jai-Alai Fronton had great acoustics and I was hooked on the band forever!"
-gharris5730, archive .org
[*The Dead maintained average ticket prices around $5 to $7 through 1974. -Johnny]
Lineage: SBD - MR - CASS - DAT - CD - EAC - SHN - DC6 - CD
Source notes
AUD Patches:AudMC -} DAT
Recorded by Jerry Moore about 15 rows from the stage on center axis
with 2 hand held AKG D-1000E mics -} Sony 152 deck. Maxell UD-120
cassettes, with Dolby B ON.
Analog -} DAT transfer by Mark Cohen, December 2002
DAT -} SHN/CD by Noah Weiner ([e-mail]) December, 2002
Editing and Mastering by The Wizard - [e-mail]
Both the Audience and the Soundboard are available from The Owen Brothers Vault.
This was a nice SBD recording with only minor issues. Most tunings were cut. These were patched from the AUD source where available. A light Continuous Noise filter was used to minimize tape hiss. The sound was a bit flat so equalization was used to bring up the top and bottom ends a bit. Other specific issues corrected: The old SBD patch in Playin' was cleaned up and adjusted to better match the rest. Mix was bad on Promised Land on both SBD and AUD - couldn't fix that! All AUD patches were matched up as well as possible through EQ, Noise reduction and gain adjustments. Misc. loud handclaps, pops and other anomalies were corrected. All editing done with Diamond Cut DC6 software.

[@LucyLennon20]

hard to wrap around my mind that this show was 50 yrs.ago. its officially time for time to slow down.

[@floydawaight49]

I was 11. my head needs re-wrappin. Time can never slow down, with these tunes on the soundtrack. Eagerly awaiting 2nd set.

[@doublegreat]

My first traded tape (circa 1981). And what a tape it was. Thanks, DCC, nice work on the Miami video clips too, absurdly fun 💫