Grateful Dead – Boston, MA (12/31/69)

Grateful Dead
December 31, 1969
Boston Tea Party
Boston, MA

–Set 1–
01 – Introduction
02 – China Cat Sunflower ->
03 – I Know You Rider
04 – Mama Tried
05 – Next Time You See Me
06 – Cold Rain & Snow
07 – Black Peter
08 – Hard To Handle
09 – Me & My Uncle
10 – Mason’s Children
11 – Dire Wolf
12 – Uncle John’s Band

–Set 2–
01 – Yellow Dog Story
02 – Alligator ->
03 – Drums ->
04 – Alligator ->
05 – Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) ->
06 – Good Lovin’ ->
07 – Drums ->
08 – The Eleven
09 – High Time
10 – Cumberland Blues
11 – Big Boy Pete
12 – Not Fade Away
13 – Seasons
14 – The Race Is On
15 – Silver Threads And Golden Needles
16 – Slewfoot
17 – Dancing in the Street

Source 1:

Recording Info:
SBD -> Master Reel -> Dat -> CD
This is a tagged version of shnid: 95420

Transfer Info:
CD -> Samplitude Professional v10.1 -> Adobe Audition v1.5 -> FLAC
(3 Discs Audio / 2 Discs FLAC)

All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller
charliemiller87@earthlink.net
October 23, 2008

Notes:
— Set 2 disc change is seamless
— Reel flips during The Eleven and Silver Threads cleaned up with crossfade
— Thanks to Joe B. Jones for his help with the pitch correction

Source 2:

shnid: 6704

Source is sbd>reel master>2 cassette generations>dat>cdr>shn
Extraction and shortening done by Mike Kelleher, mk2@cmu.edu

Thanks to Chris Ladner for this show.

add to lineage: >MKWact>DART Pro98>EAC WAV Processor>MKWact

Most tracks were edited to eliminate between songs chatter and
tuning using DART Pro98 and then trimmed to correct CD sector
size with EAC’s WAV Processor. The intro on d1t1 was trimmed
and the level raised to match the band’s level.

All files were normalized to 98% and corrected for DC offset
with EAC’s WAV Processor and then checked for noise with
DART Pro 98.
Noise was removed with DART Pro98’s retouch tool if possible.

1. removed a bit of noise from d1t01 (left channel) at 1:50.224
2. reconstructed audio to fill a gap in d1t01 at 3:46.375 to 3:46.395
3. removed click from d1t02 at 0:0.014
4. removed click from d1t06 (left channel) at 0:31.790
5. removed noise from d2t01 at 3:40.580 to 3:40.605
6. removed noise from d2t02 at 0:9.295 to 0:9.306
7. removed click from d2t05 at 1:21.306
8. reconstructed audio to fill a gap in d2t05 at 4:47.551 to 4:47.725
9. removed gap (reel flip?) in d2t09 at 11:07.889 to 11:08.961
(original timing) and blended the transition.
10. removed gap (reel flip?) in d3t08 at 1:01.560 and blended the transition.

Bob Clevenger
bob@santhemermaid.com

SHN converted to FLAC using xACT. New checksum created.
The Midnight Cafe, September 2020.

Source 3:

This a flac encoded & tagged version of shnid: 7373

gd69-12-31.sbd.kelleher.7373.sbeok.flac16

Source is sbd>reel master>2 cassette generations>dat>cdr>shn
Extraction and shortening done by Mike Kelleher, mk2@cmu.edu