Jerry Garcia Band – Burlington, VT (11/14/81)

Jerry Garcia Band
Patrick Gymnasium
University of Vermont
Burlington VT

Set One
01. How Sweet It Is
02. They Love Eachother
03. Sittin’ Here In Limbo
04. Let It Rock
05. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
06. Deal

Set Two
01. Roadrunner
02. I’ll Take A Melody
03. Tore Up Over You
04. Don’t Let Go
05. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
06. Tangled Up In Blue

Encore:

07. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue *

* missing from source 1

– The Players –

Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
John Kahn – bass
Ron Tutt – drums
Melvin Seals – organ
Jimmy Warren – electric piano
Liz Stires – backing vocals
Julie Stafford – backing vocals

Source 1:

This is a tagged version of shnid: 28791

Source Info:
Two audience tapes of unknown source and lineage.
Source “A” provides Set One and Roadrunner.
Source “B” provides I’ll Take A Melody thru Tangled Up In Blue.

Transfer info:
Maxell UD cassettes (c.1982) > Sony TC-D5M > Marantz CDR-500 >
EAC > WAV > Soundforge > CD-Wave > FLAC Frontend

Notes:
-Patrick Gym was a typical shoe-box basketball gym: stage at one end,
chairs going up the middle, and aprx 15 rows of bleachers along the back wall.
-Source “A” is very listenable, and sounds like it was taped on the floor.
-Source “B” has many problems, possibly taped further back (in the bleachers?).
-Source “B” is muffled and boomy throughout, and has much more audience noise.
-The last 56 seconds of Deal is different from source “A” (possibly source “B”?).
-Smoothed tape beginnings, ends, tape-flips, and blurry pauses between tracks.
-Adusted volume of How Sweet It Is downward, to match the rest of source “A”.
-Normalized volume and adjusted pitch for 56-second patch at end of Deal.
-One-second drop-out at 0:16 of Roadrunner (left as is).
-Removed some hiss in the highest band due to cassette generations.
-Removed some low-end in source “B” to limit the overpowing boominess.
-Removed further hiss in right channel of source “B” and normalized gain.
-Smoothed many volume fluctuations that were present throughout source “B”.
-Smoothed-down a few harsh yells in source “B”; left the claps mostly as-is.
-Removed a tape-flip music-overlap (not from master) in Don’t Let Go,
and seemlessly patched the two parts back together to one track.
-Pathed left channel over right for applause after Tangled Up, due to dropouts.

Until a better tape surfaces, this is what we have for this great Nov-81 show.
Highlights are standout versions of Let it Rock, Don’t Let Go, and Dixie.
ENJOY! 3/13/05

Source 2:

This is a tagged version of shnid: 143185

From The Ammons Archive

Jeff Silberman FOB Recording:

Nakamichi 300’s (w/shotguns) > Sony D5 (Dolby B) > Master Cassette > DAT

John Ammons Transfer:

Cassette Master > Nakamichi Dragon (Dolby B) > Sony 75ES > DAT >
Tascam DA20 Mark II DAT > Roland SRC-2 sample rate/format converter (from SPDIF to Optical) >
Mac Mini > Audacity 3.0 at 48K > WAV.

Edited & Mastered by Joe Noel
WAV > Audacity > Flac 16/48
July 23, 2018

Notes:

– Thanks to Jeff Silberman for recording the show.
– Thanks to John Ammons for the transfer.
– tape pauses & flip cross faded.
– upgrade to shnid 28791
* Jeff was busted fallowing the first song second set, thus preventing him from recording the remainder of the show.