Great American String Band – Berkeley, CA (06/13/74)

Great American String Band
1974-06-13 (Thursday)
Keystone
Berkeley, CA

Set 1:
01: Colored Aristocracy
02: Cedar Hill
03: I’ll Be A Gambler If You Deal The Cards
04: My Plastic Banana Is Not Stupid
05: Moonlight Waltz
06: Swing ’42
07: Methodist Preacher
08: Limehouse Blues

Set 2:
01: Tuning
02: Bud’s Bounce
03: Dawg’s Bull
04: Banter
05: Russian Lullaby
06: Virgin’s Lament
07: Swing ’42
08: Drink Up and Go Home
09: Dawg’s Rag
10: Sweet Georgia Brown*

*Missing from source 2

David Grisman – mandolin
Jerry Garcia – banjo
David Nichtern – guitar
Richard Green – fiddle
Flame Bombadine – bass
Bob Gurlen – the human trumpet

Source 1:

MOTB Release: 0159 16/44.1
Release Date: 2010-11-10

Analog Audience Source: Master Cassettes (MAC)
Medium Stock Brands: Scotch C120
Analog Lineage: ECM 270 >> Sony TC110 >> MAC
Analog Sound Preservation: MAC >> Nakamichi CR7a => Korg MR-1000 >> DSF [1-bit 5.6448 MHz Stereo] >> Korg MR-1000 => Korg AudioGate >> WAV [24/96]
Taped By: Robert Castelli
Transfer By: Bob Menke
Mastering By: Derek McCabe & David Minches
Speed correction by Joe B. Jones

Source 2:

This is flac encoded & tagged version of shnid: 13768

MS? > ? > CD > EAC > SHN
Sector boundaries verified using shntool.

Notes:
(1) Bob Gurland on mouth trumpet
Don’t be frightened by the uncertain lineage–this sounds
very nice. I would not be surprised if this turned out
to be MSR > cassette > DAT > CD, like the night previous
and as this one sometimes circulates.

The Jerry Site has listed Limehouse Blues as starting set II, but I hear continuous applause and tuning from the end of Methodist Preacher into Limehouse Blues, and continuous applause and tuning from Limehouse Blues into these break announcement. Also, I would not be surprised if more tunes were played after Dawg’s Rag, since it soundslike the band is tuning up for another song.

Flaws:
d1t01 Colored Aristocracy fades in
d1t07 Swing ’42 tiny splice @ 5:41
d2t01 Bud’s Bounce fades in
d2t01 Bud’s Bounce tiny splice @ 1:16
d2t07 Dawg’s Rag fades out


Source 3:

This is a tagged version of shnid: 83232

Aud cassette master>reel>cdr>eac>cd wave>flac

Aud Cassette Master: Sony ecm 270 or 280 microphone (mono)>Sony TC-110
(taped by Louis Falanga)>
7″ 1/4 track Scotch 203 Reel @ 7.5 ips w/Dolby nr
(on a Sony TC-755 w/Teac an-180 nr: Jerry Moore’s 1st gen copy),
reel transfer 1/07 by Rob Berger:
Sony TC-850>Teac an-180 nr>sbm1>cdr>eac>cd wave>flac

notes: * the sbd of this show circulates as 6/13/74
but the reels I transferred were all labeled
as 6/12.
The Good Old Boys opened both sets.

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