Here’s a review more of you can get behind. A bunch of cool folks got together in 2012 to celebrate what would have been Jerry Garcia’s 70th birthday and threw a big musical party.
My memory of this is that it is good, but it must have not been mind-blowing because I haven’t listened to it since.
I’m also pretty sure Phil Lesh came for a couple of songs and then took off because he had his own gig at his own place that same day.
You can read my review here.
Legion of Mary
July 22, 1974
Keystone
Berkeley, California
Download FLAC: Amazon Drive
Disk I:
Set One
1. //Jam
2. Boogie On Reggae Women
3. Wonderin’ Why
4. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) //
5. // You Can Leave You Hat On
6. That’s What Love Will Make You Do *
Disk II:
Set Two
1. Cucumber Slumber
2. Harder They Come
3. What’s Going On Instrumental
4. How Sweet It Is *
*Missing from source 1
Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
Merl Saunders – keyboards, vocals
John Kahn – bass
Martin Fierro – saxophone, flute
Bill Kreutzmann – drums
Source 1:
SHNID: 10127
Source: MSR>C>DAT>CDRs>EAC>SHN
EAC/SHN by Darrin — dnsacks@usa.net — seeded to etree on 12.1.00
Notes/Flaws: Set 2 is incomplete. The end of How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) and the beginning of You Can Leave Your Hat On are both cut. What’s Going On Instrumental is based on Marvin Gaye’s song and is also cut.
SHN converted to FLAC using xACT by the Midnight Cafe. July 2020.
Source 2:
SHNID:
Source: SBD: MSR > PCM > DAT
Transfer: Panasonic SV-3700 > M-Audio Audiophile 2496 to Wavelab 5.0
mastering with L3 Multimaximizer > CDWAV1.9 > FLAC (level 8).
Transferred, Remastered by B. Koucky and Seeded by Green Mountain Bros. June 2007
Note: d2tr04 How Sweet It Is may or may not be from this show depending on
if it was an early or late show. It is very clear the tune is the last song
of the night as Jerry says, �See you all later� and you can hear people in
the first rows ask for an encore. There is a tape splice before the song,
which may indicate a reel change or a filler to the DAT source.
The Jerry Site notes that What�s Going On is cut and this version is not
and does not list How Sweet It Is nor does it list the d1tr01 Instrumental.
This is a more complete source that what previously circulates.
The Other Ones
10/27/02
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, CA
Download FLAC: Amazon Drive
I have two sources fo rthis show, you can read the info here.
Truckin’
Friend of the Devil
Cumberland Blues
Box of Rain
Uncle Johns Band
The Wheel >
Uncle John’s Band
Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad >
We Bid You Goodnight
Allman Brothers Band
December 31, 1973
Cow Palace
San Francisco, CA
Download FLAC: Google Drive
Disc 1:
(Set 1)
1. Wasted Words
2. Done Somebody Wrong
3. One Way Out
4. Stormy Monday
5. Midnight Rider
6. Blue Sky
7. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
(Set 2)
8. Happy New Year!
9. Statesboro Blues
Disc 2:
1. Southbound
2. Come and Go Blues
3. Ramblin’ Man
4. Trouble No More
5. Jessica
6. Les Brers In A Minor >
7. Drums >
8. Les Brers In A Minor
Disc 3:
(Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzman & Boz Scaggs join up for the remainder of the show)
1. Whipping Post Jam >
2. Linda Lou / Mary Lou
3. Hideaway > You Upset Me
4. Bo Diddley > Mountain Jam > Bo Diddley
Disc 4:
1. Save My Life
2. Blues Jam
(Set 3)
3. You Don’t Love Me
4. Will The Circle Be Unbroken >
5. Mountain Jam
From the uploader:
Here’s the deal… There are multiple versions of this 12/31/73 show in circulation. The most common (and the only one that I’ve seen) is supposed to be from the Pre FM reels (which were most likely damaged, keep reading). On the heavily circulated version there were numerous flaws, most were either digital noise or clipping. A new transfer was just done from a Reel To Reel FM Master. This new FM master did not have any of the flaws that were present on the common “Pre FM” version, but FM Master was of slightly lesser quality.
The solution? Small portions of the new FM master were spliced into the higher quality version when there was digital noise, clipping, etc. Those defects have now been eliminated. The splicing was done well, at most points it’s unnoticeable, but there were a couple of splices that didn’t line up perfectly, one of those would be the splice that provides the intro to Liz Reed. Either way, this show sounds much better than it did before, and it’s the best source I know of to be in circulation.
Here are some of the other edits that were done… There was digital noise in some of Bill Graham’s band intro, this was spliced in OK from the other copy. Various count-ins were slightly clipped, but are now spliced in seamlessly. These are usually when KSAN DJ’s talk, those short station ID’s have also been put back in. The KSAN announcer’s (Tom Donahue) count-in at New Year’s was similarly clipped, this has been restored, clipped notes at the beginning of Jessica have also been restored. There were many other additional edits, but you get the picture.
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