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

Grateful Dead
Boston Tea Party
Boston, MA
12/30/69

–Set 1–
101 – Intro
102 – Good Lovin’
103 – Mama Tried
104 – New Speedway Boogie
105 – Casey Jones
106 – Black Peter
107 – Me & My Uncle
108 – In the Midnight Hour
109 – Cumberland Blues
110 – Cryptical Envelopment ->
111 – Drums ->
112 – The Other One ->
MISSING – Cryptical Envelopment ->
113 – Cosmic Charlie

–Set 2–
201 – Uncle John’s Band ->
202 – Mason’s Children ->
203 – China Cat Sunflower ->
204 – I Know You Rider
205 – Dark Star ->
206 – Alligator ->
207 – Drums ->
208 – The Eleven ->
209 – Bid You Goodnight Jam ->
210 – Alligator Reprise ->
211 – Caution Jam ->
212 – Feedback ->
213 – And We Bid You Good Night

Source 1:

gd69-12-30.sbd.miller.28469.sbeok.flac16
This is a flac encoded & tagged version of shnid: 28469

Recording Info:
SBD -> Cass Master (Ampex C-90 Master Cass/no dolby) ->
Cass (Tascam 122mkIII Cass 1st Gen) -> Dat (Technics 3800/44.1k)

Transfer Info:
Dat (Sony R500) -> Prodif Plus -> Samplitude v6.0 -> SHN

Transfered By Charlie Miller – 01/29/03
Uploaded to Tol by D.Winters – 03/05/05

Source 2:

shnid: 14037

SBD>MC>C>D>CD>EAC>SHN>FLAC

Caveat:
This sbd is on the muddy side, and it’s quite possible that there is more to this lineage.

Notes:
–The Other One cuts out during the 2nd verse, presumably seconds before a segue in the Cryptical reprise, which is completely missing
–Cosmic Charlie cuts in shortly after its beginning
–Feelin’ Groovy Jam in Dark Star starting at 17:08
–probably several minutes at least are missing off the end of Dark Star. It is not known whether it segued directly into Alligator, or a different song that is now missing formed the bridge, or it could have come to a dead stop before Alligator was started.
–only the last few seconds of the first Alligator remain.
–Sound Forge was used to correct the pitch of the recording and boost the amplitude for this seed. I cannot be sure, but I believe the previous shn seed is also from the same source and is therefore about a quarter step flat regarding pitch. If you aren’t sure whether you have a pitch corrected copy, check against the timings listed on this seed.

part of The Music Never Stopped Project 2002

Thanks to T.S. Cotsman
edits/encoding JCotsman

SHN converted to FLAC using xACT by The Midnight Cafe on September 2020.
New checksum also created.

Source 3:

shnid: 15372

SBD>MC>C>D>CD>SHN

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

Grateful Dead
December 29th, 1969
Boston Tea Party
Boston, MA

SOURCE: SBD MR (7″ reel @7.5 ips)>DAT>DAT>CDR; Transfer to CDR from a Sony ES 60 DAT to a Pioneer PDR555 RW Standalone burner via optical cables. CDR was then ripped to the Hard Drive with EAC in secure mode,amplification to 100% in Cool Edit 2000. Poorly placed track markers corrected with CDWave then transferred to shn using mkw SHN. Discs written on a Digital Research 24x burner using Nero.

This is a flac encoded & tagged version of shnid: 8044

–Set 1–
101-d1t01 – //Cold Rain & Snow
102-d1t02 – Mama Tried
103-d1t03 – Black Peter
104-d1t04 – Easy Wind
105-d1t05 – Me & My Uncle
106-d1t06 – China Cat Sunflower ->
107-d1t07 – I Know You Rider
108-d1t08 – High Time
109-d1t09 – Hard to Handle
110-d1t10 – Mason’s Children

–set 2–
201-d2t01 – //Cumberland Blues
202-d2t02 – Casey Jones
203-d2t03 – Good Lovin’
204-d2t04 – Dancing In The Streets
205-d2t05 – Dire Wolf
206-d2t06 – Saint Stephen ->
207-d2t07 – Not Fade Away