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Links of the Day: January 5, 2023

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Vulfpeck Cover Bob Dylans “Gotta Serve Somebody“

Why did the Grateful Dead stop playing ‘St. Stephen’?: Far Out Magazine

American Songwriter Readers Vote for the Best Female Songwriters of All Time: American Songwriter
Number one isn’t surprising but it is nice to see mygirl Lucina Williams in there.

Star Wars The Bad Batch Season 2: Is Captain Wilco From the Movies or Clone Wars?: Game Revolution
We’re big fans of The Bad Batch in my house so I’m pretty excited to see Season Two show up.

Show of the Day: Grateful Dead – New York, NY (09/19/70)

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There is an app called Relisten which takes all the shows in the Live Music Archive and lets you stream them on your phone. It does a nice job of organizing them so you can browse by artist and search through each year, etc. One of my favorite things it does is when you click on an artist it will show you all the shows they played on that particular day.

On my drive to work, I often listen to a Grateful Dead show they played on whatever day it happens to be and this has been a really fun way of catching up with shows I might have missed.

I love the idea of having a show of the day on this site, so that’s one of the many ideas I have percolating through my little brain. I’m not sure if I’d like to talk about shows that happened to be performed on the day I happen to be writing about it, or maybe I could just choose one show to talk about each day.

Trouble would be being able to have the time to listen to an entire show and have something to say about it each day. I have no idea if I’ll actually regularly do something like that, but today I have something.

I meant to talk about it yesterday and forgot. In fact, I don’t have much to say about it except that you should listen to it.

On September 19, 1970 the Grateful Dead played a monster shows in New York City’s Fillmore East auditorium. They started with Sugar Magnolia and then launched into one of the all-time great jam-filled medleys: Dark Star>Not Fade Away>Darkness Jam>China Cat Jam>Not Fade Away>Turn On Your Lovelight.

It is about 70 minutes of the best music you’ll hear today. You can download it from me here, or stream it on the Archive here.

Grateful Dead – San Rafael, CA (04/16/79)

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Grateful Dead
Monday, April 16, 1979
Le Club Front
San Rafael, CA

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Brent Mydland Rehearsals (highlights)

Source: Master Cassette > DAT at 16/48 (with possible extra cassette generation)

Speed Correction by Jason Chastain
2022 DAT Transfer and Mastering by Jim Blackwood
Track, FLAC, and Pack by Steve Gravel

Notes:
While similar to documented lineages on existing sources, this is a new source from Jim Blackwood’s collection.

Originally aired on Dead Legs – Program #25 (2022-04-17) – “Brent’s Rehearsals Revisited” on radiovalencia.fm
Originally shared to http://www.shnflac.net in July, 2022

16 Bit 48 kHz FLAC Level 8

01 Jam (fades in) >
02 Not Fade Away >
03 Jam >
04 Space >
05 Drums >
06 Jam
07 tuning and talk
08 Passenger noodling
09 Passenger
10 Passenger
11 I Need a Miracle (abandoned)
12 Bertha > Good Lovin’ (abandoned)
13 Bertha outro > Good Lovin’ intro practice
14 Bertha outro >
15 Good Lovin’
16 it’s hard to forget
17 I Need a Miracle (fades out)
18 Jam (fades in) >
19 Jam (fades out)
20 Scarlet Begonias (fades in, abandoned)
21 Scarlet Begonias bridge practice
22 Scarlet Begonias (cuts in) >
23 Fire on the Mountain
24 Space (fades in and out)
25 Gloria (fades in) >
26 Linda Lou
27 Jam (fades in)
28 downtime
29 Jam (cuts out)
30 Jack Straw (cuts in)

Grateful Dead – Boston, MA (06/09/76)

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Grateful Dead
Boston Music Hall
Boston, MA
June 9, 1976

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d1t01 – Cold Rain And Snow
d1t02 – Cassidy
d1t03 – Scarlet Begonias
d1t04 – The Music Never Stopped
d1t05 – Crazy Fingers
d1t06 – Big River
d1t07 – They Love Each Other
d1t08 – Looks Like Rain
d1t09 – Ship Of Fools
d1t10 – Promised Land

Set II

d2t01 – St. Stephen >
d2t02 – Eyes Of The World >
d2t03 – Let It Grow
d2t04 – Brown Eyed Women
d2t05 – Lazy Lightning >
d2t06 – Supplication
d2t07 – High Time
d3t01 – Samson And Delilah
d3t02 – It Must Have Been The Roses
d3t03 – Dancing In The Streets >
d3t04 – Wharf Rat >
d3t05 – Around And Around

Encore

d3t06 – Franklin’s Tower

Jerry Garcia – Lead Guitar, Vocals
Donna Jean Godchaux – Vocals
Keith Godchaux – Keyboards
Mickey Hart – Drums
Bill Kreutzmann – Drums
Phil Lesh – Electric Bass, Vocals
Bob Weir – Rhythm Guitar, Vocals

Matrix

SBD (shnid=95399):

Recording Info:
Set 1: SBD -> Master Cassette -> CD
Set 2: SBD -> Master Reel -> Dat -> Sonic Solutions -> CD

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

All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller
charliemiller87@earthlink.net
October 20, 2008

[Cuts]:
Cold Rain And Snow (0:00 – 0:42)
Big River (1:29 – 2:24)
Saint Stephen (0:00 – 0:59)
[26-second cut in Dancing In The Streets]

Notes:
— All disc changes are seamless
— Thanks to Joe B. Jones for his help with the pitch correction

AUD (shnid=99064):

source: aud 1st gen reel
Jerry Moore’s copy

master taped by Steve Maizner
sony 990 stereo mic>sony tc-153

lineage: mac>reels @ 7.5 ips, dolby b

set I on maxell 7″ reel, set II on ampex 10.5″ (baked),
technics rs-1506>teac an-180>hd-p2 24/48>cd wave>flac
transferred & seeded by Rob Berger

[5/18/09]

Thank you to Betty Cantor-Jackson and Steve Maizner for recording the show,
to Charlie Miller for the SBD transfer,
and to Rob Berger for the AUD transfer.

Matrix by Hunter Seamons using Final Cut Pro (FLAC > AIFF > Final Cut > Soundtrack Pro > AIFF CD tracking via Audacity > FLAC16 via xACT w/meta-tagging)
June 9, 2022

Set I

Notes:

The first set is from a SBD master cassette source and has some hiss. The second set is from the master reel source. Levels are slightly different between the sets but same as the original sources – the master reel had more dynamic range.

Brief SBD cuts at the beginnings of the set openers. 1 minute cut in Big River and a 26-second cut in Dancing In The Streets.

SBD tuning sections were trimmed to match the AUD cuts, which still provided ample breaks between songs. (This creates a continuous AUD track.) Other tuning sections are added from the AUD source.

Click removed in Eyes Of The World.

A 20 second SBD section in Brown Eyed Women appears to be patched from a different show since it did not match the audience recording. The patch was preserved for continuity and the AUD fades out here for this brief moment.

Due to a brief AUD cut and some muffled sound, the Sony ECM-99A recording by Steve Hopkins patches the first 1:11 of Around And Around (#5982 transfer by Dave Minor, Dave Handrich and Matt Vernon, 7/12/03).

Grateful Dead – San Francisco, CA (03/01/69)

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Grateful Dead
3-1-69
Fillmore West
San Francisco CA

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gd69-03-01.sbd.ashley-bertha.9391.sbeok.flac16

SBD>>MTMR>>DAT>>CDA>>DAW(Bertha)>>CDA – Sound A+ Show A

This is a FLAC encoded and tagged version of shnid: 9391

–Set 1–
101-d1t01 – Introduction 01:06
102-d1t02 – Cryptical Envelopment -> 02:08
103-d1t03 – The Other One -> 10:06
104-d1t04 – Cryptical reprise -> 08:41
105-d1t05 – New Potato Caboose -> 11:43
106-d1t06 – Doin’ that Rag -> 05:54
107-d1t07 – Cosmic Charlie 05:50

–Set 2–
201-d2t01 – Dupree’s Diamond Blues 05:05
202-d2t02 – Mountain’s of the Moon 05:07
203-d2t03 – Dark Star -> 23:05
204-d2t04 – Saint Stephen -> 05:39
205-d2t05 – William tell Bridge -> 01:05
206-d2t06 – The Eleven -> 07:07
207-d2t07 – Turn On Your Lovelight 18:21
208-d2t08 – Broken String 06:29

–Encore–
209-d2t09 – Hey Jude 08:00

Notes:
Dropout between Eleven and Lovelight, reportedly on the
master also.

Grateful Dead – San Francisco, CA (01/08/66)

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Grateful Dead
Acid Test
1966-01-08 Fillmore Auditorium, S.F., CA. Acid Test

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Upgrade. Source(s) MR>?>Hi-Fi Stereo VHS>WAV>Soundforge (Editing)>WAV>CDR>EAC>FLAC

This is a tagged version of shnid: 106505

There were at least Three different audio edits of this material used over three different
audio/video edits of the Acid Test Video. Each one had audio not available on the other
versions. I spent a couple weeks carefully tracking all the seperate edits and tracking them.
I used the first release as the main audio. It sounded the best quality to me. Source two was
mono (for unknown reasons), but you will notice audio not available on the other two versions.
Version three had the most overdubs of segments played on top of others, but still had a few
snippets worth adding to this collection. Removing all the duplicate music tracks, here’s everything
that was worth saving from each version. Everything fits on one CDR, but it would be great of someone
could try to edit them together with better audio editing software than I have to work with.

Someone should try to use upgrade the audio to the film Sunshine Daydream with this Stereo version of I’m A King Bee!

Compiled by Michael Lestatkatt 2010
Uploaded to Lossless Legs on 3-13-10

Tracks:
Versions One – Best Quality Stereo Audio
101 – 01 Ken Babbs Intro (Version One)
102 – 02 Tune Up
103 – 03 No Power On The Stage
104 – 04 I’m A King Bee
105 – 05 I’m A Hog For You Baby
106 – 06 I’m A Hog For You Baby (W/ Ken Babbs)
107 – 07 Some High Powered Rocket Fuel
108 – 08 I’m Going To Put A Spell On You (PigPen Excerpt)
109 – 09 Littering Glowing, Ever Flowing, Neon flowing (Ken Kesey)
110 – 10 You People Out There, Listen To Me -This Is Zoltra Speaking – This Is A Trap – You Fools
111 – 11 Acid Music
112 – 12 People We’re Playing Games With Me
113 – 13 There It Is, Sneaky Little Rascal (Ken Kesey)
114 – 14 // Caution (Do Not Stop On The Tracks) >
115 – 15 Death Don’t Have No Mercy
116 – 16 Ken Babbs
117 – 17 Everybody Out – The Test Is Over (Police Announcement)
118 – 18 Ken Babbs
119 – 19 Everybody Out – The Test Is Over 2
120 – 20 Did Everybody Enjoy Themselves?
121 – 21 Yeah, Use Your Head – Everybody Be Calm Now (Weir & Kesey)
122 – 22 On The Road Again to Get The People On The Road – Go Home To Your Families (Weir & Kesey)
123 – 23 Arrest Everybody But Don’t Hurt Any Of The Equipment / Star Spangled Banger (Weir & Co)

Source Two – Different Mono Edit
201 – 24 Ken Babbs Intro (Version 2 – Longer/Mono)
202 – 25 No Power / Ken Babbs / The Inner Space Race (Mono)
203 – 26 No Power On The Stage / Ken Babbs (Mono)
204 – 27 Gaze Upon It Friends,The Electric Wasteland / No Power On The Stage / Kenn Babbs (Mono)
205 – 28 I’m A King Bee (Mono)
206 – 29 Everybody Out – The Test Is Over / Ken Babbs / Did Everybody Enjoy Themselves? (Mono)
207 – 30 We’re Planning On Having Gigs In Other Cities…… (Mono)
208 – 31 Everybody Use Your Head / Everybody Be Calm Now (Weir & Kesey) (Mono)
209 – 32 We Can Stay Here Until Hell Freezes Over, But We Have To Be Turn Everything Off (Garcia) (Mono)
210 – 33 If They Kill It Now The’ll Kill It Forever, If They Kill You Now, You’re Dead! (Mono)
211 – 34 The Star Spangled Banger (Mono)

Source Three – Different Stereo Edit
301 – 35 Ken Babbs Intro (Version 3 Stereo)
302 – 36 Everybody Get In Tune > Ken Babbs
303 – 37 Ain’t No Fuckin’ Power No Place
304 – 38 Ken Babbs
305 – 39 No Power On The Stage, Fix It
306 – 40 I’m A King Bee
307 – 41 Everybody Out – The Test Is Over / Ken Babbs / Did Everybody Enjoy Themselves?
308 – 42 I See The Electricial Is Running Down Now Trying To Get Everything Established (Ken Babbs)
309 – 43 Slim Kesey
310 – 44 We’re Into Emergency Power Now (Ken Babbs)
311 – 45 We’re Planning On Having Gigs In Other Cities……
312 – 46 Everybody Use Your Head / Everybody Be Calm Now (Weir & Kesey)
313 – 47 We Can Stay Here Until Hell Freezes Over, But We Have To Be Turn Everything Off (Garcia)
314 – 48 If They Kill It Now The’ll Kill It Forever, If They Kill You Now, You’re Dead!
315 – 49 The Star Spangled Banger
316 – 50 Find A Harmonica / No One Seems To Find Out How To Turn Off This PA
317 – 51 Is My Microphone Still In Operation
318 – 52 //TasteBud (Unknown Show 1965 or 1966) Possibly one of these early Acid Tests.

Grateful Dead – Seattle, WA (06/14/94)

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Grateful Dead – June 14, 1994
Seattle Center Memorial Stadium – Seattle, WA

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Recording Info:
SBD > DAT Master (Panasonic SV-3700/48k) > Cassette Master (Tascam 122mkIII/TDK SA-X100)

Transfer Info:
Cassette Master (Nakamichi CR-7A) > Tascam DA-3000 (DSF 1-bit/5.6MHz) >
Tascam Hi-Res Editor (WAV 24-bit/48k) > Adobe Audition 2020 >
Samplitude Pro X6 Suite > FLAC/24
(1 DVD FLAC)

All Transfers and Mastering by Charlie Miller
charliemiller87@earthlink.net
April 27, 2022

Notes:
— The cassettes were made for Vince Welnick by Dick Latvala
— Thanks to David Beckwith for supplying the cassettes

Set 1:
01 – Shakedown Street
02 – Little Red Rooster
03 – Loose Lucy
04 – Beer Barrel Polka
05 – When I Paint My Masterpiece
06 – Althea
07 – Eternity

Set 2:
08 – Victim Or The Crime >
09 – Lazy River Road
10 – Samba In The Rain
11 – Truckin’ >
12 – That Would Be Something >
13 – Drums >
14 – Space >
15 – Way To Go Home >
16 – Standing On The Moon >
17 – Sugar Magnolia

Encore:
18 – Liberty

Grateful Dead – Jackson, MS (12/19/78)

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Grateful Dead – December 19, 1978
Memorial Coliseum – Jackson, MS
Mississippi State Fairgrounds

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Recording Info:
(FOB) Sony 54P > Cassette Master (Sony TC-158SD/Maxell UDXLII-C90)

Transfer Info:
Cassette Master (Nakamichi CR-7A) > Tascam DA-3000 (DSF 1-bit/5.6MHz) >
Tascam Hi-Res Editor (WAV 24-bit/96k) > Adobe Audition CC 2021 >
Samplitude Pro X6 Suite > FLAC/24
(1 DVD FLAC)

Transfer and Mastering by Charlie Miller
charliemiller87@earthlink.net
May 24, 2022

Notes:
— The beginning of Mississippi Half-Step is missing
— Tape flip towards the end of Drums
— Thanks to Bob Wagner for lending me his masters
— Thanks to Scott Clugston for doing the pitch correction
— Thanks to Joe B. Jones for his help with this project

Set 1:
01 – Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo >
02 – Franklin’s Tower
03 – New Minglewood Blues
04 – They Love Each Other
05 – Me And My Uncle >
06 – Big River
07 – Loser
08 – El Paso
09 – Row Jimmy
10 – Lazy Lightning >
11 – Supplication

Set 2:
12 – Scarlet Begonias >
13 – Fire On The Mountain
14 – Promised Land
15 – Stagger Lee
16 – Truckin’ >
17 – Drums >
18 – Space >
19 – The Other One >
20 – Stella Blue >
21 – Not Fade Away >
22 – Around And Around

Encore:
23 – Casey Jones