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Great American String Band – San Rafael, CA (04/26/74)

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Great American String Band
Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival
(often incorrectly given as Marin County Bluegrass Festival)
Marin County Veterans’ Auditorium Building and Grounds
San Rafael, CA
April 26, 1974 (Friday)

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This is a tagged version of shnid: 99532

Taper: Tom Moran;
Gear: Sony cassette recorder with built-in mic (“maybe a Sony TC-150”);
Source: taperpat’s 1st gen reel;
Transfer (Matt Smith): AKAI GX625 playback > Apogee Mini Me (24/96) > Apogee
Mini Dac (monitoring) > Wavelab 5.0 (dithered to 16/44) > CD;
Lossless encoding (jj): EAC > CDWave > TLH (FLAC level 8).

(7 tracks, 29:11)

  1. Bud’s Bounce [2:35] [0:07]
  2. Dawg’s Bull [2:40] [0:36]
  3. Rolling In My Sweet Baby’s Arms (1) [4:39] [0:20]
  4. My Plastic Banana Is Not Stupid [3:20] [0:27]
  5. Swing ’42 [5:34] [0:21]
  6. Dawg’s Rag [5:45] [0:17]
    I’ll Be A Gambler If You Deal The Cards [2:28] [0:02]
    (MISSING: Midnight At The Oasis [w/ Maria Muldaur])

Performers:
Taj Majal – bass;
David Nichtern – guitar;
Jerry Garcia – banjo;
David Grisman – mandolin;
Richard Greene – fiddle;
Vassar Clements – fiddle;
(1) Maria Muldaur – vocals.

Notes:

  • This is not a high fidelity recording, but it is not bad. It certainly puts you in the
    time and place pretty well.

Thanks to everyone in involved in getting this from the Festival to our hard drives!

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Great America String Band – Berkeley, CA (06/12/74)

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Great American String Band
Keystone
Berkeley, CA
6/12/74

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Disc One 39:15
Set I
1. Colored Aristocracy [3:42] [0:07]
2. Cedar Hill [3:35] [2:21]
3. I’ll Be A Gambler If You Deal The Cards [2:19] [1:17]
4. My Plastic Banana Is Not Stupid [3:07] [1:33]
5. Moonlight Waltz [5:51] [0:07]
6. Swing ’42 [5:12] [1:04]
7. Methodist Preacher [4:29] [0:55]
8. Limehouse Blues [3:25] [0:08]

Disc Two 51:59
Set II
1. Bud’s Bounce [3:12] [0:32]
2. Dawg’s Bull [2:27] [1:00]
3. Russian Lullaby [7:06] [0:20]
4. Virgin’s Lament [5:29] [0:36]
5. Sheik of Araby [5:31] [0:41]
6. Billy Of The Lowgrounds [3:23] [0:55]
7. Dawg’s Rag [6:59] [0:42]
8. Sweet Georgia Brown [4:52] [1:51]
9. Swing ’42 [6:06] [0:12]

Flaws: None noted.

Notes (from The Jerry Site):
Show with Buell Neidlinger on bass. Band is introduced by
Richard Greene after My Plastic Banana. Although this has
a similar setlist to 6/13/74, there were indeed two
different shows.

This is flac encoded & tagged version of shnid: 7331
S:R>C>D>CDx1>EAC>SHN

Via Ryan Shriver, extraction (EAC), .shn encoding
(mkwACT), and sector boundary verification (shntool)
by jupillej@mediaone.net

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

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

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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.

Great America String Band – Berkeley, CA (06/14/74)

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Great American String Band
1974-06-14 (Friday)
Keystone
Berkeley, CA

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Set1
d1t01. Tuning
d1t02. I’ll Be A Gambler If You Deal The Cards
d1t03. My Plastic Banana Is Not Stupid
d1t04. Moonlight waltz
d1t05. Swing ’42
d1t06. Cedar Hill
d1t07. Band Introductions
d1t08. Limehouse Blues
d1t09. Methodist Preacher

The Great American String Band was
Jerry Garcia
David Grisman
Richard Greene
David Nichtern
Buell Neidlinger

MOTB Release: 0156 16/44.1
Release Date: 2010-11-10

Analog Audience Source: Master Cassettes (MAC)
Medium Stock Brands: Maxell UD C90
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