Jim Van Houten's Collection
Grateful Dead 08/23/1969
Pelletier Farm, St. Helens, OR
| Source | SBD: Bear's Cm > ? > CD; Editing In SoundEdit 16 For Macintosh By Bob Bihlmayer / Speed Corrected Version 08/04 |
| Media | CD 2 discs |
| Notes | Bullfrog 2 Festival Grateful Dead Pelletier Farm, St. Helens, OR 8/23/69 CD1: 1. /Hard To Handle 10:07 2. Mama Tried-> 2:39 3. High Time 6:58 4. Casey Jones 6:07 5. Easy Wind (d/o @ 2:22, 6:28) 11:40 6. Sitting On Top Of The World 3:56 total time: 41:30 CD2: 1. Dark Star-> (cut @ 12:15; d/o @ 25:48) 27:31 2. St. Stephen-> 7:22 3. The Eleven-> 11:57 4. Lovelight (cut @ 24:38; left channel drop to end of show) 27:21 5. We Bid You Goodnight 4:00 total time: 78:13 |
| Tech Notes | major tape-speed changes have been removed at two points in "Hard to Handle," at the tape flip in "Dark Star," and during "The Eleven." minor speed fluctuations remain throughout, and are particularly noticeable just after the second fix in "Hard to Handle" (just before the final verse) and immediately after the "Dark Star" flip. these were impossible to fix dependably due to the extreme out-of-tuneness of the band: all the stringed instruments are a good eighth-tone off to the keyboards at the very start, and only get farther out of tune; the electric organ is so out of tune that the same note in adjacent octaves is out; and if you listen to the bridge of "St. Stephen," even the freaking glockenspiel is out of tune! the only way i could fix the major pitch changes was to pick one instrument and keep it in tune with itself. i'm guessing that they must have been playing after dark, which in that location would have been pretty cold at night. there is a major left channel level drop after the cut at 24:38 of "Lovelight," which is unrecoverable due to the enormous amount of amplified hiss resultant from the necessary ~500% level boost. a number of pops and such have also been removed. at any rate, the fixes make the show MUCH more listenable...just expect the typical Bear-cassette-master warts and such. |
| Trades Allowed | Yes Traded from: DNC: Bob Bihlmayer Vine (hbob) |
| Reference / Generation | Audio Case #11 P 41 |
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