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George Rue's Collection

Jefferson Airplane   09/02/1989

Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ
Source Soundboard > A mix of 2 SBD tapes.
Media Flac   1 disc
Notes Set 1 = 55:13 min / Set 2 = 31:39 min [I uploaded to Traders Den 3/14/15]
Tech Notes
Jefferson Airplane
Garden State Arts Center
Holmdel, NJ

September 2, 1989

Source 1: Previously circulated Sbd flacs (known as a Cassette Master transfer)

Source 2: older unknown generation Sbd cassette, used as filler.

Transfer Lineage:
TDK-SA 90 > Sony Deck TC-WE 475 > JVC XL-R2010 CD-RW > Soundforge 9 > WAV > TLH [SB's aligned] Flac level 6

Traders Den 3/14/15

Transferred, Channels Balanced, Editing and Tracking by George [kingrue upload 428]

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I have an old cassette copy of this Sbd, but was missing the 2nd tape. My tape ends with "True Love" from the 2nd set.

I wanted to track down another copy of it. I asked long time JA collector Rick Martin if he could supply me with another version.
He was happy to send me what he had.

Once I had those flacs I began to realize that my cassette copy had additional material on it. I decided to use my cassette as a filler where it was needed.

I carefully compared the 2 versions I had in front of me and found quite a few differences.

My cassette is inferior quality to the flac version, but the parts I did use as patches did improve this as a whole.

My tape had the opening song "She Has Funny Cars". I used the entire track here and it runs seamlessly into the next track.

The flacs had a tiny tape cut between tracks 7 and 8. I used a 12 second piece as filler at the beginning of track 08 "Solidarity".

The flacs on track 9 had a quick fade out after "Wooden Ships", then "Freedom" cuts in. The song "America" was missing.

I used my tape source to patch in the missing song for track 10. Yet, noticeably lesser quality.

At the end of their first set after they play "Freedom", the flac source is cut off. I added a 14 second snippet to the very end of

track 11, when Grace says thank you and that she's going to the bathroom to read a full novel and be back in 15 minutes.

At this point Hot Tuna enters the stage and plays their 5 song set.

My tape contains the full Hot Tuna set (5 songs) in sub-par quality. My tape then keeps rolling as Grace mentions Jorma and Jack at

the end of their set, followed immediately with Grace and Paul starting the beginning of their set 2. I don't hear a tape cut at all

on my tape between Hot Tuna and Jefferson Airplane sets. My Set 2 starts with a speaking intro, that seamlessly jumps to "True Love".

But we know there were 4 songs that preceded "True Love" at the beginning of set 2.

The Flac version is missing this intro portion of JA's set 2. I used a 90 second patch at the beginning of set 2 here.

I made it a separate track 12. It's just Grace and Paul talking before they start into "True Love".

I also performed a channel alignment. What that means is, when I viewed the wave channels side by side, I noticed that the peaks

weren't lined up together and that the right channel was running ahead of the left channel. This can create a false delay effect.

Even though it's only milliseconds, for fidelity reasons, it's still an issue. So I manually lifted the right channel and moved it

back to make both channels run side by side perfectly even.

A couple other things to make note of: At the very end of Track 14 "Crown of Creation", the last 7 seconds are missing.
The band is supposed to sing together and hold a note until the end, but the recording is cut off.

During the middle of track 15 "White Rabbit", there are a couple quick tape cuts. These briefs cuts are at 0:57 and 1:18 min.

At this point my work here is done.

I will say this. The last song of the night "Planes" is the most gawd awful song ever written by this band and should be stricken

from their catalog. Don't you dare go to Youtube/Vevo and watch the video they made for it, you can never un-see it. You've been warned HA HA HA.

I'm sure somewhere out there, a JA collector probably has the full Sbd tapes. At this point in time, I don't know about any other sources.

I hope all you JA fans can appreciate this Combo version.

Grace Slick (vocals)
Paul Kantner (vocals, guitars)
Marty Balin (vocals)
Jack Casady (Bass)
Jorma Kaukonen (guitars, vocals)
Peter Kaukonen (guitar)
Randy Jackson (Guitar, Keyboard and Vocals)
Unknown (percussion)

samples provided

(*) sections patched from alternate Sbd tape

Set 1 = 55:13 min

01 She Has Funny Cars (*) entire track
02 Somebody To Love
03 Plastic Fantastic Lover
04 Won't You Try > Saturday Afternoon
05 Today
06 Good Shepard
07 Lather
08 Solidarity (*) beginning snippet patched
09 Wooden Ships
10 America (*) entire track
11 Freedom (*) ending snippet patched

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missing first 4 songs of set 2

Panda
Miracles
Ice Age
Summer Of Love
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Set 2 = 31:39 min

12 Set Two Intro (*) entire track
13 True Love
14 Crown Of Creation
15 White Rabbit
16 Volunteers
17 It's No Secret
18 Baby What You Want Me To Do
19 Band Introduction
20 Planes

Enjoy

George

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Fingerprints:



01 She Has Funny Cars.flac:704f41023dfdc5da9b27ba1c31a7bb2f
02 Somebody To Love.flac:83d0482b53f6c2bed11c3d132bb4f8ba
03 Plastic Fantastic Lover.flac:5d5d1074e647ab61273fd86fe49ff01c
04 Won't You Try Saturday Afternoon.flac:6191c5b0246cd1f71e9aa826e864692c
05 Today.flac:3abdf203605e64067c78698fa7847132
06 Good Shepherd.flac:6b51b7b17cd94b1a8d7f47305f872a5e
07 Lather.flac:71fdd6f9d2bb58e09d036869e342165a
08 Solidarity.flac:6625c1265c4a6aed772d785fd6d9d804
09 Wooden Ships.flac:fdca2027ff0cf85345598800029fdca5
10 America.flac:ced3b09f17fc5ea04ed40c5668614cdc
11 Freedom.flac:4c8fa7c196463b8ac410d765c03e7dff
12 Set Two Intro.flac:2913e7edae0f32c97e7d32486c13f1d1
13 True Love.flac:cc3f589c085027c060ec8f879423b6c8
14 Crown of Creation.flac:743b9f38103b67151542322599548610
15 White Rabbit.flac:050b8a98f81c256a08f677131953bb59
16 Volunteers.flac:c1bc78867af57e3da28f744ad6777162
17 It's No Secret.flac:5e6fe3c2ca826ee55f37419200979437
18 Baby What You Want Me to Do.flac:ed27d935f42e83ad175619ba309054ed
19 Band Intros.flac:b51322b3a72d64a5bdac1487ad71f26b
20 Planes.flac:1f87affbf95a40b0e0cc6859e1e00d8f

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