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Grateful Dead 04/11/1972

Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle, England
SHNID 12186
Source Summary
remastered by Bill Giles - source is SBD MC>D>CD>SoundForge>CD See info file for flaws & Bill's mastering notes
Entered by dr.unclear
Checksums shn-md5, st5
Disc Counts 2 / 3
Media Size
Date Circulated
Date Added
05/??/02
09/27/2002
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Archive Identifier gd72-04-11.sbd.giles.12186.sbeok.shnf ↗

Other Sources
SHNID 4640 SBD> MC> D> CD> SHN; some Soundforge editing;...
SHNID 94377 flac16 ; Source: SBD Lineage: MR(recorded by...
Grateful Dead 4/11/72 City Hall, Newcastle, England
SBD MC>D>CD>SoundForge>CD (?, see below)
remastered by Bill Giles (http://www.ridethewind.btinternet.co.uk/Re-Masters.htm)

CD 1.
1. Greatest Story Ever Told
2. Deal
3. Mr. Charlie
4. Black-Throated Wind
5. Tennessee Jed
6. Big Boss Man
7. Beat It On Down The Line
8. Sugaree
9. Jack Straw
10. Chinatown Shuffle
11. China Cat Sunflower ->
12. I Know You Rider

CD 2.
1. Playing In The Band
2. Next Time You See Me
3. Brown-Eyed Women
4. Looks Like Rain
5. Big Railroad Blues
6. Casey Jones
7. Good Lovin'
8. Ramble On Rose

CD 3.
1. Truckin' ->
2. Drums ->
3. The Other One ->
4. Comes A Time
5. Sugar Magnolia
6. E: Brokedown Palace

sound is generally a bit muddy, some hiss
Pigpen's voice is almost inaudible at times
and sometimes distortion & pops from Keith's piano pick-up,
the best & most complete version currently in circulation

a lot of minor anomalies (mainly clicks) throughout discs 1 + 2
d3t03: tape warble @18:47-18:52, sounds like a master cassette flaw
d1t06: very beginning is missing (a few seconds worth)

Bill Giles remastering notes:
"What do you do with an excellent concert that circulates digitally on
muddy CD only and for which cassette copies, while superficially brighter, carry a lot
of noise and distortion? Frustrating. I suspect the CD's lack of edge is the
result of an uninspired noise reduction job [which makes the MC>D>CD lineage questionable]. I've simply tried to brighten it
up by re-equalisation. I've also rebalanced the tracks (the right track was
relatively overweight) and attenuated a few glitches. It ain't great, but it's
definitely better. From the master disc, the opening notes of Big Boss Man are
missing, and the start of Good Lovin' is an AUD patch; and there are some
crackles, particularly in Brown-Eyed Women and Truckin', and a number of
drop-outs and wobbles throughout the concert.

I would not describe it as 'remastered' - just 'tidied up'.  I guess linage
should read:  MR>??>CDR>Sound Forge 4.5>CDR"

Comments

Date: 09/27/2002
User: hanno
the discs that bill giles received (and for which the track listing was written) came from Jeff Tiedrich via me. Jeff says that this version is a dat clone of Betty's cassette master. I don't think anyone applied noise reduction to this seed before I got it, and I don't hear any either. Bill did a great job with this great show; it's not likely to sound any better until we get the vault multitrack.
Date: 12/26/2003
User: uh_clem
The track names in the md5 file for disc 1 posted here are incorrect and are missing the '1' in d1. When the names are corrected the files pass the md5 check. Take note.