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Grateful Dead 03/21/1970

Capitol Theater (Early), Port Chester, NY
SHNID 20184
Source Summary
early show; Cassette Master> Soundforge> cd> EAC> SHN; Recorded by Ken & Judy Lee on a Sony 124 cassette deck with Sony dynamic mics on a Norelco 120 normal bias tape. Microphones were set up in the balcony with a 20 foot spread; Original tape was baked in "Susie Q", shell replaced and transferred on a Tascam 122mk3 via a Lucid ADA1000 Analog to Digital Converter directly to disc on a Tascam CDRW700 by John Jay Hance.; Cleanup performed by Peter G with Soundforge; EAC performed with correct offsets. SHN conversion with MKWact & retracking done with CD Wave and EAC by Evan Bellaff; Port Chester "Resurrection" Project #2
Entered by dr.unclear
Checksums shn-md5, st5
Disc Counts 1 / 1
Media Size
Date Circulated
Date Added
10/23/2003
09/22/2004
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Archive Identifier gd70-03-21.early.lee.pcrp.20184.sbeok.shnf ↗

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SHNID 5315 early electric; Aud > cassette x 2 > CD, mics...
* Note- this text file is not yet complete.  It will be updated shortly with the Late show information when it is ready to go out to you. We just couldn't wait to get this stuff to you because it is soooo good!!!

Boy, are you ever going to like this!!!

Port Chester "Resurrection" Project #2

Grateful Dead
Capitol Theater
Port Chester, New York
March 21, 1970

Cassette Master> Soundforge> cd> EAC> SHN

-Recorded by Ken & Judy Lee on a Sony 124 cassette deck with Sony dynamic mics on a Norelco 120 normal bias tape. Microphones were set up in the balcony with a 20 foot spread.
-Original tape was baked in "Susie Q", shell replaced and transferred on a Tascam 122mk3 via a Lucid ADA1000 Analog to Digital Converter directly to disc on a Tascam CDRW700 by John Jay Hance.
-Cleanup performed by Peter G with Soundforge.
-EAC performed with correct offsets. SHN conversion with MKWact & retracking done with CD Wave and EAC by Evan Bellaff (theelevan@yahoo.com).

Early Show

1.  Tuning                           00:24
2.  (1) Walkin' the Dog              09:19
3.  Me and My Uncle                  03:26
4.  Death Don't Have No Mercy        11:25
5.  (2) Good Lovin'                  09:33
6.  Dire Wolf                        03:57
7.  Big Boss Man                     07:14          
8.  (3,4,5) He Was a Friend of Mine  10:07
9.  Viola Lee Blues>                 12:36
10. (6) The Seven>                   01:54
11. Cumberland Blues                 04:48

total time (74:48)

Late Show *

* Stay tuned- The Late show will be available very shortly, which includes an uncirculated electric set containing "Casey Jones," "Dancin' in the Streets," and "Easy wind."  This text file will be completed when the late show is ready to go.

(1) First "Walkin' the Dog"

(2) Bobby: Hey, ah, hey... when you're, while you're shouting out requests I want you to bear in mind one fact that, being that, when, when we're, when we made up the songs we made up no names for the songs and we had a friend of ours make up names for the songs and sh,and submit 'em to the president of the record company to put the album... and we never even learned the names to all our songs. So you're shouting a bunch of meaningless words to us, and I swear it's true...

(3) Final "He Was a Friend of Mine"

(4) Bobby: Boy, are you ever going to like this...

(5) Crease on master tape @ 2:37-2:38

(6) Final "The Seven"

Portions of this show were played on "Morning Dew," 99.5FM, New York City on Saturday, 10/18/03 during a fund drive.  Special thanks to Ken and Judy for calling the station for a live interview, giving us some great insights into this show and their experiences recording all of these shows!!
"Morning Dew" airs every Saturday night from 9:30pm-12:00am EST, streaming in "Real Audio"  at http://www.drnet.net/morningdew.  

The Port Chester Resurrection Project story...

Ken and Judy Lee didn't think anyone would be interested in hearing their recordings...

Between the years 1970 and 1971, Ken worked security at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York,  while his girlfriend Judy ran movie projections between sets.  One of a few live music taping enthusiasts of  the time, Ken was granted exclusive permission by club promoter Howard Stein to record the shows at the  theatre for his own personal use.  Judy was on hand to perform the tape flips while Ken was busy doing his  job.
  In 1968, the couple took Judy's brother Mark, who was nine years old to his first concert at "Cafe Wha?"  in New York City.  The Monkees were on tour and Jimi Hendrix was along for the ride as their opening act.
  Several years later, Mark was introduced to the music of the Grateful Dead at the Nassau Coliseum on  March 19th, 1973 in Uniondale, Long Island.  This single event marked the beginning of a life long odyssey  of musical experiences with the band that affected him most deeply.  Along with his good friend, John Jay  Hance, who Mark met at a Dead show in 1979, the two traveled around the United States with the band in  search of the ultimate musical experience, attending over 350 shows together.  The two also shared a  common interest in seeing live music of a wide variety of genres, and during the 23 years that they knew  each other attended more than 1000 total concerts together, until Mark's untimely death in November of  2002.
  Mark knew of brother in-law Ken's recordings from the Capitol Theatre, and had a strong interest in having the shows circulated; however, being true to his word to Howard Stein, Ken kept the recordings under  wraps and the tapes never saw the light of the trading domain (One noteworthy bending of this rule  occurred when Ken agreed at Mark's request to circulate the late show that the Grateful Dead did on June  24th of 1970.  This show is highly regarded as an all-time magical performance by the Dead during their 30  year history as a band)

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early electric; Aud >... (6)
Date: 10/25/2003
what was port chester resurrection #1?
Date: 10/25/2003
Seed #1 is Janis Joplin 8.8.70
Date: 11/02/2003
User: dms
dare I say... I could have done without the noise/hiss reduction on this one after comparing with the many previous copies I've accumulated over the years. Also could have done without the 2 (or more) DAE gens. The lineage should read: cassette master > cd > eac > soundforge > cd > eac > shn.
Date: 11/03/2003
i agree with the noise reduction protest, even when done well, some music is lost in the process. i agree with the eac, even though when done correctly, nothing is lost, if the music is going to be given to someone else to work on, why not just forward the .wav's or convert them to shn first. it's a lot easier to extract wav's from shn's then wav's from a cdr. i disagree with the soooo good!!! claim in the text file. i certainly appreciate the effort, but the NR is a negative, and i wasn't overwhelmed by the dead's performance.