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Grateful Dead 05/15/1970

Fillmore East (Late Show), New York, NY
SHNID 29473
Source Summary
New Master Reel transfer: SBD:10" 1/2 track Master Reels @ 7.5 ips>Revox A700 playback deck>Alesis Masterlink ML 9600>CD. No PCM generation in GD/NRPS sets. No analog gens in NRPS sets. Upgrade from previously circulating source. Seeded to etree 5/31/2005 by Chuck Reynolds and Seth Kaplan.
Entered by dr.unclear
Checksums orig-shn-md5, shn-md5, st5
Disc Counts 4 / 7
Media Size
Date Circulated
Date Added
5/31/2005
06/08/2005
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Archive Identifier gd_nrps70-05-15.sbd.reynolds-kaplan.29473.shnf ↗

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SHNID 97 acoustic and electric, early and late, includes...
SHNID 136574 flac24 ; source: aud cassette master; taped by...
SHNID 136575 flac16 ; source: aud cassette master; taped by...
An Evening with the Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead and the
New Riders of the Purple Sage
5/15/70  Early and Late Shows
Fillmore East
New York, New York

Main Source:  SBD:10" 1/2 track Master Reels @ 7.5 ips>Revox A700 playback deck>Alesis Masterlink ML 9600>CD
Patch Source: SBD:10" 1/2 track Master Reel @ 7.5 ips>PCM>DAT>CD

Early Show

Disc 1: Acoustic Grateful Dead

01. Tuning **                                                                           [01:31]
02. Bill Graham Introduction                                                            [00:56]
03. Don't Ease Me In                                                                    [03:50]            
04. I Know You Rider                                               [09:12]
05. The Rub                                                         [06:20]
06. Friend Of The Devil                                                 [03:49]
07. Long Black Limousine                                                 [05:30]
08. Candyman/Equipment problems                                         [11:53]
09. Cumberland Blues *                                                 [05:34]
10. New Speedway Boogie *                                               [07:12]
11. Cold Jordan *                  [03:11]

Total Time:                                                       [59:04]

* For Cumberland Blues and New Speedway Boogie Garcia switches to electric guitar and the band is
joined by David Nelson on acoustic guitar.  For Cold Jordan, Nelson switches to mandolin, Garcia
goes back to acoustic guitar and Marmaduke joins in on vocals.

** Warning: high pitched mic feedback @ 0:59. Do not listen to at loud volumes with headphones?

Disc 2: New Riders Of The Purple Sage

01. Stage Preparations                                                           [09:38]
02. Bill Graham Introduction/Six Days On The Road                         [04:21]
03. Whatcha Gonna Do?                                                        [04:37]
04. I Don't Know You                                               [04:23]
05. Henry                                                                       [03:51]
06. Portland Woman                                                  [04:50]
07. Fair Chance To Know                                                      [05:03]
08. Last Lonely Eagle//                                               [02:01]

Total Time:                                                         [38:49]

Disc 3: Electric Grateful Dead

01. Tuning/Introduction                                                                 [01:53]
02. Casey Jones                                                                         [05:50]
03. Easy Wind                                                                           [08:48]
04. Attics Of My Life                                                                   [06:36]
05. St. Stephen>                                                                        [05:52]
06. Cryptical Envelopment>                                                              [01:56]
07. Drums>                                                                              [06:52]
08  The Other One>                                                                      [11:11]
09. Cryptical Reprise>                                                                  [04:22]
10. Cosmic Charlie                                                                      [09:59]
    Encore:
11. New Minglewood Blues                                                                [04:14]

Total Time:                                                                           [1:07:39]

Late Show

Disc 4: Acoustic Grateful Dead  

01. Ballad Of Casey Jones                                                 [03:03]
02. Silver Threads And Golden Needles                                        [03:50]
03. Black Peter                                                     [07:07]
04. Friend Of The Devil                                             [05:54]
05. Uncle John's Band                                               [06:56]
06. Candyman                                                       [07:23]
07. She's Mine                                                     [02:54]
08. Katie Mae                                                       [05:31]
09. I Hear A Voice Callin' *                                               [03:06]
10. House Music ** /Stage Preparations                                         [04:06]

Total Time:                                                         [49:54]

* David Nelson plays mandolin.

** Byrds ? Fido > Oil in my Lamp: Ballad Of Easy Rider 1969


Disc 5: New Riders Of The Purple Sage

01. Stage Preparations                                             [03:27]
02. Bill Graham Introduction/Brown-Eyed Handsome Man                             [04:59]
03. Louisiana Lady                                                 [05:42]
04. Can't Pay The Price                                             [04:48]
05. Truck Drivin' Man                                               [03:59]
06. All I Ever Wanted                                               [08:24]
07. Workin' Man Blues                                               [04:13]
08. Henry/Broken String                                             [07:09]
09. I Don't Know You                                               [04:02]
10. Lodi                                                           [04:31]
11. Last Lonely Eagle                                               [06:50]
12. Mama Tried *                                                   [03:05]
13. Sawmill *                                                       [04:01]
14. Me And My Uncle *                                                        [04:57]
15. Connection *                                                   [05:34]
16. Here Comes The Sun/Stage Preparations                                         [01:22]

Total Time:                                                           [1:17:11]

* Bobby "Ace" Weir joins in.

Disc 6: Electric Grateful Dead

01. The Sun King/Stage Preparations/Marines' Hymn                               [04:43]
02. Bill Graham Introduction/China Cat Sunflower>                                   [04:07]
03. I Know You Rider                                                 [04:46]
04. Cumberland Blues                                                 [05:02]
05. Hard To Handle/Broken String                                             [10:17]
06. Beat It On Down The Line                                                 [03:30]
07. Morning Dew                                                     [10:59]
08. Good Lovin'                                                     [13:58]

Total Time:                                                         [57:27]

Disc 7:

01. Dire Wolf                                                       [04:27]
02. Next Time You See Me                                                     [04:49]
03. Dark Star>                                                                       [19:37]
04. St.//Stephen>                                                                       [04:03]                                              
05. Not Fade Away>                                                                      [06:56]  
06. Turn On Your Lovelight                                                              [27:01]
    Encore:
07. Cold Jordan *                                                                       [02:42]    

Total Time:                                                                             [69:36]

Total Show Time:                                                                       [419:40]                                                                          

* David Nelson plays mandolin and Marmaduke adds vocals.

**************************************************************

Notes and Technical information:

- This analog to digital transfer was done to create a digital copy of the master reels as true as
  possible to the original recording.  Apart from restoring the right channel on an 11 minute segment
  of Drums> The Other One and the patch to fill in the music from the missing last reel, no attempt
  has been made to alter or fix anything.

- The Early Show acoustic set is not the splitter generated two channel mono mix that commonly circulates.  
  On the master reel, from the beginning of the tape into Candyman, the right channel stereo signal is present
  but fades in and out at very low levels until it finally comes up to full strength at 2:10 into Candyman.

- During the NRPS Early Show the master reel ran out 2:01 minutes into Last Lonely Eagle and the remainder of
  their set was not recorded.

- The beginning of The Ballad Of Casey Jones is slightly clipped.

- Reel glitch at  2:55-2:57 in Candyman.

- Reel glitch at 3:02-3:06 in Lodi.

- Reel glitch at 01:00-01:04 in China Cat Sunflower.

- A reel change occurred during St. Stephen, however the final reel was missing from the set of masters and the
  remainder of the show from the cut in St. Stephen @ 02:18.186 to the end of the show is patched using the previously
  circulating SBD:MR>PCM>DAT>CD as the source.

- Track processing: EAC>Cool Edit 2000>MKW>Trader's Little Helper>SHN: Cool Edit 2000 used for minor re-tracking, glitch
  removal, normalisation and alternate source patching. MKW used for initial file archiving and Md5 signature checksum
  creation. Trader's Little Helper used for correct sector boundary alignment and verification and alternate Md5 sg/fp
  checksum creation and verification. shntool used for track timings, file size info and backup sector boundary
  verification.
  
- Audio seed discs: Chuck Reynolds|Track processing/edits/archiving: Seth Kaplan    

***A very special thanks to all of the people involved in the production of this exquisite recording***

~ 5/15/05



Comments

Date: 07/14/2005
User: CS Miller
The lineage of this is most likely incorrect. There is a digital artifact at the beginning of Don't Ease (the double strum) that is fixed (and noted as such) on the previous shn set. This is probably just a new transfer from the DATs and not a direct transfer from the reels to a HDD, as the txt file says. All told, a minimal improvement over the previous set, with the exception of the NRPS sets. Given that the right channel is weaker through much of this show, the previous, edited version is a better listen, unless you are purist that must have an unedited version.
Date: 07/15/2005
User:
No, this is really a new transfer, coming from the same folks that brought us 9/20/70, 11/16/70 and the 4/26-29/71 run. IMHO this is a huge upgrade over the previous version, the new transfer has a overall better clarity, frequency responce & seperation. Listen to disc 7 where the old source is used to patch a missing reel. The diference is very noticable, old seed has a very annoying, grainy high end.
Date: 07/16/2005
User:
Which version did you compare/patch from, shnid 96 or shnid 97?
Date: 07/16/2005
User: Jack
The lineage of this new source is true and there is no reason to doubt it whatsoever.
Date: 07/16/2005
User:
It's interesting to note that, compared to the officially-released tracks from these shows (FOTD on the American Beauty reissue CD, and Easy Wind on the Fallout... CD), the left and right channels are switched.

Which way is "right", I wonder?
Date: 07/23/2005
User: CS Miller
There is definitely a reason to doubt the lineage of this source. There is an apparent digital artifact in Don't Ease that was corrected in the other source, which has a PCM and DAT generation in the lineage.

In any case, upon further listening, this source sounds better than the previous one (the post-patch material is definitely inferior), but I am curious about how the Don't Ease double strum could have been on the master reels, since it sounds like a digital glitch, and the previous source notes explain that it was repaired. The suggests that either this is simply a new transfer from the previous source DAT or PCM, or the glitch is on the reels, which doesn't make much sense. It doesn't sound like an analog glitch.
Date: 07/26/2005
Sounds more like a drop-out/skip to me...cm