Grateful Dead
Noteworthy Jams

This is a collection of noteworthy named jams played by the Grateful
Dead. It is a revision of a collection originally circulated on eTree
in August, 2008.

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=518048

The original collection was closely based on a list put together by
Eric Wybenga and published in his book _Dead To The Core: An Almanac
of the Grateful Dead_. This revised collection includes sources from
Eric's list that were omitted from the original collection because I
did not believe I should seed them at eTree. It drops some of the
versions I used to "replace" versions I didn't think I could seed. It
also adds other versions that were recommended in the comments on the
original collection, as well as versions that I thought should be
added. Remember, "noteworthy" does not mean "best". I welcome your
ideas about what should be included or dropped from the
collection. There could easily be a version 3.

There is a sense in which all noteworthy Grateful Dead playing
involves jamming, which makes the title of this collection confusing.
In fact, what Eric is talking about is jams that stand alone and have
their own name in the setlist, not jams that flesh out a particular
song. So, you won't see a particularly long and wonderful WRS here,
but you will see Mountain Jams and Spanish Jams and Mind Left Body
Jams and so on. These named jams almost always occur as part of longer
jams. I've looked for natural places to start and end those longer
jams, balancing a desire to avoid musical violence and a desire to kep
the total size of the collection manageable.

The track names are self-explanatory: they list the date of the
performance, the SHNID of the source, and shortened names of the songs
included in the track. The music in these tracks is exactly the same
as the music from the source indicated by the SHNID. When necessary, I
joined the songs into jams using "shntool join", I snipped white space
from the end of the tracks and sometimes added fades using WaveLab
6.0, and then I compressed the files using "flac --best". I used
shntool version 3.0.9 and flac version 1.2.1.

If you have the first version of this collection, you should be able
to leech over it and only grab the changes: you'll have to rename the
old tracks first, as I've had to use six-digit SHNIDs i this version
of the project.

Shared at LL, December 2009.


Contents:
gd66-03-25.000038.Jam.flac
gd68-02-14.089676.BornCrossEyed-SpanishJam.flac
gd68-10-10.005186.DarkStarJam-TheElevenJam-TheSeven.flac
gd68-10-10.005186.SameThingJam-LovelightJam-OtherOneJam-DeathDont.flac
gd69-09-29.000079.DoinThatRag-TheSeven-GoodLovin.flac
gd69-11-08.017433.StStephen-Eleven-Caution-MainTen-Caution-Feedback-AWBYGN.flac
gd70-02-11.028402.DarkStar-SpanishJam-Lovelight.flac
gd70-11-08.026975.DarkSpace-MainTen.flac
gd73-07-27.100410.SoundcheckJam-WharfRat.flac
gd73-07-28.014196.MountainJam.flac
gd73-12-02.017278.WharfRat-HalfStep-Playin-MindLeftBodyJam.flac
gd74-05-19.079781.Truckin-MindLeftBodyJam-NFA-GDTRFB.flac
gd74-06-18.089690.WRS-OtherOne-ItsASinJam-StellaBlue.flac
gd74-06-28.016038.Seastones.flac
gd74-06-28.016038.Space-MindLeftBodyJam-Jam.flac
gd74-07-19.032634.Jam-SpanishJam-Eyes.flac
gd74-10-16.090145.Seastones-Jam-Space-WharfRat-Eyes.flac
gd78-11-20.032489.Jam-JackARoe.flac
gd81-05-06.082368.HesGone-CautionJam-SpanishJam.flac
gd81-08-28.009572.Space-SpanishJam.flac
gd81-10-06.003303.Space-BluesForAllahJam-Wheel.flac
gd85-11-05.021246.SupplicationJam-PlayinJam.flac
gd86-03-27.026347.Space-SpanishJam.flac
gd90-03-24.091828.Terrapin-MindLeftBodyJam.flac
gd91-03-21.087289.Scarlet-Fire-StirItUpJam.flac
gd93-03-17.079050.Space-HandsomeCabinBoyJam-OtherOne-DaysBetween.flac
gd93-09-13.034030.TubularBells.flac


SHNTOOL LEN:
    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
     8:30.36       90048716 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6192  gd66-03-25.000038.Jam.flac
    14:46.53      156415100 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5334  gd68-02-14.089676.BornCrossEyed-SpanishJam.flac
    28:24.28      300651500 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5192  gd68-10-10.005186.DarkStarJam-TheElevenJam-TheSeven.flac
    56:10.01      594470396 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4725  gd68-10-10.005186.SameThingJam-LovelightJam-OtherOneJam-DeathDont.flac
    25:36.49      271065692 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5010  gd69-09-29.000079.DoinThatRag-TheSeven-GoodLovin.flac
    62:34.39      662297372 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5223  gd69-11-08.017433.StStephen-Eleven-Caution-MainTen-Caution-Feedback-AWBYGN.flac
    59:53.65      633958124 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5810  gd70-02-11.028402.DarkStar-SpanishJam-Lovelight.flac
    13:42.22      145052588 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5412  gd70-11-08.026975.DarkSpace-MainTen.flac
    30:13.13      319843820 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5590  gd73-07-27.100410.SoundcheckJam-WharfRat.flac
    22:24.30      237152204 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5978  gd73-07-28.014196.MountainJam.flac
    44:26.68      470442380 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5844  gd73-12-02.017278.WharfRat-HalfStep-Playin-MindLeftBodyJam.flac
    32:32.45      344438684 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6904  gd74-05-19.079781.Truckin-MindLeftBodyJam-NFA-GDTRFB.flac
    53:55.74      570828092 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5664  gd74-06-18.089690.WRS-OtherOne-ItsASinJam-StellaBlue.flac
    24:32.52      259783148 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5275  gd74-06-28.016038.Seastones.flac
    27:42.46      293285036 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5333  gd74-06-28.016038.Space-MindLeftBodyJam-Jam.flac
    29:26.01      311524796 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5375  gd74-07-19.032634.Jam-SpanishJam-Eyes.flac
    81:34.02      863306348 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5027  gd74-10-16.090145.Seastones-Jam-Space-WharfRat-Eyes.flac
    20:50.25      220558844 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6198  gd78-11-20.032489.Jam-JackARoe.flac
    27:19.73      289291340 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5937  gd81-05-06.082368.HesGone-CautionJam-SpanishJam.flac
    12:02.57      127494908 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4888  gd81-08-28.009572.Space-SpanishJam.flac
    15:31.00      164228444 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6274  gd81-10-06.003303.Space-BluesForAllahJam-Wheel.flac
     8:35.55       90975404 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5281  gd85-11-05.021246.SupplicationJam-PlayinJam.flac
     9:51.34      104332412 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5230  gd86-03-27.026347.Space-SpanishJam.flac
    21:16.67      225244028 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5992  gd90-03-24.091828.Terrapin-MindLeftBodyJam.flac
    30:44.35      325363964 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6009  gd91-03-21.087289.Scarlet-Fire-StirItUpJam.flac
    28:24.22      300637388 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4297  gd93-03-17.079050.Space-HandsomeCabinBoyJam-OtherOne-DaysBetween.flac
     8:13.04       86974652 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4077  gd93-09-13.034030.TubularBells.flac
   799:17.21     8459665380 B                            0.5470  (27 files)