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Labor Temple in Minneapolis, MN on April 27, 1969 from Dick's Picks 26

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One of the coolest Uncle John's ever, as they start the song with the jam into and the coda "Whoa, what I want to know, how does this song go". Nice.
 
Digging through a HD that I archived a ton of shows from bt.etree

Playing Mickey & The Hartbeats ~ October 8, 1968 @ The Matrix

04 [11:04] Death Don't Have No Mercy <--on second playing now, it's pretty cool & very raw :thmbsp:

reviewer's quote copied from archive.org

Reviewer:L. Rosley - - June 23, 2009
Subject: First Cosmic Charlie

This is not a Dead show -- the Dead were on a break. They had just finished an awesome tour (check out the August shows here, or Two From the Vault) and were now in town recording Aoxomoxoa and regrouping. It’s almost a power trio: just guitar, bass, and drums, except it sounds like both drummers. No Bobby or Pigpen or Tim Constanten. Here, they were trying out new material and just plain jamming and fooling around at the Matrix, a tiny space owned by Marty Balin –- it sounds like 20 people in the audience.

The most notable thing here is the first known performance of Cosmic Charlie, which went on Aoxomoxoa. Jerry doesn’t have all the words yet, and hasn’t figured out the ending.

The best performance is a 4-star Death Don’t have no Mercy – nice Jerry vocal. Dark Star is not very good, especially compared to the excellent versions they did in August/September. Jerry’s playing a lot of rhythm guitar in these songs, strumming chords.

In Track 5, Jerry says “this one’s largely Experimental so be warned.” This is call the Seven, but their really trying to figure out how to play in 7/4 time. This is really a rehearsal in front of a few people.

There’s more cuts on another version here:
http://www.archive.org/details/gd68-10-08.sbd.belaff.17691.sbeok.shnf

There, Jack Casady of the Jefferson Airplane plays a few jams with Jerry.

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from a torrent of Uncirulated Primal GD - gd66-xx-xx.gems.primal.81254.sbeok.flac16 <-3 seeders but it's NOT slow :)

EDIT - This stuff is NOT on The Acid Test Reels 1966 (6 CD Box Set) - The Acid Test Chronicles

CD #1
Possibly 2/12/66 - 7"reel 1/2 track at 7.5 IPS:

Viola Lee Blues
Don't Ease Me In
Tastebud

"Longshoreman's Hall 1st Night" - 7" Reel 1/2 Track @ 15IPS:

Beat It On Down The Line
Schoolgirl>You Don't Love Me>Schoolgirl (original reel cuts)

Unlabeled Reel:

Pigpen Raps
Billy, Bobby, and Pigpen>
New Orleans (sort of an attempt)
Twist and Shout

CD #2
"Longshoreman's Hall 3rd Night" - 10" Reel 1/2 Track @ 15IPS:

It's A Sin
Viola Lee Blues
Midnight Hour
Beat It On Down The Line
Blues Jam (with Jorma and Jack) Note: reel runs out before the end

Pauley Ballroom #2 (no date) - 10" Reel 1/2 Track @ 15IPS:

You Don't Have To Ask - Phil Talks About The Move To L.A.
Viola Lee Blues (some static at start of song)
I Know You Rider
Midnight Hour (plug pulled)

There are also a couple of short digi noises during the blues jam. The dates and locations
are as marked on the boxes of master reels. Let's leave it to the Deadhead historians to figure it all out for accuracy.



The Jerry Garcia Acid Test Art Collection

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Are these tapes recorded in the audience generally in mono? Reason I ask.. the local community FM radio station KNON has a Grateful Dead show for 2 hours every Friday night. They play a lot from those kind of tapes. I don't think I've noticed any being in stereo.
 
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Ed in Tx said:
Are these tapes recorded in the audience generally in mono? Reason I ask.. the local commumity FM radio station KNON has a Grateful Dead show for 2 hours every Friday night. They play a lot from those kind of tapes. I don't think I've noticed any being in stereo.
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I don't usually keep anything audience recorded unless it's part of a matrix.
The Acid Test torrent I just posted about seems to be in stereo.
I'm on my laptop but it sounds like stereo.

It sounds better than the Reels 1966 release IIRC :music:

BTW - I'm pretty sure the audience portion of the Seamons Cornell 5/8/77 matrix is recorded in stereo.
 
In contrast - I generally don't listen to soundboards or matrix mixes, unless they're the only sources. I relay dislike the trend of taking a good ambient recording and mixing it with board tapes.
 
Sometime it's hard to tell that an audience recording is stereo because you don't get things hard left or right. But i know, for example, that Jerry Moore's recording of 5/8/77, for example, was definitely stereo. Two Sony mics and a stereo Sony TC-153.
 
Skylab said:
Sometime it's hard to tell that an audience recording is stereo because you don't get things hard left or right. But i know, for example, that Jerry Moore's recording of 5/8/77, for example, was definitely stereo. Two Sony mics and a stereo Sony TC-153.
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Pretty much verified mono. Playing through my Sansui QSD-1 4 channel synthesizer in Surround mode, which is how I noticed this trying to recreate that concert hall effect and depth on the live recordings, there's nothing from the rear channels, all in center front. And looking at the L and R audio with my SD-1100 oscilloscope in stereo mode there's no difference between the L and R channels. If it was a stereo recording with two mics taped together with duct tape opposite each other like binaural sound, there's be some difference. Ah well.. I'll try again to get the guy that runs the show to answer my question.
 
I just like the best sounding recordings of the show I can get.
Different strokes....

If I get too much ambience from Dead shows I'll have to change my sobriety date. ;)
 
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Pretty much verified mono. Playing through my Sansui QSD-1 4 channel synthesizer in Surround mode, which is how I noticed this trying to recreate that concert hall effect and depth on the live recordings, there's nothing from the rear channels, all in center front. And looking at the L and R audio with my SD-1100 oscilloscope in stereo mode there's no difference between the L and R channels. If it was a stereo recording with two mics taped together with duct tape opposite each other like binaural sound, there's be some difference. Ah well.. I'll try again to get the guy that runs the show to answer my question.
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What you posted above was about your radio broadcast, not Jerry's 5/8/77 recording, I assume. You should ask the station. Maybe they are broadcasting in mono :scratch2:
 
Skylab said:
What you posted above was about your radio broadcast, not Jerry's 5/8/77 recording, I assume. You should ask the station. Maybe they are broadcasting in mono :scratch2:
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Right...nothing about a specific show. I was asking if the audience recordings in general are mono since seems like they always are on that radio show. I have asked the station but no reply. So I thought I'd ask here, maybe mono was standard procedure. I'll have to call the request line when the show's on the air some Friday and ask. I already know emails go ignored.
 
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