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June 7th
6 shows
37 tapes
Years
1995
29.8k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.1k151
7d11.2k1.5k
30d29.8k4.2k
49 shows
340 tapes
1994
8.5k
PlaybackListensHours
48h64891
7d1.6k233
30d8.5k1.2k
85 shows
460 tapes
1993
34.9k
PlaybackListensHours
48h6.7k903
7d5.2k707
30d34.9k4.6k
83 shows
656 tapes
1992
33.5k
PlaybackListensHours
48h2.8k352
7d3.8k496
30d33.5k4.5k
57 shows
539 tapes
1991
36.9k
PlaybackListensHours
48h6k791
7d9k1.2k
30d36.9k5k
78 shows
967 tapes
1990
35.3k
PlaybackListensHours
48h3.1k403
7d6.5k855
30d35.3k4.6k
78 shows
1,139 tapes
1989
47.4k
PlaybackListensHours
48h3.5k431
7d8.2k1k
30d47.4k5.9k
78 shows
1,013 tapes
1988
21.6k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.4k164
7d4.3k463
30d21.6k2.5k
82 shows
882 tapes
1987
40k
PlaybackListensHours
48h2.7k302
7d10.1k974
30d40k4.4k
88 shows
1,025 tapes
1986
15.1k
PlaybackListensHours
48h917102
7d2.2k242
30d15.1k1.7k
47 shows
683 tapes
1985
21.2k
PlaybackListensHours
48h2.1k249
7d4.5k529
30d21.2k2.5k
73 shows
1,356 tapes
1984
17k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.4k189
7d3.4k433
30d17k2.2k
67 shows
1,075 tapes
1983
33.3k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.4k190
7d4.1k541
30d33.3k4.4k
71 shows
1,069 tapes
1982
41.4k
PlaybackListensHours
48h2k245
7d4.2k520
30d41.4k5.1k
63 shows
753 tapes
1981
55.8k
PlaybackListensHours
48h2.5k329
7d5.4k696
30d55.8k7k
92 shows
868 tapes
1980
70.3k
PlaybackListensHours
48h6.1k706
7d10.9k1.3k
30d70.3k8.2k
91 shows
794 tapes
1979
27.5k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.4k196
7d3.6k490
30d27.5k3.9k
79 shows
600 tapes
1978
59.6k
PlaybackListensHours
48h3.1k416
7d12.5k1.6k
30d59.6k8.2k
87 shows
592 tapes
1977
322.3k
PlaybackListensHours
48h12.3k1.7k
7d34.4k4.7k
30d322.3k44.7k
64 shows
419 tapes
1976
47.7k
PlaybackListensHours
48h5.1k710
7d26.7k3.7k
30d47.7k6.5k
45 shows
298 tapes
1975
5.7k
PlaybackListensHours
48h87173
7d1.4k139
30d5.7k595
25 shows
63 tapes
1974
97.6k
PlaybackListensHours
48h4.9k609
7d12.4k1.6k
30d97.6k12.3k
42 shows
324 tapes
1973
79.3k
PlaybackListensHours
48h5.1k660
7d11.7k1.5k
30d79.3k10.1k
75 shows
445 tapes
1972
76.4k
PlaybackListensHours
48h3.8k473
7d8.2k1k
30d76.4k9.2k
88 shows
361 tapes
1971
33.9k
PlaybackListensHours
48h2.4k267
7d6.2k692
30d33.9k3.9k
82 shows
356 tapes
1970
37.3k
PlaybackListensHours
48h10.7k1.1k
7d9.8k989
30d37.3k4k
101 shows
376 tapes
1969
25.4k
PlaybackListensHours
48h3.6k618
7d6.7k1k
30d25.4k3.7k
112 shows
326 tapes
1968
6.8k
PlaybackListensHours
48h51662
7d1.4k177
30d6.8k848
41 shows
125 tapes
1967
1.5k
PlaybackListensHours
48h10817
7d37152
30d1.5k207
23 shows
55 tapes
1966
8k
PlaybackListensHours
48h32223
7d1.4k83
30d8k531
32 shows
78 tapes
1965
560
PlaybackListensHours
48h453
7d1066
30d56034
2 shows
2 tapes
1966
7/17/66
Big Boss Man
4:44
Standing On The Corner
3:26
Beat It On Down The Line ->
2:32
In The Pines
4:54
Cardboard Cowboy
2:27
Nobody's Fault But Mine
4:06
The Next Time You See Me
2:40
FIN
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Sources
Transferrer: Charlie Miller
33:50
SBD
Rating:
8.13 / 16 ratings
Transferrer:
Charlie Miller
SHNID:
gd66-07-17.sbd.miller.21064.sbeok.shnf
Source:
Soundboard
Lineage:
SBD > Reel Master (10 Inch Reels @ 15ips 1/2trk) > DAT > Sonic Solutions > CD > EAC > SHN
Taper Notes:
View NotesThis is the complete 7/17/66. What was earlier had as 7/17/66 is really part of 7/16/66.
Transferrer: sbe fix etc by Marmar of original Jay Serafin seed
24:49
SBD
Rating:
8.40 / 6 ratings
Transferrer:
sbe fix etc by Marmar of original Jay Serafin seed
SHNID:
gd1966-07-17.13959.serafin-marmar-sbefix-4458.flac16
Source:
SBD > RTR @ 15 I.p.s. > PCM > D > SSSB
Taper Notes:
View NotesJAY'S PERSONAL COMMENTS: It's REALLY AMAZING that I find a LOT of 1966-68 shows which sound better than a lot of the 1970's reel to reel-originated shows, and even a lot of the early PCM shows. NOTE: When PCM was first made available on the commercial market, it was only limited to 8 bit quality sound, and would only work with certain Sony BetaMax videocassette decks. As time and technology grew, the PCM units became easier to use, they would work will almost ANY VCR (be it VHS or the now-dying BetaMax formats)... and finally they were able to get 16-bit sound to work CORRECTLY around the mid-1980's. But, a little known factoid about the sound quality: the Dead weren't always the ones who were setting up the RTR decks. The record companies were bringing in the Otari 2" 4 and 8 track decks which ran at a minimum of 15 i.p.s., and were able to be better calibrated to more brands and formulations of open reel tape. This is why a lot of these shows sound so pristine... but yet there were a lot of reel changes (when there weren't two RTR decks there... one to run, and the other on "standby" so that the recording could be started as the first deck began to run out of tape! So, this is why some shows literally have no gaps where the reels were changed! It is my understanding that for this show, a single Otari 4 track 1" wide tape running at 7.5 i.p.s. was used. Some of the songs from this Fillmore run were going to be used as promos, and possibly as a live album early on. The record companies were REALLY hot on the Dead, and they wanted the Boyz to also try new songs to see how they would be received by the audience, as well as how they would sound live. Hence, "one-offs" like In The Pines, Cardboard Cowboy, were played, and then evaluated by the record companies. The PCM archive tape is deteriorating, as can be heard in the left (vocals) channel (only). On very loud vocal peaks, you can just hear a very slight distortion. It's not really as bad as it look "in print", but it can be heard. Again, it's only during the loudest vocals, and not on any of the instruments (right channel). This is a problem inherent to ALL tape-based media, in that it will deteriorate over time. Thank goodness that the Vault is very regulated as far as it's climate, air quality and purity, and that a lot of shows are being re-archived onto non-tape-based media. In The Pines and Cardboard Cowboy are FIRST / LAST / ONLY TIMES PLAYED songs. In The Pines is good, a song of sorrow. But Cardboard Cowboy, I can live without. It just doesn't "make it" with me. Other people like it, maybe because it's very rare to hear a good quality copy of it, or to even hear it at all, or just because it's a Dead song... who knows?!?!? The entire show had an "energy" to it, but not a very high level. There weren't any real between-song lulls like we've come to expect, and sometimes it can be heard when the guitars are slightly out of tune (and adjusted during the songs). Bobby is pretty prominent in the mix, Pig's organ is really present (no dirty jokes, please!), but Jerry's guitar, depending on the song and how attentive the engineers were at any point in time, was either present, low volume (being picked up by the other instrument microphones nearby, or "invisible" for very short periods of time. It never ceases to amaze me that audio engineers, especially with the Dead and the Fillmore's own crew, who were excellent most of the time, could be so ignorant of the fact that things weren't right! But, that just makes the show all that much more interesting, I would imagine! This is the ENTIRE show... all songs are included, so you get the "feel" of how
Transferrer: Jay Serafin
24:49
SBD
Rating:
9.50 / 8 ratings
Transferrer:
Jay Serafin
SHNID:
gd1966-07-17.sbd.serafin.4458.shnf
Source:
SBD > RTR @ 15 I.p.s. > PCM > D > SSSB
Taper Notes:
View NotesUploaded exclusively to GDLive.com by: John "Jay" Serafin, owner/audio engineer @ Serafin Station Studio B "Making Kindness Dubs For Everyone!" No Profits Or Copyright Infringements EVER! Web Info: http://members.home.com/kinddubs E-Mail: [email protected] JAY'S PERSONAL COMMENTS: It's REALLY AMAZING that I find a LOT of 1966-68 shows which sound better than a lot of the 1970's reel to reel-originated shows, and even a lot of the early PCM shows. NOTE: When PCM was first made available on the commercial market, it was only limited to 8 bit quality sound, and would only work with certain Sony BetaMax videocassette decks. As time and technology grew, the PCM units became easier to use, they would work will almost ANY VCR (be it VHS or the now-dying BetaMax formats)... and finally they were able to get 16-bit sound to work CORRECTLY around the mid-1980's. But, a little known factoid about the sound quality: the Dead weren't always the ones who were setting up the RTR decks. The record companies were bringing in the Otari 2" 4 and 8 track decks which ran at a minimum of 15 i.p.s., and were able to be better calibrated to more brands and formulations of open reel tape. This is why a lot of these shows sound so pristine... but yet there were a lot of reel changes (when there weren't two RTR decks there... one to run, and the other on "standby" so that the recording could be started as the first deck began to run out of tape! So, this is why some shows literally have no gaps where the reels were changed! It is my understanding that for this show, a single Otari 4 track 1" wide tape running at 7.5 i.p.s. was used. Some of the songs from this Fillmore run were going to be used as promos, and possibly as a live album early on. The record companies were REALLY hot on the Dead, and they wanted the Boyz to also try new songs to see how they would be received by the audience, as well as how they would sound live. Hence, "one-offs" like In The Pines, Cardboard Cowboy, were played, and then evaluated by the record companies. The PCM archive tape is deteriorating, as can be heard in the left (vocals) channel (only). On very loud vocal peaks, you can just hear a very slight distortion. It's not really as bad as it look "in print", but it can be heard. Again, it's only during the loudest vocals, and not on any of the instruments (right channel). This is a problem inherent to ALL tape-based media, in that it will deteriorate over time. Thank goodness that the Vault is very regulated as far as it's climate, air quality and purity, and that a lot of shows are being re-archived onto non-tape-based media. In The Pines and Cardboard Cowboy are FIRST / LAST / ONLY TIMES PLAYED songs. In The Pines is good, a song of sorrow. But Cardboard Cowboy, I can live without. It just doesn't "make it" with me. Other people like it, maybe because it's very rare to hear a good quality copy of it, or to even hear it at all, or just because it's a Dead song... who knows?!?!? The entire show had an "energy" to it, but not a very high level. There weren't any real between-song lulls like we've come to expect, and sometimes it can be heard when the guitars are slightly out of tune (and adjusted during the songs). Bobby is pretty prominent in the mix, Pig's organ is really present (no dirty jokes, please!), but Jerry's guitar, depending on the song and how attentive the engineers were at any point in time, was either present, low volume (being picked up by the other instrument microphones nearby, or "invisible" for very short periods of time. It never ceases to amaze me that audio engineers, especially with the Dead and the Fillmore's own crew, who were excellent most of the time, could be so ignorant of the fact that things weren't right! But, that just makes the show all that much more interesting, I would imagine! This is the ENTIRE show... all songs are included, so you get the "feel" of how things were played back then. Short sets, a lot of bands for the evening, nothing like what we've been accustomed to for the past 20 years. I personally did see a few of these "huge number of artists" shows back in my early days, and it had a circus-like atmosphere sometimes. Depending on who was playing, everyone shared everyone else's amps, drum sets, etc. Even the Dead did, though they would bring out quite a bit of their own equipment to supplement what was on stage. And there was only about 10-15 minutes between acts, so either you rushed to the washroom, or you "held it in" for 3-plus hours. The Fillmore did have a curfew, which USUALLY was enforced, but sometimes they would run over. Bill Graham always tried to orchestrate the start time of the shows so that every group got a pretty good amount of time, but there were a number of shows where some groups only got to play 3 or 4 songs, as the band(s) before them ran long, or the "headline" act(s) were going to play long. As with the 7/16/66 show which I uploaded here, this show will fit onto a single 74-minute CD (in fact, you can put BOTH the 7/16/66 and 7/17/66 shows onto a single 74-minute CD with 2 minutes to spare!). NONE of the shows I upload to GDLive will ever require "overburning", as that goes against a number of industry standards (one being that the maximum allowable recording time be 76:14). And some people's equipment cannot play back correctly the 80 minute discs which are prevalent lately. Not to mention that unless your CD-R/RW recorder specifically is made to record 80 minute discs, there's going to be problems with the recording (it's technical, but the abbreviated version is that the stepping motor, which positions the recording laser, can only be positioned in certain designated spots, and cannot go "between" point A and point B on the disc... if it tries to, it can partially overwrite what has been already recorded onto the media). Enjoy the show! PERSONAL RATINGS: (on a 1 to 10 scale with 10 being excellent) Audio Mix: 9.2 (Jerry's disappearing act is what lowered this rating) Audio Quality: 9.7 Energy Level: 8.5 Show "Completeness": 10.0 (entire set) Song Selection: For the time period, nothing out of the ordinary at all. Surprises: In The Pines and Cardboard Cowboy