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343 tapes
1994
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460 tapes
1993
38k
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656 tapes
1992
45.1k
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48h2.8k375
7d8.2k1.1k
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539 tapes
1991
43k
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48h2.7k360
7d11.1k1.4k
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973 tapes
1990
48.5k
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48h5.3k747
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1989
48.9k
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48h2.2k274
7d7.4k925
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1,017 tapes
1988
20.3k
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48h1.1k134
7d3.4k397
30d20.3k2.3k
82 shows
882 tapes
1987
42.7k
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48h4.1k505
7d13.8k1.7k
30d42.7k4.8k
88 shows
1,025 tapes
1986
12.5k
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48h86499
7d2.6k292
30d12.5k1.4k
47 shows
684 tapes
1985
24.7k
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48h6.8k776
7d5.9k693
30d24.7k2.9k
73 shows
1,357 tapes
1984
27k
PlaybackListensHours
48h2.2k280
7d12.1k1.4k
30d27k3.3k
67 shows
1,075 tapes
1983
21k
PlaybackListensHours
48h967122
7d3.4k441
30d21k2.7k
71 shows
1,069 tapes
1982
42.4k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.3k159
7d3.6k443
30d42.4k5.3k
63 shows
753 tapes
1981
31.2k
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48h1.9k242
7d5.3k665
30d31.2k3.9k
92 shows
868 tapes
1980
71.1k
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48h3.9k441
7d15.3k1.8k
30d71.1k8.3k
91 shows
794 tapes
1979
21.7k
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48h1.1k161
7d4.1k580
30d21.7k3k
79 shows
608 tapes
1978
38.8k
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48h1.6k216
7d4.9k672
30d38.8k5.2k
87 shows
592 tapes
1977
267.8k
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48h7.8k1.1k
7d26.6k3.7k
30d267.8k37k
64 shows
418 tapes
1976
91.9k
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48h16.1k2.2k
7d42k5.6k
30d91.9k12.4k
45 shows
298 tapes
1975
6.3k
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48h42745
7d88291
30d6.3k647
25 shows
63 tapes
1974
89.9k
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48h3.2k412
7d9.8k1.3k
30d89.9k11.4k
42 shows
324 tapes
1973
90.4k
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48h4k517
7d18.7k2.6k
30d90.4k11.6k
75 shows
445 tapes
1972
62.9k
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48h2.5k314
7d6.6k846
30d62.9k7.7k
88 shows
361 tapes
1971
33.7k
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48h1.6k169
7d4.3k482
30d33.7k3.9k
82 shows
357 tapes
1970
39.3k
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48h1.2k146
7d4.3k504
30d39.3k4.2k
101 shows
376 tapes
1969
28.3k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.5k231
7d3.8k540
30d28.3k4.2k
112 shows
326 tapes
1968
8.1k
PlaybackListensHours
48h73290
7d1.7k205
30d8.1k1k
41 shows
125 tapes
1967
1.7k
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48h13819
7d31345
30d1.7k233
23 shows
55 tapes
1966
8k
PlaybackListensHours
48h45828
7d89261
30d8k538
32 shows
78 tapes
1965
639
PlaybackListensHours
48h302
7d1097
30d63938
2 shows
2 tapes
1971
4/17/71
tuning
1:40
Truckin'
9:14
Big Railroad Blues
5:37
Big Boss Man
6:30
Bird Song
10:34
Playing In The Band
6:07
Hard To Handle
8:47
Loser
11:27
Mama Tried
3:42
Casey Jones
6:07
False Start
4:09
Sugar Magnolia
6:53
Good Lovin' ->
2:24
Drums ->
6:19
Good Lovin'
21:16
Me & Bobby McGee
6:37
Deal
6:21
Beat It On Down The Line
3:18
I'm A King Bee
9:21
Sing Me Back Home
8:43
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad ->
8:51
Turn On Your Lovelight
17:52
FIN
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Taper: unknown
2:37:18
SBD
Rating:
10.00 / 2 ratings
Source:
<b>flac16/48kHz</b>; SBD Master Reel originally recorded with analog equipment on a 7 inch, 7.5 i.p.s half-track master reel; Transferred to 16 48 WAV February 2017
Taper Notes:
View NotesRecollection by Matt Vernon March 19,2017: “April 17, 1971 was the first time I saw the Grateful Dead perform live. I was a junior in high school and the Grateful Dead were my most favored band. I had listened to their albums countless number of times. There is a long essay in the Taper’s Compendium which agrees with much of what I remember though given the concert was 46 years ago my memories may have become distorted by the passage of time. The weather was a perfect spring day on the Princeton campus. The Princeton gym is not large with retractable bleacher seats on the sides and folding chairs set up on the floor in front of the stage. The stage was about 3 feet high set up toward one end. We were early to arrive around 5 pm and walked in to a basically empty gym and sat in the first row of folding chairs. There was maybe a 15 feet gap between the 1st row of chairs and the stage. This was the era when the speaker screens were tie-dyed and I had time to look and walk around and observe how the stage was set up. The New Rider’s opened with Garcia on pedal steel and Spencer Dryden (Jefferson Airplane) on drums. When the NRPS set finished I left my 1st row seat and went to the front of the stage in front of what would be Phil Lesh’s position. As the intermission between NRPS and the first Dead set neared its end the area in front of the stage and the 1st row of chairs was now crowded with people. I took the opportunity to hoist myself up and sit on the front edge of the stage with my back against the left side PA stack. I would remain here for the remainder of the show. At this time there was not the formal separation of the band and audience that would exist in later years. You could see many people backstage including some of my friends. The location was perfect. First, I have always been a “bass” person so being a few feet in front of Lesh’s microphone meant I was literally in the Philzone. The other upside was Garcia would angle himself so it seemed he was looking directly at me. This was because he would be looking at Phil or when Pigpen was singing center stage I was in Garcia’s line of sight. I won’t review the music which you can hear in near perfect format on this source. But will make a few comments on the aspects of the performance which can’t come across on tape. First, during the show it was clear to me how Pigpen heavy show it was, as the songs rotated with Bob, Jerry and Pigpen doing vocals. Also, members of the NRPS stood behind Bill and played various hand percussion instruments. During the two Pigpen rap songs (Good Lovin’ and Lovelight) I was about 10 feet away from Pigpen when he was stage center. Its’ hard to describe Pigpen’s command of the stage (he has a small stature) but my attention was fully concentrated on his way of accenting notes bringing the mic near his mouth and using his body and hands to communicate to the band when he was going into one of his “raps” - when to pause and when to accent his vocals. Here was where my location turned out to be perfect. For Jerry would rotate to watch Pigpen and accent Pig’s comments with riffs and his own facial expressions - grins and chuckles - and noted above I was in his direct line of sight on the other side of Pigpen. When it came time for the Bob and Barbara match up in Lovelight they were about 3 feet away. Pigpen would bend down when talking to them very much the matchmaker. During the intermission between the 2 Dead sets, Phil gave me a cylindrical paper pint container with beer to drink. By this time it was sufficiently crowded that I couldn’t easily leave my perch and it was now hot inside the gym. Before the start of the 2nd Dead set, a woman threw a note on stage to Phil. Phil picked it up and read it and chuckled then gave it to me. The note said something like “If you want to come to a place where people like you call Emily” then a phone number. When the show was over it took a while for the crowd to dissipate so I could leave my perch. On the way out there were large piles of the folding chairs cleared to make room for dancing and what not in front of the stage. I also saw the reel-reel tape deck about 30-40 feet in front of the stage - at the time I was wondering if it would be used for a live recording. Amazing that I can listen to the show this many years later. originally shared with a few at LL
Source 4 of 6
2:30:13
SBD
Rating:
9.43 / 7 ratings
SHNID:
gd1971-04-17.sbd.sirmick.88760.flac16
Source:
MSR> R1? > R2 MAXELL UD35-90 3.75 IPS (Dick Latvala) Technics RS-1506 > R3 TANDBERG TD20A 7.5IPS
Lineage:
R3 > Technics RS-1506 > TEAC AN-300 DOLBY DECODE > GRACE DESIGN LUNATEC V3 PRE ONLY > KORG MR-1000 > DSD DDF 1BIT 5.644mhZ > AUDIO GATE SW DISEMINATION > 24BIT wav
Taper Notes:
View Notes- pitch correction +24 cents - right channel gain reduced by 2 decibels - quite a number of small dropouts have been repaired, a few clicks removed and a little surplus material trimmed out. - there is possibly a splice in Mama Tried with two different sources used, sound quality changes around 0:30 to the end of the song on the raw file. There was noticeably more hiss in the first part. - Good Lovin'(part 1) fades in. - there appears to be a cut in Lovelight around 12:16, hardly anything missing though! This is also present in the other circulating source. - downsampled with Voxengo R8brain and dithered with iZotope Ozone (MBIT+) * ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* *Pigpen is the star of this show, may his Love Light forever shine* * ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Thanks for getting this source to me, you know who YOU are. edited & mastered by SIRMick November 2007