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June 12th
6 shows
73 tapes
Years
1995
29.9k
PlaybackListensHours
48h58077
7d1.2k161
30d29.9k4.2k
49 shows
341 tapes
1994
10.3k
PlaybackListensHours
48h774109
7d3.3k419
30d10.3k1.4k
85 shows
460 tapes
1993
39.1k
PlaybackListensHours
48h3.4k463
7d5.2k664
30d39.1k5.1k
83 shows
656 tapes
1992
38.3k
PlaybackListensHours
48h4.9k643
7d4k520
30d38.3k5.1k
57 shows
538 tapes
1991
35.5k
PlaybackListensHours
48h6.9k870
7d9.2k1.3k
30d35.5k4.9k
78 shows
973 tapes
1990
46.4k
PlaybackListensHours
48h3.1k404
7d16.3k2k
30d46.4k6k
78 shows
1,139 tapes
1989
47.2k
PlaybackListensHours
48h3k373
7d5.5k678
30d47.2k5.9k
78 shows
1,017 tapes
1988
20.5k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.2k141
7d2.5k289
30d20.5k2.4k
82 shows
882 tapes
1987
33.3k
PlaybackListensHours
48h4.6k515
7d4.1k462
30d33.3k3.6k
88 shows
1,025 tapes
1986
11.7k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1k114
7d1.7k189
30d11.7k1.3k
47 shows
684 tapes
1985
22k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.8k212
7d3.3k382
30d22k2.6k
73 shows
1,356 tapes
1984
20k
PlaybackListensHours
48h3.5k408
7d6.6k784
30d20k2.5k
67 shows
1,075 tapes
1983
25.2k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.4k182
7d2.8k375
30d25.2k3.3k
71 shows
1,069 tapes
1982
41.5k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.3k156
7d2.9k361
30d41.5k5.1k
63 shows
753 tapes
1981
42.9k
PlaybackListensHours
48h2k242
7d4k504
30d42.9k5.4k
92 shows
868 tapes
1980
67.9k
PlaybackListensHours
48h5.2k620
7d11.4k1.2k
30d67.9k7.9k
91 shows
794 tapes
1979
20.8k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.7k234
7d3.1k439
30d20.8k2.9k
79 shows
600 tapes
1978
45.2k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.9k257
7d3.8k519
30d45.2k6.1k
87 shows
592 tapes
1977
285.7k
PlaybackListensHours
48h8.8k1.2k
7d41.3k5.7k
30d285.7k39.4k
64 shows
418 tapes
1976
60.2k
PlaybackListensHours
48h22.1k2.9k
7d15k2.1k
30d60.2k8.2k
45 shows
298 tapes
1975
6.3k
PlaybackListensHours
48h23926
7d1.2k123
30d6.3k646
25 shows
63 tapes
1974
93.6k
PlaybackListensHours
48h3.5k468
7d12k1.6k
30d93.6k11.9k
42 shows
324 tapes
1973
84.9k
PlaybackListensHours
48h6k823
7d15k2k
30d84.9k10.8k
75 shows
445 tapes
1972
65.4k
PlaybackListensHours
48h2.4k305
7d5.1k634
30d65.4k8k
88 shows
361 tapes
1971
33.2k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.7k183
7d3.5k392
30d33.2k3.8k
82 shows
357 tapes
1970
44.2k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.5k171
7d7k718
30d44.2k4.7k
101 shows
375 tapes
1969
26.7k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.4k172
7d3.7k584
30d26.7k4k
112 shows
326 tapes
1968
7.3k
PlaybackListensHours
48h41354
7d1.5k191
30d7.3k921
41 shows
125 tapes
1967
1.6k
PlaybackListensHours
48h14318
7d23934
30d1.6k214
23 shows
55 tapes
1966
7.9k
PlaybackListensHours
48h40529
7d66742
30d7.9k523
32 shows
78 tapes
1965
618
PlaybackListensHours
48h191
7d1127
30d61836
2 shows
2 tapes
1971
Sources
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
Transferrer: Kevin Tobin
2:57:49
SBD
Rating:
9.00 / 7 ratings
Transferrer:
Kevin Tobin
SHNID:
gd1971-04-17.mtx.tobin.107384.flac16
Transferrer: SIRMick
2:30:12
SBD
Rating:
9.64 / 14 ratings
Transferrer:
SIRMick
SHNID:
gd1971-04-17.sbd.sirmick.89031.flac24
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 @96khz sample rate
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
Transferrer: Rod Nayfield
2:33:29
SBD
Rating:
9.42 / 25 ratings
Transferrer:
Rod Nayfield
SHNID:
gd71-04-17.sbd.nayfield.121.122.sbeok.shnf
Source:
Soundboard
Lineage:
SBD > Reel > ? > DAT > ZA2 (48>44.1) > CD
Taper Notes:
View Notesset1; SBD> Reel> ?> DAT> ZA2 (48>44.1)> CD; via R. Nayfield
Taper: Will Boswell and Randy Smith
2:51:49
Rating:
9.00 / 3 ratings
Taper:
Will Boswell and Randy Smith
Transferrer:
Will Boswell and Derek McCabe
SHNID:
gd1971-04-17.aud.boswell-smith.motb-0136.107075.flac16
Lineage:
MAR>> Akai GX 636>Apogee Mini Me(24/96)>Apogee Mini DAC(monitoring/mastering)>Lynx One soundcard>wavelab 5.0>DVD/FLAC
Taper Notes:
View NotesNotes: Bertha missing from after King Bee, was not on the master.