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June 13th
7 shows
49 tapes
Years
1995
30.2k
PlaybackListensHours
48h57877
7d1.5k202
30d30.2k4.2k
49 shows
341 tapes
1994
10.8k
PlaybackListensHours
48h739107
7d3.8k482
30d10.8k1.5k
85 shows
460 tapes
1993
41.3k
PlaybackListensHours
48h3.3k457
7d7.4k959
30d41.3k5.4k
83 shows
656 tapes
1992
39.9k
PlaybackListensHours
48h5.1k678
7d5.6k725
30d39.9k5.3k
57 shows
538 tapes
1991
39.2k
PlaybackListensHours
48h7k878
7d13k1.8k
30d39.2k5.3k
78 shows
973 tapes
1990
48.7k
PlaybackListensHours
48h2.9k385
7d18.6k2.3k
30d48.7k6.3k
78 shows
1,139 tapes
1989
48.9k
PlaybackListensHours
48h3k367
7d7.1k883
30d48.9k6.1k
78 shows
1,017 tapes
1988
21k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.3k146
7d3k349
30d21k2.4k
82 shows
882 tapes
1987
34.8k
PlaybackListensHours
48h4.8k545
7d5.6k628
30d34.8k3.8k
88 shows
1,025 tapes
1986
12.2k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1k114
7d2.2k244
30d12.2k1.4k
47 shows
684 tapes
1985
22.9k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.8k218
7d4.2k488
30d22.9k2.7k
73 shows
1,356 tapes
1984
21.2k
PlaybackListensHours
48h3.5k411
7d7.8k937
30d21.2k2.7k
67 shows
1,075 tapes
1983
26k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.5k189
7d3.5k469
30d26k3.4k
71 shows
1,069 tapes
1982
42.1k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.3k154
7d3.6k436
30d42.1k5.2k
63 shows
753 tapes
1981
44.1k
PlaybackListensHours
48h2k248
7d5.1k645
30d44.1k5.5k
92 shows
868 tapes
1980
69.1k
PlaybackListensHours
48h5.6k673
7d12.6k1.4k
30d69.1k8k
91 shows
794 tapes
1979
21.7k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.7k243
7d3.9k557
30d21.7k3k
79 shows
600 tapes
1978
46.1k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.9k265
7d4.8k652
30d46.1k6.3k
87 shows
592 tapes
1977
290.3k
PlaybackListensHours
48h9k1.2k
7d45.9k6.3k
30d290.3k40k
64 shows
418 tapes
1976
71.6k
PlaybackListensHours
48h22.4k2.9k
7d26.4k3.5k
30d71.6k9.7k
45 shows
298 tapes
1975
6.4k
PlaybackListensHours
48h26729
7d1.4k136
30d6.4k659
25 shows
63 tapes
1974
95.3k
PlaybackListensHours
48h3.6k477
7d13.7k1.8k
30d95.3k12.1k
42 shows
324 tapes
1973
88.8k
PlaybackListensHours
48h5.8k787
7d18.9k2.5k
30d88.8k11.4k
75 shows
445 tapes
1972
66.4k
PlaybackListensHours
48h2.4k308
7d6.1k765
30d66.4k8.1k
88 shows
361 tapes
1971
34k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.8k195
7d4.3k487
30d34k3.9k
82 shows
357 tapes
1970
45k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.5k178
7d7.8k819
30d45k4.8k
101 shows
375 tapes
1969
27.4k
PlaybackListensHours
48h1.4k174
7d4.5k677
30d27.4k4.1k
112 shows
326 tapes
1968
7.6k
PlaybackListensHours
48h43155
7d1.7k224
30d7.6k954
41 shows
125 tapes
1967
1.6k
PlaybackListensHours
48h14819
7d28540
30d1.6k220
23 shows
55 tapes
1966
8.1k
PlaybackListensHours
48h41930
7d90558
30d8.1k539
32 shows
78 tapes
1965
632
PlaybackListensHours
48h212
7d1268
30d63237
2 shows
2 tapes
1974
Sources
Transferrer: Trade DAT Transferred, FLAC'd, And Tagged (+ Front-Cover Artwork) By OldNeumanntapr
2:37:12
SBD
Rating:
10.00 / 3 ratings
Transferrer:
Trade DAT Transferred, FLAC'd, And Tagged (+ Front-Cover Artwork) By OldNeumanntapr
SHNID:
gd1974-05-25.162440.sbd.ONt.flac16
Source:
Soundboard Reel >DAT >CDR >FLAC
Lineage:
Trade DAT Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o, Tayio Uden CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.35 FLAC Tags Via xACT 2.51
Taper Notes:
View NotesAlso: Maria Muldaur; Great American String Band; Elvin Bishop 10 AM Start
Transferrer: SIRMick
2:44:18
SBD
Rating:
9.50 / 4 ratings
Transferrer:
SIRMick
SHNID:
gd1974-05-25.111432.mtx.sirmick.sbeok.flac16
Source:
Matrix: 60%sbd/40% aud; Sources: Master Soundboard Reel > Dick Latvala's Cassette > DAT > mastered to CD-R on an HHB CDR-850 > .shn (shnid 2635) Originally seeded to phlash.etree.org by Johnathan Miller. FOB Audience Recording by Jeremy Witt (shnid 111301) Preserved in posterity for 36 years by Jay Abrams (jra-sm) Recording Equipment: Sony TC-152, Sony Mics, BASF 120 minute cassettes, Dolby B Analog to Analog Transfer June 1974: Sony TC-152 -> Teac 1230 - Scotch 150, 7" Reels at 3 3/4 ips Transfer by Jim Blackwood Dec 23 2010 Editing and Mastering by Jamie Waddell on the GEMS Edit Station at 24 bit 96 kHz Weiss-Saracon for 16 bit 44.1kHz conversion TLH for FLAC8 SBE Free
Taper Notes:
View NotesThanks to everyone involved in getting these sources out there but most all, thank you to the GRATEFUL DEAD editing and matrix SIRMick January 2010
Source 3 of 5
2:38:12
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Rating:
8.92 / 28 ratings
SHNID:
gd74-05-25.sbd.moog.2635.sbeok.shnf
Source:
Soundboard
Lineage:
DAE/reSHN of MSR > Dick Latvala's cass > DAT > mastered to CD-R on an HHB CDR-850> .shn
Taper Notes:
View NotesDAE/reSHN of <a href="http://db.etree.org/shninfo_detail.php?shnid=205" rel="ugc nofollow">previous</a> shn set, via Doug Moog: MSR > Dick Latvala's cass > DAT > mastered to CD-R on an HHB CDR-850> .shn; via Jonathan Miller, Adam Roux; David Hollister reports problems on USB track
Source 4 of 5
5:16:21
SBD
Rating:
9.20 / 5 ratings
SHNID:
gd1974-05-25.sbd.jmiller.205.sbeok.shnf
Source:
MSR > C > DAT > CDR > SHN
Taper Notes:
View NotesDavid Hollister reports problems on USB track
Taper: Jeremy Witt
2:41:40
Rating:
9.83 / 12 ratings
Taper:
Jeremy Witt
Transferrer:
Jamie Waddell
SHNID:
gd1974-05-25.aud.gems.111301.flac16
Source:
Recording Info: FOB Audience Recording by Jeremy Witt Preserved in posterity for 36 years by Jay Abrams (jra-sm) Recording Equipment: Sony TC-152, Sony Mics, BASF 120 minute cassettes, Dolby B Analog to Analog Transfer June 1974: Sony TC-152 -> Teac 1230 - Scotch 150, 7" Reels at 3 3/4 ips Transfer by Jim Blackwood Dec 23 2010 Editing and Mastering by Jamie Waddell on the GEMS Edit Station at 24 bit 96 kHz Weiss-Saracon for 16 bit 44.1kHz conversion TLH for FLAC8 SBE Free
Taper Notes:
View NotesIn Jeremy Witt's own words...Dec 2010: I attended the Dead show at UC Santa Barbara in May, 1974, accompanied by friend Paul Handelman and my Sony TC-152 cassette recorder and Sony microphones. The weather was great, dry, sunny, and warm. Par for Santa Barbara in late May. The stage was ringed with the enormous sound system that filled the stage and went up probably thirty feet all around the stage. On May 25,1974, we were three weeks away from graduating from high school in San Mateo, CA, and had a thoroughly entertaining drive down the coast. Santa Barbara had suffered a major oil spill in 1969, the beaches were still not their pristine selves. The university was not nearly as popular then as it is now. However, there was a real college atmosphere for this show, with many UCSB students as well as students from other California schools in attendance. Paul and I had already gotten accepted to Santa Cruz and Cal respectively, where we were to start in the fall. The girls were very cute, in a more southern California blonde way but still with the underwearless style of the era and also very much into dancing. My large tape deck kept me out of trouble there. The deck was "portable" with slots for four "D" batteries, but it was really a full sized cassette deck of the day, including the dolby noise reduction system. I used BASF 120 minute cassettes, and held the mikes by hand, and recorded the show with the Dolby system on. As I had some problems with getting the deck confiscated by authorities (including Bill Graham in person at the February shows at Winterland earlier that year), we decided to bury the deck for the Santa Barbara show inside the stadium the night before the show. This worked okay, due to several layers of plastic seal. We had also considered smuggling the deck inside a watermelon, but this proved impossible so we opted for digging instead. These details of what I would stoop to humor me at this point as a 54 year old CPA. As tape recorders got steadily smaller and better, these kinds of smuggling shenanigans were no longer needed. The first set of the day was the Great American String Band. I remember this as being an absolutely great set of bluegrass, featuring Richard Greene on violin, David Grisman, and Jerry on banjo. The sound was great for this part as the crowd was quiet and the weather calm. I lost this tape somewhere down the road, as it became popular in my Cal dormitory the next year. Maybe somebody somewhere has a copy, as I would love to hear it again. I recall that Maria Muldaur played also, though I do not think that I recorded it. I was busy trying to hook up with my girlfriend Francine Lyons, who also attended the show but did not show up where I was supposed to meet her. Accordingly, I frantically searched but wound up dateless. We did run into a number of other familiar fans. Bill Walton, then a senior and the basketball center at UCLA, was standing about ten feet in front of us (we were probably 100 feet back, in the center slightly towards the Jerry Garcia side of the stage.) We had to move further over so Bill's big red head did not block our view. I did a mock interview of Bill, as well as several of my friends. I had yet to learn to keep my mouth shut during the show. Some of the voices I recognized on the tapes include above mentioned Paul (now a doctor of osteopathy in San Rafael, CA, friends Jay Abrams and Donny Hamlin of San Mateo, and several others whose names have been forgotten for posterity.) As far as the show goes, I remember that it took off from "US Blues" on at a fast pace and good sound from the get-go. High points were Scarlet Begonias, Brown Eyed Women and China Cat in the first set, then Promised Land, Big River, and Truckin and Sugar Magnolia in the second set. With Deal, Around and Around, Going Down the Road, and One More Saturday night sprinkled in, this was the classic 1974 rock and roll show by the Dead. The piano on this tour was louder than in prior shows of 1973-1974, a trend which got irritating in the humble opinion of this Dead fan later in the tour - especially the show in Oakland the next month. While I taped that one also, I think I recorded over the cassettes because Keith was louder than Jerry from where we taped. The mix was much better in Santa Barbara. We had also attended the show at the Cow Palace that March that featured the new massive "wall of sound" system, then in Reno and Oakland. Along with Cow Palace, the Santa Barbara show stands out in my memory as a beautiful day and one of the great Dead shows of the era - a special time in my life. Jeremy Witt -meta data image of Bronze Garcia Hand Statue courtesy of The Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation [[caveat emptor- despite some flaws and age, tape pauses and hand held movement, this is one unique recording and quite a document of the feel of "being there"- GEMS]]