Grateful Dead Live at The Spectrum on 1972-09-21
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- Publication date
- 1972-09-21 ( check for other copies)
- Topics
- Audience, Doug Lamarre, SIRMick, Matt Vernon
- Collection
- GratefulDead
- Band/Artist
- Grateful Dead
- Resource
- DeadLists Project
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Versions - Different performances of the song by the same artist
Compilations - Other albums which feature this performance of the song
Covers - Performances of a song with the same name by different artists
Song Title | Versions | Compilations | Covers |
---|---|---|---|
The Promised Land | |||
Bird Song | |||
El Paso | |||
China Cat Sunflower > | |||
I Know You Rider | |||
Black Throated Wind | |||
Big Railroad Blues | |||
Jack Straw | |||
Loser | |||
Big River | |||
Ramble On Rose | |||
Cumberland Blues | |||
Playing In The Band | |||
He's Gone > | |||
Truckin' | |||
Black Peter | |||
Mexicali Blues | |||
Dark Star > | |||
Morning Dew | |||
Beat It On Down The Line | |||
Misissippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo | |||
Sugar Magnolia | |||
Friend of the Devil | |||
Not Fade Away > | |||
Not Fade Away | |||
One More Saturday Night |
Notes
Comments:
- This show was released as Dick's Picks 36
Notes:
- Pitch corrected
- The taper had paused the tape and on Doug's copy the tracks have been cut up so that they fitted conveniently on to two tapes. This may well explain why some is missing. Thanks to Matt Smith who also provided a copy of Don Wolfe's reel which turned out to derive from the same recording but is also incomplete. Both have been used , to put this together, it has been a little like doing a jigsaw puzzle.
- Due to some degradation of the tape there are a substantial number of small dropouts. I won't say I got them all but most have been repaired.
- The larger patches and other small sections have come from Charlie Miller's soundboard - thanks
The Promised Land
Dark Star (about 1:25)
//Friend Of The Devil (only DP36 has the whole of this track)
Not Fade Away (1st 1:25)
- I have narrowed the soundfield on the sbd patches because I think it fit's better.
- Some background noise has been removed and I also applied some eq so that overall the sound is more consistent.
The sound is still a little uneven but this is eminently listenable.
Thanks to Doug Lamarre for proving this his source.
Thanks to Matt Vernon for transferring this souce and facilitating.
edited and mastered
SIRMick
May 2021
- Addeddate
- 2021-05-17 16:22:00
- Identifier
- gd1972-09-21.152463.aud.lamarre.vernon.sirmick.flac16
- Lineage
- Transfer: cassette > Nak CR-7A > Tascam DA-3000 #2 (DSF 1-bit/5.6 MHz) > Tascam Hi Res Editor >wav 24/96 - Transferred by Matt Vernon Lineage: wav 24/96 > Adobe Audition 3 > iZotope RX8 Advanced > iZotope Neutron 2 Advanced > wav 16/44.1 > CD Wave > Flac16
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA
- Run time
- 204:47.60
- Scanner
- Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4
- Taped by
- from the collection of Doug Lamarre
- Transferred by
- SIRMick & Matt Vernon
- Type
- sound
- Venue
- The Spectrum
- Year
- 1972
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Reviews
Subject: stainless
Additionally, when finding the diamond in the rough (like this tape here) it should be met with the same care and expecation you hold with the music itself. Because even though soundboards widely circulate (I own them all) what you are (hopefully) listening to with this tape is - not - the same thing.
Of course, I began with Bird Song to make sure what we had here was what I'm familiar with. Quick few listens retained the possibility that I was actually hearing MORE than what I have ever...the same phase with Phil's tone is apparent, but somehow closer than through the soundboard. I skipped most of the first set to explore Playing In The Band. For the time, it's explosive, truly one-of-a-kind every single night they played it's theme. Quieter than you might have expected, it sounds like Dark Star...at first, but retains those warm chords that immediately catch and retain the sunlight. Without photosynthesis you're just a plant, these guys are an entire cosmic blanket - casting wide nets, farther...Garcia is holding the entire structure of what could be consider tonalities, although the canvas itself (Bob/Phil/Keith and Billy) take up enough space they're like fingers on the same hand. I can't think of a better example. Side-note; the fastest sixteen minutes and forty-one seconds of my life.
Audience recordings are like pragmatic challenges, not available in the compartmentalized structure of soundboard mixes. It’s not that I would call myself purist - that is far from the truth (we like what we like). But, when you’ve heard so much, sometimes it’s the feeling or idea that I find myself chasing through and through. I feel more mindful when listening to AUDs - much more than when I throw on another board. Because what I am choosing to hear is the entire ambiance, the nature of the time, what they heard "back in the day." Don’t get me wrong, I fully appreciate the music. Thank GOD we have anything at all (have you thanked a taper today?) although sometimes it’s nice to get a little perspective in a world dominated by accessible genre-busting immediacy.
The tape itself is round on the edges, and more vibrant than I was expecting from a tape made in 1972. I wouldn't say this was the best audience recording I have ever heard (05/03/69). However, it presents the music in its raw form. There isn't any more I could say that you can't understand from listening to the tape. This Dark Star > Morning Dew sandwich is certifiable...exercise caution, one-sitting might not be enough to truly soak all of the magic found within.
Thank you to aLL parties involved * Nick 2/19/23
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