Phil Lesh and Friends
February 12, 2005
Mardi Gras Spectacular
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
San Francisco, CA

Source: Matrix (SBD/AUD mixdown):
SBD: DSBD - Official Release from www.phillesh.net (CDs mastered by Wizard)
AUD: Mbho603aHypers-> V3-> Neundo 24/96 Audiolink Multiset-> Sony PCG-C1VPK-> Wavelab 4.0 24bit 96kHz; Transfer: Wavelab 4.0->Apogee dithering algorithm 24bit 96kHz to 16bit 44.1kHz (Taped and transferred by Marty S|Jack Russel)

ORIGINALLY TORRENTED AT http://tmnsp.net

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DISC 1

Set 1:
1)~^Party
2) Playin' In The Band>
3) ~Carnival> Samson & Delilah tease>
4) Loose Lucy

DISC 2

1) ~Life Is A Carnival>
2) Jam>
3) *Cumberland Blues>
4) ~*Storm>
5) *Cumberland Blues Reprise>
6) ~*Goat>
7) *Uncle John's Band
8) ~@Do Right Woman
9) @Bertha

DISC 3

Set 2:
1) ~#^Carnival Time>
2) #^Iko Iko
3) Sitting On Top Of The World
4) New Speedway Boogie>
5) ~Hurricane>
6) ~Below Radar>
7) ~You've Got To Hide Your Love Away>
8) Spacey Jam> Playin' Jam>
9) Playin' In The Band Reprise

DISC 4
1) Don't Ease Me In
2) Scarlet Begonias
3) ~Brown Sugar
4) ^After Midnight>
5) ^Midnight Hour
6) Donor Rap/Intros
7) *US Blues
8) *Box Of Rain


~1st time played
Phil, Molo, Jimmy Herring (guitar)
Chris Robinson (vocals, @aco guitar)
Barry Sless (g, %pedal steel)
Steve Molitz (k, from Particle)
*Tim Carbone - violin (RRE)
*John Skehan - mandolin (RRE)
*Todd Sheaffer - acoustic guitar (RRE)
*Andy Goessling - sax, flute, dobro (RRE)
*Carey Harmon - percussion (RRE)
Gloria Jones & Jackie LaBranch - vocals (JGB)
^Theryl "Houseman" DeClouet - vocals (Galactic)
#with Dancing procession and parade of
floats from UBC, DNC and Philzone.com

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Notes:
The soundboard was kept at its original strength, while the audience was slightly reduced in strength. I kept the crowd as a pretty large factor, which is definitely appropriate for this show. For synchronization, I used the audience recording as my benchmark. The reason for this is that the transitions from disc 1 to disc 2 and from disc 3 to disc 4 in the audience recording are seamless, while on the board they are not. The tracking, however, was done based on the soundboards, although the exact splits differ slightly.
Because I was working with two beautiful digital recordings, I saw no reason to edit the waveforms in any way, besides the cuts needed for synchronization.
The sound is very full, with very nice depth provided by the audience recording. This is probably very close to what you would have experienced aurally if you had attended the show.

Thanks to Phil and his crew for the board and to Marty S for his much praised audience recording.
Thanks to the Internet Archive for both of the downloads.

-Ben Scott-Killian (shruggy1987)
bscottk@gmail.com
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FLAC info:
FLAC level 6 encoding utilized

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