Grateful Dead
03/23/1981
Rainbow Theatre
London, England

Taper: B.Koucky.
Source: Condenser mics, portable JVC Boombox, 20 ft from stage left, hand held on a riser 6ft off floor > Maxell UDXL-Is.
Transfer: MAC playback on Nakamichi DR-2, no NR > Presonus Firebox > firewire > PC, XP-Pro > recorded as 24 bit/96 KHz PCM WAV, Wavelab 5 > Waves X-Noise and L3 Multimaximizer @ 24 bit > UVHR-22 (dither to 16/44.1) > CDWAV 1.9 > WAV > FLAC. Transfer and lossless encoding by C.Ladner.
Seeded by the Green Mountain Bros, 12/2006.

Disc I - Set I
01 Jack Straw
02 They Love Each Other
03 Cassidy
04 It Must Have Been the Roses >
05 El Paso
06 Ramble on Rose
07 Minglewood Blues
08 Sugaree
09 Lazy Lightnin' >
10 Supplication Jam

Disc II - Set II
01 Bird Song
02 Samson & Delilah
03 To Lay Me Down
04 Terrapin Station >

Disc III - Set II (cont'd)
01 Playing in the Band > Jam
02 Drums* >
03 Space >
04 The Other One >
05 Stella Blue >
06 Sugar Magnolia
Encore
07 Casey Jones*

Comments:
* w/ material from previously circulated MacDonald shn fileset.
The MacDonald source is missing less than 30 seconds of material from Drums and there was overlap between sources so that a complete performance recording is possible.

The Drummers apparently never leave the stage during Drums, and Space is short brief, and TOO-theme infused leading up to a Vesuvial Phil bomb TOO explosion. The encore is absent from Bill's source and was patched from the prior circulating recording which by comparison has better dynamic range and more high frequencies which is entirely related to the microphones. Bill's recording sounds great from close stage proximity and during the quiet passages in the second set its pretty cool to know that you are listening to Jerry's guitar amp directly than the PA. There is a lot of close up noise at times. There is more bass on this recording though the high end on the previously circulated source is much cleaner and crisper. Still, for a 26 year old type I maxell master cassette made with a boombox, it sounds pretty good. I wish i had a picture of Bill with a ghetto blaster taping a dead show up close to the stage in london no less...

SHNTOOL LEN OUTPUT:
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180:06.21 1906228716 B (totals for 21 files, 0.6197 overall compression ratio)

There were no sector boundary errors.