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Grateful Dead Live at Winterland Arena on 1977-12-29

by Grateful Dead

Publication date: 1977-12-29 ( check for other copies)

Topics: Audience, Matt Smith, 24 bit, Sandy Troy

Collection: GratefulDead

Band/Artist: Grateful Dead

Resource: DeadLists Project

Set 1

Jack Straw, They Love Each Other, Mama Tried, Loser, Looks Like Rain, Tennessee Jed, Minglewood Blues, Sugaree, Promised Land

Set 2

Bertha-> Good Lovin', It Must Have Been The Roses, Sunrise, Playin' In The Band-> China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider-> China Doll-> Playin' In The Band-> Drums-> Not Fade Away-> Playin' In The Band, E: Terrapin Station, E: Johnny B. Goode

*Second Encore. This date is featured on Dick's Picks 10.

Notes

Mastered By Matt Smith
April 2015

Matt's Comments:
This is a straight transfer using my Technics 1506 reel to reel with a Lamb Labs Dolby decoder in the transfer chain since the reel was Dolby encoded.
Thanks to Pat Lee for lending me the Dolby unit
Special thanks to Adam Aegart for the Technics RS1506.
Special thanks to Charlie Miller for providing the reels.

Addeddate: 2015-05-24 22:42:18

Identifier: gd1977-12-29.133041.aud.troy-smith.flac24

Location: San Francisco, CA

Run time: 170:15.542

Source: Recording Info: master recorded from the balcony on a Tandberg 10X reel to reel @ 7.5 ips. The reel is from Sandy Troy's collection; Transfer Info: Technics 1506 w/Lamb Labs Dolby decoder > WAV (24bit/96k) > Apogee Mini Me 24/96 > Apogee Mini DAC monitoring and mastering > FLAC; Mastered By Matt Smith

Taped by: Sandy Troy

Transferred by: Matt Smith

Type: sound

Venue: Winterland Arena

Year: 1977

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Reviewer: Evan S. Hunt - - December 29, 2016
Subject: Nice Job

Kudos to the folks that recorded this up in the balcony of Winterland and also to those who aided in the overall presentation. This is a decent AUD and it gets better as it goes.

This was the most awesome of all the GD shows I attended. Some sloppiness but most songs exhibit fire -- especially Jerry on his souped-up Wolf Guitar. Many of these songs are my alltime favorite versions like PITB, China Rider, China Doll, etc and the PITB Reprise where Jerry lets it all hang out ala Peter Townshend of the Who.

As a result of this show I went on tour with the band for the only time I ever toured with them. I saw all the subsequent shows at Winterland in Dec and then all of the January shows in Calif. Except for some fiery shows in the first part of 1978 (like 4-12-78 Cameron) the Dead never really retained the same fire and it seemed they just gradually slipped ever so incrementally in enthusiasm. Well, they never really captured it like in this show and numerous others of the 1977 year.

This ranks as the greatest of all but my Rating reflects the stream quality only.

Reviewer: Pat Buzby - - May 25, 2015
Subject: fix

I see it is being fixed. Thanks and sorry to have posted too soon.

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