Grateful Dead
12-11-69

Thelma Theater,
Los Angeles

AUD>MR>R>D>CD>EAC>SHN (intro through last verse of Dark Star)
SBD>MC>C?>Beta>PCM>D>CD>EAC>SHN (?) (last verse Dark Star>end of show)
**I have seen widely varying information for both sources of this show

Disc 1
    set 1 (or early show)
1.  Introduction
2.  Casey Jones
3.  //Cold Rain & Snow
4.  Mama Tried
5.  T.C. plays Bach
6.  Yellow Dog Joke
7.  Dire Wolf
8.  //Hurts Me Too
9.  //China Cat Sunflower-->
10. I Know You Rider
11. Black Peter-->
12. Me & My Uncle
13. Hard To Handle

Disc 2
    Set 1 continued
1.  Dark Star-->
2.  St. Stephen-->
3.  The Eleven%-->
4.  Cumberland Blues
    Set 2 (or late show)
5.  Morning Dew
6.  Next Time You See Me-->
7.  Sittin' On Top Of The World

Disc 3
    Set 2 continued
1.  Stage Banter
2.  Beat It On Down The Line
3.  Big Boss Man
4.  Good Lovin'%
5.  High Time
6.  Dancin' In The Streets
7.  Easy Wind
8.  Cryptical Envelopment-->
10. The Other One%-->
11. Cryptical Envelopment-->
12. Cosmic Charlie


A very good mono audience recording supplies the first ~75 minutes of this 
show, up until the final verse of Dark Star.  The recording was stopped in 
between most songs, and only the first few notes of a few songs are clipped.  
A somewhat degraded SBD supplies the rest of the show.  There are several 
small portions of this SBD that have level/channel problems.

Sound Forge was used for editing: slight pitch correction for both sources, 
smoothing cuts, patching dropouts, normalizing, and removal of many pops that 
were present on the SBD portion, presumably from a PCM  transfer.   

Notes:
---d/o @ 0:55 in Me & My Uncle patched with SBD
---d/o @ 3:36 in Dark Star patched with SBD
---splice @ 5:20 of The Eleven
---splice in Good Lovin' @ 5:45 during drum solo
---channel fluctuations at end of Good Lovin'
---channel problems for first 2:39 of Easy Wind
---right channel fluctuates at end of drums, just before O1 intro
---splice @ 5:30 of The Other One

I believe the SBD was mastered on cassette, though most lineages seem to be 
listed as a reel master.   The frequent mix problems, varying pitch/speed, 
and lack of trademark reel-to-reel zip-outs during cuts strongly support this 
being a cassette master.   

thanks to Paul Bottiglio & Jack Warner
edits/encoding by J. Cotsman
