GRATEFUL DEAD
Uptown Theater, Chicago IL
August 20th, 1980
Set Two
"The Record Store Milk Crate Tapes" Edition

01. Terrapin Station
02. Drums/Space
03. Not Fade Away
04. Morning Dew
05. Good Lovin'
06. U.S. Blues

Cassette of unknown lineage with fills from Archives .wav files/PC/Soundforge/You
A used record store near me recently got in a milk crate full of Grateful Dead live cassettes they were selling for five bucks each, four bucks if you bought three or more, three bucks of you bought six or more. About two thirds of them were very poorly labeled, often only having the city and year on them while others had type written inserts with track listings, venue and date. I fished out the shows that were regional, thinking they may be lower generation since they were shows from nearby, along with a couple of older 1970 shows I was not familiar with. After seeding a Jerry solo show that turned out to be a previous unknown fourth source I started to check out some of the other tapes I purchased and found out there were some potentially uncirculated or upgrade recordings there.
This is clearly an upgrade from the version found on Archives, however I had to do some digital splicing to fill in some gaps on Terrapin, Drums and Morning Dew using the Archives version (the lossless files of course) because they were missing from the cassette. Terrapin had pieces missing at the beginning and further in, Drums had some missing audio at the beginning and I fixed a tape flip gap on Morning Dew. They are short patches but were necessary.

The other regional tapes I plucked out of the milk crate were...

Chicago Auditorium 6-29-76 Set 1
Uptown Theater, Chicago 5-17-78 Set 2
Market Square Arena, Indianapolis 2-3-79 Set 2
Uptown Theater, Chicago 8-19-80 Set 2 (shared already)
Uptown Theater, Chicago 8-20-80 Set 2 (shared here)
Uptown Theater, Chicago 2-28-81 Set 2

    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
    13:26.38         135.68 MB  -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.5585  01-Terrapin Station.flac
    16:22.74         165.37 MB  -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.5383  02-Drums-Space.flac
     6:43.40          67.89 MB  -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.5406  03-Not Fade Away.flac
    11:34.68         116.90 MB  -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.5424  04-Morning Dew.flac
     7:56.44          80.17 MB  -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.5679  05-Good Lovin.flac
     5:21.52          54.12 MB  -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.5724  06-US Blues.flac
    61:26.15         620.12 MB                           0.5506  (6 files)

