Grateful Dead 
Saturday, October 20th, 1990
Internationales Congress Centrum
Berlin, Germany

        cd1  -  set 1
 1) (crowd/tuning)
 2)  Jack Straw
 3)  Mississippi Half Step Uptown Toodleoo->
 4)  Walking Blues
 5)  Friend Of The Devil
 6)  Black Throated Wind
 7)  Jack-A-Roe
 8)  When I Paint My Masterpiece
 9)  Let It Grow->
10)  Jam->
11)  Box Of Rain

        plus encore:
12)  NFA chant
13)    e:  One More Saturday Night

        cd2  -  set 2
 1)  Tuning
 2)  Eyes Of The World->
 3)  Samson And Delilah
 4)  Ship Of Fools 
 5)  Dark Star->
 6)  Drums->
 7)  Space->
 8)  Dark Star->
 9)  Throwing Stones->
10)  Not Fade Away

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This is a matrix, done by hansokolow in ProTools, of the following sources:

SBD: shnid=12931

DSBD: Healy mix>MD>D>CD

This show was broadcast by German FM radio, and FM's do circulate.

-This is NOT the old FM-Bootleg-

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DAUD: shnid=90641

Source: Audience Master Cassette Nakamichi 300's Cardioids > Marantz PMD-430 > Sony Walkman Pro D-6 w/Dolby B
Tapers: Alf Houck and Robert Wright
Location: Taper's Section
Media: 1st Set Maxell MX-90 MX-100
Transfer: Nakamichi DR-1 > Edirol UA-5 > USB > WaveLab 5.0 @ [24/96]
Mastering with: iZotope Ozone 3 > CD Wave > r8brain [16/44.1] > TLH > FLAC
Transfer and Mastered by Bill Koucky March 6, 2008
Green Mountain Bros.

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hansokolow's notes:

I lived in Germany as an exchange student in '88-'89, and had visited Berlin in January of '89.  No one would have believed that the Berlin wall would come down in October, or that the country would be unified soon after.  Though I wasn't lucky enough to attend any of the Europe shows, this one really resonates for me, because of what was happening at the time, incredible world events.  Particularly Samson and Delilah, Ship of Fools, and Throwing Stones all have powerful lyrics and themes that speak to the times.  And the playing throughout is pretty phenomenal: the introspective Dark Star is spread out over Drums and Space and is filled with mystery.  I took a stab at the 10/19 show as well, but did not come out at all right, so sorry, but don't expect to see a matrix of that one by me.

In general there are a lot of effects on the vocals and the drums in this show, mostly it's an echo effect.  Sometimes things sound a bit muddy, but I made sure the matrixing process wasn't amplifying the effect.  Also, I EQed out a very strong hiss on the AUD.

Digibuzzing in Jack Straw on the DSBD at 2:36 for less than a second, which I cut out.

Crowd noise missing from the DSBD between Walking Blues and FOTD, between FOTD and B. T. Wind, between Jack-A-Roe and Masterpiece, and between Masterpiece and Let It Grow.

Due to a tapeflip, there is crowd noise missing from the AUD after Black-Throated Wind, as well as the first 15 seconds of Jack-A-Roe.

There was a split-second glitch on the AUD in the intro to Masterpiece at 0:38 that I cut out.

There is a jump in the crowd noise on the AUD in Space at 2:02 that I left in.

There is a pop at 2:39 in Space, but it's on both sources, so I left it.

I put the NFA crowd chant and the encore at the end of disc one, for weirdos like me who still use cds.  But of course, it's seamless if you want to put it back together.

-Tano (hansokolow@gmail.com)
completed: 4/28/2009


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