Mickey & the Hartbeats
10/30/68
The Matrix
San Francisco, CA

24 bit 96 kHz audio transfer by Matt Smith

These reels came from Will Boswell.  Back in the early 70's, Peter Kafer lent his reels to Will who dubbed them @ 7.5 ips.  As an aside this was a different time period from the FE 4/71 reels.  Peter obtained his copies from Bill Abrams who had the master reels and have since vanished from the stories i've heard.  So basically we can deduce the most likely lineage of these are MR(Abrams)>R @ 7.5 ips(Kafer)>R @ 7.5 ips(Will Boswell). My buddy Pat Lee scored his from Will and the lineage info is the same except for the extra reel gen as well. There still is some mystery surrounding these shows as for exact lineage and there are a few people who have the same lineage as this but generally, all circulating copies have been sourced with Kafer's reels.  MR(Abrams)>R(Kafer)>R@ 7.5 ips(Will Boswell).

transfer info
Akai GX636 - Direct tape head out >> custom built Bottlehead tube tape preamp with a pair of Tesla 6922 tubes >> Apogee Mini Me/Mini Dac 24/96 >> Lynx One soundcard >> FLAC by Matt Smith

Mixed and Mastered by Jamie Waddell a **GEMS** Production www.shnflac.net  April 2011

-This is a mix down of the line feed left channel, and the more ambient miced right channel.  Enjoy... [and yes, the "as-is" will circulate, but this is how "I believe" this source was intended to be heard] .


01. tuning
02. Dark Star Jam >
03. Death Letter Blues
04. "Fate Music" talk
05. The Other One Jam>
06. St. Stephen noodle>
07. Turn On Your Lovelight Jam
08. tuning and stuff >
09. Jam  >
10. Jam*
11. The Eleven Jam >
12. Death Don't Have No Mercy
13. tuning
14. Prisoner Blues**
15. Baby Please Come Back to Me** (?)
16. Jam
17. Talking and tuning
18. Dark Star Jam



Show billed as "Mickey and the Hartbeats".
Bobby and Pigpen were absent.
* Contains Clementine hints.
** With Elvin Bishop
