Grateful Dead
Civic Center - Providence, Rhode Island
Thursday - April 4th, 1985


This is a soundboard of unknown lineage.
Transfer:  XLII tapes BX-300 w/o Dolby on playback > Philips standalone CDR > CDWav to split and encode as Flac (level 5).

Done by bzlrbi@aol.com 11/24/2013.

This is likely from the same source as the ciruclating soundboards, but without the apparent Dolby Abuse on the others. Discussing it with the friend I got this from, we think it's no more than 4 or 5 generations.  Obvious care was exercised in handing this down the line... probably nothing but Maxells and Nakamichi cassette decks were used.  It sounds very nice!  Except for:

## --there is a very unfortunate cut in She Belongs to Me at 4:06.56, which lasted for 5.48 seconds.  It appears that someone forgot to "pop the top" off their cassette, so I suspect it's not present on the master (wherever that might be).
--there is some "rolling hiss" at the beginning of Miracle.  Chalk this one up to the ravages of time on cassettes.
** --segments of Drums and Space are obviously missing. The right channel is missing for a few seconds at the beginning of Space. There is a cut between Space and the intro to The Wheel. I have made no attempts at patching these.
--there is no tuning or crowd noise at end of set 1, beginning of set 2 or before the encore. All the songs are there in full, however.



My hope is that this seed will get people to check their cassette collections.  Does anyone have a better version of this?


Set 1:

s1t01 - Alabama Getaway ->
s1t02 - Jack Straw
s1t03 - tuning
s1t04 - Dire Wolf
s1t05 - El Paso
s1t06 - She Belongs To Me ##
s1t07 - tuning
s1t08 - My Brother Esau
s1t09 - Friend Of The Devil
s1t10 - tuning
s1t11 - Lost Sailor ->
s1t12 - Saint Of Circumstance ->
s1t13 - Deal

Set 2:
s2t01 - I Need A Miracle ->
s2t02 - Crazy Fingers ->
s2t03 - Samson & Delilah
s2t04 - He's Gone ->
s2t05 - Goin' Down The Road ->
s2t06 - Drums // **
s2t07 - ..Space // -> **
s2t08 - The Wheel ->
s2t09 - Black Peter ->
s2t10 - Around & Around ->
s2t11 - Turn On Your Lovelight
Encore:
s2t12 - U.S. Blues




