Grateful Dead
1971-04-28
Fillmore East
New York, NY


Lineage:MR@ 7.5 ips>R @ 7.5 ips.(Wilson Boswell).  Truckin thru Bird Song is from a second gen reel.
Transfer info: Akai GX636 direct tape head output  > Bottlehead tube tape pre pair Tesla tubes circa 1980  > Apogee Mini Me 24/96  > Apogee Mini DAC monitoring and mastering  > FLAC

Transfered and mastered by Matt Smith 11/13

Set 1
01. Truckin'
02. tuning
03. Beat It On Down The Line
04. Loser
05. El Paso
06. The Rub
07. Bird Song
08. tuning
09. Playing In The Band
10. Cumberland Blues
11. Ripple
12. Me & My Bobby McGee
13. King Bee
14. Bertha

Set 2
01. tuning
02. Morning Dew
03. Me & My Uncle
04. Deal
05. Hard To Handle
06. Cryptical Envelopment >
07. Drums >
08. The Other One >
09. Wharf Rat
10. Sugar Magnolia
11. tuning
12. Dark Star >
13. Saint Stephen >
14. Not Fade Away >
15. Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad >
16. Not Fade Away




Matt's note:

bird song, bertha  patched from 16 track source
wharf rat. the other one from alternate sources

Matt's original notes from 114029:
I decided to put this out for a number of reasons but mainly it's a big improvement as to what circulates.  The main reason being Will's reels are in prime condition and have never had to be baked over a number of times.  The exact lineage of all the 4/71 FE reels are still a mystery so perhaps we will really never know the whole story BUT some low gen reels @ 7.5 ips. have survived in one piece and these are some of them..  According to the story from Wilson and Pat Lee, Peter Kafer and Bill Gadsden "purchased" the supposed masters from a guy named Buddy Miller(now a country musician) and brought them up to the Northwest for them to copy back in 1973.  Will's are 7.5 ips. and Pat's are 3.3/4 ips.  Nobody for sure knows exactly which were masters since Buddy decided to keep a few for himself which is truly the crux of the mystery or if even Buddy had masters himself.  I realize in some circles this is considered heresy but it's true and until Buddy comes forward and flat out states he had masters this should be considered as a possibility.  We can only now just listen carefully and try to figure it out that way.. Anyhow please enjoy!

