Grateful Dead 5/24/70 Hollywood Festival, Newcastle-Under-Lyme, England

01. intro
02. Casey Jones
03. China Cat Sunflower >
04. I Know You Rider
05. Hard To Handle
06. Me & My Uncle
07. Cryptical Envelopment >
08. Drums >
09. The Other One >
10. Cryptical Reprise >
11. Attics Of My Life
12. Good Lovin'
13. Cold Rain & Snow
14. Dark Star >
15. St. Stephen >
16. Not Fade Away >
17. Lovelight

There are two circulating versions of this show; the complete patched SBD (shnid 6481) plus the original AUD (shnid 6159) that was used for the patches. There is some master reel distortion that remains on the SBD, and also some cuts in the AUD master.

This version......

CDRs of the original SBD-only show (ie. pre-shnid 6481) were provided to me about 15 years ago by Michael Getz (of Tapers Compendium fame). Using Goldwave, I spent nights equalising many drop-outs in volume and tweaking the stereo balance, particularly on Lovelight (where Pig's and Weir's call & response vocals were out of whack). At that time, I had another cassette copy of the bulk of the show - a mono analog tape reportedly the audio recorded by the film crew (never seen it anywhere else, don't think I have it any more as 99% of my cassettes went when I switched to digital). I used this to patch the SBD cuts in Attics and St Stephen. Some time later, shnid 6481 started to circulate (with the cuts patched from the AUD). Rather than rework all my own editing, I just lifted the Intro > start of Casey Jones, and the closing show remarks, from shnid 6481 and patched them into my own version where they'd been missing.

So, the lineage of my version is something like......
MSR > CDR > PC > my edits in Goldwave > CDR > FLAC
- patched with unknown MR > cassette > PC
- further patched with shnid 6481

It was only ever intended for my own use so please take it as you find it. Not a major upgrade but, to my ears, an improved listening experience. Sadly, I couldn't do anything about the SBD distortion.

Simon Phillips
May 2016

   length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
    4:51.00       51332444 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4029  01. intro.flac
    5:00.41       53016476 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6093  02. Casey Jones.flac
    5:18.27       56158748 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6225  03. China Cat Sunflower.flac
    5:02.30       53343404 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6239  04. I Know You Rider.flac
    6:27.22       68318588 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6098  05. Hard To Handle.flac
    3:42.60       39301964 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5896  06. Me & My Uncle.flac
    2:06.15       22261724 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5789  07. Cryptical Envelopment.flac
    2:48.02       29639948 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5468  08. Drums.flac
    8:47.25       93021644 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6401  09. The Other One.flac
    3:20.21       35329436 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5850  10. Cryptical Reprise.flac
    6:24.18       67779980 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5692  11. Attics Of My Life.flac
   10:56.67      115876028 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6217  12. Good Lovin'.flac
    6:27.49       68382092 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6386  13. Cold Rain & Snow.flac
   21:29.47      227490188 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6386  14. Dark Star.flac
    6:05.32       64461308 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6589  15. St. Stephen.flac
    6:06.18       64604780 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6805  16. Not Fade Away.flac
   33:55.22      359025788 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6657  17. Lovelight.flac
  138:49.46     1469344540 B                            0.6264  (17 files)


