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

*updated May, 15th 2016 see below

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

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

*UPDATED SONGS CREATED ON 15th MAY 2016

My version of this show, which was basically the SBD (with many balance adjustments done by me) patched with parts from both the circulating AUD and a 3rd copy, a mono 'board' of the show I had. This was torrented recently on Lossless Legs. After someone quite correctly pointed out to me that I'd used the AUD version of the Outro rather than the SBD version, I decided make a new version (this one) which would blend the 2 endings.

By chance, I also happened to listen again to the transition from Cold Rain & Snow to Dark Star on the AUD recording (which I hadn't listened to for many years). I realised that it contained more than 2 additional minutes of tuning which wasn't on the SBD and hence hadn't made it onto my own version (as torrented on LL). So I decided to patch it back in to make the show as accurate as possible. I then went back comparing the AUD to my own version and discovered several other places where 'tuning' and 'dead air' had been cut from the SBD copy. As per the above, I've restored everything I can using the AUD for patches into my own copy.

The following are the changes I've made to my copy since it was torrented on LL. I did these changes purely for my own listening pleasure but I'd be delighted if they got shared with anyone else who might want them. So please accept them for what they are - I just don't want to be accused of muddying the gene-pool. They are all designed to be dropped into the torrented version as replacement tracks.

*04. I Know You Rider  - about 50 seconds additional tuning patched in from the AUD at end of song

*06. Me & My Uncle  - about a minute of additional tuning patched in from the AUD at the end of the song

*11. Attics Of My Life  -  about 50 seconds additional tuning patched in from the AUD at end of song

*13. Cold Rain & Snow  - more than 2 additional minutes of tuning from the AUD patched in at end of song

*14. Dark Star >  - a tiny 'gap' removed from start for smoother transition

*17. Lovelight  - band's comments and Cutler's chants from the SBD mixed into what was already there.

Simon Phillips
15th 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
     5:42.11       60354716 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6089  04. I Know You Rider.flac
     6:27.22       68318588 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6098  05. Hard To Handle.flac
     4:51.40       51426524 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5650  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
     7:10.40       75946124 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5606  11. Attics Of My Life.flac
    10:56.67      115876028 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6217  12. Good Lovin'.flac
     9:05.22       96189788 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5944  13. Cold Rain & Snow.flac
    21:29.20      227426684 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6383  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
    33:55.24      359030492 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6681  17. Lovelight.flac
   144:01.52     1524395452 B                            0.6219  (17files)

