Grateful Dead
Grugahalle, Essen, Germany 28 March 1981
Rockpalast broadcast
FM (from the UK broadcast) 24-bit transfer

Jerry Garcia - guitar, voc
Bob Weir - guitar, voc
Phil Lesh - bass
Bill Kreutzmann - drums
Mickey Hart - drums
Brent Mydland - keyboards, voc

Pete Townshend on guitar from Not Fade Away through Around & Around
Flying Karamazov Brothers (jugglers) on stage during Drums

Fade to cover tape flip during 18 Drums
Faded applause between 22 and encore 23


Set 1
01 Preamble UK Announcer
02 German MC & Tuning
03 Alabama Getaway ->
04 Greatest Story Ever Told
05 Sugaree
06 Me & My Uncle -> Mexicali Blues
07 Shakedown Street
08 Little Red Rooster
09 Althea
10 Looks Like Rain
11 Deal
12 DJ Postscript


Set 2

13 Samson & Delilah
14 Ship Of Fools
15 Estimated Prophet ->
16 He's Gone ->
17 The Other One ->
18 Drums
19 Not Fade Away ->
20 Wharf Rat ->
21 Around & Around ->
22 Good Lovin'
23 One More Saturday Night (encore)
24 DJ Postscript


Recording Lineage

FM broadcast -> Master Reel on Revox B77

Playback Lineage

Master Reel on same Revox B77 -> Alesis Masterlink ML9600 @ 24/88 -> AIFF -> Foobar2000 to FLAC

Sep 2016



A fresh 2016 rip from original off-air master. Taken from the UK live broadcast, includes descriptive DJ comments over 'Drums' as the Karamazov Bros take the stage, and over the intro
to 'Not Fade Away' as Townshend comes on stage.


Similar to a previous upload, improved upon by 24-bit transfer, lack of "Some glitches, FM statics and clicks throughout",
and recorded at 7.5ips as opposed to 3.75

    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
     0:26.622         13.44 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6277  01 GD Preface UK announcer.flac
     2:06.488         63.84 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6319  02 GD Preface German MC & Tuning.flac
     4:42.227        142.44 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6699  03 Alabama Getaway.flac
     4:08.593        125.46 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6648  04 Greatest Story Ever Told.flac
    14:04.271        426.09 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6525  05 Sugaree.flac
     9:14.661        279.93 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6498  06 Me and My Uncle - Mexicali Blues.flac
    12:13.701        370.29 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6636  07 Shakedown Street.flac
     9:40.946        293.19 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6578  08 Little Red Rooster.flac
     9:29.185        287.26 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6558  09 Althea.flac
     8:32.676        258.74 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6531  10 Looks Like Rain.flac
     9:16.080        280.64 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6720  11 Deal.flac
     0:23.998         12.11 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6408  12 Postscript UK Announcer.flac
     8:34.896        259.86 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6513  13 Samson and Delilah.flac
     9:39.608        292.52 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6333  14 Ship of Fools.flac
    12:45.387        386.28 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6513  15 Estimated Prophet.flac
    10:27.702        316.79 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6373  16 He's Gone.flac
     8:48.660        266.81 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6640  17 The Other One.flac
    19:43.985        597.54 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6376  18 Drums.flac
    11:25.789        346.11 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6537  19 Not Fade Away.flac
     9:42.826        294.14 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6439  20 Wharf Rat.flac
     4:03.844        123.06 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6581  21 Around and Around.flac
     8:22.561        253.63 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6670  22 Good Loving.flac
     4:51.634        147.18 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6654  23 One More Saturday Night.flac
     0:11.624          5.87 MB  cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6431  24 Postcript UK Announcer.flac
   192:57.964       5843.22 MB                           0.6526  (24 files)


