Grateful Dead
Springfield Civic Center Arena
Springfield, MA
06/30/1974


Source: Sony ECM99 > Sony TC 152 SD > Cassette Master > Teac 2300 SD > Reel ( Maxell) - Taped By Jimmy Warburton from 50 feet back left of centre in general admission.
Transfer: Reel >Akai GX636 > Tascam DA3000 (1 bit DSD) > dB poweramp > wav 24/96 - Transferred by Matt Smith
Lineage: wav 24/96 > Adobe audition 3 > iZotope RX7 Advanced > iZotope Ozone 5 Advanced > CD Wave > Flac 24



Set I

01   Don't Ease Me
02   Black Throated Wind
03   Peggy-O
04   Jack Straw
05   Loser
06   Greatest Story Ever Told
07   Cumberland Blues
08   Dire Wolf
09   tuning
10   Playing In The Band >
11   Uncle John's Band >
12   Playing In The Band (reprise)


Set II

[not taped] Seastones


Set III

01   tuning
02   China Cat Sunflower >
03   I Know You Rider
04   Big River
05   Scarlet Begonias
06   El Paso
07   U.S. Blues >
08   Truckin' >
09   Eyes Of The World >
10   Stella Blue
11   Not Fade Away >
12   Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad >
13   One More Saturday Night



Comments:

- "Truckin'" includes a "Nobody's Fault But Mine Jam"


Notes:

- Pitch correction
- This was early in Jimmy's career as a taper, only his second show. See the tapebox pic enclosed with Jimmy's "self portrait." He was friends with Barry Glassberg and they later decided that their masters would be better preserved if they transferred them from cassettes to reels. On this occasion when he transfered it from the cassette masters to reel he put in fades at the start and end of each song, a number of them because the songs were clipped. I have restored the fades by patching in from shnid 106027  which needed to be pitch adjusted.  I also made azimuth and phase adjustments. - Thank you Jerry Moore and Rob Berger.

- Some of the patches are for continuity purposes, some are to replace some other small problems* .  Apart from the clipping mentioned there are also some patches to cover where larger sections of music are missing as follows:-

Don't Ease Me
Greatest Story Ever Told - first 7.5 seconds,
I Know You Rider
Truckin'
Stella Blue

- Jimmy says that most of the problems were caused by Sonny Heard as he had cut the mic cable a couple of days before. He fixed the cable as well as he could but it gave intermittent problems.*


Despite the problems that this source started out with it does sound very good.


Thanks to Jimmy Warburton for lending us his reels.

Thanks to Matt Smith for the transfer.

Thanks to Joe B. Jones for his help with pitch correction.


edited and mastered
SIRMick
October 2018


shntool output:

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