The Knudsen Tape Collection is a 5000 cassette collection that is going to
digital FLAC format one entire tape or tape side at a time.

All transfers and numbered releases are "raw" files. They are unedited,
unmastered and untracked @ one digital flac file per tape or tape side.

The cassettes were donated to www.shnflac.net by Jeff Knudsen in 2018.
This is a GEMS Lossless Legs production.

Gear: Nakamichi CR-7A -> TASCAM DA-3000
      Transfer by Tom Markson

Date and contents unconfirmed.  Please listen and judge for youself. Here's what
deadlists.com says occured on this date:

http://deadlists.com/deadlists/showresults.asp?KEY=1/2/70


Band	Grateful Dead
Venue	Fillmore East
Location	New York, NY
Date	1/2/70 - Friday	posters	tickets, passes & laminates
Early - 59:51	Intro (1) [1:05] >
Mason's Children [6:09];[1:34] ;
Casey Jones [4:17];[0:12] ;
Black Peter [10:41];[1:18] ;
Mama Tried [2:32] >
Hard To Handle [4:43];[0:15] ;
Cumberland Blues [5:33];[0:16] ;
Cryptical Envelopment [1:57] >
Drums [3:53] >
The Other One [10:34] >
Cryptical Envelopment [2:04] >
Cosmic Charlie [6:46#]
Late - 1:57:55	Uncle John's Band [7:19] >
High Time [7:06];[0:20] ;
Dire Wolf [4:12];[0:06] %
Easy Wind [7:07];[0:08]%[0:07] ;
China Cat Sunflower [3:07] >
Jam [0:31#] >
I Know You Rider [#1:38] ;
Good Lovin' [1:40] >
Drums [0:17] >
Good Lovin' [4:44];[0:50] ;
Me And My Uncle [3:05];[1:44] ;
Monkey And The Engineer [1:37];[1:16] ;
Dark Star [30:10#] >
Saint Stephen [#4:00] >
The Eleven [13:37] >
Turn On Your Love Light.[22:42];[0:32]
Comments	Early and Late Shows.

Early Show
(1) The early show begins with the 2001 theme music playing over the PA (the prelude of Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra); at its conclusion the Dead launch into Mason's Children (this is audible on the AUD tape; the circulating SBD cassette cuts in on the last 3:11 of Mason's Children; the timing given here is from the CD). The circulating SBD cuts in on Mason's Children and breaks off just before the end of Cosmic Charlie; timings are based on the AUD where it is more complete. Possibly there is an encore missing.
Cold Blood and Lighthouse were also on the bill (DeadBase IX).

Eaton lists:

01/02/70 The Fillmore East, New York City Ny - early 4.9, 063min, Sbd, A1D0, Reel M->Cass 1->Dat 0, 48k, 7inch Master Reels@7.5ips 1/2trk->Tascam 122mkIII Cass 1st Gen->3800 x

Late Show
Total time for Early & Late Show [2:57:46 +].

There is a cut in the Jam out of China Cat on the circulating copy of the SBD; the rest of the Jam and most of Rider are missing.

The Eleven analyzes Saint Stephen > 1st vocals 1:08 > transition Jam 2:01 > Eleven Jam 2:20 > Eleven vocals 0:40 > Eleven Jam 5:08 > Eleven 2nd theme Jam 1:20 > Turn On Your Lovelight.

Cold Blood and Lighthouse were also on the bill (DeadBase IX).

Eaton lists: 01/02/70 The Fillmore East, New York City Ny - late
4.9, 121min, Sbd, A1D0, Reel M->Cass 1->Dat 0, 48k,
7inch Master Reels@7.5ips 1/2trk->Tascam 122mkIII Cass 1st Gen->3800 x 0

01/02/70 The Fillmore East, New York City Ny - early 4.9, 063min, Sbd, A1D0, Reel M->Cass 1->Dat 0, 48k, 7inch Master Reels@7.5ips 1/2trk->Tascam 122mkIII Cass 1st Gen->3800 x

One person claims that the early and late shows for this date have been reversed, but others contradict him, and the tape evidence seems to as well.
Recordings	Early 60 SB / Late 120 75 A? 6:09 CD Fallout From The Phil Zone (Mason's Children)
Master recording source(s): 7inch Master Reels@7.5ips 1/2trk
Download/Listen Sources
Soundboard > 7 1/2' Reel Master @ 7.5 ips (Record
Soundboard
Soundboard
Soundboard
Contributors	Jim Powell Gordon Sharpless Rob Eaton Adrian M. Johnson Matt Caffrey
Caretaker	Jim Powell email update

********** The GEMS Knudsen Tape Project  **********

In 2018, Jeff Knudsen bestowed his tape collection to the AZ GEMS
team for distribution and archiving. We have cherry picked some shows
and released them but have only scratched the surface. The process
of producing a complete and accurate mastered file set is time consuming:
select the show, compare to existing sources, adjust the tape deck,
transfer to digital, speed correct, master, aquire the source ID and
torrent. We realized we would never release most of collection using this
method.

As long as music is on tapes in a closet, it is useless. If it circulates
it is preserved for others and for the future. Rather than go through
the whole file set creation process, we transfer each tape or tape
side as a single digital file. A two tape concert consists either two big
audio files, 1 for each tape or 4 big audio files, one for each side of
the two cassettes.  We transfer professionally using the best gear and
a high quality Analog to Digital device. The Azimuth and Dolby settings
are correct. We release these files for everyone. We do not evaluate
the quality of the source, master it, or track it.

The Knudsen Tape Project is about sharing the tapes.

In each numbered release, along with the digital music files, we
include a photo of the tapes. The goal is to release as many of the
tapes as possible to the website www.shnflac.net.

We think the fruits of this project will become more interesting as time
passes. We believe that access to raw, properly transferred audio will
be of value to both present and future listeners, researchers and others.
Audio mastering technology is moving at breakneck speed. We can only imagine
the future technology that will be available. Having access to unmastered sources
could be invaluable.

HISTORY

The collection was started with a box of tapes Jeff Knudsen recieved
from his friend Dick Latvala in the late 70's. Dick was just a regular
guy in Pahoa, Hawaii and had not yet begun officially working with the
Greatful Dead. Over time, Jeff's collection grew. At that time, tapes were
currency and Jeff had gold. His collection increased to about 5000 coveted
tapes, via mail trades and all night copy-athons. Jeff shared them freely
and widely. If you had a soundboard tape in your collection years ago there
is a good chance it came from Jeff Knudsen.

WHAT CAN I DO WITH IT ?

Every release in this project is from a band that allows it's fans
to trade music non-commercially. We neither add or take away from that
permission. We only ask that you credit the Knudsen Tape Project if you
use the material. We ask nothing else of you and you do not need
to ask permission to use them. Since we ask only for source credit, we would
rather not hear complaints. Take what you need and leave the rest.

LINEAGE QUESTIONS

The notion of documenting lineage is a modern one, or simply one Jeff
did not entertain. We do not have lineage information on most of these
tapes. Any information we have will be in the photo of the tapes.
Some of the tapes sound absolutely fantastic. Others may remind
you of a tape you had long ago.

Now the rest is up to the community, with whom we have absolute faith
in the ability to discern.

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Contact shnflac@gmail.com if you need more information.

Shntool output:

    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
    96:41.808    1670920838 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7123  Tape 1.flac
    90:28.134    1563302714 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.7426  Tape 2.flac
   187:09.943    3234223552 B                            0.7269  (2 files)

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