David Grisman Quintet
1750 Arch Street
Berkeley, CA
1976-10-09

Source:   Sony TC-124 with attached mics by Gene Taback
Transfer: MC (Maxell C90) > Nak Dragon > Tascam DA-3000 (DSF 1-bit/5.6 MHz) > Tascam HRE > PCM @ 2496
Master:   Wavelab 11 (tracking, fades, remove DC offset, resample, Lin dither) > FLAC 1644

01. Dog Patch
02. Dawg's Rag
03. Swing 42
04. Opus 57
05. 16-16
06. Pneumonia
07. Ricochet
08. E.M.D.
09. O'Bannon's Wake
10. Thailand
11. Minor Swing \

From the collection of Gene Taback.  Thanks to Mitch Wittenberg for help with song titles.

The J-card lists the venue as 1720 Arch Street in Berkeley, but that is a Hungarian museum.  The first David Grisman Quintet album was recorded at 1750 Arch Street Studio between October and December 1976, however.  1750 Arch was also a concert venue from at least 1972 through 1980.  That's probably the correct address for this performance.  (It does not appear that any of this material is on the album, which was studio work.)  More information about 1750 Arch Street Studio here:  https://cnmat.berkeley.edu/projects/thomas-buckner-speaks-about-1750-arch-street-and-cnmat

1750 Arch held about 50 people, so it was an intimate crowd.  The tape was marked David Grisman Band, but the show was billed as the Quintet with music for "mandolins" and that is how it is listed here.  The band was likely as follows, but the stage announcements that might confirm the musicians, if there were any, are missing:

David Grisman - mandolin
Tony Rice - guitar
Todd Phillips - mandolin
Darol Anger - fiddle
Joseph Carroll - bass

The performance was recorded on a Sony TC-124.  The TC-124 did not have Dolby, and there is some tape hiss present.  The deck was stopped between songs and there are some abrupt starts and stops, but the tracking has been done so nearly every song starts cleanly.  There is a discontinuity during Dawg's Rag.

This cassette survived a house fire in May 2004.  The case was blackened and warped, and the cassette shell was damaged, but the tape itself survived.  An image of the j-card is included.  Many thanks to Gene Taback for preserving it and lending it out to be digitized and shared.

Enjoy!

--mhg :: 2022-05-19
