The Grateful Dead
State Fair Coliseum
Indianapolis, IN 
10/27/73

Source: MSR > R > C > D > CD  patched with MAC > ? > D
Conversion: CDR > EAC > CDWave > CoolEditPro > shntool > mkwACT > SHN (seekable) by Charles Wier (cwier60 at yahoo.com)

From the Deadlists vine
Dave Greenberg did the patches and the final mastering, Brian Dyke supplied the AUD tape, and Jack Warner also helped with this project.

Disc #1  65:28
First Set, part 1:
01. Promised Land 1/
02. Sugaree
03. Mexicali Blues
04. Loser
05. Black-Throated Wind
06. They Love Each Other
07. Jack Straw
08. Ramble On Rose 2/
09. El Paso
10. Brown-Eyed Women 3/
11. Greatest Story Ever Told
12. Loose Lucy
13. Beat It On Down The Line

Disc #2   67:34
First Set, part 2:
01. China Cat Sunflower >
02. I Know You Rider
Second Set, part 1:
03. Me And My Uncle >
04. Bertha
05. Me And Bobby McGee
06. Tennessee Jed
07. Playin' In The Band >
08. Mississippi Halfstep Uptown Toodeloo >
09. Big River > 4/
10. Playin' In The Band

Disc #3  57:49
01. He's Gone > 5/
02. Truckin' >
03. Nobody's Fault But Mine Jam >
04. Wharf Rat > 6/
05. Stella Blue 1/ 7/
06. Sugar Magnolia 1/

Comments:
1/ AUD -- missing on SBD
2/ with a cut at 3:03 for a tape change; this track is missing on the AUD
3/ glitch fixed at 3:30 - 3:42
4/ patched with AUD
5/ Slight pitch warble at beginning of track - left as-is
6/ At 4:45 Wharf Rat cuts to a second SBD source of unknown lineage.  At 5:57 it cuts to the AUD source.  
7/ There are a couple cuts in the AUD Stella Blue.

Only post-conversion edits were retracking and removal of silence for near-seamless tracking of continuous tracks.  Thanks to Mike Dixon for the audio discs.  Sound on the SBD is crisp, but somewhat distorted, similar to the sound of a broken drum head; AUD is muddy with limited high end.

THE GLORIOUS RETURN OF INDIANAPOLIS '73
Back in the early '80s, before so many tapes came into circulation, the Playin > Halfstep > Big River > Playin sequence from Indianapolis 10/27/73 was famous among Dead tapers.  Since then, many more of the Playin sandwiches from that period have come into circulation and Indianapolis faded into the background.
Thanks to Brian Dyke we have finally located an AUD of this show and used it to patch as much as we can of the SBD -- crucially, the 0:21 missing from the solo in Big River on the SBD -- and assembled a composite. If someone will volunteer to administer I'll seed a vine.
