From Egypt with Love
One month after their legendary trip to Egypt The Grateful Dead
are back in San Francisco for 5 nights at Winterland.
It's a total of 14 hours 15 minutes and 10 seconds of history in the
final months of Winterland being a concert venue.
For at least the first 4 nights they are very much enthused and playing great!
And there's really nothing wrong with that 5th night either.  It's still
The Good Old Grateful Dead!

All 5 nights were recorded from the audience by Reinhart Holwein.
And he got fabulous recordings.  He was in a sweet spot for these shows!
The mix varies a bit from night to night but for the most part these are fantastic recordings.
This first night the entire show is great.
Especially wonderful is If I Had the World to Give.  The second of only 3 times ever played.
Love what Bob is playing on that tune.
Speaking of Bob, his guitar comes through really clearly on these recordings.  Several of the nights
in particular.
These all sound wonderful on headphones.
Below are the original notes that I have edited slightly for numbering the set list.

If burning to CD put set one and Scarlet/Fire on the first CD.
Start the second CD with Estimated Prophet.
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MOTB Release: 00xx 24/96
Release Date: 08-15-09
Band: Grateful Dead
Date: 1978-10-17 (Tuesday)
Venue: Winterland
Location: San Francisco, CA
Analog Audience Source: AUD Master Cassettes (MAC)
Medium Stock Brands: MAC = 3 x Maxell UDXLII C90
Analog Lineage: 2 x AKG D224e => Sony TC-158 >> MAC
Analog Sound Preservation: MAC >> Nakamichi CR-7a => Korg MR-1000 DSF >> Korg MR-1000 => Korg AudioGate >> WAV [24/96]
Taped By: Reinhart Holwein
Transfer By: Bob Menke
Mastering By: Derek McCabe

Set 1
01 - Intro
02 - Promised Land
03 - Friend Of The Devil
04 - Mama Tried ->
05 - Mexicali Blues
06 - Tennesse Jed
07 - I Need A Miracle
08 - Stagger Lee
09 - Jack Straw

Set 2
10 - Scarlet Begonias ->
11 - Fire On The Mountain
12 - Estimated Prophet ->
13 - Eyes Of The World ->
14 - Drums ->
15 - Space ->
16 - If I Had The World To Give ->
17 - Around & Around

Encore:
18 - U.S. Blues

Above are the original notes for shn #100692.
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This is a remaster of shn #100692.
Thanks to the taper and the MOTB people and all who bring this stuff to share.
All of the work I do is in ocenaudio and Harrison Mixbus.
Everything I do is basically about levels.  Keeping them the same in both channels
throughout the frequency range.  When I speak of levels I mean RMS levels.  Average levels.
I also tighten up phase issues when needed. Clear up any gaps that may be found.
If original files are high res, I have done most of the work at the higher sample frequency
and bit depths.  Then towards the end I've converted to 44.1 16 bit.

About the screen grabs:

One can not see everything I do in these images but it shows something about
how the audio has changed between before and after.

If I'm working from high res files the before FFT and Spectral images look
quite a bit different inherently.

acetboy 2023-10-17

    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
     1:41.24       17872892 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5231  1978-10-17 aud 01.flac
     5:01.38       53185820 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6313  1978-10-17 aud 02.flac
     8:30.49       90079292 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5790  1978-10-17 aud 03.flac
     2:32.16       26850476 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6305  1978-10-17 aud 04.flac
     4:08.36       43831916 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6178  1978-10-17 aud 05.flac
     9:02.44       95712332 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5794  1978-10-17 aud 06.flac
     7:03.59       74756012 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6114  1978-10-17 aud 07.flac
     7:38.05       80803004 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6125  1978-10-17 aud 08.flac
     6:26.29       68158652 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6344  1978-10-17 aud 09.flac
    10:47.31      114203756 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6344  1978-10-17 aud 10.flac
    11:33.34      122325212 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6210  1978-10-17 aud 11.flac
    12:27.30      131841404 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5974  1978-10-17 aud 12.flac
    15:37.10      165310364 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6149  1978-10-17 aud 13.flac
    12:44.58      134906060 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5897  1978-10-17 aud 14.flac
     6:55.62       73351868 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5104  1978-10-17 aud 15.flac
     7:45.38       82115420 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5762  1978-10-17 aud 16.flac
    11:37.04      122960252 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6144  1978-10-17 aud 17.flac
     5:56.66       62953676 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6470  1978-10-17 aud 18.flac
   147:30.33     1561218408 B                            0.6036  (18 files)


