Grateful Dead
Uptown Theatre
Chicago, IL
February 26, 1981

Jerry Garcia - Lead Guitar, Vocals
Mickey Hart - Drums
Bill Kreutzmann - Drums
Phil Lesh - Electric Bass, Vocals
Brent Mydland - Keyboards, Vocals
Bob Weir - Rhythm Guitar, Vocals


*Matrix*


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SBD (shnid=140360):

Recording Info:

Master Soundboard Cassette > Technics Reel To Reel > Panasonic SV-3800 Dat 16/44

[Updated lineage from Charlie Miller: SBD > Cassette Master > Dat (Panasonic SV-3700/48k) > CD > Dat (Sony PCM-R700/44.1k)]

Transfer Info:
Sony PCM-R500 > Tascam DA-3000 > Adobe Audition 3.0 > TLH flac16

Notes:
- Thanks to Rob Eaton for the source Dat
- Thanks to Charlie Miller for the transfer
- First verifiable lineage in general circulation
- No noise reduction has been used in this transcription [Update from Charlie Miller: This does have NR.]
- Thanks to the folks responsible for the shnid4597 soundboard source which supplies a 0:02 patch in "Bird Song"
- Thanks to the folks responsible for the shnid20342 Nakamichi CM700 source which supplies an 0:11 patch in the Jam out of "He's Gone", as well as a 0:09 patch in the transition from "Black Peter" into "Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad"
- Mix fluctuations until about half way thru "Althea"
- No space per se, a 1:40 noodle into "Truckin'"
- Noodle into Truckin' included in "Truckin'"
- Between song transitions smoothed

Mastered by Scott Clugston
12/23/2017

[Two brief cuts during Feel Like A Stranger, 1 and 3 seconds. 2-second cut near GDTRFB patch.]

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AUD (shnid=20342):

Source: Master: Barry Glassberg: Nak700>Sony TCD5M, Maxell UDXLII, Dolby B.
Lineage: AUDMC> Tascam 112MKII > Sony R500 SBM (pass through) > Delta Dio 2496 > HD > sound forge & CD wave by John Steinthal
Encoding: EAC(secure) > CDWAV > mkwact > SHN(seekable) by Matt Vernon

Thanks to Mark Cohen for the disks!

notes
- ~4:20 patch in drums from soundboard [about 4:23 section, and Mason B. Taylor's tape patches 4:20 with the last few seconds still missing]

[Circulated 11/3/03]

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Thank you to Dick Latvala, Jim Wise, Charlie Miller and Scott Clugston for the SBD transfer,
to Barry Glassberg and Mason B. Taylor for recording the show,
and to John Steinthal, Matt Vernon, and Mason's Chicago and Cleveland friends for the AUD transfers.

Matrix by Hunter Seamons using Final Cut Pro (FLAC > AIFF > Final Cut w/EQ > AIFF CD tracking via Audacity > FLAC16 via xACT w/meta-tagging)
April 1, 2025


Set I
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d1t01 - Feel Like A Stranger
d1t02 - Althea >
d1t03 - Little Red Rooster
d1t04 - Bird Song
d1t05 - Me And My Uncle >
d1t06 - Big River
d1t07 - Peggy-O
d1t08 - Passenger
d2t01 - Tennessee Jed
d2t02 - The Music Never Stopped

Set II
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d2t03 - China Cat Sunflower >
d2t04 - I Know You Rider
d2t05 - Samson And Delilah
d3t01 - He's Gone >
d3t02 - Jam >
d3t03 - Drums >
d3t04 - Space Jam >
d3t05 - Truckin' >
d3t06 - Black Peter >
d3t07 - Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad >
d3t08 - Johnny B. Goode

Encore
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d3t09 - U.S. Blues


Notes:

The SBD source had digital noise reduction applied via Jim Wise, but it seems less caustic than on 2/28 - in particular, the first set on 2/28 has a slightly more brittle sound, due in part to hotter vocals.

SBD levels were reduced shortly after the beginning of Feel Like A Stranger to compensate for some initial loud vocals. Some soundboard mix fluctuations occur a little later in the song, with Jerry's guitar becoming softer, in and out, for much of the song. The matrix helps smooth these issues out.

Althea had some initial soundboard low level and mix fluctuations before the first verse, which we adjusted both SBD and AUD levels for (up or down gradually) to help smooth things out. SBD mix fluctuations also occur early on in Little Red Rooster.

Mason B. Taylor's recording, #128750 (5/19/14), patches 4:20 of Drums in Glassberg's tape, with 3 seconds still missing at the end of the patch.

A few tiny cuts in Feel Like A Stranger and GDTRFB are now patched in the SBD.

One of the best China Riders of 1981! Up there with the one in Boulder.


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