Grateful Dead
01-21-79
Masonic Temple
Detroit, MI

Source: Unknown AUD>?>SHN
Editing: SHN>WAV>CE2K>CDWAVE>shntool>mkwACT

Disc 1: Set 1 (72:15)
01. Sugaree
02. Me & My Uncle
03. Big River
04. They Love Each Other
05. BIODTL (21 beats!)
06. Dire Wolf
07. Looks Like Rain
08. Brown-Eyed Women
09. New Minglewood Blues
10. Friend of the Devil
11. Jack Straw
12. Deal

Disc 2: Set 2 (78:22)
01. Samson And Delilah
02. Terrapin Station//
03. Playin' In The Band//
04. Drums//
05. Space//
06. Truckin'//
07. Stella Blue//
08. Good Lovin'
09. Encore:U.S. Blues

NOTES:
-This audience recording is marginal at best, but does reproduce a super show (not just because it was my first Dead show!) that should be of interest to collectors.
-The recording has undergone some DSP that includes EQ and NR (I found a nice piece of hiss to formulate a decent sample). Even though its still hissy, it was very hissy before the NR. 
-Most of the tracks in Set 2 are cut at their end.
-The show occurred in the dead cold of Mid-West winter, and started late as the crowd waited over an hour outside for the doors to open. To compensate, the Dead played a lively and energetic show--"The winter was so hard and cold". Donna was absent.
-The show occurred in the Main Theatre of the Masonic Temple, one of the finest public halls in the United States, having a seating capacity of about 4,500 that produced a very intimate contact between audience and stage. The decorative treatment of the auditorium has considerable detail adapted from the Venetian Gothic, and the general tone is gold which has been enlivened with red and blue to produce a quiet richness of color seldom attempted in this type of work. A great deal of careful study was given to the acoustical treatment of this room which has produced an auditorium where the hearing qualities are perfect from every seat. This is the only time the Grateful Dead played this theatre.
-Thanks to Teri "RamblinRose" for the source SHNs.

C:\shn>shntool len *shn
    length     expanded size   cdr  WAVE  probs   filename
    11:49.64     125218172     ---   --    -xx    gd1979-01-21d1t01.shn
     2:58.56      31530956     ---   --    -xx    gd1979-01-21d1t02.shn
     5:42.56      60460556     ---   --    -xx    gd1979-01-21d1t03.shn
     6:54.58      73166060     ---   --    -xx    gd1979-01-21d1t04.shn
     3:14.43      34322780     ---   --    -xx    gd1979-01-21d1t05.shn
     3:54.29      41345852     ---   --    -xx    gd1979-01-21d1t06.shn
     7:28.06      79041356     ---   --    -xx    gd1979-01-21d1t07.shn
     5:52.54      62219852     ---   --    -xx    gd1979-01-21d1t08.shn
     5:29.00      58035644     ---   --    -xx    gd1979-01-21d1t09.shn
     8:28.35      89693564     ---   --    -xx    gd1979-01-21d1t10.shn
     5:48.58      61523660     ---   --    -xx    gd1979-01-21d1t11.shn
     4:39.24      49272092     ---   --    -xx    gd1979-01-21d1t12.shn
     7:20.00      77616044     ---   --    -xx    gd1979-01-29d2t01.shn
    12:41.39     134332172     ---   --    -xx    gd1979-01-29d2t02.shn
    14:53.15     157560524     ---   --    -xx    gd1979-01-29d2t03.shn
     5:51.33      61994060     ---   --    -xx    gd1979-01-29d2t04.shn
     6:12.61      65764316     ---   --    -xx    gd1979-01-29d2t05.shn
     9:44.48     103130540     ---   --    -xx    gd1979-01-29d2t06.shn
     9:40.42     102410828     ---   --    -xx    gd1979-01-29d2t07.shn
     6:33.38      69414620     ---   --    -xx    gd1979-01-29d2t08.shn
     5:26.18      57548780     ---   --    -xx    gd1979-01-29d2t09.shn
   150:45.27    1595602428 B  (totals for 21 files, 0.4908 overall compression ratio)

Peace. MattMan. August 2003.
