BAND San Mateo College Jazz Band (with Phil Lesh)
VENUE San Mateo College
CITY San Mateo
STATE CA
DATE 04/05/59*

*per deadlists: "Differences from song-to-song in recording
quality and tone suggests this material spans more than one date."

Source: AUD(?) >  ? > CDR
Encoding: EAC(secure) > Cool Edit > CDWAV > mkwact(seekable) > ProTools LE 6.2.3 > .wav > xACT > .shn

SET1
01. Finnegan's Awake %
02. Wail Frail %

Audience recordings of the San Mateo College Jazz Band.
Both tracks composed by Phil Lesh, who also plays
lead trumpet on track 1.

Earliest recorded music from any member of the Grateful Dead.

NOTES:

These 2 tracks are pitch-shifted (and otherwise cleaned up)
versions of two tracks 2 and 3 on the original etree distribution
encoded by Matt Vernon.  Details and upload info for the original
versions of these tracks can be found at
   http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=21606

I did not attempt any remastering on the other three tracks
as those were not Phil Lesh compositions, and therefore they
were of less interest to me.

phil1959-04-05dd-d1t01.shn is entitled "Finnegan's Awake"
and the corresponding file on the earlier upload was Track 3,
phil59-04-05d1t03.flac.  This track was lowered 3 semitones,
and I resynched the left and right tracks to reduce a funky
flanging sound.  Phil plays lead trumpet on this track.

phil1959-04-05dd-d1t02.shn is entitled "Wail Frail"
(per Dennis McNally's book) and the corresponding file on
the earlier upload was Track 2, phil59-04-05d1t02.flac.
This one was lowered about 1 semitone and the left and
right tracks resynched.  According to the spoken introduction,
Phil does not actually play on this track, choosing to sit out
so he can listen to this debut performance.

Both tracks are now in the key of B-flat, a favorite key
of many brass players.  I am not sure that this is the
correct key, but the announcer on the two tracks now
sounds like the same person, a human male who has not
just inhaled a large quantity of helium.

I did not do any hiss reduction or EQ on the tracks, but
they would probably both benefit from such processing.

- Duane





