Grateful Dead
Date: 10-12-1983
Madison Square Garden
NYC, NY

Source: Sennheiser 421's > Sony TCD-5M > Sony D-6 TDK MA and SAX masters / 10-11-83 filler source: Sennheiser 441's > Nakamichi 550 > Patch String > Sony D-6 Fuji FR master

Transfer: TDK MA and SAX masters > Nakamichi DR-3 > Vdh First Ultimate Audiophile cables > Apogee MiniMe (16/44.1) > EGOSYS WT2496 (soundcard) > SoundForge 7 > CDWAVE 1.93.3 > FLAC frontend 1.7.1

Location: 10-12-83 approx 1/2 way between stage and sbd on the left side 10-15 rows up/ 10-11-83 behind stage

Transfer completed on March 25, 2006
Recorded and transferred by Dean Grabski (dean@gfdm.net)


CD 1 Set 1
01. Cold Rain & Snow
02. Minglewood Blues
03. Ramble On Rose
04. My Brother Esau
05. It Must Have Been The Roses
06. Cassidy
07. Cumberland Blues
08. Looks Like Rain ->
09. Might As Well

CD 2 Set 2
01. Help On The Way ->
02. Slipknot! ->
03. Franklin's Tower
04. Man Smart, (Woman Smarter)
05. He's Gone ->
06. Drums ->

CD 3 Set 2 Continued
01. Drum -> Space >
02. Truckin' ->
03. Black Peter ->
04. Not Fade Away
05. E: Revolution
06. Filler: Space >
07. Filler: St. Stephen >
08. Filler: Throwing Stones >
09. Filler: Touch Of Grey

notes
- I got to this show late and didn't have a floor ticket so it wasn't easy finding a patch. At the very last minute I see these guys behind the stage with their mics setup on tent poles pointed at rear facing repeaters and split by the aisle dead center.  Less crowd, great view, nice mics and no security back there. Only problem was that no one in the patch chain talked to anyone else and everyone just flipped their tapes anytime they felt like it. Being towards the end of the chain I got a lot of cuts in my recording and always hoped that someone else higher up on that food chain would convert this sweet sounding source but it has never surfaced; so here's a taste.

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     6:40.48       70672940    ---   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-11d2t02.flac
     8:42.64       92231372    ---   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-11d2t03.flac
     6:17.52       66624796    -b-   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-11d2t04.flac
     6:35.00       69678044    ---   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-12d1t01.flac
     9:24.00       99489644    ---   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-12d1t02.flac
     6:49.00       72147644    ---   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-12d1t03.flac
     5:06.00       53978444    ---   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-12d1t04.flac
     5:46.00       61034444    ---   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-12d1t05.flac
     6:03.00       64033244    ---   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-12d1t06.flac
     9:28.23      100249340    ---   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-12d1t07.flac
     8:15.69       87480332    ---   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-12d1t08.flac
     4:28.74       47449400    -b-   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-12d1t09.flac
     3:41.31       39057356    ---   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-12d2t01.flac
     9:50.34      104156012    ---   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-12d2t02.flac
    13:59.10      148023164    ---   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-12d2t03.flac
     6:49.09       72168812    ---   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-12d2t04.flac
    12:20.66      130691276    ---   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-12d2t05.flac
     0:17.22        3049760    -b-   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-12d2t06.flac
    14:03.62      148851068    ---   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-12d3t01.flac
     7:36.13       80469020    ---   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-12d3t02.flac
     8:59.00       95079644    ---   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-12d3t03.flac
     8:14.13       87172220    ---   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-12d3t04.flac
     5:12.65       55188944    -b-   --   ---xx   gd1983-10-12d3t05.flac
   178:27.29     1888784564 B                     (totals for 24 files, 0.6256 overall compression ratio)