Received this from Mike Maher

The "unfinished Album Studio Sessions"

This is a collection of songs which (if the Deadhead's Taping Compendium is to be believed) were to have formed
the basis for the first GD studio album of the 1990's.  The material appears to be a mix of live SBD recordings (possibly
with some minor overdubs)  and rehearsals; its doubtful if any of this represents actuall studio recordings aimed at an
album release.

This came into circulation in mid-1997: several sources (including the Compendium) indicate that this was intentionally
put together - possibly by John Cutler and Phil Lesh - and seeded to trading circles to counteract several "last GD album"
bootlegs that had been produced in 1995/1996 (all sourced from 1990 thru 1995 SBD or AUD recordings.

The track listing is:

1. Lazy River Road (Garcia/Hunter)					6:01

2. Easy Answers (Hunter.Bralove/Weir/Welnick/Wasserman)		6:23

3. So Many Roads (Garcia/Hunter)					5:19

4. Wave To The Wind (Lesh/Hunter)					7:22

5. Eternity (Weir/Dixon)						7:20

6. The Days Between (Garcia/Hunter)					9:56

7. Way To Go Home (Welnick/Hunter/Bralove)				7:05

8. Corinna (Weir/Hart/Hunter)					9:33

9. Liberty (Garcia/Hunter)						6:00

Total Time						64.58


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History and linage:   Julian Fowler     September 2003

I obtained a cassette copy in the autum of the 1997 from a tree run on the rec.music.gdead newsgroup.  In spite of the
numerous efforts to locate anything with a  lower number of analog generations, I've not been able to discover anything
better than what I have now; nor does this material seem to circulate among DAT users or (until Now)  CD traders.

I've therefore taken my casette copy and transferred it to the digital domain.  The best guess that I have for the annalog
 lineage is as follows:

live/rehearsal recordings (DAT and/or ADAT) > ? > cassette > at least one cassette generation > my cassette

I did the transfer using an AIWA AD-F850 tape deck, played directly into the inputs of a Yamaha DS-XG sound card.
I used CoolEdit 2000 v1.1 to do the initial analog > digital sampling, apply mild noise reduction (my source tape is
somewhat hissy, not surprising give the number of analog generations) and reduce the length of some of the
between-song gaps.  I used CD Wav v1.73 to define track boundaries and mkwACT v0.97 to prepare a master
SHN disc (track boundaries verified using SHNtool.)

------Julian Fowler     September 2003


From Rolling Stone, Apr 20, 1998


Although it's common knowledge that the Grateful Dead were in the midst of recording when Jerry Garcia died almost three
years ago, former keyboardist Vince Welnick shed more light on the unfinished album in a recent conversation with the Rolling
Stone Network.

According to Welnick, the album was set to include such tour-tested songs as "Liberty," "So Many Roads," "Days Between,"
"Samba in the Rain," "Way To Go," "Corrina," and "Easy Answers," but Garcia passed away before the tracks could be
completed. "We had just about finished the basics when Jerry checked out," Welnick said. "It's a shame, because we spent
 a lot of time in there."

Although the studio tapes from the Grateful Dead's would-be swan song are still around, Welnick doubts that the album can
be salvaged. "There weren't even working vocals on some of the songs. There was also very little guitar. If they wanted to make
something of it, they'd probably have to splice in something from one of the show tapes."

Grateful Dead spokesman Dennis McNally denied that anything will ever come of the album.
"Only [Grateful Dead guitarist] Bobby [Weir] ever thought that anything could be done, but it can't. Jerry didn't contribute to it.
Everyone else contributed to it, but Jerry just wasn't with it. There's not even a title, to my knowledge."

ISAAC JOSEPHSON


md5s:

7cf9ae0ccd4813bc9c5f0ba80a2b8da6 *gd1995-EQd1t06.shn
837dbd86be3723dcfa314dabc1f30888 *gd1995-EQd1t02.shn
9170e054cc7a9f296e6d0b283b0d47f4 *gd1995-EQd1t03.shn
bb9f34a10c92f622699906c5487e6214 *gd1995-EQd1t04.shn
c01d674db39545a53bac36d97f9ee675 *gd1995-EQd1t05.shn
5ce8cc08b044977b5add5fdb7325b81c *gd1995-EQd1t01.shn
c106d9abaddd41753aff146c7b810e2d *gd1995-EQd1t07.shn
1f7f41f05c9011ee557d9e5864c153ef *gd1995-EQd1t08.shn
1545bb2d468a42f65df75c66a66bad1e *gd1995-EQd1t09.shn

shntool output

    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
     6:00.71       63671036 B   ---   --   ---xx    shn  0.5229  gd1995-EQd1t01.shn
     6:22.32       67460108 B   ---   --   ---xx    shn  0.5291  gd1995-EQd1t02.shn
     5:18.73       56266940 B   ---   --   ---xx    shn  0.4901  gd1995-EQd1t03.shn
     7:22.48       78081740 B   ---   --   ---xx    shn  0.4879  gd1995-EQd1t04.shn
     7:19.40       77533724 B   ---   --   ---xx    shn  0.4821  gd1995-EQd1t05.shn
     9:56.00      105134444 B   ---   --   ---xx    shn  0.4671  gd1995-EQd1t06.shn
     7:05.22       75021788 B   ---   --   ---xx    shn  0.4969  gd1995-EQd1t07.shn
     9:32.50      101018444 B   ---   --   ---xx    shn  0.4982  gd1995-EQd1t08.shn
     6:00.00       63504044 B   ---   --   ---xx    shn  0.4729  gd1995-EQd1t09.shn
    64:58.36      687692268 B                            0.4927  (9 files)

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I added the text from Rolling Stone, which was originally in the form of a screen capture, and the shntool ouput

SIRMick
January 2009

