In 2018 Jeff Knudsen donated his 5000+ cassette tape collection to www.shnflac.net.
The ensuing GEMS Lossless Legs production is releasing each of these tapes as raw transfers in digital format, one file per cassette side.

Transfer info: Nakamichi CR-7A (Rebuilt by ESL August 2019) -> Sound Devices MixPre-3M
Transfer by: Jay Haines
Date on label: April 8, 1971

Note: There are two tapes in the Kndsen collection labelled 4-8-71, tape 2. They are both included in this fileset.
Note: Tape 1 had the first portion of the set on side B and the second portion on side A. The flacs are lebelled accordingly.


Here's what deadlists.com says occurred on this date and the sources in circulation at the time of this seed.
This release may or may not be one of these sources.
This entry is included as an aid to future researchers.
As always, listen, look at the pictures and judge for yourself.

Band 	Grateful Dead
Venue 	Boston Music Hall
Location 	Boston, MA
Date 	4/8/71 - Thursday 	posters 	tickets, passes & laminates
One 	Truckin' [7:59] ;
Bertha [5:54] ;
Next Time You See Me [3:44] ;
Playing In The Band [4:29] ;
Loser [6:21] ;
Beat It On Down The Line [2:58] ;
I Second That Emotion [5:09] ;
Sugar Magnolia [5:26] ;
China Cat Sunflower [5:29] >
I Know You Rider [5:08] ;
Casey Jones [4:48] ;
Tuning
Two 	Dark Star [14:38] >
Saint Stephen [5:47] >
Not Fade Away [5:33] >
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad [6:04] >
Jam [3:00] >
Not Fade Away [2:27] (1) ;
Sing Me Back Home [7:24] ;
Cumberland Blues [5:10] ;
Greatest Story Ever Told [2:29] >
Johnny B. Goode [3:27] ;
Good Lovin' >
Drums >
Good Lovin' [17:58]
Comments 	Good Lovin' timing includes all parts (1) Phil announces a break "to tune up". Not clear if that means Dark Star through Not Fade Away is part of set one, but unlikely given the set list. Perhaps just an equipment break.
Recordings 	SBD 160
Master recording source(s): 7inch Master Reels@7.5ips 1/2trk
Download/Listen Sources

    Betty Cantor 7" two track reel @ 7 1/2 ips> PCM50
    7" Betty Board Reel > PCM501ES analog out > Dolby
    Sound Board
    SMR>PCM>WAV>Shn
    Soundboard


********** The GEMS Knudsen Tape Project  **********

In 2018, Jeff Knudsen bestowed his tape collection to the AZ GEMS
team for distribution and archiving. We have cherry picked some shows
and released them but have only scratched the surface. The process
of producing a complete and accurate mastered file set is time consuming:
select the show, compare to existing sources, adjust the tape deck,
transfer to digital, speed correct, master, aquire the source ID and
torrent. We realized we would never release most of collection using this
method.

As long as music is on tapes in a closet, it is useless. If it circulates
it is preserved for others and for the future. Rather than go through
the whole file set creation process, we transfer each tape or tape
side as a single digital file. A two tape concert consists either two big
audio files, 1 for each tape or 4 big audio files, one for each side of
the two cassettes.  We transfer professionally using the best gear and
a high quality Analog to Digital device. The Azimuth and Dolby settings
are correct. We release these files for everyone. We do not evaluate
the quality of the source, master it, or track it.

The Knudsen Tape Project is about sharing the tapes.

In each numbered release, along with the digital music files, we
include a photo of the tapes. The goal is to release as many of the
tapes as possible to the website www.shnflac.net.

We think the fruits of this project will become more interesting as time
passes. We believe that access to raw, properly transferred audio will
be of value to both present and future listeners, researchers and others.
Audio mastering technology is moving at breakneck speed. We can only imagine
the future technology that will be available. Having access to unmastered sources
could be invaluable.

HISTORY

The collection was started with a box of tapes Jeff Knudsen recieved
from his friend Dick Latvala in the late 70's. Dick was just a regular
guy in Pahoa, Hawaii and had not yet begun officially working with the
Greatful Dead. Over time, Jeff's collection grew. At that time, tapes were
currency and Jeff had gold. His collection increased to about 5000 coveted
tapes, via mail trades and all night copy-athons. Jeff shared them freely
and widely. If you had a soundboard tape in your collection years ago there
is a good chance it came from Jeff Knudsen.

WHAT CAN I DO WITH IT ?

Every release in this project is from a band that allows it's fans
to trade music non-commercially. We neither add or take away from that
permission. We only ask that you credit the Knudsen Tape Project if you
use the material. We ask nothing else of you and you do not need
to ask permission to use them. Since we ask only for source credit, we would
rather not hear complaints. Take what you need and leave the rest.

LINEAGE QUESTIONS

The notion of documenting lineage is a modern one, or simply one Jeff
did not entertain. We do not have lineage information on most of these
tapes. Any information we have will be in the photo of the tapes.
Some of the tapes sound absolutely fantastic. Others may remind
you of a tape you had long ago.

Now the rest is up to the community, with whom we have absolute faith
in the ability to discern.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Contact shnflac@gmail.com if you need more information.


SHNTOOL OUTPUT


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    37:16.259     644042744 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5968  gd1971-04-08-1A.flac
    42:45.506     738865706 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6004  gd1971-04-08-1B.flac
    47:06.188     813942068 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6210  gd1971-04-08-2A.flac
    46:46.842     808370660 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6134  gd1971-04-08-2B.flac
    46:48.241     808773350 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.6026  gd1971-04-08-alt2A.flac
    46:47.807     808648352 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5624  gd1971-04-08-alt2B.flac
   267:30.842    4622642880 B                            0.5995  (6 files)

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29d7273fd4f6c0a1efa541c24eff3c6d  gd1971-04-08-1B.flac
9b87017a16234c751da79b6904d5d970  gd1971-04-08-2A.flac
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fffab1ceffb580c30b00c66fd24c1566  gd1971-04-08-alt2A.flac
32a4cb9366c763c99427e311ad3c7537  gd1971-04-08-alt2B.flac

gd1971-04-08-1A.flac:b1f16f5f152793ecdcc50c87e0006cfc
gd1971-04-08-1B.flac:2a5c2f165c5a883519358049518f91b0
gd1971-04-08-2A.flac:5dc3d06827145e171c42872f539650ba
gd1971-04-08-2B.flac:fdf601ab96905eeaf11d89ae606604da
gd1971-04-08-alt2A.flac:682d04bfadd839da2e3b99f8997cd52a
gd1971-04-08-alt2B.flac:83d3ae34e69486863f3d3e66566575a8