GRATEFUL DEAD
August 28, 1968
Avalon Ballroom
San Francisco CA
All that circulates

SBD + AUD Matrix 2 Source Mix (44/16)

01 - //Dark Star
02 - Saint Stephen
03 - The Eleven
04 - Death Don't Have No Mercy
05 - Turn On Your Lovelight

Jerry Garcia - Guitar
Bob Weir - Guitar
Phil Lesh - Bass
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - Keyboards
Tom (T.C.) Constanten - Keyboards
Bill Kreutzmann - Drums
Mickey Hart - Drums

Audio Source Information
SBD (shnid = 10162)

Source: SBD:?>Latvala's reel>PCM>CDR>EAC>CDR
Conversion: CDR > EAC (secure) > Cool Edit (minor fix) > CDWav(tracking) > mkwact(seekable) > shn by mvernon54@attbi.com 5/29/2002
shntool confirms tracks on sector boundaries

NOTES:
1. Mastered to CDR by Steve Martin: "I transfered Dicks reel on a revox A77 onto a Sony F2 PCM unit. My Beta Pcm I transfered to CD-R directly Using Cardas cables."  Hiss predominant through first 28 seconds of d1t1 then improves considerably.
2. flaws noted by mvernon
d1t2 - drop out ~2:44 - 2:47
d1t3 ~ initial vocals extremely weak, barely audible
spectral analysis shows almost no frequencies higher than ~5khz, imparting a distant, slightly "tunnel" sound.  Nevertheless, it is quite listenable.
3. Vol. 1 of the Taper's Compendium lists a "Schoolgirl" as the first number along with a Bill Graham introduction. At this time these are no longer associated with this date.
4. Deadlists has the following comments:
The first two bars of Dark Star are clipped. In the first verse, Jerry sings: "Dark star crashes, pouring its light into ashes. Reason tatters, the forces tear loose from the axis."  And then, instead of "Searchlight casting for faults in the clouds of delusion" he sings: "Glass hand dissolving... recedes in the nights of goodbye".  He realizes he's out in no man's land as he sort of trails off a bit while singing "goodbye".  The next verse is: "Shall we go, you and I while we can, Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?"  He sings "transitive NIGHT fall of diamonds" as if expecting Phil to hit the high harmonies, but realizing as soon as he sings "night" that no one's coming to the rescue.

Original  AUD (shnid = 154145)
Aud Master > ??? > Latvala's Reel @3 3/4 ips
Mastered to CDR by Steve Martin: "I transfered Dicks reel on a revox A77 onto a Sony F2 PCM unit. My Beta Pcm I transfered to CD-R directly Using Cardas cables"
Conversion: CDR > EAC (secure) > Adobe Audition > CDWav(tracking) > TTD > FLAC by Kevin Tobin 10/27/21

BHP Notes: Steve Martin sent this to me along with the SBD (shnid 10162) for a matrix project. When compared to other circulating sources, the wave files are almost identical to (shnid 133762) AUD UNKNOWN LINEAGE > REEL > EDIROL USB UA-1EX AUDIO INTERFACE so this is a new transfer of the same materail.
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- Mixed by kevtobin@yahoo.com
- FLAC conversion 28-OCT-2021 - Trader Little Helper
- Tagged 28-OCT-2021 - Tag&Rename
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Brokedown House Production

SHNTOOL OUTPUT:
    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
    10:37.05      112378604 B   ---   --   -----    wav  1.0000  01 Dark Star.wav
     3:29.61       37011116 B   ---   --   -----    wav  1.0000  02 Saint Stephen.wav
    10:32.52      111607148 B   ---   --   -----    wav  1.0000  03 The Eleven.wav
     8:30.20       90011084 B   ---   --   -----    wav  1.0000  04 Death Don't Have No Mercy.wav
    12:12.49      129240092 B   ---   --   -----    wav  1.0000  05 Turn On Your Lovelight.wav
    45:22.37      480248044 B                            1.0000  (5 files)

6d9f24731a470290509e9e203374a418 *01 Dark Star.flac
f3ca554ef262dc8f152566449b27e0f0 *02 Saint Stephen.flac
abae7d059b12390b83bc09bb2d0eaa97 *03 The Eleven.flac
bf7eb7267ab8da42c10cb55eacf62464 *04 Death Don't Have No Mercy.flac
99bd52dfcd5c5af152cd20b8d090f099 *05 Turn On Your Lovelight.flac

01 Dark Star.flac:88b687fb581d0b36eddc28af06752775
02 Saint Stephen.flac:86951f214d06873a0cf33112fb969fe3
03 The Eleven.flac:2e44f98b3fbedb61db6ae750cf035c6e
04 Death Don't Have No Mercy.flac:730d4d6fa734ec65a07ae984ad8629b6
05 Turn On Your Lovelight.flac:2bb1c971eb284685ce1331de161bc4a6