So, I love the Grateful Dead.  And I love the audience recordings.
These gigs in Egypt are certainly legendary.
They're not exactly known for the performances.  They're a bit ragged here and there.
But it's the freakin' pyramids, and the Sphinx is right there!  Absolutely legendary.  Who else did it???
Evidently the crowds they played for were pretty small.  Some sources say it was a thousand people.
Some say a couple of thousand.  I'm not sure.
But to me these recordings have an intimate feel to them.  It kind of seems like a small town fair
in the midwest somewhere with everyone's favorite local bar band on a summer night.  Except the pyramids are right there....
And it's the Grateful Dead!

These gigs are the start of Keith and Donna's last five months with the band.
I've been going through all of the five months, there's some great performances in there.

These captures were recorded by Eldon Porray.  For the most part he got fantastic recordings.
Everyone in the band comes through.  The bass guitar is very clear.  These sound great on headphones.  Nice headphones, I don't know what they
sound like on ear buds.  lol

Below are the original notes for shn #107304.

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MOTB Release: 0138 16/44.1
Release Date: 2010-04-24
Band: Grateful Dead
Date: 1978-09-15 (Friday)
Venue: Gizah Sound And Light Theater
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Analog Audience Source: FOB Master Cassettes (MAC)
Medium Stock Brands: MAC = 3 x Maxell UDXL 90
Analog Lineage: 2 x Sony ecm 280 mics >> Sony 153sd >> MAC
Analog Sound Preservation: MAC >> Nakamichi CR7a => Korg MR-1000 >> DSF [1-bit 5.6448 MHz Stereo] >> Korg MR-1000 => Korg AudioGate >> WAV [24/96]
Taped By: Eldon Porray
Transfer By: Bob Menke
Mastering By: Bill Koucky, Derek McCabe

Disc One
Set 1:

d1t01: Ollin Arrageed * >
d1t02: Promised Land
d1t03: Friend Of The Devil
d1t04: Mama Tried >
d1t05: Big River
d1t06: Loser
d1t07: I Need A Miracle
d1t08: Stagger Lee

Disc Two
Set 2:

d2t01: Jack Straw
d2t02: Ship Of Fools
d2t03: Estimated Prophet >
d2t04: Eyes Of The World >
d2t05: Drums >
d2t06: Space >
d2t07: Terrapin Station >
d2t08: Sugar Magnolia

No Encore

*with Hamza El-Din

Mastering Notes:

Patch source shnid 4160 used for Mama Tried > Big River and Jack Straw
Jack Straw source is not from the FOB source, its from a taper further back, unknown mics

Above are the original notes for shn #107304.
=============================================

This is a remaster of shn #107304.
The original patches for Mama Tried, Big River and Jack Straw are completely redone.
Those patches now are from shn #94537.

All of the work was done in ocenaudio and Harrison Mixbus.
The included before and after screen captures show the whole show.
You can't see everything I do in them but they give an idea of how they are different from the original.
If the original files were high res then most of the work was done at that rate.
The finished product is CD quality.  The files are tagged.

acetboy 2023-09-12



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