Gizah Sound and Light Theater, Cairo, Egypt

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flac1644 This is a remaster of source 107305 by acetboy
MOTB Release: 0139 16-44.1
Taped By: Eldon Porray
Transfer By: Bob Menke
Mastering By: Bill Koucky, Derek McCabe

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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 #107305.
The set list has been adjusted to show how I've tracked it.

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MOTB Release: 0139 16/44.1
Release Date: 2010-04-24
Band: Grateful Dead
Date: 1978-09-16   (Saturday)
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

CD ONE:
Set 1:
01 Tuning
02 Bertha >
03 Good Lovin'
04 Candyman
05 Looks Like Rain
06 Row Jimmy
07 El Paso
08 Ramble On Rose
09 Minglewood Blues
10 Deal

CD TWO:
Set 2:
11 Ollin Arrageed * >
12 Fire On The Mountain >
13 Iko Iko
14 I Need A Miracle >
15 It's All Over Now
16 Sunrise

CD THREE:
17 Shakedown Street >
18 Drums * >
19 Space * >
20 Truckin' >
21 Stella Blue >
22 Around & Around
Encore:
23 One More Saturday Night

*with Hamza El-Din
final Sunrise

Mastering Notes:
Tape flips were after Looks Like Rain, Minglewood, Iko Iko, and Drums,
minor crossfades were applied with no patch sources.

Above are the original notes for shn #107305.
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This is a remaster of shn %107305.

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 2023-09-15

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Media Size
1.16 GB(1247669573 bytes)
Media Size Uncompressed
0
SHN Disc Count
0
WAV Disc Count
0
Date Circulated
09/20/2023
Entered By
mvernon
Created At
Wed Sep 20 2023 11:44:07 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Updated At
Mon Sep 25 2023 20:44:05 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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