Phil Lesh & Friends

Guest Conductors Benefit Concert
Berkeley Symphony Orchestra (Phil Lesh cond.)
5/11/94
Zellerbach Hall
Berkeley, Ca

Source: FM(GDH) > DAT > CDR via David Minor
Encoding: EAC > Cool Edit > CDWAV > mkwact > SHN(seekable) by Matt Vernon

01. Igor Stravinsky, Infernal Dance (from "The Firebird")
02. [Missing?] Elliott Carter's "A Celebration (of 100 x 150 notes)"  [Notes: This was mentioned here http://www.dead.net/almanac/vol1_3/Roundup_3P1.html]

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Here's an interview that David Gans did on the GDH about this piece
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Gans: The name of this program is Dead to the World, my name is David Gans, and with me here in the studio is Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead -- actually, I remember a meeting not long ago when you introduced yourself as an unemployed musician. <laugh>

Lesh: <laugh> Well, that's essentially what I am.

Gans: But you are working on some stuff.

Lesh: Yeah, yeah. I can't stay away from music for long, but, you know, I really enjoy sitting in with friends when they come into town, and hopefully we'll be able to play a little something later on tonight where, for instance, Bruce Hornsby came to town and Bob and I sat in with him, and that was really, really a wonderful experience.

Gans: Yes, it was.

Lesh: But the Grateful Dead was my band, and I don't have any desire to form a band of my own, or tour with another band, or do anything like that.

Many people out there know that I was trained in classical music, and I studied composition for many years before joining the band. One of the things that I'm doing now is composing a song symphony that's based on Grateful Dead song themes -- the melodies of the songs, chord progressions, rhythmic riffs; I'm going to weave them all together into a seven-movement, 45-minute composition, which I'm working on now. Hopefully I'll have it done by this time next year. And there have been some record companies that are interested in it, and so hopefully I'll be able to find an orchestra to play it, and somebody -- maybe I can conduct it myself. I'm going to try and write myself into it. There might be a part where there'll be two conductors necessary...

In a way, it's my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving thanks in a way to Jerry and Bob and all the guys in the band for making up this wonderful music. I want to take and, you know, interpret in my own way. Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out. It's a very exciting project, and I'm really enjoying doing it. It's so pleasing to be able to just think and write and just have it come out.

Gans: I'm looking forward to hearing it. I have here on tape your exploits as a guest conductor with the Berkeley Symphony from three years ago.

Lesh: Yes, I remember that. That was a very exciting experience for me, conducting music that I really, really love: Stravinsky and Elliott Carter.

Gans: I've got the Stravinsky cued up here, so why don't you talk a little bit about the piece and then we'll listen to it.

Lesh: Well, this is an excerpt. It's not exactly a bleeding chunk, because it's more or less self-contained, even in the ballet score. It's called the "Infernal Dance," from "The Firebird," by Stravinsky, and this is the big scene for the villain. "The Firebird" is a ballet, and this is the scene where the villain gets to prance around and show everybody how baaaaad he is.

Gans: You'll hear briefly an introduction by Jeffrey Shattuck Leiter, who was the acting mayor at the time, and also the master of ceremonies of this guest conductor evening. I want to add, though, that it was a fascinating and sort of bizarre night, because you were the only, like, real musician-like guy. The other conductors were [UC Berkeley] Chancellor Tien; the elephant mascot from the Oakland A's; the basketball coach from Cal --

Lesh: From Cal, at the time, Todd Bozeman; Maxine Hong Kingston, who did beautifully, I thought.

Gans: She did, she was wonderful. And there were several other interesting characters, um --

Lesh: I can't remember now.

Gans: Yeah, I don't either <laugh>, but --

Lesh: It was three years ago, remember.

Gans: -- but here's Jeffrey Shattuck Leiter introducing Phil, and then you'll hear Phil conducting the Berkeley Symphony. This was recorded May 11, 1994.

After this, we'll take some phone calls. We would like to hear intelligent questions, articulate praise, no cranks, please. And --

Lesh: <laugh> Aw, crank it up if you want to.

Gans: Oh, okay. <laugh> Here we go.





09/24/94 Berkeley Community Theater - Berkeley, CA

Fob row 30 nak 300's > sony D3. 1 74 min cdr



Set 1: Walking Blues, Lazy River Road, K.C. Moan, Dupree's Diamond Blues, Childhood's End, When I Paint My Masterpiece*, Attics Of My Life, Cassidy, Bird Song, Throwing Stones




"Phil Lesh and Friends"
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Vince Welnick
September 24, 1994
Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, CA
1. Bobby intro
2. Walkin' Blues
3. Lazy River Road
4. K.C. Moan
5. Dupree's Diamond Blues
6. Childhood's End
7. When I Paint My Masterpiece
8. Attics Of My Life
9. Cassidy
10. Birdsong
11. Throwin' Stones

Recording information:  Scheops CMC4>DAT>ZA2>WAV>SHN
DAT>SHN transfer by Pat Volkerding <spamme@slackware.com>
uploaded to easywind.etree.org and sativa.etree.org, 12/00 by Chris Ladner <neo_levo@yahoo.com>



Phil and Friends
09/24/94
Berkeley Community Theater
Berkeley, CAA Benefit for Berkeley Music Program

Source: SBD > DAT(s) > CDR via Michael Zelner
Shn encoding: EAC(secure) > mkwact(seekable) by mvernon54@attbi.com 12/26/2002

Disk 1 [62:00]
Set 1 - Acoustic
01. Tuning & Bob Weir intro
02. Walking Blues,
03. Lazy River Road,
04. K.C. Moan,
05. Dupree's Diamond Blues,
06. Childhood's End,
07. When I Paint My Masterpiece*,
08. Attics Of My Life,
09. Cassidy >
10. Bird Song >
11. Throwing Stones

The Band: Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Vince Welnick

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Phil Lesh And Friends
Berkeley Community Theater
Berkeley, CA 
09/24/94

Benefit for Berkeley Music Program

sources:

a - sbd > dat(s) > cdr
b - scheops cmc4 > dat > za2 > wav > shn

Disc 1
acoustic set

01   Bob Weir intro and sound problems
02   Walking Blues 
03   Lazy River Road 
04   K.C. Moan 
05   Dupree's Diamond Blues 
06   Childhood's End 
07   When I Paint My Masterpiece
08   Attics Of My Life 
09   Cassidy >
10   Bird Song > 
11   Throwing Stones

band:

Phil Lesh 
Jerry Garcia
Bob Weir
Vince Welnick 

comments:

The scheops source has a cut at 4:09 in Lazy River Road with approximately 2.5 seconds missing, which hadn't previously been noted.  The sbd has small sections of crowd/tuning missing.

I've assumed that the sbd is at the correct speed and had to make some very small adjustments to the aud on most tracks.

Thanks to Matt Vernon and Chris Ladner for getting these sources out there, of this beautiful show.


SIRMick
September 2006

Phil Lesh and Friends
September 24, 1994
Berkeley Community Theater
Berkeley, CA

Jerry Garcia, Bob Wier, Vince Welnick, Phil Lesh

source:
Schoeps mk4 > Reutelhuber > Sony TCD-D10 pro II (@ 44.1 kHz)
recorded from the 9th row

transfer:
Tascam DA-20MKII > Tascam HD-P2 > CF card > usb 2.0 > pc > WaveLab 5.01b (fades) > CD Wave v1.96.1 > FLAC v1.2.1 (Level 8)

FLAC tags added with metaflac v1.2.1

transferred by Jason Sobel (jasonsobel@gmail.com)
seeded January 26, 2008

total time - [64:23]
01 - [03:06] - intro
02 - [06:36] - Walkin' Blues
03 - [06:57] - Lazy River Road
04 - [02:25] - K.C. Moan
05 - [05:18] - Dupree's Diamond Blues
06 - [04:01] - Childhood's End
07 - [05:19] - When I Paint My Masterpiece
08 - [04:47] - Attics Of My Life
09 - [06:46] - Cassidy
10 - [10:21] - Bird Song
11 - [08:48] - Throwing Stones

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Phil Lesh & Friends
Berkeley Community Theater
Berkeley,CA
9/24/2014

Recorded By Scott Medeiros
Nakamichi CM300 CP4 > Sony D-8 ? > DAT > Transfer SD > Adobe Audition > Flac


Acoustic set

01 Bob Weir VH1 Unplugged Intro
02 Walking Blues
03 Lazy River Road
04 K.C. Moan
05 Dupree's Diamond Blues
06 Childhood's End
07 When I Paint My Masterpiece
08 Attics Of My Life
09 Cassidy >
10 Bird Song >
11 Throwing Stones


Jerry Garcia
Phil Lesh
Vince Welnick
Bob Weir




Phil Lesh & Friends

September 24, 1994
Berkeley Community Theater,
Berkeley, CA

From the Gastwirt Collection

Unknown taper: Schoeps CMC4 MK4> Panasonic SV-255> DAT (48k) (FOB - 9th row)

Charlie Miller Transfer: Dat > Panasonic SV-3700 > Tascam DA-3000 > wav 16/48

Edited & Mastered in Audacity by Joe Noel: wav 16/48 > flac 16/48

Checksum & tags created in xACT.

Notes:
- this is an upgrade to shnid 89660
- first Phil & Friends show
- benefit for Berkeley School of Music
- ever the iconoclast's
* first & only acoustic Throwing Stones

- Set  -
d1t01 - tuning
d1t02 - Walkin' Blues
d1t03 - Lazy River Road
d1t04 - KC Moan
d1t05 - Dupree's Diamond Blues
d1t06 - Childhood's End
d1t07 - When I Paint My Masterpiece
d1t08 - Attics Of My Life
d1t09 - Cassidy ->
d1t10 - Bird Song ->
d1t11 - Throwing Stones *

The Players
- Phil Lesh, bass & vocals
- Jerry Garcia, guitar & vocals
- Bob Weir, guitar & vocals
- Vince Welnick, piano


Grateful for:
- Rich Gastwirt's generosity
- Charlie Miller's efforts

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"Phil Lesh and Friends"
Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Vince Welnick
Saturday September 24, 1994
Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, CA

Taper - Troy Morentin
Row M (off center)
Neumann KM140s > Panasonic SV250 > Master DAT

Digital Transfer - Panasonic SV250 > Sound Devices 722
Transferred by gsarchivist on 2019-08-03

Mastering by Jamie Waddell

- some songs go right into the next one with applause over the first notes
- hundreds of claps removed, crowd attenuated
- very nice recording

FLAC 16bit/48kHz

01. Bobby intro
02. Walkin' Blues
03. Lazy River Road
04. K.C. Moan
05. Dupree's Diamond Blues
06. Childhood's End
07. When I Paint My Masterpiece
08. Attics Of My Life
09. Cassidy
10. Birdsong
11. Throwin' Stones

originally shared at www.shnflac.net on May 21, 2020

by Nicholas Meriwether
On August 24, listeners in the San Francisco Bay Area tuned to KPFA for David Gans's syndicated radio show The Grateful Dead Hour heard an announcement too good to believe: there would be a benefit concert a week after the Shoreline Dead shows that would feature a set by the band minus the drummers, billed as "Phil Lesh and Friends." As the first acoustic Dead in the area since 1981, this was a significant event for fans. When tickets went on sale twelve days later, at 10 a.m. on a Monday morning, they sold out in twenty minutes.

As the longest-running consistently touring major rock group, the Dead are known as a consummate electric band, but this mastery of their medium belies their fundamental fascination with the acoustic roots of American popular music. Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia had extensive experience in folk music before turning to rock, and Garcia made his own field recordings of Appalachian bluegrass to spur his banjo studies in the early Sixties. These influences are manifest in the band's repertoire today, and fans speculating on a dream set in the weeks before the show had to choose from a list of more than two dozen songs performed acoustically over the years.

The purpose of the evening's show was a benefit for Berkeley High School's music program, which had graduated numerous jazz luminaries over the years, as well as two rock stars: Country Joe McDonald and Phil Lesh. In keeping with the band's long-standing tradition of benefit concerts -- they have played more than eighty over their twenty-nine year history -- tonight's performance was engineered by Lesh, who had been approached by a member of the Berkeley Public Education Foundation the previous May at a reception held for him following his performance as guest conductor with the Berkeley Symphony, in their guest conductors' program. Because of budget cuts, Berkeley had cut its school music program entirely a few months before. Since Lesh's parents had moved to Berkeley solely for the sake of their teen-ager's musical education -- they couldn't afford private lessons, and the program at Berkeley was renowned -- Lesh's response was "This is an outrage," and he promised to see what he could do. Shortly after, the Grateful Dead's charity arm, the Rex Foundation, gave a $10,000 dollar grant to help save the program. And Lesh called the Berkeley Public Education Foundation later that summer to say that he could also organize a benefit concert on their behalf, and provide the services of a majority of the Grateful Dead. With the guidance of Bill Graham Presents' Bob Barsotti -- as well as the work of many other members of the Dead and BGP -- the benefit was born.

Berkeley Community Theater is on the campus of Berkeley High, and is clearly the showpiece for the school. A 3691 seat auditorium begun in 1941 and finished nine years later, BCT is a large Works Project Administration building designed by the team of Henry Gutterson and Will Corlett in the streamlined Deco style, with a beautiful interior, simply but tastefully decorated, excellent acoustics, and an ample balcony with an outdoor deck upstairs. Sight lines are good from almost anywhere inside, making it an ideal venue for acoustic music; it seems intimate, especially in contrast to the three concerts I saw the weekend before at the 20,000 seat Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View...
Enterzone Copyright © 1995

read the whole review here
http://www.philzone.com/reviews/rev940924.html

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SHNID	Date	Venue	City	State
19784	1994-05-11	Zellerbach Hall	Berkeley	CA
Phil Lesh guest conductor Berkeley Symphony Orchestra Igor Stravinsky, Infernal Dance (from "The Firebird"). Source: FM(GDH) > DAT > CDR via David Minor encoded by Matt Vernon
14051	1994-09-24	Berkeley Community Theater	Berkeley	CA
Fob row 30 nak 300's > sony D3, conversion details unknown
2379	1994-09-24	Berkeley Community Theater	Berkeley	CA
Recording information: Scheops CMC4>DAT>ZA2>WAV>SHN DAT>SHN transfer by Pat Volkerding uploaded to easywind.etree.org and sativa.etree.org, 12/00 by Chris Ladner
14071	1994-09-24	Berkeley Community Theater	Berkeley	CA
SBD > DAT(s) > CDR via Michael Zelner encoding Matt Vernon
78005	1994-09-24	Berkeley Community Theater	Berkeley	CA
Matrix: sbd > dat(s) > cdr + scheops cmc4 > dat > za2 > wav > shn
89660	1994-09-24	Berkeley Community Theater	Berkeley	CA
Schoeps mk4 > Reutelhuber > Sony TCD-D10 pro II (@ 44.1 kHz); Tascam DA-20MKII > Tascam HD-P2 > WaveLab 5.01b (fades) > CD Wave v1.96.1 > FLAC v1.2.1 (Level 8); Transferred by Jason Sobel
131797	1994-09-24	Berkeley Community Theater	Berkeley	CA
Recorded By Scott Medeiros Nakamichi CM300 CP4 > Sony D-8 ? > DAT > Transfer SD > Adobe Audition > Flac
140445	1994-09-24	Berkeley Community Theater	Berkeley	CA
flac16 48khz Unknown taper: Schoeps CMC4 MK4> Panasonic SV-255> DAT (48k) (FOB - 9th row). From the Gastwirt Collection. Charlie Miller Transfer: Dat > Panasonic SV-3700 > Tascam DA-3000 > wav 16/48. Edited & Mastered in Audacity by Joe Noel: wav 16/48 > flac 16/48. Checksum & tags created in xACT.
150154	1994-09-24	Berkeley Community Theater	Berkeley	CA
flac16/48khz Taper - Troy Morentin Row M (off center) Neumann KM140s > Panasonic SV250 > Master DAT Digital Transfer - Panasonic SV250 > Sound Devices 722 Transferred by gsarchivist on 2019-08-03 Mastering by Jamie Waddell

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