Knudsen Tape Collection

The Knudsen Tape Collection is a 5000 cassette collection that is going to
digital FLAC format one entire tape or tape side at a time.

All transfers and numbered releases are "raw" files. They are unedited,
unmastered and untracked @ one digital flac file per tape or tape side.

The cassettes were donated to www.shnflac.net by Jeff Knudsen in 2018.
This is a GEMS Lossless Legs production.

Here's what our quick research has turned up:

http://www.tunabase.com/setlists/1968/19681021.html


Jams #3, #4 & #5 came into circulation about 1990, as a single cassette side and probably never circulated widely

also
https://www.mail-archive.com/deadlists@nemesis.cs.berkeley.edu/msg02848.html
https://www.mail-archive.com/deadlists@nemesis.cs.berkeley.edu/msg02865.html

1968-10-21
Jefferson Airplane House, San Francisco, CA
Jam #1: (Hart, left channel; Dryden, right; Getz out)
Jam #2: (Dave Getz replaces Dryden)
Jam #3: (Kaukonen, Casady, Dryden)
Jam #4: (Kaukonen, Casady, Dryden, Garcia)
Jam #5: (Kaukonen, Casady, Dryden, Garcia, Hart, left)

Lineup:
Jorma Kaukonen - guitar, vox
Jack Casady - bass
Jerry Garcia - guitar
Mickey Hart - drums;
Spencer Dryden - drums
Dave Getz - drums
Notes:
According to Jim Powell Sun, 22 Feb 2004 Title: "12/16/68" (aka "12/24/68" & "10/21/68")
Garcia & Friends, "Matrix 12/16/68"
This catalog derives from consulting three sources, 5 cassettes in all.  One is labeled "Jefferson Airplane House 10/21/68" and two are labeled "Matrix 12/16/68."  This latter date is often 'corrected' to "12/24/68" (see etree).
I have three cassette sources for jams #1 & #2, 2 sources for jam #5 and one source for jams #3 & #4.
Two sources place "jam #1" first and "jam #2" second, one reverses this order.
One cassette source continues without a splice from jam #4 to jam #4 (but then breaks off after 9:40 at the end of the cassette side).  The superior source for Jam #5 runs for 15:24 before it, too, breaks off at the end of a cassette side.
My suspicion is that jams #3 and #4 were dropped from most copies because Jerry does not appear at all in Jam #3 and plays a subdued rhythm part in jam #4.
Latvala's comments quoted in etree from Dupree's Diamond News (Summer '96) appear to me to be confusing 12/16/68 with 12/16/70, when Crosby did play at the Matrix with Jerry & others as "David & The Dorks."
It seems likely that the master SBD reels contain the end of Jam #5 and the end of Jam #7.
I see no way to surmise from the tapes whether these two items are from one show or from two, or whether the correct date(s) are 12/16/68 or 12/24/68 or both (or neither -- or 12/23/68) but I incline to think they are from two different dates.




********** 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.

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


FFPs:
Tape 1 side AB.flac:6586d85532ef5aad5864c102511fa175
Tape 2 side AB.flac:95f9e013cc18989ad5b18750fdf43761

MD5s:

44b5d781de1f9b2b2a3a63cd9c923fb0 *Tape 1 side AB.flac
d59269002ff90c74d80557e233481543 *Tape 2 side AB.flac











SHNID	Date	Venue	City	State	Archive Identifier
145845	1968-10-21	Jefferson Airplane House	San Francisco	CA
flac 2448: Two Maxell UD XLII C90's > Nakamichi Dragon > Tascam DA-3000 @ 24bit/48000k. Transfer by Tom Markson. #0002

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