Garcia

Garcia & Saunders

Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders
Keystone
Berkeley, CA
January 19, 1973 (Friday)

Betty Cantor's 10" master sbd reels @ 7.5ips 1/2trk > ? > CD > EAC > CDWave > 
TLH (FLAC level 8).

Disc One (4 tracks, 61:42)
--Set I--
d1t01. //Dancin' in the Moonlight [#6:07] [0:33]
d1t02. Lonely Avenue [18:24] [2:36]
d1t03. Expressway // (To Your Heart) [19:45] [3:38]
d1t04. It's A Sin [9:11] [1:26]

Disc Two (5 tracks, 79:00)
--Set I con't--
d2t01. The System [27:44] [2:10]
d2t02. Honey Chile [11:30] 1:43]
--Set II--
d2t03. //It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry [#7:25] [0:59]
d2t04. Find a Rainbow [15:10] [1:57]
d2t05. Georgia // On My Mind [10:#08] [0:12]

Disc Three (4 tracks, 26:52)
--Set II con't--
d3t01. Tuning [1:19]
d3t02. Soul Roach [7:20] [1:01]
d3t03. Go Climb A Mountain [10:19] [0:13]
d3t04. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) [6:11] [0:28]

Lineup:
- Jerry Garcia (guitar, vocals);
- Marty David (bass);
- Merl Saunders (keyboards);
- Sara Fulcher (vocals);
- Bill Vitt (drums).

Notes:
- If you like early '73 Garcia/Saunders, and especially Sara Fulcher's vocal 
stylings, you'll love this. Lots of super-rare Fulcher-dominated tunes here. 
This version of Lonely Avenue is top-shelf, as is Soul Roach.
- d1t01 Dancin' in the Moonlight cuts in, significant level fluctuations.
- d1t02 Lonely Avenue is tremendous.
- d1t03 Expressway splice @ 17:49.
- d2t03 ITALTL, ITATTC cuts in.
- d2t04 after Find a Rainbow, Garcia tries to noodle into another song, but gives up.
- d2t05 Georgia on My Mind splice @ 6:21.

Admin note added 6/21/2009: d2t01 was previously identified as "Unknown 
Song", but it has been identified as "The System" by LL users cloverman 
and mwolb, confirmed by admin by comparing with 7/5/73.

Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders
July 10 1973
The Keystone 
Berkeley, California

16 bit 44.1 version    

A+ soundboard

A Matt Smith 24bit 96kHz Reel Transfer
"Well, I'm not sure on the lineage but I've thought alot about it.  It's obviously a multitrack mixdown(gaps between tunes).  Some of the JGB stuff from the Debbie Stash are masters(like 6-6-73!!).  My best guess of the 7-10-73 is Multitracks(Bob and Betty Ampex MM110)>2 track mixdown MR>R @ 7 1/2 ips.(WB)>DVD.  That's what I think it is esp. being a 7 1/2 ips. reel and the dynamics(nice!!).  It was probably  "working reels" for the original album that Jerry had maybe that he was picking tunes from(?).
"
Editing and Mastering by Jamie Waddell on the **GEMS** Edit Station
Weiss-Saracon for SRC and Pow-r3 Dither to 16 bit 44.1kHz

Tracked in CDWAV Tag&Rename for Meta_Data  
TLH for FLAC Level 8  by Patrick White (wharfratpat@shnflac.net)

a **GEMS** Production seeded 01-02-10 | www.shnflac.net

01. |08:19| Hi-Heel Sneakers  
02. |07:45| Finders Keepers
03. |07:22| The Harder They Come **first version by Garcia
04. |06:29| It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry  
05. |08:06| It's Too Late
06. |17:56| My Funny Valentine
07. |11:38| Mystery Train



08. |12:37| I Second That Emotion
09. |10;20| Someday Baby
10. |13:48| Merl's Tunes
11. |09:55| It's No Use
12. |08:04| Positively 4th Street
13. |08:12| Encore: How Sweet It Is


-tiny reel flaw in HTC
-organ runs hot in mix
-warble in Merl's Tune
-first circulating complete version of this performance

; flac fingerprint file generated by Trader's Little Helper
; generated on January 2, 2010, at 18:56:54

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Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders
Keystone Berkeley, California
July 10 1973

**24 bit audio**     A+ soundboard

A Matt Smith 24bit 96kHz Reel Transfer 
"Well, I'm not sure on the lineage but I've thought alot about it.  It's obviously a multitrack mixdown(gaps between tunes).  Some of the JGB stuff from the Debbie Stash are masters(like 6-6-73!!).  My best guess of the 7-10-73 is Multitracks(Bob and Betty Ampex MM110)>2 track mixdown MR>R @ 7 1/2 ips.(WB)>DVD.  That's what I think it is esp. being a 7 1/2 ips. reel and the dynamics(nice!!).  It was probably  "working reels" for the original album that Jerry had maybe that he was picking tunes from(?)."

Editing and Mastering by Jamie Waddell 
on the **GEMS** Edit Station  
Weiss Saracon for Pow-r3 Dither

a **GEMS** Production seeded 01-01-10  www.shnflac.net

01. |08:19| Hi-Heel Sneakers  
02. |07:45| Finders Keepers 
03. |07:22| The Harder They Come **first version by Garcia
04. |06:29| It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry  
05. |08:06| It's Too Late 
06. |17:56| My Funny Valentine 
07. |11:38| Mystery Train 



08. |12:37| I Second That Emotion 
09. |10;20| Someday Baby 
10. |13:48| Merl's Tunes
11. |09:55| It's No Use 
12. |08:04| Positively 4th Street 
13. |08:12| Encore: How Sweet It Is


-tiny reel flaw in HTC
-organ runs hot in mix
-warble in Merl's Tune
-first circulating complete version of this performance

; flac fingerprint file generated by Trader's Little Helper
; generated on January 1, 2010, at 23:03:04

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Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders
Keystone
Berkeley, CA
10/11/1973

Source: sbd > master-reel > dat(48k)

    Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
    Merl Saunders - keyboards, vocals
    John Kahn - bass
    Bill Vitt - drums

Set I
01  //Someday Baby
02  I Was Made To Love Her (**admin: originally mislabeled Honey Chile**)
03  When I Paint My Masterpiece
04  Mystery Train
05  The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Set II
03  I Second That Emotion
04  One Kind Favor
05  Sunshine Of My Life
06  The Harder They Come

Notes:

- this version has been provided by an anonymous source
- this (most excellent sounding) show has never circulated in any form
- "Sunshine Of My Life" - performed once by Garcia/Saunders
- "I Second That Emotion" is missing a couple notes at the start of set 2
- lots of level adjustments have been made
- various artifacts have been removed and a number of other repairs have been done
- a light hum and crackle removement has been performed between some tracks
- all files have been tagged









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     6:11.160      71262764 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5643  jgms1973-10-11.s1t05_The_Night_They_Drove_Old_Dixie_Down.flac
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   107:15.348    1235587232 B                            0.5734  (9 files)







Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders
Keystone
Berkeley, CA
10/12/1973



Source: sbd > master-reel > dat(48k)


    Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
    Merl Saunders - keyboards, vocals
    John Kahn - bass
    Bill Vitt - drums



Set I

01  //That's All Right, Mama
02  After Midnight

Set II

03  It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
04  Someday Baby
05  My Funny Valentine
06  The Harder They Come




Notes:

- this version has been provided by an anonymous source
- this (most excellent sounding) show has never circulated in any form
- obviously a couple tunes are missing from the first set, but it's all that's available
- lots of level adjustments have been made
- various artifacts have been removed and a number of other repairs have been done
- all files have been tagged








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    13:27.453     155031084 B   cxx   --   ---xx   flac  0.5616  jg1973-10-12.s1t02_After_Midnight.flac
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Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders
Keystone
2119 University Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
November 3, 1973 (Saturday)
123 minute soundboard

--Set I (7 tracks, 83:05)--
s1t01. ... After Midnight [7:26] (1) [2:48]
s1t02. Expressway (To Your Heart) [10:59] ->
s1t03. collective improvisation [15:50] ->
s1t04. transition to Merl's Tune [2:13] ->
s1t05. Merl's Tune [7:58] [2:34]
s1t06. Someday Baby [16:19] [1:55]
s1t07. I Second That Emotion [14:50] (2) [0:11] %

--Set II (2 tracks, 39:51, incomplete)--
s2t01. .. Mystery Train [10:01] [0:15]
s2t02. My Funny Valentine [29:05] (3)

! Band: Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders
! Lineup: Jerry Garcia - el-g, vocals;
! Lineup: Merl Saunders - keyboards;
! Lineup: John Kahn - el-bass;
! Lineup: Bill Vitt - drums;
! Lineup: Martin Fierro - saxophone, flute.

JGMF:
! Recording: symbols: % = recording discontinuity; / = clipped song; // = cut song; ... = fade in/out; # = truncated timing; [ ] = recorded event time. The recorded event time immediately after the song or item name is an attempt at getting the "real" time of the event. So, a timing of [x:xx] right after a song title is an attempt to say how long the song really was, as represented on this recording.
! TJS: http://www.thejerrysite.com/shows/show/907.
! db: none as of 12/31/2012.
! map: http://goo.gl/maps/z22BN
! metadata: The show seems originally to have been booked, and was billed, as Old And In The Way . It was listed that way in "Scenedrome," Berkeley Barb, November 2-8, 1973, p. 17 and Hayward Daily Review, October 26, 1973, p. 34. However, the Staska-Mangrum column from 11/2 listed it as JGMS (Staska, Kathie, and George Mangrum. 1973. Rock talk from KG: Country song goes to town. Hayward Daily Review, November 2, 1973, p. 44), and the tape is, plainly, JGMS. Of course, the next night would feature the least complete OAITW show, and it only occurred as late as November 4th because of a rainout at Sonoma State on the initial date of October 7th.
! R: the recording information I report is pieced together from available information, and may not be definitive.
! R: analog source tapes 1) Betty Cantor Jackson’s 10" master soundboard reel [MSR] @ 7.5ips 1/2 trk (Nagra IV-S, uncertain tape stock) (3rd Betty Batch, tape #53, 11/3/73 reel #1, set I, 83 minutes); 2) Betty Cantor Jackson’s 10" MSR @ 7.5ips 1/2 trk (Nagra IV-S, uncertain tape stock) (3rd Betty Batch, tape #36, 11/3/73 reel #2, end of show; first part of reel blank).
! R: Analog to digital transfer by RE, winter 1996: Otari 50/50 reel to reel > Apogee 500 A/D converter > Panasonic SV3700 DAT @ 16 bits, 48 kHz. The story of these tapes was written up in the late 2012 New Yorker article (Paumgarten 2012).
! R: subsequent: uncertain DAT > WAV > CD > EAC (extraction) > CDWave (tracking) > TLH (flac8 encoding) > foobar2000 (tagging) by JGMF.
! R: This recording is nothing short of spectacular. It enters in the pocket and stays there. Betty Cantor-Jackson, thank you! Listeners: we are truly blessed to care about the music that Betty cared enough to record for us. It’s like Rudy van Gelder or something. We are truly lucky music fans. And thanks to whoever had the foresight to salvage these tapes, and to have RE, a Grammy-winning recording engineer, preserve them. Posterity thanks you.
! historical: So good to hear this show. As of this writing, the only Garcia/Saunders shows in circulation after the thoroughly-documented (and now completely officially released as Keystone Companions: The Complete 1973 Fantasy Recordings, Fantasy, 2012 [Allan | deaddisc] ) July 10-11, 1973 Keystone shows are the fragment of the 9/5/73 Hell's Angels show, the complete Capital Theatre (Passaic, NJ) show of September 6, 1973, and another Hell's Angels thing at Winterland on October 2, 1973. After that, it's all the way out to January 17-18-19, 1974. Hearing this November show is potentially really important in stitching together a musical analysis of the band's evolution.
! s1t01 (1) @ 7:58 JG: "Mr. P.A. man, turn up the monitors and the P.A. please, would ya? That is, could ya?"
! P: s1t02 The jam portion of Expressway is very, very nice.
! setlist: s1t02-s1t05: I had a real bear of a time deciding how to track the 40-minute continuous piece of music between After Midnight and Someday Baby. It's pretty extraordinary! I used to prefer more markers to fewer, then I eased off of that for some years, and now I am feeling that they have great value. One way or another, we need good metadata on what was actually performed, and the timings of the various pieces. Future musicologists will thank us, or not. And with a jam like this, it's an exercise in false precision and linearity no matter how you slice it. This is how I slice it. I feel reasonably comfortable with s1t02 as Expressway. They leave the song structure, key, tempo, etc. at that point, which is when I drop in the "jam" track (something else that I have gotten away from). The "collective improvisation" covers lots of terrain. It even contains hints of the tune to follow, the Merl Saunders original "Merl's Tune". So, obviously, I split the baby with the tracking of Merl's Tune. What I do is just logically indefensible, not least since there are hints of Merl's tune all through the "jam". Merl's Tune has a pretty distinctive three-note start. Once Merl plays that and it "takes" (i.e., he doesn't wander away from it until Merl's Tune has definitely been played), I start the transition track. Then I track the song proper, well, when I think the song proper starts. Finally, though, they bail out of Merl's Tune before the end of the track I have made for it. So, if I were being consistent, I'd probably track this out, too. I am not being consistent.
! Personnel: the personnel identified is per the tape box as noted by RE.
! setlist: the start of the second reel was blank, and we clearly have an end of show announcement (see note (3), below). So we appear to be missing the start of set II.
! R: s1t01 After Midnight very low amplitude, lots of mix and level fluctuations, first minute and a half or so.
! P: s1t03 neat little jam JG descending at 3:44, GDish ... @ 4:00 Martin jumps in with a descending, decaying run of five notes, and then a more melodic, higher, quicker five-note melody that he copped from somewhere. Garcia starts vamping a little bit, and things really swing for a nice little 90 second thing, check it out around 4:45. Martin doing some very distinctive lines @ 5:10, really smooth (quoted again @ 5:30 ... Garcia playing very structured melody. If this were the GD, this jam would have gone somewhere, I hate to say it. Then Jerry is articulating some long sentences toward the late 7- and early 8-minute range. Again, late in the 8-min mark, with some very distinctive clusters of notes, definitely saying something. Starts bending @ 9:19 .. mmmm ...
! P: s1t03 John Kahn locks in on the three-note opening bass line of "Merl's Tune" for awhile @ 9:30
! P: s1t03 @ 10:15 Martin is playing his After Midnight thing. John joins him and so does Jerry. Merl is doing the MT line at 10:44 but since he abandons it for awhile again I don't start tracking it here. For a few minutes, if you started playing this at any point here and forced me to say what song it is, I think I'd say After Midnight. Jerry is strumming his After Midnight strum. John could be repetitively doing his After Midnight bass line toward the end of this segment, too. I guess these are their Merl's Tune lines? Maybe it's just that Merl's Tune has a melodic structure that sounds (to me) a little like After Midnight.
! P s1t03 Martin some copped CTI-type line @ 10:54, 11 ish.
! P: s1t03 this jam is @@ extraordinary. This may be one of the finest pieces of Garcia-Saunders jamming on tape.
! s1t05 “Merl's Tune” is a neat composition. It has the voodoo bite of lots of Merl Saunders's tunes, but also has a little swing break that puts me in mind of a carnival whirlicue, a spinning thing.
!P:  s1t05 MT Merl switches @ 1:59 to an electric piano or clavichord kind of sound, back to organ @ 2:14. Martin comes in on flute @ 2:13.  @ 2:42 Garcia enters a descending Grateful Dead kind of space ... descending 8-note lines ... absolutely gorgeous. Some beautiful, fragile, melodic stuff. This is a @@ beautiful jam. Then Martin comes in cheek-squealing and spitting and farting, and the moment passes. Martin hits a familiar lick @ 3:38. By about 4:45 they return do a dark space pretty well unmoored from the song. @ 5:15 JG does some mournful whale-wailing that's too brief.
! s1t07 (2) JG: "We're gonna take a break for a little while. We'll be back in a few minutes. Thank you."
! setlist: s2t01 has traditionally been listed as "That's Alright Mama", but it's actually Mystery Train.
! R: s2t01 Mystery Train enters in progress.
! s2t02 (3) JG: "Well, it's closin' time in Berkeley, everybody. Thanks a lot for comin' by and all that."
! s2t02 after the show-closing announcement, Garcia strums After Midnight. Funny. As I heard in the long set I jam, "After Midnight" permeates this show, thematically. And since the announcement probably came sometime near or after 2 a.m., that chord might just be a musical accompaniment to the announcement. "After Midnight", indeed. If I were bootlegging this, that's what I'd call it. How original.
! Thanks to all involved in making and preserving this music.
! URL: http://jgmf.blogspot.com/



SHNID	Date	Venue	City	State
99636	1973-01-19	Keystone	Berkeley	CA
Betty Cantor's 10" master sbd reels @ 7.5ips 1/2trk > ? > CD > EAC > CDWave > TLH (FLAC level 8).
105262	1973-07-10	Keystone	Berkeley	CA
flac1644: Matt Smith 24bit 96kHz Reel Transfer.Multitracks (Bob and Betty Ampex MM110)>2 track mixdown MR>R @ 7 1/2 ips.(WB) > DVD; Editing and Mastering by Jamie Waddell on the GEMS Edit Station. Weiss-Saracon for SRC and Pow-r3 Dither to 16 bit 44.1kHz. Tracked in CDWAV Tag&Rename for Meta_Data. TLH for FLAC Level 8 by Patrick White (wharfratpat@shnflac.net).
105264	1973-07-10	Keystone	Berkeley	CA
flac2496: Multitracks(Bob and Betty Ampex MM110)>2 track mixdown MR>R @ 7 1/2 ips.(WB)>DVD. Editing and Mastering by Jamie Waddell on the GEMS Edit Station Weiss Saracon for Pow-r3 Dither
136639	1973-10-11	Keystone	Berkeley	CA
jgms, flac1648: sbd > master-reel > dat(48k)
136779	1973-10-12	Keystone	Berkeley	CA
JGMS; sbd > master-reel > dat(48k)
123279	1973-11-03	Keystone	Berkeley	CA
analog source tapes 1) Betty Cantor Jackson’s 10" master soundboard reel [MSR] @ 7.5ips 1/2 trk (Nagra IV-S, uncertain tape stock) (3rd Betty Batch, tape #53, 11/3/73 reel #1, set I, 83 minutes) 2) Betty Cantor Jackson’s 10" MSR @ 7.5ips 1/2 trk (Nagra IV-S, uncertain tape stock) (3rd Betty Batch, tape #36, 11/3/73 reel #2, end of show

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