Grateful Dead demo tracks

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"Ladies And Gentleman..The Grateful Dead" sounds very good through my Mac system. Getting an MCD201 cd player this week to see if i can get any closer to feeling like being at the Filmore East in April of 1971, I'm currently using a MCD7009.
 
bozak ron said:
1974, at sunset, a righteous Eyes Of The World that lasted for almost 45 minutes. However, my favorite live Dead number is Dark Star, off Dick's Picks Volume 2, perhaps the most jazzy version I've ever heard. Simply magical.
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What is the sound quality of that one? Wonder if it's still available. All Dark Star recordings are worth having, if it sounds close to a jazz performance which dead shows really are and much more even better.
 
Victor said:
The Dead track I use most to demo my system is Uncle John's Band from an original green lable Warner Bros Workingman's Dead LP. I love the acoustic guitar and echo on this track. The best part is when the instruments pause and they sing acappella.
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I have to agree. Always have Uncle John at the finger tips.
 
I have a question maybe someone can refresh my hazy memory. In the early to mid 70's The dead played an out door concert around the poconos? or englishtown? in new jersey there were 100,000 to 250,000 people there. The music started promptly at noon and they played well into the evening also a pregnant lady went into labor and jerry split the crowd so a chopper could bring her to the hospital, word came later thet she named the kid jerry what else! That concert sure was great and I was just wondering with all the bootleg/live dead material that exists if anyone out there knows the particulars about this concert?

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Robert
 
Thank You King88uy7:thmbsp:

77 huh! even hazier than I thought, It must have been that guy next to me polluting my airspace!

Robert
 
I'll second the recommendation from phil_er_up regarding www.shnflac.net. Best site on the web for trade-friendly music, and a must for fans of McIntosh powered Grateful Dead.

Another demo track I'll offer up is from Dick's Pick #14 (Boston Music Hall- 12.2.73) on disc 4 the "Jam" features a bass jam/feedback sequence that will test the capacity of your system to reproduce bass that contains rich harmonic detail along with subterranean frequencies. :yes::yes:
 
Yep, they have quite the reputation for having the highest quality transfers available as well.



Carl
 
The new Winterland 1973 Box Set not only has one of the best "Dark Star" performances ever, the tightness of Phil Lesh's bass is better than just about any other Dead recording from that time period. Seems like a good reason for a some new Mac gear.
 
Species8472 said:
Grateful Dead performance from the Closing of Winterland on 12/31/78, mixed from the 24-track analog master tapes to HDCD
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My pick also. I listened to that concert live on my Tympani 1-Ds and recorded it live off of KSAN - still have the tapes. The HDCD sounds better but my tape includes the Blues Brothers who opened the show.
 
bvk_houtx said:
I saw the Dead at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis in the early 70s. They were a GREAT concert band. I vaguely remember them playing for hours and wondering to myself why other bands don't play for that long. Needless to say they put on a great show. I would vote for anything from Workingman's Dead LP.
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Saw them once in the Oakland stadium. They were the warm up band for The Who. GD warmed up for about 4 hours and then The Who played for about an hour and a half...
 
I have tapes of some of the live New Years shows that were on KSAN and KPFA and none of them seem to sound that great. Some start sounding better later on in the show but nothing like the now available CD's and these tapes were all made with very high end audio gear.
 
There is lots of good/fun info here but this is a music thread and does not belong in the McIntosh forum.

Please use the Music forums for music threads in the future.

Thank You,
Victor
 
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