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Grateful Dead 05/03/70
Field House, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Set I
Me & My Uncle, New Speedway Boogie, Good Lovin'-> Drums-> Good Lovin', Dire Wolf, Don't Ease Me In, Turn On Your Love Light-> The Main Ten-> Uncle John's Band-> Turn On Your Love Light
Set II

Set III

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Other artist(s): NRPS
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AUD>MC>?>C>D>CD; via Jeff Cook; Seeded to etree by J Cotsman
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AUD>MR>?>CD>EAC>SHN. Digital editing by Jim Goldman, wavs provided by, minor editing and retracking SIRMick (The Sugarmegs Restoration Krewe)
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flac16; Audience cassette master (not sbd as previously thought) > ? > CDr > EAC > Soundforge - editing > shn > aiff (xACT) > flac
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flac16; Recording Information: unknown stereo(?) recording equipment -> master AUD cassette (NOT a SBD as noted in shnid 9770) -> ? -> unknown generation tape used for shnid 9770 -> CDr > EAC > Soundforge (normalize & pitch correction -> shn -> aiff (xACT) -> flacs; flacs -> TLH -> wavs -> Audacity using right channel for mono signal [fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch, bump, pop, click, dropout & dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, NO equalisation] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper)
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joe m (3/5) FLAC / 1 View 130667
Michael (3/0) SHN / 2 View 20852
cbass (3/5) / 0 View 9378
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cbass (3/5) FLAC / 0 View 130667
cbass (3/5) FLAC / 0 View 130844
Richard Warren (3/5) shn / 1 View 9378
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Richard Warren (3/5) shn / 2 View 20852
Notes: 20852
J (3/0) / 0 View 9378
J (3/0) / 0 View 20852
Pierluigi Tomaselli (3/5) cd / 2 View  
Ken Berry (3/5) SHN / 1 View 9378
Jeepster (3/0) cdr / 1 View 9378
Jason Smoliak (3/5) Shn / 1 View 9378 AUD>MC>?>C>D>CD>EAC>SHN
Barry Smith (3/5) CDR / 1 A View  
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Sin City Hillbilly (3/0) / 0 View  
peachabbshn (3/3) SHN / 2 A A View 20852 AUD>MR>?>CD>EAC>SHN
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Ashlee (3/0) cdr / 1 View  
Dionysos (3/0) SHN / 1 View 9378 See Link SHN
bear bridges (3/4.8) shn / 1 View 9378
Jeremy Workman (3/5) cd / 2 View 20852
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Waterface (3/5) CDR / 1 C View   AUDMC > ? > C > DAT > SHN
David Callaway (3/4) SHN / 1 View 9378
Notes: AUD>MC>?>C>D>CD>EAC>SHN
dancing bear (3/0) shn / 2 View 20852
Engineer's Monkey (3/5) SHN / 1 View 9378
Sugar Mag (3/5) cdr / 2 D View  
TLEO (3/0) shnf / 0 View   aud
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Mike Langen (2/4.9) cdr / 1 A- View 130844 aud
Notes: In my collection this is filler on Chicago 8/30/69 disc. Grateful Dead (*) 1970-05-03 Middletown, Connecticut Wesleyan University Foss Hill (M?-AUD *remastered*) Free all day open-air concert with multiple bands ~*~ (*)Garcia & Weir ACOUSTIC SET with guest harmonica player & Pigpen on one song ~*~ A "not-for-purists" NEWLY remastered version of shnid 130667 & shnid 9770. 01. --introduction & tuning-up-- 02. Deep Elem Blues 03. Friend Of The Devil 04. Silver Threads & Golden Needles (->) 05. Black Peter 06. --announcement-- Total Time ::: 22:30 ::: Pretty good, much better, now a lot of fun. Check samples for transformation acceptibility levels or trajectory tribulations. ::: Warts: Some brief spots of distortion in loud passages. Fixed dullspots & dropouts but surely missed a few. ::: Many Connecticut bands also billed, as noted in a college newspaper article 2 days before the show (but unclear who actually appeared): Randy Burns & The Morning After, Bone, Joy, Nighthawks, Trod Tiger & The Tunafish & (tentatively) Charisma. Swamp Gas, New Riders Of The Purple Sage, & the "Intergalactic Kazoo Band" (1 song only?) also played (photos&some video exist). ::: Excellent & extensively researched article on the day & era at http://deadessays.blogspot.de/2013/02/may-3-1970-wesleyan-university.html ::: Online comment, “The format was ‘Evening with the Grateful Dead,’ which started with an acoustic set by Jerry & Bob, followed by a New Riders set, followed by the Dead." ::: This acoustic set (around 7pm?) is Jerry & Bob accompanied by an unknown guest harmonica player, & Pigpen on organ for the last minute of #5. Phil, Bill & Mickey were late in arriving from Binghamton, NY. The Harpur College show was the previous night. ::: A much inferior AUD tape circulates of the Dead's electric set. Apparently video also exists of some songs & some of the day's events. ::: COMPARISON NOTES: Original shnid 9770 had date, location & source errors which were corrected in shnid 130667. This is an audio remaster of shnid 130667. ::: After downloading this recently, I listened & remembered the issues I'd had with it in the past. A very difficult listen with 1 channel almost inaudible, some panning between channels, distortion, extraneous noises, etc. Sounds as tho' it was miked almost directly in a PA speaker, so I decided to try a version with only the (MUCH) better right channel & remaster it to fix dropouts, dullspots & erratic level issues, as well as lower the distorted, overloaded vocal bits. It immediately became a far more enjoyable recording for me. Purists may not appreciate the tinkering, but I think some folks who love this era of acoustic Dead should be quite pleased. Informal Dead set? Bring it on. Recording Information ::: unknown stereo(?) recording equipment -> master AUD cassette (NOT a SBD as noted in shnid 9770) -> ? -> unknown generation tape used for shnid 9770 -> CDr > EAC > Soundforge (normalize & pitch correction -> shn -> aiff (xACT) -> flacs. (Theory is that this was an auto level record deck. I think it was stereo, otherwise I've no idea how the left channel got so screwed up & the information became so radically different from the right - not just offset or bad head problems). Playback 2014-07-22 ::: flacs -> TLH -> wavs -> Audacity using right channel for mono signal [fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch, bump, pop, click, dropout & dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, NO equalisation] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. First uploaded week of 2014-08-03. Line-up ::: Jerry Garcia - acoustic guitar, vocals // Bob Wier - acoustic guitar, vocals // Pigpen - organ (end of "Black Peter" only) // ? (guest musician) - harmonica. ((There is some speculation that the harmonica player might be Will Scarlett or John Hammond)). Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline. DimeTravel 039 ::: Thanks to the original taper & traders! Many thanks to Matt Vernon, Raoul Duke, J. Cotsman & N. Hoey ::: Corrections welcome ::: Original shnid 9770 was as part of the Music Never Stopped Project 2002 which thanked Matt Vernon & Raoul Duke & had edits & encoding by J. Cotsman . Conversion to flac, tagging and corrected info by N. Hoey 2014-07-16 in shnid 130667. shnid 130667 was used to remaster the audio in this version. Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yers truly, Knees Support the artists! www.dead.net Do whatever you want with it except sell it, 'cause that ain't cool!
Lost Sailor (2/0) Shn / 0 View 9378 AUD>MC>?>C>D>CD; via Jeff Cook; Seeded to etree by J Cotsman