Browse Collections Artists Sources   Search Dates

Add Show    List Management    Help


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

Comment
Other artist(s): NRPS
Last Changed By System
Sources
(9378) View Source    View Archive
AUD>MC>?>C>D>CD; via Jeff Cook; Seeded to etree by J Cotsman
(20852) View Source    View Archive
AUD>MR>?>CD>EAC>SHN. Digital editing by Jim Goldman, wavs provided by, minor editing and retracking SIRMick (The Sugarmegs Restoration Krewe)
(130667) View Source    View Archive
flac16; Audience cassette master (not sbd as previously thought) > ? > CDr > EAC > Soundforge - editing > shn > aiff (xACT) > flac
(130844) View Source    View Archive
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)
Click 'Edit Show' or the 'Set I(II)(III)' or 'Comment' text to make corrections.
If this is a duplicate or incorrect entry and should be merged, use the Request Merge page.

Collectors With This Show
User (active/rating) Media / # Show Sound Details DB Source User Source
Lost Sailor (2/0) Flac 16 / 0 View 130667 flac16; Audience cassette master (not sbd as previously thought) > ? > CDr > EAC >...
Lost Sailor (2/0) Flac 16 / 0 View 130844 flac16; Recording Information: unknown stereo(?) recording equipment -> master AUD...
Lost Sailor (2/0) Shn / 0 View 20852 AUD>MR>?>CD>EAC>SHN. Digital editing by Jim Goldman, wavs provided by, minor editing and...
pat (2/0) aud / 1 View   AUD>MC>?>C>D>CD>EAC>SHN
Marshall (2/5) shn / 2 View  
Michael McMullan (2/5) CDR/SHN / 2 A- View 20852 Aud
Notes: Includes NRPS set
Canyon (2/5) mp3 / 0 View  
Notes: hd1
Scott (2/0) CDR(DAO) / 2 View  
Luke Bailey (2/0) SHN / 2 View 20852 AUD>MR>?>CD>EAC>SHN
Notes: AUD>MR>?>CD>EAC>SHN
Ben (2/0) / 0 View 20852
Ben (2/0) / 0 View 9378
Ferguson (2/0) / 0 View  
Dean Thole (2/0) SHN / 1 View 9378
William Ferdinandsen (2/5) CDR / 2 View  
muddy (2/0) shn / 1 View   aud
muddy (2/0) shn / 2 View   aud goldman-sirmick
Michael Goff (2/5) cd / 1 View 9378
RJ (2/5) CDR / 1 Awf View   AUD>MC
Notes: Grateful Dead 5-3-70 outdoor concert on the lawn outside the administration building, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT AUD>MC>?>C>D>CD>EAC>SHN This entire set fits on one 80 minute disc 1. Me & My Uncle 2. New Speedway Boogie 3. Good Lovin'% 4. Crowd Banter 5. Dire Wolf 6. Don't Ease Me In 7. Lovelight--> 8. The Main Ten--> 9. Uncle John's Band (10:50 during Uncle John's) 10. Lovelight 11. Speech following show regarding protests This was apparently recorded by students doing a project for a Sociology class. This is surely one of the poorer audience masters from any era. The crowd is very loud as well. Frequently, the microphone is being moved around which affects the sound. Deadlists gives a slightly different order for the songs. The order given here is almost certainly correct, though, as the recorder frequently mentions the time of day during many of the songs. We can assume that when he mentions the time is "12:07" at the end of Good Lovin', he really means to say "10:07" (he mentions it is "9:48" near the beginning of the song). Deadlists also mentions that NRPS played Truck Drivin' Man & Fair Chance To Know preceding Me & My Uncle. The recorder also mentions that Good Lovin' is the seventh song played. We might then consider that this is the entire Dead set following a short set by the New Riders. Of course, that is no certainty. There is a small splice @ 1:30 of Good Lovin' Sound Forge was used to correct the pitch and normalize. Thanks to Jeff Cook encoding/edits J Cotsman NPRS in circulation but I dont have it Grateful Dead: 07. Me & My Uncle > Stage Announcements (4:12) 08. New Speedway Boogie (10:57) 09. Good Lovin' (14:40) 01. Dire Wolf (5:20) 02. Don't Ease Me In (4:59) 03 Turn On Your Lovelight > The Main Ten > (22:36) 04. Uncle John's Band (6:08) 05. Turn On Your Lovelight (6:59) 06. Speech After The Show Regarding Protests And Chanting (3:20) digital editing by Jim Goldman, wavs provided by, minor editing and retracking SIRMick (The Sugarmegs Restoration Krewe)sector boundaries confirmed with shntool ************************************************************************ notes:- - a real snapshot of the Taper's section and the Psych Department discussion is heard more clearly than the music. This is a record of an event, not just a concert Recording" - information from posts to deadlists throws more light on the whole event: and the circumstances in which the show was recorded- 1. This will probably be of most interest to the oldtimers who can still enjoy vintage audience recordings, those who collect 1970 recordings missing from the Dead's vault or completists, not to mention the 1970 caretaker of Deadlists. I was recently given first generation reel to reel copies of The Dead and NRPS at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT on May 3, 1970 to transfer into the digital realm. I've checked Deadlists, Deadbase and The Compendium and I think this is the first time the complete contents of the master reels are together, as none of those listings include all of this material. I can also shed light on who recorded it, the accurate song order and how it probably came into circulation (partially) years ago. According to notes written on the first gen reels, the three original master reels were recorded by a Wesleyen student named Warren White as part of an assignment for a Professor Schenk (we think thats how its spelled. The handwriting on the reel cases is difficult to read). There were originally three master reels altogether, two half-hour reels and one hour-long reel, all recorded at 1 7/8ips. Those master reels were borrowed from Schenk by another student (in the late 1970?s) and dubbed to 1st generation reels by my wife's uncle - Alan Bershaw. Without a deck that would run at 1 7/8ips, Alan said he played the master reels back at 3 3/4 ips while recording them onto reels at 7 1/2 ips, which allowed him to play back his first generation reels at 3 3/4 ips - at the correct speed. At that time, several 90 minute cassettes (of the last 90 minutes, including all the Dead material) were given to friends of Alan's and to the guy who borrowed the master reels from Schenk. Currently circulating copies likely originated from those 2nd generation cassette dubs, many probably way down the line since this all happened in the late 70's. If Deadlists/Deadbase/Compendium is correct on what circulates, this new copy includes all of this material possibly for the first time. While this is still far from a great recording and its still probably incomplete, its likely an improvement over all the currently circulating copies. There are also no butchered songs and no reel stops/starts between songs like most audience recordings of this time. The geneology on this new copy is Master Audience Reels@1 7/8 ips (played back @3 3/4 ips)-> Reels@7 1/2 ips > (then played back @3 3/4 ips to correct speed on Revox A-77)->[email protected] It should also be noted for context that this is the night before the Kent State shootings, which is significant in light of the various announcements on these recordings. Stu Hanson (19 Sep 02) ***MASTER REEL #1 contents: New Riders Of The Purple Sage (with Jerry Garcia on pedal steel) 1. Workingman's Blues (2:59) 2. I Don?t Know You (5:26) 3. Last Lonely Eagle (7:17) 4. Truck Drivin' Man (4:30) 5. Fair Chance To Know (4:29) 6. John Dawson says "Now for total complete utter Grateful Dead" (0:20) 7. crowd noise & talking... (1:46) 8. Announcement: Dancing In The Trees - (1:28) 9. Announcement: Tear Gas Eye Drops- (1:36) ***MASTER REEL #2 contents: (Electric) Grateful Dead (part one) 1. Me And My Uncle (4:27) 2. New Speedway Boogie (10:50) 3. crowd response to roman candles firing off backstage/drums-> (0:31) 4 Good Lovin-> (1:59) 5. drums-> (2:20) 6. jam-> (7:38) 7. Good Lovin (2:17) ***MASTER REEL #3 contents: (Electric) Grateful Dead (part two) 1. Dire Wolf (5:19) 2. Don't Ease Me In (4:54) 3. Turn On Your Lovelight-> (21:52) 4. The Main Ten-> (1:01) 5. Uncle John?s Band-> (6:04) 6. Turn On Your Lovelight (6:55) 7. Bring Down The Establishment!/Peaceful Demonstration! (2:10) 8. Announcements and "Dead, Dead, Bring back the Dead" chanting (1:14) 2. During the May '70 tour, the band used campus equipment to save money whenever possible, and for whatever reason Wesleyan did not hook up a recorder at the board. The Wesleyan show took place during a student strike to protest the war. The recording deck was an old reel-to-reel Uher machine owned by sociology professor Charles Lemert. Anyway, at the show, the portable Uher was passed around, which explains the hilarious banter among the crowd, and the apparent inability to read a clock. It was conceived, according to Lemert, as a sociological document, not a concert recording. The "sloping lawn behind the administration building" is actually called "Foss Hill." At Wesleyan, it's not entirely clear where Foss Hill ends and the baseball/football field smack-dab in the center of campus begins, but in any case, just calling it "Foss Hill" would certainly be accurate enough. pb (20 Sep 2002 ) P.S. For trivia buffs, Wesleyan is also the alma mater of John Perry Barlow, who was class president in '69, and Bill Belichick '75.
Kevin Boland (1/4.7) CD / 2 View  
Notes: Acoustic set missing
KerouacAW (1/0) FLAC / 0 View  
Gary Field (1/5) 9378 / 1 View 9378 AUD
Notes: AUD>MC>?>C>D>CD>EAC>SHN
Gary Field (1/5) 2085 / 2 View 20852 AUD
Notes: AUD>MR>?>CD>EAC>SHN
Gary Field (1/5) 130844 / 1 View 130844 AUD
Notes: 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); remastered version of source ID 130667 [140926.wd002]
Gary Field (1/5) 130667 / 1 View 130667 AUD
Notes: Audience cassette master (not sbd as previously thought) > ? > CDr > EAC > Soundforge - editing > shn > aiff (xACT) > flac; this is the same audio data as source ID 9770
Marc Deardorff (1/5) shn / 1 View 9378
Notes: AUD>MC>?>C>D>CD; via Jeff Cook; Seeded to etree by J Cotsman
Marc Deardorff (1/5) shn / 2 View 20852
Notes: AUD>MR>?>CD>EAC>SHN
phil (1/5) cd / 3 d View 20852 audmr>?>cd
Notes: shn files (hd)
Ed Izsak (1/5) AUD / 2 View  
KB Larsen (1/5) shn / 2 View 20852
Notes: Thanks Torbjorn! 2 audio
J Parzych (1/5) FLAC / 0 View 9378 AUD>MC>?>C>D>CD>EAC>SHN