Grateful Dead
August 30, 1969
Family Dog at the Great Highway
San Francisco, CA

d1t01 - Dark Star ->
d1t02 - Saint Stephen ->
d1t03 - The Eleven ->
d1t04 - Drums ->
d1t05 - High Time

Source Information

Original Audience
shnid = 122231
Source: AUD > 4th Gen Cassette, kindly provided by Seaweed1010.

Transfer: Maxell XLIIS > Nakamichi DR-2 > Edirol FA-66 > Wavelab >
R8Brain > CD-Wave > TLH > FLAC 1644 tagged. September 2012

Caveat Auditor: The sound is pretty rough, this certainly does
NOT upgrade ID-8594. However, as an example of an early audience
recording, it does have historical interest. This is likely the
same "mislabled fragment" that is referred to on Deadlists.

The lineage was listed as: Aud Master > Reel > Latvala's Reel >
Cassette > Seaweed's cassette (4th gen). The recording is mono.
There are some cuts that were left un-repaired: Dark Star 2:21
(a lot missing), Dark Star 7:11, St. Stephen 6:27 (tiny skip),
and The Eleven 1:13. Small FLAC sizes due to mono WAV data.

Patched using:
SBD
shnid = 8594
Master Soundboard Reel > Cass > DAT > CD

Discs were generously supplied by Seth Kaplan

EAC>SHN transfer by Steve Barbella 3/02
EAC secure test and copy, offsets config'd, 100% track quality
SHNs created via MKW v.97 (seek enabled)
shntool used to verify the sectors...they were fine.
notes:
much less hiss than the previously circulating SBcass>DAT>CDR

Deadlists Comments:
The newly circulating CDs transcribe Latvala's cassette copy of
the master reels.  The cassette has a flip about 11 minutes in to the Dark
Star but Latvala must have put some overlap on B because there is no cut
audible on the well-produced CD.

A 41 minute fragment from this tape has circulated for years, usually
mislabeled "Family Dog 8/29/69" but sometimes also mislabeld "Family Dog
6/5/69" or "Fillmore West 6/5/69."  This fragment contains the last 17:50 of
Dark Star through the first 3:28 of High Time.

08/30/69 The Family Dog, San Francisco Ca - complete
  4.7   ^, 088min, Sbd, A1D0, Reel M->Cass  1->Dat  0, 48k,
  7inch Master [email protected] 1/2trk->Tascam 122mkIII Cass 1st Gen->3800 x 0

RECORDING  90 SB (reels)
CONTRIBUTORS  Jim Powell   Dick Latvala  Nathan Wolfson

Flac encoding notes:
All processing with Trader's Little Helper
Shn - st5 generated
Shn > Flac ( level 8 )
Flac - st5 generated and matched to Shn st5

Tagging notes:
Show information is embedded within the header of each flac file.
It will display on any player capable of directly playing flac files.
If converted to wav during processing, all tags will be
stripped, however audio data will remain unaffected.
If you must transcode to a lossy format, do so directly Flac > Lossy.
Use st5 to validate audio integrity.
Md5 values will change if tagging is altered.
B. Proctor 10-04-11
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- Mixed by [email protected]
- FLAC conversion 08-OCT-2012 - Trader Little Helper
- Tagged 08-OCT-2012 - Tag&Rename
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Audio Patching;
1) The first 13 minutes and 09.988 seconds were missing from the Audience and was filled in with audio from the soundboard. This included the first 13 minutes of Dark Star.

2) 15 minutes into Dark Star, 1 minute and 17.281 was missing from the Audience and was filled in with audio from the soundboard.

3) 21 minutes into Dark Star, 41.837 was missing from the Audience and was filled in with audio from the soundboard.

4) At the end of Saint Stephen, 1.048 was missing from the Audience and was filled in with audio from the soundboard.

5) 1 minutes into The Eleven, 07.045 was missing from the Audience and was filled in with audio from the soundboard.

6) 3 minutes into High Time, 3 minutes and 05.483 was missing from the Audience and was filled in with audio from the soundboard.

7) I used the soundboard as the timing reference as the audience lineage was "4th generation".

Brokedown House Production

    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
    28:56.01      306232796 B   ---   --   -----    wav  1.0000  gd1969-08-30d1t01.wav
     6:26.23       68144540 B   ---   --   -----    wav  1.0000  gd1969-08-30d1t02.wav
     6:25.50       68031644 B   ---   --   -----    wav  1.0000  gd1969-08-30d1t03.wav
     5:50.56       61871756 B   ---   --   -----    wav  1.0000  gd1969-08-30d1t04.wav
     6:29.69       68781932 B   ---   --   -----    wav  1.0000  gd1969-08-30d1t05.wav
    54:08.49      573062668 B                            1.0000  (5 files)