Grateful Dead
Practice Sessions
Alembic Studios
San Franciso, CA
09/17/1969


Source : Soundboard Master Reels @ 3 3/4 IPS > DAT (44.1)


01   Garcia and Pigpen noodling > Unknown Instrumental x 2
02   Seasons Of My Heart x 3
03   Sawmill x 3
04   Merry-Go-Round Broke Down x 3 >  Merrily We Roll Along x 2 > Merry-Go-Round Broke Down
05   Cartoon music > Teddy Bear's Picnic > Merry-Go-Round Broke Down
06   Cold Rain And Snow x 4
07   Dire Wolf
08   The Eleven x 5
09   Barbed Wire Whipping Party *


Notes:

- This has been provided by an anonymous source and has NEVER circulated before.
- The guys are having fun as well as being serious.  This sounds as crisp as the day it was recorded.
- A little NR has been used on track 1.  The levels were very low in parts and when raised introduced some hiss.
- There was a lot of distortion in sections of track 6, most of which has been eliminated.
- Rather than track out each individual "song" they have been kept together so as to keep the flow going.
- Of particular interest are "Seasons Of My Heart" and "Sawmill" which both feature some tasty pedal steel from Garcia.
- All files have been tagged.
* This is from the Aoxomoxoa sessions.  This is in full stereo and sounds like a  finished version.



edited and mastered
SIRMick
March 2013



shntool output:

    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
     9:08.01       96669596 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.3206  gd1969-09-17t01.flac
    12:33.14      132862172 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.3947  gd1969-09-17t02.flac
     9:04.40       96055724 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4081  gd1969-09-17t03.flac
    17:04.72      180802988 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.3941  gd1969-09-17t04.flac
    10:57.37      115981868 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.3813  gd1969-09-17t05.flac
    21:57.13      232349420 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.3928  gd1969-09-17t06.flac
     6:42.71       71079836 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.3690  gd1969-09-17t07.flac
    22:19.14      236232572 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4069  gd1969-09-17t08.flac
     1:21.14       14321372 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5728  gd1969-09-17t09.flac
   111:08.51     1176355548 B                            0.3910  (9 files)