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kmh364
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Username: kmh364

Post Number: 906
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Friday, July 29, 2005 - 11:46 am:   Edit Post

For those interested, the Dead's dependents are offering the complete, restored recordings from the 16-track master tapes of the Dead's Frisco concert run ca. late Winter/early Spring 1969. These are the infamous tapes that spawned what I consider to be the most authentic formally released depiction of the GD concert experience AKA the "Live Dead" Album. It's 10hrs. on 10 CD's with a big booklet and a bonus '68-'70 concert disc of never before released material for $80 +S&H. The GD Store is taking pre-orders at the attached link:

http://www.gdstore.com/store.asp?page=product&band_id=601&sfid=7&dept_id=1968&pf_id=DE50COMBO

This is not only Pig Pen-era stuff, but what is arguably peak-era performance documentation, folks. As a long-time Live Dead fan, I've got my order in. Full review of this momentous set to follow shortly after receipt of same.
lbpesq
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Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 551
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Friday, July 29, 2005 - 12:48 pm:   Edit Post

Kevin:

Thanks for the heads-up. Isn't this the recording made by Ron Wickersham? By the way, as a former East Coaster (NY native) I know that one can get geographically challenged west of the Mississippi (or even west of the Delaware!) "Frisco" is in Texas. The Dead shows were in "San Francisco". Out here "Frisco" is a dirty word.

Bill, tgo
kmh364
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Username: kmh364

Post Number: 907
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Friday, July 29, 2005 - 4:12 pm:   Edit Post

OK,OK...Geez you Left-Coasters are sensistive...out here we don't care if you say Jersey, Joisey, the Garbage, er, um, Garden State, whatever, LOL!

I don't know if Ron did this one, but it is supposedly the first 16-track commercially-released recording. I'm psyched to ck it out.
valvil
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Username: valvil

Post Number: 736
Registered: 7-2002
Posted on Friday, July 29, 2005 - 4:29 pm:   Edit Post

I asked Mama Susan and she said, "yep, that was us".

Valentino
kmh364
Senior Member
Username: kmh364

Post Number: 909
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Friday, July 29, 2005 - 4:33 pm:   Edit Post

Nice! It sounds like we'll finally get to hear (hopefully) what Ron actually captured on his modded Ampex multitrack open-reel machine(s). Now I'm really psyched!
kmh364
Senior Member
Username: kmh364

Post Number: 911
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Friday, July 29, 2005 - 5:26 pm:   Edit Post

Guess I shoulda read the fine print...The set isn't gonna be released until Nov 15th!!! Bummer! I shoulda known...the "Truckin' Off To Buffalo" set took about three months or so from pre-order to delivery. Oh well, it'll just have to be a "To: Me. From: Me" Birthday gift, LOL!
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 552
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Friday, July 29, 2005 - 5:28 pm:   Edit Post

Kevin:

Do you know why New Jersey has more toxic waste dumps and California has more lawyers?




New Jersey go first choice! (nyuk, nyuk).


Actually I like Jersey. How can you dis a place where the state bird is the mosquito?

Bill, tgo
tom_z
Intermediate Member
Username: tom_z

Post Number: 160
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Friday, July 29, 2005 - 5:40 pm:   Edit Post

Kevin - thanks for the heads up. I first read that these recordings were to be released in my last GD newsletter, but I was not aware that pre-orders were being taken yet.

Tom
kmh364
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Username: kmh364

Post Number: 912
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Friday, July 29, 2005 - 5:46 pm:   Edit Post

Well...if there was a Port Authority of San Francisco or Melbourne Australia or...(fill in the blanks of someplace nice that I can ride my Harley year round) to transfer to, I wouldn't be here. As a reluctant life-long resident of Joisey and a Public Sector employee with (a now-a-days unheard of) job security, this is, unfortunately where I gotta stay to get my pension and lifetime health benefits. Another 11 to 13yrs, and I'm outta here! Mosquitos be damned, LOL!
kmh364
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Username: kmh364

Post Number: 913
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Friday, July 29, 2005 - 5:50 pm:   Edit Post

No problem, Tom. I was actually alerted to the pre-order BEFORE the Dead Store sent out their email pre-order offers to the mailing list via the current issue of Relix magazine. That's the one with Jerry on the cover and the 40p.p. spread on JG and the Dead, ten years on from Jerry's death.

(Message edited by kmh364 on July 29, 2005)
glocke
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Username: glocke

Post Number: 59
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 3:49 am:   Edit Post

Well, we will get to hear what Ron and Susan did only if the people who release this stay true to the original mix.sounds of of the instruments.

Some Dead has been released in recent years that has
instrument tones differing sharply from what the shold.
I think Steppin out (from the europe 72)is one...Phils bass is way off from what it really should be sounding like....I dont know what they did to it, but it sounds way off from other recordings of that era...
kmh364
Senior Member
Username: kmh364

Post Number: 939
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 6:21 am:   Edit Post

This one should be good. They're using Ron's master tapes from what I understand. I've heard many versions of different European shows from '72, and the source of the tapes is the major impact on the finished product. I haven't heard "Stepping Out", but I have heard the soundboard tapes from the UK show(s) and they weren't very good. They did a good job on the "Live Dead" and "Europe '72" reissues, so hopefully, that'll continue with the '69 Filmore release. This is David Lemieux's (A/V archivist for the Dead after Dick Latvala's passing) current pet project, so I think think he's pulling out all the stops for this historic run of shows.

(Message edited by kmh364 on August 11, 2005)

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