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THE GRATEFUL DEAD
Boston 1973 [Charlie Miller SBD, 3CD]
Live at the Boston Garden, Boston, MA; April 2, 1973. Very good soundboard.
Thanks to Charlie Miller, David Gans; and greenerdude for the efforts and for sharing the show at Dime.
Recently, a batch of Grateful Dead shows surfaced on the net, many from the Charlie Miller collection and these versions are likely new to circulation.
Charlie Miller is renown in trading circles for his amazing ongoing upgrades and remasters of Grateful Dead soundboard and audience tapes that had formerly resided in the depths of only the most hardcore Dead collections. Charlie is one of the great liberators of these tapes, and he has shown amazing generosity to the Dead community to donate his time, expertise and gear to make every Deadhead’s listening session a more enjoyable and magical experience. While his day job is being the recording engineer and archivist for ace guitarist Steve Kimock, Charlie always seems to find the time during his Deadhead remastering night job to rework and upload yet another amazing piece of the Grateful Dead’s audio history into the greater Internet trading community.
Visit darkstarpalace.com for a 2010 interview with Charlie Miller.
Another person who has been instrumental in liberating live Grateful Dead from the vaults has been Dick Latvala:
To initiates, the Grateful Dead’s vault has the mythical lure of the Amber Room. In the nineties, the band moved its collection from San Rafael to a state-of-the-art strongroom in Novato, with five-layered walls, various alarms, and a system that would suck all the oxygen from the room in the event of fire. It housed more than ten thousand tapes.
Their keeper was Dick Latvala, a self-described “flaming Deadhead” and “crazy tape pervert”—the avid congregant who one day finds himself in the role of high priest. Latvala was a young gospel and R. & B. buff when he first encountered the Dead, in 1966. He was an instant convert and thenceforth an avid attendee, a member of the earliest cadre of Dead freaks who bore witness to the band’s metamorphosis from a mere blues-and-dance band into a full-bore improvisational psychedelic experiment—what he called “primal Dead.”
Click here for the 2012 New Yorker article on the Dead.
Posted at archive.org:
This one is top-notch. I just finished listening to the entire Spring 73 tour, and this one is without a doubt the best of the bunch. I rank it slightly higher than 3-24 and 3-26. Everyone talks about the Here Comes Sunshine > Jam as they should, but Eyes of the World is one of the best I’ve heard, definitely the best of Spring 73, and the China Doll that follows is heart-wrenching. - jpfudd5
Lineage:
Recording: SBD > Rm (7.5 ips/2 Track) > Dat > Dat
Transfer: Dat > Sonic Solutions > CD (David Gans’ Master Discs, with thanks) > EAC (Secure) > SHN
CD > SHN Conversion by Charlie Miller
Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (224 kbps). As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never been officially released on CD.
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Disc 1
(Set 1)
Track 101. The Promised Land 3:13 (5.4MB)
Track 102. Deal 4:29 (7.5MB)
Track 103. Mexicali Blues 3:30 (5.9MB)
Track 104. Brown-Eyed Women 6:12 (10.4MB)
Track 105. Beat It on Down the Line 3:23 (5.7MB)
Track 106. Row Jimmy 8:00 (13.4MB)
Track 107. Bobby’s Spider Rap 0:23 (654k)
Track 108. Looks Like Rain 7:42 (12.9MB)
Track 109. Wave That Flag 5:47 (9.7MB)
Track 110. Box of Rain 5:07 (8.6MB)
Track 111. Big River 4:41 (7.9MB)
Track 112. China Cat Sunflower 7:20 (12.3MB)
Track 113. I Know You Rider 5:42 (9.6MB)
Track 114. You Ain’t Woman Enough 3:11 (5.3MB)
Track 115. Jack Straw 4:51 (8.1MB)
74 mins
Disc 2
Track 201. Don’t Ease Me In 4:28 (7.5MB)
Track 202. Playing in the Band 17:31 (29.4MB)
(Set 2)
Track 203. Stage Banter 0:34 (946k)
Track 204. Ramble on Rose 6:33 (11.0MB)
Track 205. Me And My Uncle 3:31 (5.9MB)
Track 206. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo 7:03 (11.8MB)
Track 207. Greatest Story Ever Told 5:07 (8.6MB)
Track 208. Loose Lucy 7:00 (11.8MB)
Track 209. El Paso 4:23 (7.4MB)
Track 210. Stella Blue 7:46 (13.1MB)
Track 211. Around And Around 4:45 (8.0MB)
69 mins
Disc 3
Track 301. Here Comes Sunshine 20:28 (34.4MB)
Track 302. Me And Bobby McGee 6:25 (10.8MB)
Track 303. Weather Report prelude 2:48 (4.7MB)
Track 304. Eyes of the World 16:08 (27.1MB)
Track 305. China Doll 5:55 (9.9MB)
Track 306. Sugar Magnolia 9:01 (15.1MB)
Track 307. Casey Jones 6:54 (11.6MB)
Track 308. Stage Banter 0:28 (796k)
Track 309. Johnny B Goode 3:37 (6.1MB)
Track 310. We Bid You Good Night 2:14 (3.8MB)
74 mins
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