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THE GRATEFUL DEAD
New York 1972 [no label, 3CD]
Live at the Academy of Music, New York, NY; March 22, 1972. Very good soundboard.
Thanks to Charlie Miller for all the efforts and for sharing the show at Lossless Legs.
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.
Billyprimo remembers the show at dead.net:
The sound went out in the middle of LOSER, they finally fixed it and they started back up right in the middle of the song where they left off. Like your trip was stopped and then started up again. The CAUTION out of Sugar Magnolia was so unexpected. For years i thought I hallucinated it and wasn’t in DEAD BASE for a long time either. The it showed up on the tapers section and 30 some years later I finally knew for sure that I hadn’t imagined it. These were great shows and a great venue to replace the Fillmore that had closed the year before. Pig Pen was still strong and vibrant. I think he sang like six songs this night. Don’t think he was ever really great after the Europe tour.
Lineage:
Recording: SBD > Master Reel > Apogee AD500 > Dat (48k)
Transfer: Dat [Sony D8] > Samplitude Professional v9.11 > FLAC
All disc changes are seamless
Cut in Loser
Intro to Big Railroad Blues cut due to reel flip
Reel flip in Caution at 9:25
Hundreds of flaws removed, but some may still remain
All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller
Thanks to Rob Eaton for lending me his Dats
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
Track 101. Greatest Story Ever Told 5:56 (10.0MB)
Track 102. Deal 6:50 (11.5MB)
Track 103. Mr Charlie 5:03 (8.5MB)
Track 104. Black Throated Wind 7:05 (11.9MB)
Track 105. China Cat Sunflower 5:53 (9.9MB)
Track 106. I Know You Rider 6:29 (10.9MB)
Track 107. Mexicali Blues 5:20 (9.0MB)
Track 108. Tennessee Jed 8:56 (15.0MB)
Track 109. Two Souls In Communion 8:51 (14.9MB)
Track 110. Me And Bobby McGee 7:05 (11.9MB)
Track 111. Loser 7:20 (12.3MB)
75 mins
Disc 2
Track 201. Tuning 0:31 (875k)
Track 202. Big Boss Man 7:58 (13.4MB)
Track 203. Jack Straw 4:58 (8.3MB)
Track 204. Big Railroad Blues 5:10 (8.7MB)
Track 205. Looks Like Rain 7:56 (13.3MB)
Track 206. Casey Jones 5:57 (10.0MB)
Track 207. Tuning 1:44 (2.9MB)
Track 208. Me And My Uncle 2:58 (5.0MB)
Track 209. Sugaree 6:56 (11.6MB)
Track 210. Chinatown Shuffle 4:25 (7.4MB)
Track 211. Playing In The Band 13:03 (21.9MB)
Track 212. It Hurts Me Too 9:26 (15.9MB)
Track 213. Brown Eyed Women 5:25 (9.1MB)
77 mins
Disc 3
Track 301. El Paso 7:57 (13.4MB)
Track 302. Brokedown Palace 9:24 (15.8MB)
Track 303. Sugar Magnolia 7:19 (12.3MB)
Track 304. Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) - Part A 11:18 (19.0MB)
Track 305. Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) - Part B 14:11 (23.8MB)
Track 306. Uncle John’s Band 9:17 (15.6MB)
Track 307. One More Saturday Night 5:11 (8.7MB)
65 mins
The track, Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks), has been arbitrarily split for easier access.
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