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THE GRATEFUL DEAD
Philadelphia 1983 [no label, 3CD]
Live at The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA; April 26, 1983. Very good soundboard and audience matrix.
Thanks to Charlie Miller; David Dillon; Ron Keyser; Joe B Jones; Bruce “The Big Woods”; Germain; dusborne; and greenerdude for all 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 is the best Philly Spectrum show ever. I went to the night before, and saw almost every Philly show from ‘85 thru ‘95. Now, does this night beat the 4/20/84 or 4/21/84 Civic Center shows? That’s a tough call. But it’s the best the Dead ever brought to the Spectrum. - Harold of the Rocks
Brent Mydland turns up the funk here, and this show sizzles as a result. Shakedown is good but Help/Slip/Frank really sizzles. That Slipknot! might be one of the best I’ve ever heard. The show is very fun until the very end when they do the waaaay overplayed Throwing Stones/Not Fade Away with an US Blues Encore. - JamminJerome
Jerry Garcia, Brent Mydland and Phil Lesh are pulling out all the stops on this one. Great Shakedown (was there ever a bad one at this venue?) They Love Each Other is sweetly played and Let It Grow is a rip roaring excursion into the outer realms of the song. Great show from the infamous spring 1983 tour and well worth the listen. - 2dose
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Soundboard Lineage:
Recording: SBD > Cassette Master > Cassette > Dat (48k)
Transfer: Dat (Sony R500) > Sound Devices 744T > Adobe Audition v1.5 > Samplitude Professional v10.2 > FLAC
All transfers and mastering By Charlie Miller
February 19, 2009
Patch: (FOB) Sennheiser Shotguns > Cassette Master > CD (shnid=28161) supplies:
Space (10:32-10:55)
- Set 2 is seamless
- Static during Maybe You Know is from the PA
- Nobody’s Fault But Mine and Spoonful jam after Truckin’
- This source sounds a bit clearer than the other circulating soundboards
- Thanks to Ron Keyser for the Dat
- Thanks to Joe B Jones for his help with the pitch correction
Audience Lineage:
Unknown mics > MC > C > C > Hardrive via souncard > Cool Edit to split tracks > flac
- Abrupt stop after d1t6 is on master (tape flip)
- There was a cut/blank space in Drums that was removed with Cool Edit
- Abrupt stop at end of d3t5 is on master
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. Shakedown Street 14:35 (24.5MB)
Track 102. New Minglewood Blues 8:20 (14.0MB)
Track 103. They Love Each Other 8:37 (14.5MB)
Track 104. Me And My Uncle 3:18 (5.6MB)
Track 105. Mexicali Blues 5:34 (9.4MB)
Track 106. Maybe You Know 5:01 (8.4MB)
Track 107. West LA Fadeaway 8:03 (13.5MB)
Track 108. My Brother Esau 5:18 (8.9MB)
59 mins
Disc 2
Track 201. It Must Have Been The Roses 5:25 (9.1MB)
Track 202. Let It Grow 12:29 (21.0MB)
(Set 2)
Track 203. Help On The Way 4:00 (6.7MB)
Track 204. Slipknot 4:37 (7.7MB)
Track 205. Franklin’s Tower 9:44 (16.4MB)
Track 206. Man Smart (Woman Smarter) 6:56 (11.6MB)
Track 207. Drums 11:17 (19.0MB)
55 mins
Disc 3
Track 301. Space 12:41 (21.3MB)
Track 302. Truckin’ 7:37 (12.8MB)
Track 303. Morning Dew 10:33 (17.7MB)
Track 304. Throwing Stones 9:40 (16.2MB)
Track 305. Not Fade Away 8:58 (15.1MB)
Track 306. US Blues 4:55 (8.3MB)
55 mins
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