Live at Campus Stadium, UC Santa Barbara on 1974-05-25 (1974)

Grateful Dead · 1974 · 162 min

The Grateful Dead's Santa Barbara stadium show runs from “U.S. Blues” through “China Cat Sunflower”/“I Know You Rider” in the first set, then opens the second with “The Promised Land” and “Ship of Fools.” “Truckin'” moves through a jam/space passage toward “Let It Grow” and “Wharf Rat,” followed by an equipment-malfunction entry containing “Beer Barrel Polka.” Jeremy Witt's retrospective account describes concealing the cassette recorder inside the stadium the night before and using handheld microphones during the show. Those recollections give this audience document a personal setting, placing the music within the taper’s remembered stadium experience.

Selected edition: 27-file FLAC source edition from the documented source. 27 audio files, 942,529,244 bytes and 161:56 of measured audio.

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Selected the source’s complete 27-recording FLAC edition in its documented file order.

Jeremy Witt's Sony TC-152 cassette master was copied to Teac reels in 1974, then transferred/mastered in 2010 at 24-bit/96 kHz before conversion. Tape pauses and handheld movement remain disclosed. The final Casey Jones is the encore; its prefix is removed from the title. Primary source and edition notes.

Source limits: Source recording/transfer: Recording Info: FOB Audience Recording by Jeremy Witt Preserved in posterity for 36 years by Jay Abrams (jra-sm) Recording Equipment: Sony TC-152, Sony Mics, BASF 120 minute cassettes, Dolby B Analog to Analog Transfer June 1974: Sony TC-152 -> Teac 1230 - Scotch 150, 7" Reels at 3 3/4 ips Transfer by Jim Blackwood Dec 23 2010 Editing and Mastering by Jamie Waddell on the GEMS Edit Station at 24 bit 96 kHz Weiss-Saracon for 16 bit 44.1kHz conversion TLH for FLAC8 SBE Free.

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Source declaration: Artist permission; noncommercial. Source evidence.

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