Live at Thelma Theater on 1969-12-11 (1969)

Grateful Dead · 1969 · 82 min

The Grateful Dead's Thelma Theater recording includes an unusual spoken-and-keyboard entry: “Tom Constanten Plays Bach” joined to the “Yellow Dog Story.” “Casey Jones,” “Cold Rain and Snow” and “Mama Tried” lead into it, with “Dire Wolf,” “It Hurts Me Too” and “China Cat Sunflower”/“I Know You Rider” afterward. “Black Peter,” “Me and My Uncle” and “Hard to Handle” precede the closing “Dark Star.”

Selected edition: 13-file source edition; One Sony microphone fed a mono cassette master, later transferred through DR-1/Lunatec/Korg DSD to 24-bit/96 kHz. About thirty-three seconds of soundboard source 10987 patch Dark Star at 19:59. Tape pauses leave abrupt openings; a separately described synthetic-stereo variant is not assumed here. from the documented source. 13 audio files, 464,104,666 bytes and 81:56 of measured audio.

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One Sony microphone fed a mono cassette master, later transferred through DR-1/Lunatec/Korg DSD to 24-bit/96 kHz. About thirty-three seconds of soundboard source 10987 patch Dark Star at 19:59. Tape pauses leave abrupt openings; a separately described synthetic-stereo variant is not assumed here. Primary source and edition notes.

Source limits: Source recording/transfer: 1 x Sony Microphone => Sony Portable Cassette Recorder [Monophonic] >> MAC.

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