Live at Winterland Arena on 1977-12-29 (1977)

Grateful Dead · 1977 · 170 min

The Grateful Dead's December 29 Winterland show moves from “Jack Straw” and “They Love Each Other” toward “Sugaree” and “Promised Land” in the opening set. The second links “Bertha” and “Good Lovin',” then places “Sunrise” before a long Playing-centered sequence that includes “China Cat Sunflower,” “I Know You Rider” and “China Doll.” Space, drums and “Not Fade Away” lead back to Playing. The complete audience-reel program reaches “Terrapin Station” after returning to the Playing theme and ends with the second encore, “Johnny B. Goode.”

Selected edition: Complete 25-recording original FLAC audience edition from the documented source. 25 audio files, 3,915,993,523 bytes and 170:16 of measured audio.

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The complete Sandy Troy audience reel replaces the earlier copy that omitted the second encore. The original transfer list names all twenty-five FLAC files across both sets and ends with Terrapin Station and Johnny B. Goode. Matt Smith’s 2015 straight 24-bit/96 kHz transfer used a Technics 1506 and a Lamb Labs Dolby decoder; it is an audience recording, separate from the commercial Dick’s Picks release.

The complete Sandy Troy audience reel replaces the earlier copy that omitted the second encore. The original transfer list names all twenty-five FLAC files across both sets and ends with Terrapin Station and Johnny B. Goode. Matt Smith’s 2015 straight 24-bit/96 kHz transfer used a Technics 1506 and a Lamb Labs Dolby decoder; it is an audience recording, separate from the commercial Dick’s Picks release.

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Source limits: The complete Sandy Troy audience reel replaces the earlier copy that omitted the second encore. The original transfer list names all twenty-five FLAC files across both sets and ends with Terrapin Station and Johnny B. Goode. Matt Smith’s 2015 straight 24-bit/96 kHz transfer used a Technics 1506 and a Lamb Labs Dolby decoder; it is an audience recording, separate from the commercial Dick’s Picks release.

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