7-18-76 Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, CA.
sources:
Set I, Samson & Encore: SBD > MR > FM > PCM > DAT > CD
Set II: SBD bootleg CD + SBD > MR > PCM > DAT > CD > Sound Forge > CD
(see notes)
CD 1 (74:27 min) CD 2 (60:31 min) CD3 (57:39 min)
I: Mississippi Halfstep II: Might As Well The Other One >
Cassidy Samson & Delilah St. Stephen >
Row Jimmy Candy Man Not Fade Away >
Mama Tried Lazy Lightning > St. Stephen >
Scarlet Begonias Supplication > The Wheel >
Looks Like Rain Let It Grow > The Other One >
Tennessee Jed Drumz > Stella Blue
New Minglewood Blues Let It Grow > Sugar Magnolia
Loser Wharf Rat > E: Johnny B. Goode
The Music Never Stopped Drumz >
notes:
- CD 1 is slightly overburned, alternatively, Music can be moved to the beginning
of CD 2
- The remastering of set II:
trying to make a long story short - this show was treed in 1999 with the
MR>PCM>DAT>CD source for set II. Back when i first got into the Dead and
knew nothing about trading i bought bootlegs. A partial set II of this show was one
of the first i ever had ("Live At The Orpheum Theatre", Swinging Pig Records)
and i always wanted to get the whole thing. So when Brian provided me with the
tree discs after i missed the tree, i was realy happy. Before throwing away the
bootleg i decided to do a quick comparison and - the bootleg was better! Mainly,
there was a brief cut at the Let It Grow > Drumz transition on the tree CD and also
a gradually increasing background noise throughout set II. None of these problems
appeared on the bootleg. However, the boot had only the Lazy Lightning>>Stella
section plus JBG, with NFA spliced out so cleverly i never believed the setlists
until i actually heard it :)
Obviously, the best possible solution was to paste the two sources together and
with little experience and no pro software tools myself i turned to Bill for help. Who
as usual did an excellent job (just exactly perfect, so to speak) so that we now have
what i think is the best version in circulation of this must-hear show. Of course
Billīs ears still detect some anomalies in NFA but thatīs what happens to You after
spending hours & hours sitting in front of the PC and Sound Forging...:) And of
course the background noise NFA and Magnolia (missing on the boot) couldnīt be
helped.
So the exact source breakdown for set II now runs like this:
Might As Well, Candy Man & JBG: SBD > MR > FM > PCM > DAT >CD
Lazy Lightning >> Stella except NFA: SBD > ??? > bootleg (where this superb
boot was sourced from remains the big mystery)
NFA, Magnolia: SBD > MR > PCM > DAT >CD
- Set II is as great as it looks, this one is for post-retirement disbelievers! :)
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