Dead of the Day: 09-18-1987

Madison Square Garden

New York, New York

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For our Dead of the Day, we look to one of the best shows of 1987, at Madison Square Garden. The show opens up with a spunky Hell In A Bucket that segues into Sugaree, where the band sounds palpably excited, settling into a mind-meld state that will continue for the rest of the evening. Whatever you might say about the Dead in the late 80s, they could get locked into one another and just groove like nothing else, and that is exactly what happens on this night. And as that happens, each song rolls out, just as splendid as the last, until they come to the tremendous Bird Song that closes out the set. The Bird Song rises above the inimitable magic of the earlier tunes, pouring forth in ridiculous splendor.

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gd1987-09-18.mtx.hansokolow.96139.flac16

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Matrix mix (SBD/AUD)

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This is a matrix, done by hansokolow in ProTools, of the following sources: DSBD: shnid=19002 SBD PCM>DAT x3>WAV>SHN Shakedown patch source: unknown SBD Space patch source: SBD PCM>CASS>DAT>WAV Remastering: SHN>WAV>CE2K>SHNTOOL>mkwACT ———————————– AUD: shnid=82359 Source: Nakamichi CM304’s>Sony D5M Location: OTS, Stand at 9 Feet Transfer: Nak CR5A>Lunatec V3(analog out)>722@24/96 Editing: Adobe Audition 2.0 dither and resample 16Bit>Cdwav/tracking>flac16 Tapers: Tony Suraci Transfer and upload by Tony Suraci aka nak700 ———————————– My Notes: The AUD was squeezed, song by song, by around 4%. There will be some minimal phasing. The DSBD, while clean, is quite overblown, but my ears did not notice any clipping, although you can see it on the waveform. The very end of Birdsong is missing from the AUD. Chunks of Drums and Space were missing from both recordings, but not in the same place, so this recording is complete, except for some crowd noise before the encore that is missing. Caveat: I don’t take meticulous notes of every splice and adjustment I make, it’s already time consuming enough, but I will explain my process. Every disc I make is seamless for longer media. I use the most reliable source, usually whichever is digital, if both are the same generally it’s the SBD, and the other sources is time shifted to match that. With analog sources there is always some wavering. Within reason I try to adjust for the by making small, millisecond cuts, lining up the drum beats. These are smoothed over and when mixed with another source, undetectable. There still may be occasional phasing, particularly in the vocals and the cymbals. Believe me that I do everything I can to minimize problems like that. That includes cutting out spots of diginoise and blips and things. Whenever there is something missing from one source but present on the other, I bring up the volume a tad on the source that’s left, to minimize the jarring nature of one source dropping out. When the crowd noise at the start of a set is less than two minutes or so, I don’t make a separate crowd track. I export the final result to aiff files, and then convert those into flacs at the smallest setting, using xACT for Mac, and that also makes then SBE safe. I hope everyone enjoys the product of my labor, and I’m glad to give something back to the community that has given me and others so much music over the years. Thanks, brothers and sisters. -Tano (hansokolow@gmail.com)

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Set 1 Hell In A Bucket -> Sugaree -> Walkin’ Blues Candyman When I Paint My Masterpiece Bird Song Set 2 Shakedown Street -> Man Smart (Woman Smarter) -> Terrapin Station -> Drums -> Space -> Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad -> All Along The Watchtower -> Morning Dew -> Good Lovin’ -> La Bamba -> Good Lovin’ Encore Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

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