General Notes: Bill Koucky contacted me and wanted me to try and matrix this sick but relatively unknown show because neither source really did it justice. I said I’d give a whirl and sure enough the mix turned out to be a big improvement. The Oakland Auditorium Arena later became the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center so this nice FOB sounds great when coupled with a so-so SBD which needed much digi snit removal (thanks Chris Ladner) which I used for set 1 – the second set I used was the Clugston source but there is nothing in the db, so it is unclear if Scott remastered the problematic Bruce Fried source or got it somewhere else. Bill K’s 1st gen FOB from Steve Aldeman that he duped 23 years ago serves as an excellent AUD source. The first set is on fire with Garcia constantly trying to slow things down in his song selection (Birdsong as the 3rd tune?!! and TLEO is quite spirited) but he finally gives and cranks out a ripping Brown-Eyed so Weir can stretch out on a monster Let It Grow. Second set opening with Scarlet > Fire is big and groovy, and the Playin’ that follows has Jerry referencing the Woody Woodpecker theme (4:57). The whole show is played well, no big surprises, just good ole Grateful Dead. On the FOH side of things Healy seemed to be playing with a short delay effect (15ms or so) for most of the first set on both Garcia’s guitar and all the vocals. It is very noticeable in spots, especially on Garcia’s solo in Bertha and the vocals in BIODTL. The result is a flange effect which some might misconstrue as bad synching, but let it be known this is how it sounded in both sources and is not the result of the matrix. Thanks to Steve Aldeman for recording the AUD, and to Bill Koucky and Chris Ladner for transfering, encoding and remastering both SBDs and the AUD source. Thanks to Scott Clugston for the mystery SBD II source, and to Dr. Bruce Fried for the SBD I source. Special thanks to Bill Koucky for motivating me to matrix this wonderful yet obscure show (even the LlaMA doesn’t have anything for this date). Enjoy! Chappy ___________________________________________________________ Editing Notes: – Pitch Set 1: Both sources were not very close in pitch. The SBD had to be pitched down between 53 and 59 cents, while the AUD had to be pitched down only 49 cents. Set 2: The SBD was relatively close in pitch so I left it as is and pitched the AUd down about 50 cents. – Synch Because of the speed fluctuation within a given source, multiple edits were performed to keep the sources synched. Since the AUD was my master pitch and time ref, the SBD was synched to the AUD (too many edits to list). – Sonic Quality/Matrix ratio No EQ was applied to either of the two sources. I applied very sparingly Waves L2 (limiter) to the master 2 buss to keep things contained, the levels rarely hitting zero, thus the limiting is quite scarce. All I was trying to do here is to add some dimension to the SBD by using the ambience of the AUD. The result is a lively but clear recording, hopefully close to how it sounded at the show. If I had to guess the SBD/AUD ratio would be somewhere between 2.5:1 and 2:1. – Edits The following are places where the SBD and AUD had splices, holes or incomplete coverage in reference to the final matrix timeline. SBD: d1t01 (0:00 – 0:14) – missing (tuning) d1t01 (0:14 – 1:11) – multiple volume moves to smooth out levels d1t01 (1:39) – feedback – minimized on both sources

Set I d1t01 – Bertha -> d1t02 – Greatest Story Ever Told d1t03 – Bird Song d1t04 – Beat It On Down The Line d1t05 – They Love Each Other d1t06 – Me & My Uncle -> d1t07 – Big River d1t08 – Brown-Eyed Women -> d1t09 – Let It Grow Set II d2t01 – Scarlet Begonias -> d2t02 – Fire On the Mountain d2t03 – Playin’ In the Band -> d2t04 – Drums -> d2t05 – Space -> d2t06 – The Wheel -> d2t07 – The Other One -> d2t08 – Black Peter -> d2t09 – Sugar Magnolia Encore: d2t10 – US Blues

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Bill Koucky and Chris Ladner and Chris Chappell