1969-06-27 | Grateful Dead

View NotesOriginally aired on 91.3 FM KXCI Tucson on Dead Air, hosted by Jim Blackwood on December 24, 2023
https://spinitron.com/KXCI/pl/18320691/Dead-Air
Originally shared to www.shnflac.net on December 25, 2023

Jerry Garcia - guitar, pedal steel, vocals
Bob Weir - guitar, vocals
Phil Lesh - bass, vocals
Ron McKernan - organ, vocals
Bill Kreutzmann - drums, percussion
Mickey Hart - drums, percussion
Tom Constanten - keyboards

Notes:
- Garcia on pedal steel in 'Slewfoot', 'Dire Wolf', and 'Green Green Grass of Home'.
- Tom Ralston sits in for Mickey on drums in 'Slewfoot', 'Mama Tried', and 'High Time', as Mickey was running late.
- Peter Grant on banjo in 'Slewfoot'.
- Weir on vocals in 'Dire Wolf'.
- Last known performance of 'Big Boss Man' was on September 3, 1967.

Transferrer: Joe Samaritano

1:33:56

SBD

gd69-06-27.sbd.samaritano.20547.sbeok.shnf

Source:

Soundboard (no DAE)

Lineage:

SBD > Master Reel > Cassette > DAT > DAT > ZA2 > Soundforge > .wav > mkwACT > SHN

Taper Notes:

View Notes1. Known low generation lineage and transfer info. 
2. Splice in Baby Blue about 4 minutes in, then clipped at the end.
3. Garcia on Pedal Steel for Slewfoot, Dire Wolf, and Green Grass.
Peter Grant on Banjo for Slewfoot. Weir on vocals for Dire Wolf.

Transferrer: DFinnney and CPelz

gd1969-06-27.sbd.finney.10344.shnf

View NotesD1T7- Glitch at about 4:23
"From Good Ole San Francisco, the Good Ole Grateful Dead". This 
is a very interesting tape, recorded as the band was moving from 
the Live/Dead sound to the Workingman's Dead sound. Note the C&W 
twang in Bob Weir's voice and the alternative arrangements in some 
familiar songs. According to Deadlists, Jerry plays pedal steel 
guitar on "Slewfoot" , on "Dire Wolf" (Weir on vocals!) and on 
"Green Grass". 

Digitized from a cassette which, reportedly, 
was made by Dick Latvala.

Apparently, the original recording of "Slewfoot" had the levels set too high
for the first several seconds of the song. On the cassette, this portion
didn't appear to be saturated, but did have higher levels than the rest of
the tape. This portion was captured separately from the rest of the tape,
then spliced together later. This explains the distorted sound at the
beginning even though the average level is the same throughout. The rest of
the song is in pretty good shape, but the subsequent songs sound much
better.

There is some tape noise in "Dire Wolf", which is sung by Bob Weir. "Baby
Blue" has an internal cut, plus it is clipped at the end.

Transferrer: David Finney

gd69-06-27.sbd.finney.78.sbeok.shnf

Source:

Soundboard

Lineage:

SBD Reel > ? > cassette (Latvala) > CDR > SHN

Taper Notes:

View Notes"From Good Ole San Francisco, the Good Ole Grateful Dead". This is a very interesting tape, recorded as the band was moving from the Live/Dead sound to the Workingman's Dead sound. Note the C&W twang in Bob Weir's voice and the alternative arrangements in some familiar songs. According to Deadlists, Jerry plays pedal steel guitar on "Slewfoot" , on "Dire Wolf" (Weir on vocals!) and on "Green Grass". Deadlists also shows "The Eleven", but I've also seen this called "William Tell Jam". In any case, I didn't separate it out from "St. Stephen" with a track marker.

I digitized this from a cassette which, as represented to me, was made by Dick Latvala.

Apparently, the original recording of "Slewfoot" had the levels set too high for the first several seconds of the song. On the cassette, this portion didn't appear to be saturated, but did have higher levels than the rest of the tape. This portion was captured separately from the rest of the tape, then spliced together later. This explains the distorted sound at the beginning even though the average level is the same throughout. The rest of the song is in pretty good shape, but the subsequent songs sound much better.

There is some tape noise in "Dire Wolf", which is sung by Bob Weir. "Baby Blue" has an internal cut, plus it is clipped at the end.

There is plenty of room at the end of disc 1 for filler. I used the circulating 1-20-68 fragment, but there was insufficient space on this SHN disc to include it.

"Ode to a Hard Core Taper" is approx. 3 minutes of 'tween song stuff, none of which is very interesting. It ends with the first few seconds of "Dire Wolf" to make reconnection easier, if you are so inclined.