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My Dark Star clocks in at 19:30. I'll gladly B+P this
dat you Jim...
I'd gladly B+P the SHN's to someone, if they
are willing to circulate them.
cm
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 2:38
PM
Subject: cut CDs of 12/26/69 and
12/30/69
A couple years ago about a half dozen people each put in
hundreds of hours,
for love and for free, to digitize more than a thousand
first generation SBD
cassettes, master them to Cds and put the Cds into
circulation. Great care
was taken to do as perfect a job as
possible: knowing that the fountainhead
of Dead music had been freely
opened by the grace of one great deadhead, it
was felt proper to live up to
the quality of the gift.
It blows my mind, now, to see some of this
stuff come back around rather
altered. Take, for instance, SMU Dallas
12/26/69. The 1st gen cassette SBD
source has a nasty cut at 26:00
into the Dark Star, about 2 1/2 minutes
after the vocals. The tape
picks up again near the beginning of New
Speedway. A couple people
have had the thought to cut directly from the
Dark Star vocals to the New
Speedway, making a 'cleaner transition.' I can
understand the motive
for this. What I can understand the motive for, is
the way one of
these copies has cut a minute or so off the beginning of Cold
Rain and the
other has cut a couple minutes off the end of Cold Rain and
around a minute
off the beginning of China Cat. Just to hack things up,
I
guess. Just to piss in the well, I guess.
For still more
egregiously stupid example, check out the version of 12/30/69
going
around. The first CD times 59:35 & sounds like a clean transcript
of
Good Lovin through Midnight Hour. The 2nd disc times 36:56 and
contains
Cumberland through Cosmic Charlie. The cut in The Other One is
closed up
clean with the beginning of Cosmic Charlie. On one listen
it didn't seem
like much was lost so I didn't cross check; now I wish I had
because in view
of the rest I wouldn't trust it. The third disc times
79:20. It begins
with Uncle John through Me & My Uncle, without
intermediate tracking. It
then continues with the first 10 minutes of
Dark Star, cutting the last 9 or
so, apparently so as to 'fit' the
Alligator > Feedback sequence on the CD.
Putting this mangled
abortion into circulation is like tearing pages out of
library books.
It is pissing in the well. When I think of the hundreds of
hours of
love, care, attention and plain work that went into putting this
stuff out
good and proper, and consider this hacked up corpse that comes
back around
2 years later, well, I just want to say
Thanks a bunch,
bozos.
Caveat auditor.
--
Jim Powell
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