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Grateful Dead - 02/12/70
1 disk audio
Ungano's Night Club
New York City, NY
Set 1
Cold Rain & Snow,
Beat It On Down The Line (5 beats),
Good Lovin'->
Drums->
Good Lovin',
Mama Tried->
Black Peter,
Hard To Handle,
Saint Stephen->
Not Fade Away,
Casey Jones
Comment Contrasting comments from deadlists.com: "An
ad for this gig appears in the Village Voice. The 16
minute tape fragment sometimes circulated with this
label is actually Fleetwood Mac w/ Peter Green,
Clapton & Jr. Wells, Tea Party, Boston 2/12/70, the
encore of Fleetwood Mac's set. Also, the 45 AUD tape
excerpt from the 2/13/70 Early Show sometimes
circulates mislabeled '2/12/70 Ungano's;' for more on
this tape see 2/13/70a."
SBD:MR>PCM>?>Dat>SSSB>EAC>WAV>SHN
Source: SBD > 2-track RTR @ 15 i.p.s. > PCM > ? > D >
SSSB
Thanks to Jay Serafin for the disks!
Audio Rating: AR-2
Any/all editing, fades, NR, hiss elimination, phase
shifting/"time smear" correction, jitter elimination,
and +/-2 dB max. EQ were performed using 100%
digital-only processing (24-bit/96 kHz data stream) at
Serafin Station Studio B
EAC (High, Secure) > WAV > SHNv3 by Patrick Murphy
>From Jay Serafin:
All of the information about this show was
obtained/confirmed by my Marin County source. This
person is as close to being "inside the organization
itself" as anyone can be, and this person has NEVER
given me bad or erroneous information for the past 5
years!
And what a show this is, too! It was actually an
unannounced impromptu show in the middle of the Dead's
Fillmore East run. The venue only held approximately
500 people, and it was a first-come, first-served
show. Most of the seats were removed to allow some
additional "SRO" concertgoers. The NYC Fire Department
was on hand to enforce the "maximum number of patrons"
restrictions, just to play it safe.
"We" were lucky that the Dead's audio people brought
along one of the spare 2-track RTR decks. "We" were
also lucky from the standpoint of having a 95%
hiss-free recording to begin with, as the deck was
running at twice the normal "regular show" taping
speed. This translates into lower levels of analog
tape hiss, as well as having more high frequency
recording
capabilities. This show, for being set up in a hurry,
was very well mixed. Jerry and Bobby each had their
own channel for their guitars, and listening to how
well Weir blended into the entire mix is very well
"documented" with this recording. About the only
negative I can say about this show's audio quality was
that being in the small club, and most likely with the
time frame the audio people had to set up, the drums
are just a little buried in the mix, especially the
cymbals. But, you still are going to get blown away by
the audio quality of the show.
DeadBase states a few things about this show that are
inaccurate, such as "actual date and location
unknown". This is not true, according to my source.
This show did happen on this date at this venue.
Sadly, because of the license and insurance the night
club held, the show only lasted a little over an hour
an 30 minutes. There are no "breaks" or "tape flips",
as the band simply was given a "signal" to cut a song
off, so that the RTR could have a new tape put on. All
the songs are complete and unedited. The only
"exception" to this was my decision to cut off the
very
opening 20 seconds of the first song, "Cold Rain &
Snow", simply because of the fade-in of the copy I
received wasn't right. Since the volume levels on the
recording I received were very low, when I went to
bring everything up to the correct level, the CR&S
fade-in would have sounded pretty bad. I opted to just
cut off the bare minimum of the opening riff to make
things
sound "correct".
I guess the "topper" to this show, besides the
fantastic sound, the good mix, and everything else, is
that Phil was just going off into the ozone on a
couple of the songs. He wasn't "way out there", but he
definitely was trying to travel down that road that
made him such an integral part of the "Sound Of The
Dead". He's got some very good riffs going, especially
during "Good Lovin'" and "Saint Stephen". Garcia and
Weir were playing off each other, and you can tell
they were in their groove this night. Sometimes it's
subtle, sometimes it is quite noticeable, but they
just "clicked".
The audience, although they weren't "recorded" for
ambience, could be heard in the distance between
songs, and you can tell that they definitely got their
money's worth. I imagine the closeness,
proximity-wise, along with the small-club atmosphere,
is what brought out the best in everyone's playing for
this show. I've seen my fair share of Dead shows over
the 30 years they played, and I personally felt that
they played their best when they were either being
simulcast over the radio, or when they played smaller
venues. I've been everywhere in the audience at shows,
from the front row at the '94 Soldier Field show to
the soundboard at the Rosemont, to back of the
Fillmore West, to the front of the crowd at Loyola.
Again, I felt the
smaller the venue, or any time they were on the FM
dial, the shows were better, tighter yet looser, and
definitely they seemed to have more fun on stage.
Sorry for going off on that little tangent there, but
I felt that bit of info may make you deciding to get
this show a little easier. I would recommend it to
anyone, from a "newbie" to someone with 4,000 hours in
their library. This is a pristine copy, and I think
that everyone should have this as part of their
collection.
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