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I made
a transfer of a version of 12/30/69 some months ago but it will be inferior as
it had to use an anlog connection.
Glenn
My CDR Trading List
http://www.geocities.com/deadhead20.geo/CDR.html
My CD
Cover Art Site:
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/doubleneck/122/
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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