Grateful Dead 1972-03-23 Academy of Music New York, NY(1st AUD for this date)

Grateful Dead
Academy of Music
New York, NY
03/23/1972

Source:  Unknown audience cassette - from the collection of Doug Lamarre
Transfer: cassette > Nak CR-7A > Tascam DA-3000 #2 (DSF 1-bit/5.6 MHz) > Tascam Hi Res Editor >wav 24/96 - transferred by Matt Vernon
Lineage: wav 24/96 > Adobe Audition 3 > iZotope RX 9 Advanced > iZotope Neutron 2 Advanced >  iZotope RX 9 Advanced > wav 16/44.1 > CD Wave > Flac 16


Set I

01   China Cat Sunflower >
02   I Know You Rider
03   //Black Throated Wind
04   Chinatown Shuffle
05   Brown Eyed Women
06   Beat It On Down The Line
[MISSING]Cumberland Blues
07   //Looks Like Rain *
08   Mr. Charlie
[MISSING]Tennessee Jed
[MISSING]El Paso
[MISSING]You Win Again
09   //Jack Straw
10   //Next Time You See Me
11   //Playing In The Band
[MISSING]Comes A Time
[MISSING]Me And Bobby McGee
[MISSING]Casey Jones


Set II

01   Truckin'
02   //Ramble On Rose
03   Two Souls In Communion
04   //Mexicali Blues
05   Dark Star
06   Big Boss Man
07   Not Fade Away >
08   Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad >
09   Not Fade Away

encore

[MISSING]Sugar Magnolia



Comments:

- Jerry on pedal steel*
- Seems strange reading the review of this show in the Taping Compendium.  At that time the only source available was an aud and since no others have shown up I guess it might be this one.  The comment that caught my eye was that "Dark Star" stood out because it seemed of much better quality than the rest of the recording. In fact pretty much the whole of Set II sounds better than Set I.



Notes:

- DC offset and pitch corrected
- There is some light wow and flutter but I haven't attempted to fix that.
- Where tracks are missing or the taper paused, crossfades have been put in to smooth it out. A number of tracks are clipped at the start.
- Quite a number of dropouts have been repaired.
- There are two patches in each of "Dark Star",  "Big Boss Man" and the first two or three seconds of "NFA" has been patched on. The source used is shnid 136683, a sbd that was originally credited to an anonymous donor. I can now reveal that it came to me from my friend, the late Harvey Lubar. I decided to change it to mono and then add some ambience so that it is a better fit. Harv is probably turning in his grave at the thought of that because he didn't like his sources patched if the patch was inferior, which most times they were.
- I have used some eq, mostly to adjust the bottom end.



Thanks to Doug Lamarre for providing this source

Thanks to Matt Vernon for the transfer and facilitating


edited and mastered
SIRMick
May 2022

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