Grateful Dead
1968 Mystery Reels

~Disc 1~
Excerpt #1

1. //St. Stephen ->
2. Jam
3. Cryptical Envelopment ->
4. That's It For The Other One ->
5. Cryptical Envelopment ->
6. New Potato Caboose ->
7. Thirteens Jam ->
8. Alligator ->
9. Drums ->
10. Jam ->
11. Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)//

~Disc 2~
Excerpt #2

1. Drums ->
2. (post-Alligator) Jam

Excerpt #3

3. //Cryptical Envelopment ->
4. That's It For The Other One ->
5. Cryptical Envelopment ->
6. New Potato Caboose//
7. It Hurts Me Too
8. Born Cross Eyed//

Excerpt #4

9. //Dark Star ->
10. St. Stephen

~Disc 3~
Excerpt #5

1. //Cryptical Envelopment ->
2. That's It For The Other One ->
3. Cryptical Envelopment ->
4. Good Morning Little School Girl
5. //Dark Star ->
6. St. Stephen ->
7. The Eleven ->
8. Death Don't Have No Mercy//
9. Turn On Your Lovelight//

~Disc 4~
Excerpt #6

1. //St. Stephen ->
2. Cryptical Envelopment ->
3. That's It For The Other One ->
4. Cryptical Envelopment ->
5. Turn On Your Lovelight//

Excerpt #7

6. //Walk Me Out In The Morning Dew
7. //It Hurts Me Too
8. "Return The Scratcher"
9. Dark // Star ->
10. St. Stephen ->
11. Turn On Your Lovelight

Notes and comments:
// = fades in/out (or cut)

Disc 1:
Ex. 1 - At 3:56 into the Drums after Alligator, they start singing Alligator vocals
and at 4:35 in to it, Jerry joins in with a Caution type solo. Although this
fragment circulates as "Fall 1968", "3/22/68 Detroit", and "May 1968",
it is from an unlabeled reel. There is an entry for this set list on p. 164 of
Volume 1 of The Deadhead's Taping Compendium. According to Rob Eaton:
"There were 5 unlabeled 7 inch reels found in the Vault many years ago.
Several contained very early versions of Stephen. The tape you describe
is one of these unknown reels. The best estimate for a date would be
April/May 1968 or spring '68."

Disc 2:
Ex. 2 - The date and location of this recording are unknown. Its hard to say
for sure, but it sounds like late 1968 - maybe September or October or
thereabouts. The Drums has that Bol scat "Ya, Ya, Yakita, Yakita" in it.

Ex. 3 - The date and location of this recording are unknown. There is no Drums
after the first Cryptical, The Other One has the standard lyrics, but Bobby
stumbles with them as on 2-3-68. This recording is probably very close to
that date.

Ex. 4 - The date and location of this recording are unknown. Its sounds like it's
from 1968, but maybe it's early 1969?

Disc 3:
Ex. 5 - The date and location of this recording are unknown. It begins with a cut
right into the "doesn't seem to matter" line in Cryptical Envelopment. There
is a six second or so drum solo intro to The Other One. At the "one man
gathers what another man spills" break in St. Stephen, Jerry and maybe two
others laugh, but there are not really any words.
* - hiss level significantly higher than the other disks in this set and some
distortion on bass - looks to have more than 1 cassette generation.
fairly frequent partial channel drop outs from what might be tape decay
on some songs

Disc 4:
Ex. 6 - The date and location of this recording are unknown. There is a 13 second
drum solo intro to The Other One. At the "one man gathers what another man
spills" break in St. Stephen, there are no words, just further jamming
immediately.
* - t1 - tape speed variable at the start
t2 - volume change ~1:30
t5 ~7:40 volume lowered

Ex. 7 - The date and location of this recording are unknown. There is a tape flip in
Dark Star. At the "one man gathers what another man spills" break in
St. Stephen it goes right into a short jam and back into the next lyrics with
no comments of any kind.
* - t6 ~ volume changes occur during first minute


Source Info:
~Disc 1~
(excerpt 1): SBD>MR>DAT(s)>CDR
Conversion: CDR > EAC(secure) > mkwact(seekable)

~Disc 2~
(excerpt 2): SBD>MR>DAT>CDR
Conversion: CDR > EAC(secure) > Cool Edit (fix drop outs) >
shntool (retrack on sectors) > mkwact(seekable)

(excerpt 3): SBD>MR>DAT>CDR
Conversion: CDR > EAC(secure) > mkwact(seekable)

(excerpt 4): SBD>MR>C>DAT>CDR
Conversion: CDR > EAC(secure) > mkwact(seekable)

~Disc 3~
(exceprt 5): SBD>MR>DAT>CDR
Conversion: CDR > EAC(secure) > mkwact(seekable)

~Disc 4~
(excerpt 6): MR > C > DAT > CD
Conversion: CDR > EAC(secure) > Cool Edit(minor cleanup) >
mkwact(seekable)

(excerpt 7): SBD > MR> C > DAT > CDR
Conversion: ?

All notes, comments and information taken from:
The Deadhead's Taping Compendium (vol. 1) and/or
Deadlists @ www.deadlists.com