Grateful Dead
12-11-69

Thelma Theater,
Los Angeles

AUD>MR>R>D>CD>EAC>SHN (intro through last verse of Dark Star)
SBD>MC>C?>Beta>PCM>D>CD>EAC>SHN (?) (last verse Dark Star>end of show)
**I have seen widely varying information for both sources of this show

Disc 1
set 1 (or early show)
1. Introduction
2. Casey Jones
3. //Cold Rain & Snow
4. Mama Tried
5. T.C. plays Bach
6. Yellow Dog Joke
7. Dire Wolf
8. //Hurts Me Too
9. //China Cat Sunflower-->
10. I Know You Rider
11. Black Peter-->
12. Me & My Uncle
13. Hard To Handle

Disc 2
Set 1 continued
1. Dark Star-->
2. St. Stephen-->
3. The Eleven%-->
4. Cumberland Blues
Set 2 (or late show)
5. Morning Dew
6. Next Time You See Me-->
7. Sittin' On Top Of The World

Disc 3
Set 2 continued
1. Stage Banter
2. Beat It On Down The Line
3. Big Boss Man
4. Good Lovin'%
5. High Time
6. Dancin' In The Streets
7. Easy Wind
8. Cryptical Envelopment-->
10. The Other One%-->
11. Cryptical Envelopment-->
12. Cosmic Charlie


A very good mono audience recording supplies the first ~75 minutes of this
show, up until the final verse of Dark Star. The recording was stopped in
between most songs, and only the first few notes of a few songs are clipped.
A somewhat degraded SBD supplies the rest of the show. There are several
small portions of this SBD that have level/channel problems.

Sound Forge was used for editing: slight pitch correction for both sources,
smoothing cuts, patching dropouts, normalizing, and removal of many pops that
were present on the SBD portion, presumably from a PCM transfer.

Notes:
---d/o @ 0:55 in Me & My Uncle patched with SBD
---d/o @ 3:36 in Dark Star patched with SBD
---splice @ 5:20 of The Eleven
---splice in Good Lovin' @ 5:45 during drum solo
---channel fluctuations at end of Good Lovin'
---channel problems for first 2:39 of Easy Wind
---right channel fluctuates at end of drums, just before O1 intro
---splice @ 5:30 of The Other One

I believe the SBD was mastered on cassette, though most lineages seem to be
listed as a reel master. The frequent mix problems, varying pitch/speed,
and lack of trademark reel-to-reel zip-outs during cuts strongly support this
being a cassette master.

thanks to Paul Bottiglio & Jack Warner
edits/encoding by J. Cotsman