Grateful Dead
8-23-71

Auditorium Theater,
Chicago, Illinois

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Disc 1 (44:02)
set 1
1. //Big Railroad Blues (4:18)
2. //Playon' In The Band (4:32)
3. Mr. Charlie (3:11)
4. //Sugaree (6:29)
5. //El Paso (5:01)
6. //n
ext Time You See Me (3:45)
7. Bertha (6:08)
8. Bobby McGee (5:51)
9. //Cumberland Blues (4:47)

Disc 2 (73:47)
set 2
1. Big Boss Man (4:19)
2. Loser// (4:51)
3. //Bird Song (7:42)
4. //Cryptical Envelopment%--> (1:51)
5. Drums--> (4:25)
6. The Other One--> (11:49)
7. Me & My Uncle--> (3:04)
8. The Other One--> (7:17)
9. Cryptical Envelopment--> (4:36)
10. Wharf Rat (8:46)
11. Deal% (4:31)
12. //Brokedown Palace (5:40)
13. Empty Pages (4:50)

Notes:
--most of the cuts are a result of stopping the reel to save time/batteries, and are therefore very minor in most cases
--dropout @ 1:55 in Bobby McGee
--tape warble @ 6:05 in The Other One(1)
--tape damage(?) @ 6:39-6:50 in 2nd Other One
--tape warble @ 0:08 in 2nd Cryptical
--Sound Forge was used for normalization, correction of the pitch, crossfades, and smoothing over troubled areas.

Comments:
This is a decent mono audience recording of seeming moderate distance from the source of music. The microphone is often bumped or moved, causing some noise. The crowd is relatively quiet.

Deadlists comments:
This show is usually listed on tapes and in Deadbase as 8/24/71. But, according to Dwight Holmes the circulating aud tapes for this show were made by Stephen Wade, who says that he only taped the first show (8/23) and not the second (8/24). Additional evidence from Jeff Tiedrich also indicates that this is 8/23 and not 8/24.


part of "The Music Never Stopped Project" 2002

thanks to Matt Vernon & Raoul Duke
edits/encoding by J. Cotsman