Grateful Dead
11-26-72
San Antonio Civic Auditorium,
San Antonio, Texas

This is a restored version of SHNID 9248 combined with SHNID 123022 to produce the full show.
It is not based on any new sources.
Modifications by Dan McDonald (droncit@yahoo.com).
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--Set 1--
101 - Promised Land
102 - Deal
103 - Mexicali Blues
104 - Sugaree
105 - Black Throated Wind *
106 - Bird Song
107 - Beat It on Down the Line
108 - China Cat Sunflower ->
109 - I Know You Rider
110 - Box of Rain
111 - El Paso
112 - Big Railroad Blues
113 - Around & Around
114 - Casey Jones

--Set 2--
201 - Playing in the Band
202 - Brown Eyed Women
203 - Jack Straw
204 - Don't Ease Me In
205 - Big River
206 - Dark Star ->
207 - Me & Bobby McGee
208 - Brokedown Palace
209 - Sugar Magnolia **->
210 - Sunshine Daydream
211 - Going Down The Road Feeling Bad
212 - One More Saturday Night

*very small cut at the beginning
**La Cucaracha opening
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Notes.
The circulating sources are generally very hissy with very little high frequency material and Very little audience
sound as well. So the recording is pretty dead-sounding. According to David Lemieux the only version of this show
in the vault is a cassette, so the lineages of the original ShnIDs listing the orginal source as a master reel is
most likely incorrect.

The show sounds like it was recorded on a cassette player with a dirty record head and using Automatic Level Control.
There is a lot of hiss and mechanical noise throughout. Most of it is gone now, but it's still noticeable.
Playing in the Band probably has the worst mechanical noise during the quiet parts. That's the ALC doing its thing.

For this version:
1. No more cut in Dark Star at "reason tatters" or splice to a different source at 20:00;
no cut in Bobby McGee (I used different versions to get pieces that had no problems).
I cut approximately 2 seconds out of the space at 14:14 because it didn't seem correct. I think there's a
fade out just before that, but I didn't change that, in case I have it wrong.
2. Noisey and clickey pot adjustment in Bird Song was altered by converting to mono (right channel spread across
both channels). Someone had overcompensated using the noisey pot, down to almost nothing on the left channel
for about half a second. I don't think it's noticeable now. There is still one pot click just before the
spot I adjusted, but it was difficult to fix so I left it alone.
3. Too many level and sound modifications and adjustments throughout the show to list.
4. There is a lot going on in this show. You will probably have to adjust each stereo you play it on to get the
best sound. You may have to adjust it differently for the first and second sets.
5. Still not great sound, but the best I can do right now unless someone would like to give me access to the
cassette masters and I could do a flat transfer.

Thanks to: Gary Field, Germain, Dusborne, Frazer, Arfarf, Freak and the people who put the other sources out:
Paul Bottiglio, J. Cotsman, and Scott Z.
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B. Proctor 3/26/2014
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