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Jerry Garcia Band
Keystone Palo Alto
Palo Alto, CA
5/15/82


These shows were during the "free admission for May" deal if you were a Keystone Club member. I was.

We went to the show in our usual manner-- all hot to party with no concern at all how loaded we would get. Since I lived only a couple of miles away in Mt. View, it was a zip to get home, listen to the tape and party-on! We never once considered the implications of going down the road whacked to the gills. No fear!

The party started in the parking lot--- around noon with lots of dope to smoke and massive quantities of beer to drink. There was a very Palo Altoian hip and green market a couple of doors down from the venue and we all spent a lot of $$ there. They sold a load of beer!

Once it started to look like they were going to let us in the show the vial of "liquid" made its appearance. Gordon from Santa Cruz was there. He was always there. Gordon had a long beard and wore a colorful Mexican blanket-style poncho. I never saw him in anything but the same poncho -----ever, in all the years I knew him. He was a major character in a sea of characters. I asked him if he wanted a drop of liquid. He brightened up and snatched up the vial, opened his mouth and went ---squirt! He must have squirted about 10 drops!! I could not believe what I saw him do. This was exquisite acid and I just could not imagine anyone taking that much. I was a bit worried for him. I did a single drop and could barley function to get into the show, snatch the proper table and get the recorder set up. I had to "practice" putting in the cassette, taking it out, turning it over and using the 'pause' button. It's an acid thing. Later, I saw Gordon on the dance floor having a great time. Somehow he ended up at my house that night. He sat in the corner in a wicker chair all night, all curled up and he never budged an inch-- even though we were blasting this recording until the wee hours as the party simply continued. That was the whole point in recording theses shows-- to listen to on the way home and then do some "serious" partying at home!! The next day he vanished. Of course he re-appeared at the next Jerry shows a couple of weeks later.

This recording starts out a bit low just at first I could not hold the mics in the optimum position. It gets way better once everyone got all setteled down and in their own particular gooves in "JerryLand".

Jeffrey Knudsen June 18, 2010


Taped By Jeff Knudsen
Marantz SuperScope Mics > borrowed unknown model Aiwa Deck
front row of tables

Transfer: MAC > 1 cassette >Apogee Mini ME (24/96) > Apogee Mini DAC > Wavelab 5.0(dithered via 'UV22HR' to 16/44) > CD by Matt Smith

Edits and Mastering: Jamie Waddell on the GEMS Edit Station.
Weiss Saracon for POWR-3 Dither

TLH for FLAC8 SBE FREE Meta-data with Tag&ReName original pen and ink by Jerry Moore

-complete show, no missing songs
-thanks to Jeff and Matt for the honor to share these
-lots of tape pauses, lots of crossfades
-Patch info: MAC by Steve Aprea, Senn MKH421 > Uher CR-240) supplies Russian Lullaby and the first half of Harder They Come, speed corrected for patches about 2.6%
-imperfections exist, grate nonetheless


A *GEMS* Production www.shnflac.net originally seeded on Jeff Knudsens 59th birthday in November of 2009

set one
01. |10:07| How Sweet It Is
02. |07:52| They Love Each Other
03. |09:28| It's No Use
04. |09:17| Mississippi Moon
05. |05:11| Run For The Roses

set two
01. |08:23| The Way You Do The Things You Do
02. |16:28| Don't Let Go
03. |14:25| Russian Lullaby
04. |15:46| The Harder They Come>
05. |07:49| Midnight Moonlight (complete)

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