Grateful Dead
3/28/81
Grugahalle - Essen, West Germany

 SOURCES:
Video: TV Broadcast > VCR > ?? > MPEG-1 (via David Mc. -- awolfoutwest69)

Audio: stereo FM -> reel master -> DAT -> CDWAV -> SoundForge -> CDR (db.etree.org/shnid=3306; via tol's server)

Editing: shn > wav  > wav synchronization to MPEG-1 (via VEM 2.2 and CE2K) > uncompressed avi movie (30fps, 44.1kHz stereo audio) > Video-CD NTSC MPEG-1 352x240 29.97fps CBR 1150kbps, Layer-2 44100Hz Stereo 224kbps (via TMPGEnc); via Matt Cole MattMan; mcoleATsunDOTscienceDOTwayneDOTedu) 


Set1a (56:05) 
Alabama Getaway(1) > 
Greatest Story Ever Told > 
Sugaree 
Me And My Uncle > 
Mexicali Blues  
Shakedown Street 
Little Red Rooster(2)

Set1b (27:08) 
Althea 
Looks Like Rain > 
Deal

Interview(3) (13:04)

Set2a (54:41) 
Samson And Delilah(4) 
Ship Of Fools
Estimated Prophet > 
He's Gone > 
The Other One > 
Feedback > 
Drums

Set 2b (47:42) 
The Beast > 
Not Fade Away(5) > 
Wharf Rat(5) > 
Around And Around(5) > 
Good Lovin'(6) 
ENCORE: 
One More Saturday Night
Post Show Commentators(7)

Notes:
(1) Audio starts at 0:08 
(2) Video cuts out at 54:27
(3) First 1:07 of Interview is Post Show Commentators; Video appears to have been shot directly off the TV screen
(4) Still frame for first 20 secs; first 3:18 crowd audio patched from Broadcast
(5) With Pete Townshend
(6) Crowd audio from 36:00-40:19 patched from Broadcast 
(7) Crowd and Post Show Commentators audio from 45:25-end patched from Broadcast

Editors comments:
-This file set is comprised of 5 VCD-complliant MPEG-1 files that can be burned on 4 Video CDs using VCDEasy (http://www.vcdeasy.org/). I recommend burning Set1a on Disc 1, Set1b and Interview on Disc2, Set 2a on Disc3, and Set2b on Disc4. 

-This VCD presents a wonderful glimpse of  the Grateful Dead during their infamous European run in the Spring of 1981. The video source was captured from a TV Broadcast that occurred the following day (3/29).  Although the audio from the Broadcast is not bad, I noticed that it was not in stereo (you can hear the difference in the Broadcast audio patches). I considered synchronizing the audio from db.etree.org/shnid=16434 (Sean Cribbs seed of Justin Kreutzman's Master time-coded pre-broadcast tapes), but this source appears to be mono as well. Thus I embarked on the laborious task of synchronizing the Hanno Bunjes stereo simulcast source, as well as retracking the video so that Set 2A occurs on its own disc.