Grateful Dead

The "unfinished Album Studio Sessions"

This is a collection of songs which (if the Deadhead's Taping Compendium is to be believed) were to have formed the basis for the first GD studio album of the 1990's.  The material appears to be a mix of live SBD recordings (possibly with some minor overdubs) and rehearsals; it's doubtful if any of this reprents actually studio recordings aimed at an album release.

This came into circulation in mid-1997: several sources (including the Compendium) indicate that this was intentionally put together - possibly by John Cutler and Phil Lesh - and seeded to trading circles to counteract several "last GD album" bootlegs that had been produced in 1995/1996 (all sourced from 1990 thru 1995 SBD or AUD recordings).

The track listing is:

1. Lazy River Road (Garcia/Hunter)			06:01
2. Easy Answers (Hunter.Bralove/Weir/Welnick/Wasserman)	06:23
3. So Many Roads (Garcia/Hunter)			05:19
4. Wave To The Wind (Lesh/Hunter)			07:22
5. Eternity (Weir/Dixon)				07:20
6. The Days Between	(Garcia/Hunter)			09:56
7. Way To Go Home	(Welnick/Hunter/Bralove)	07:05
8. Corinna (Weir/Hart/Hunter)				09:33
9. Liberty (Garcia/Hunter)				06:00

Total Time						65:58

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Received this from Mike Maher

History and linage:   Julian Fowler     September 2003

I obtained a cassette copy in the autum of the 1997 from a tree run on the rec.music.gdead newsgroup.  In spite of the numerious efforts to locate anything with a lower number of analog generations, I've not been able to discover anything better than what I have now; nor does this material seem to circulate among DAT users or (until now) CD traders.

I've therefore taken my casette copy and transferred it to the digital domain. The best guess that I have for the annalog lineage is as follows:

live/rehearsal recordings (DAT and/or ADAT) > ? > cassette > at least one cassette generation > my cassette

I did the transfer using an AIWA AD-F850 tape deck, played directly into the inputs of a Ymaha DS-XG sound card.  I used CoolEdit 2000 v1.1 to do the initial analog > digital sampling, apply mild noise reduction (my source tape is somewhat hissy, not surprising give the number of analog generations) and reduce the length of some of the between-song gaps.  I used CD Wav v1.73 to define track boundaries and mkwACT v0.97 to prepare a master SHN disc (track boundaries verified using SHNtool.

------Julian Fowler     September 2003