listening to Grateful Dead bootlegs for 30 years.... I get a laugh out of you..lol
Man the days when we would virtually cream our jeans to get a halfway decent tape from soemone's older brother..
Hoenstly.. its soemthing you might wnat to consider that the playing is still perceptable even in less than optimal recordings.. If I shunned sub primo recordings because I was put off by some lack in the audio characteristics I'd have missed out on heaps of incredible live music making.
For instance have you heard Road Trips Vol2. #3 at the Demoins Iowa fairgrounds? June 16,1974? I had this tape years ago mislabeled WInterland I think. I haven't heard the Official release yet but unless there was another recording source from which they produced this issue It was not one of the best sounding recrodings to say the least BUT it had some kind of magical quality to it.. I think it has to do with it being an Outdoor venue and the Wall-Of Sound creating just a slight almost imperceptable echo with the Soundboard thru the stage mic's but the Playing.... its monumental consider the Eyes> Big River... If I was only willing to listen to this recording for its audio quality I'd have shut it off before I ever heard this section of the show.. and the same thing goes for hundres of shows.. try this one on for size. I would not want to imagine never having heard this show becaseu its audio characteristics failed to meet a certain high standard.. I just had to learn to listen thru to hear what was being created.
Listening to this show i can invision the Giant Summer California Sun solemnly bowing behind the stage as the band sillouetted plays to a chosen few with wondering mouths agape at the protogalactic bliss drenched sounds flying from the instruments
