So, I love the Grateful Dead. And I love the audience recordings.
These gigs in Egypt are certainly legendary.
They're not exactly known for the performances. They're a bit ragged here and there.
But it's the freakin' pyramids, and the Sphinx is right there! Absolutely legendary. Who else did it???
Evidently the crowds they played for were pretty small. Some sources say it was a thousand people.
Some say a couple of thousand. I'm not sure.
But to me these recordings have an intimate feel to them. It kind of seems like a small town fair
in the midwest somewhere with everyone's favorite local bar band on a summer night. Except the pyramids are right there....
And it's the Grateful Dead!
These gigs are the start of Keith and Donna's last five months with the band.
I've been going through all of the five months, there's some great performances in there.
These captures were recorded by Eldon Porray. For the most part he got fantastic recordings.
Everyone in the band comes through. The bass guitar is very clear. These sound great on headphones. Nice headphones, I don't know what they
sound like on ear buds. lol
Below are the original notes for shn #107305.
The set list has been adjusted to show how I've tracked it.
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MOTB Release: 0139 16/44.1
Release Date: 2010-04-24
Band: Grateful Dead
Date: 1978-09-16 (Saturday)
Venue: Gizah Sound And Light Theater
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Analog Audience Source: FOB Master Cassettes (MAC)
Medium Stock Brands: MAC = 3 x Maxell UDXL 90
Analog Lineage: 2 x Sony ecm 280 mics >> Sony 153sd >> MAC
Analog Sound Preservation: MAC >> Nakamichi CR7a => Korg MR-1000 >> DSF [1-bit 5.6448 MHz
Stereo] >> Korg MR-1000 => Korg AudioGate >> WAV [24/96]
Taped By: Eldon Porray
Transfer By: Bob Menke
Mastering By: Bill Koucky, Derek McCabe
CD ONE:
Set 1:
01 Tuning
02 Bertha >
03 Good Lovin'
04 Candyman
05 Looks Like Rain
06 Row Jimmy
07 El Paso
08 Ramble On Rose
09 Minglewood Blues
10 Deal
CD TWO:
Set 2:
11 Ollin Arrageed * >
12 Fire On The Mountain >
13 Iko Iko
14 I Need A Miracle >
15 It's All Over Now
16 Sunrise
CD THREE:
17 Shakedown Street >
18 Drums * >
19 Space * >
20 Truckin' >
21 Stella Blue >
22 Around & Around
Encore:
23 One More Saturday Night
*with Hamza El-Din
final Sunrise
Mastering Notes:
Tape flips were after Looks Like Rain, Minglewood, Iko Iko, and Drums,
minor crossfades were applied with no patch sources.
Above are the original notes for shn #107305.
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This is a remaster of shn %107305.
All of the work was done in ocenaudio and Harrison Mixbus.
The included before and after screen captures show the whole show.
You can't see everything I do in them but they give an idea of how they are different from the original.
If the original files were high res then most of the work was done at that rate.
The finished product is CD quality. The files are tagged.
acetboy 2023-09-15
length expanded size cdr WAVE problems fmt ratio filename
1:51.64 19730972 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.4408 1978-09-16 aud 01.flac
7:30.72 79549388 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6313 1978-09-16 aud 02.flac
8:04.48 85490540 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6106 1978-09-16 aud 03.flac
8:13.37 87052268 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5521 1978-09-16 aud 04.flac
10:04.57 106679708 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5468 1978-09-16 aud 05.flac
11:37.40 123044924 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5974 1978-09-16 aud 06.flac
5:23.48 57090140 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5760 1978-09-16 aud 07.flac
8:38.02 91379948 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5690 1978-09-16 aud 08.flac
6:58.68 73895180 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6259 1978-09-16 aud 09.flac
6:58.15 73770524 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6488 1978-09-16 aud 10.flac
16:47.24 177691292 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5781 1978-09-16 aud 11.flac
14:04.72 149050988 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6165 1978-09-16 aud 12.flac
8:27.52 89557148 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5844 1978-09-16 aud 13.flac
5:56.44 62901932 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6190 1978-09-16 aud 14.flac
7:27.71 79017836 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6005 1978-09-16 aud 15.flac
6:33.00 69325244 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5137 1978-09-16 aud 16.flac
15:43.14 166378172 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6090 1978-09-16 aud 17.flac
9:57.72 105480188 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5519 1978-09-16 aud 18.flac
6:50.17 72364028 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5411 1978-09-16 aud 19.flac
10:13.37 108220268 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5863 1978-09-16 aud 20.flac
8:19.18 88065980 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5403 1978-09-16 aud 21.flac
10:26.17 110466428 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5788 1978-09-16 aud 22.flac
5:18.51 56215196 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6231 1978-09-16 aud 23.flac
201:28.40 2132418292 B 0.5851 (23 files)