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Bershaw Archival Management with video provided by ET Bensen - Seeded on LL 06/20/22 LL Seeding Seeded at TTD 06/20/22 TTD Seeding

Robert Hunter and The Ghosts

March 17, 1980
Masonic Hall, Seattle, WA

Video Source: ET Benson's Sony L-750 (5) Beta Masters

Transfer: Sony SuperBeta SL-HF100 (Playback) -> DataVideo TBC-100 (Time Base Correction) -> BlackMagic Intensity Thunderbolt Shuttle -> Apple Pro Res 422 (HQ), 720 x 486, 41615 kbps -> Final Cut -> H.264 720 x 480, 29.97fps, 6000 kbps.m4v-> Bluray [NTSC, 4:3, 6.0 Mbs, 720x480, 29.97 fps]

Audio Source: Pat Lee's Sony TC-388 4 channel reel masters, One reel at 3.75 IPS, 2 reels at 7.5 IPS
Channel 1 & 2: stereo board feed (primarily vocals, kick drum and ambient mic above the stage, provided by FOH engineer Tommy O'Neil)

Channel 3 & 4: two ECM 270 mics on pole in balcony above soundboard


Transfer: Pat Lee's 4-Track Reels > Technics RS1506 > Tascam DA3000 (1 bit DSD) > dB poweramp > wav 24/96 - Transferred by Matt Smith

Additional Audio Lineage: wav 24/96 4-tracks > Logic (stereo mixing, level correction, speed correction) > wav 24/96 > Logic (several dropouts and funky spots were seamlessly repaired utilizing Mark Severson's Nak700 masters) > wav 24/96 > PCM 24/96 - by Alan Bershaw

Audio/Video Synchronization by Alan Bershaw (2022)

Personnel:

Robert Hunter - vocals, guitar, harmonica

Keith Godchaux - piano, vocals

Donna Godchaux - vocals

Jessica Azar - vocals

Bill Middlejohn - guitar, vocals

Don Gaynor - guitar, vocals

Larry Klein - bass

Greg Anton - drums

1) Soundcheck [36:40]

2) Set 1: The Ghosts (part 1) [1:00:22]
01 Get Ready For Love
02 I'll Do It All Again
03 tech problems
04 Stop That Train
05 Creatures In The Night
06 Dream Land
07 Living In Hollywood
08 It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry
09 Which Way Woman > Fire...

3) Set 1: The Ghosts (part 2) [06:57]
10 ...Fire >
11 Maybellene

4) Set 2: Robert Hunter (part 1) [52:39]
12 Brown-Eyed Women
13 Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
14 Casey Jones
15 Crooked Judge
16 Mountains Of The Moon
17 Rum Runners
18 Box Of Rain
19 Independence Day >
20 Sugaree
21 Mr. Charlie >
22 Easy Wind
23 Heart Of Glass > Cruel White Water
24 Truckin'

5) Set 2: Robert Hunter (part 2) [16:48]
25 The Eleven >
26 St. Stephen
27 Ripple
28 Scarlet Begonias/Sunshine Daydream/Stella Blue/Scarlet Begonias

6) Set 3: Robert Hunter & The Ghosts [36:19]
29 The Ghosts come back on stage (piano noodling/tuning )
30 Tiger Rose
31 Last Flash Of Rock 'N Roll
32 Stop That Train
33 Strange Man
34 Promontory Rider
35 Franklin's Tower

7) Encore [4:14]
36 House Of Wax

Notes:
I consider this show "The Big Bambu" of this entire project. It's this performance of "Promontory" Rider" that initially got the ball rolling - when I posted a poor quality VHS transfer of it back in 2019, right after Hunter died, wishing I could locate better audio for it.

Social media contains an over-abundance of negativity these days, but in this case it sucketh not, as that post connected me with Mark Severson and Pat Lee, both of whom recorded master audio of this show. Mark's pal ET Benson, who videotaped so much vintage Hunter at a time when equipment was big, bulky, prohibitively expensive and not exactly portable, was also kind enough to provide his original Beta videotape masters, which have never been digitally transferred before. This remarkable footage represents a little known slice of Grateful Dead history finally seeing the light of day 42 years after the fact.

ItÕs not easy finding any kind of satisfaction these days, but bringing ET's Beta masters and Pat's 4-track master reels together, after all these years, is deeply satisfying to me. Thank you, ET Benson! Thank you, Pat Lee! And a major thank you to Mark Severson, as without you, the dots may never have been connected! Also thanks to Matt Smith, Mick Etherington and Cris Yarborough! And thank you to Kevin Tobin for helping us get this circulating and for hosting all the project footage on youtube.

I was fortunate to see Hunter perform "Promontory Rider" dozens of times, both solo and with several other groups, including the Jerry Garcia Band (footage I also helped bring to light when I was logging the Metropolitan Archive masters for Wolfgang's Vault years ago). Out of all of them, this highly engaged performance still remains my favorite.

This project is far from over as there's many additional hours of ET Benson's master footage of Robert Hunter during the 1980s. We've located audio masters for all of that, as well, so there's plenty more to synchronize - and a lot more to come. Stay tuned!

Alan Bershaw (2022)

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