Grateful Dead
Noteworthy Jams
This is a collection of noteworthy named jams played by the Grateful
Dead. It is a revision of a collection originally circulated on eTree
in August, 2008.
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=518048
The original collection was closely based on a list put together by
Eric Wybenga and published in his book _Dead To The Core: An Almanac
of the Grateful Dead_. This revised collection includes sources from
Eric's list that were omitted from the original collection because I
did not believe I should seed them at eTree. It drops some of the
versions I used to "replace" versions I didn't think I could seed. It
also adds other versions that were recommended in the comments on the
original collection, as well as versions that I thought should be
added. Remember, "noteworthy" does not mean "best". I welcome your
ideas about what should be included or dropped from the
collection. There could easily be a version 3.
There is a sense in which all noteworthy Grateful Dead playing
involves jamming, which makes the title of this collection confusing.
In fact, what Eric is talking about is jams that stand alone and have
their own name in the setlist, not jams that flesh out a particular
song. So, you won't see a particularly long and wonderful WRS here,
but you will see Mountain Jams and Spanish Jams and Mind Left Body
Jams and so on. These named jams almost always occur as part of longer
jams. I've looked for natural places to start and end those longer
jams, balancing a desire to avoid musical violence and a desire to kep
the total size of the collection manageable.
The track names are self-explanatory: they list the date of the
performance, the SHNID of the source, and shortened names of the songs
included in the track. The music in these tracks is exactly the same
as the music from the source indicated by the SHNID. When necessary, I
joined the songs into jams using "shntool join", I snipped white space
from the end of the tracks and sometimes added fades using WaveLab
6.0, and then I compressed the files using "flac --best". I used
shntool version 3.0.9 and flac version 1.2.1.
If you have the first version of this collection, you should be able
to leech over it and only grab the changes: you'll have to rename the
old tracks first, as I've had to use six-digit SHNIDs i this version
of the project.
Shared at LL, December 2009.
Contents:
gd66-03-25.000038.Jam.flac
gd68-02-14.089676.BornCrossEyed-SpanishJam.flac
gd68-10-10.005186.DarkStarJam-TheElevenJam-TheSeven.flac
gd68-10-10.005186.SameThingJam-LovelightJam-OtherOneJam-DeathDont.flac
gd69-09-29.000079.DoinThatRag-TheSeven-GoodLovin.flac
gd69-11-08.017433.StStephen-Eleven-Caution-MainTen-Caution-Feedback-AWBYGN.flac
gd70-02-11.028402.DarkStar-SpanishJam-Lovelight.flac
gd70-11-08.026975.DarkSpace-MainTen.flac
gd73-07-27.100410.SoundcheckJam-WharfRat.flac
gd73-07-28.014196.MountainJam.flac
gd73-12-02.017278.WharfRat-HalfStep-Playin-MindLeftBodyJam.flac
gd74-05-19.079781.Truckin-MindLeftBodyJam-NFA-GDTRFB.flac
gd74-06-18.089690.WRS-OtherOne-ItsASinJam-StellaBlue.flac
gd74-06-28.016038.Seastones.flac
gd74-06-28.016038.Space-MindLeftBodyJam-Jam.flac
gd74-07-19.032634.Jam-SpanishJam-Eyes.flac
gd74-10-16.090145.Seastones-Jam-Space-WharfRat-Eyes.flac
gd78-11-20.032489.Jam-JackARoe.flac
gd81-05-06.082368.HesGone-CautionJam-SpanishJam.flac
gd81-08-28.009572.Space-SpanishJam.flac
gd81-10-06.003303.Space-BluesForAllahJam-Wheel.flac
gd85-11-05.021246.SupplicationJam-PlayinJam.flac
gd86-03-27.026347.Space-SpanishJam.flac
gd90-03-24.091828.Terrapin-MindLeftBodyJam.flac
gd91-03-21.087289.Scarlet-Fire-StirItUpJam.flac
gd93-03-17.079050.Space-HandsomeCabinBoyJam-OtherOne-DaysBetween.flac
gd93-09-13.034030.TubularBells.flac
SHNTOOL LEN:
length expanded size cdr WAVE problems fmt ratio filename
8:30.36 90048716 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6192 gd66-03-25.000038.Jam.flac
14:46.53 156415100 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5334 gd68-02-14.089676.BornCrossEyed-SpanishJam.flac
28:24.28 300651500 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5192 gd68-10-10.005186.DarkStarJam-TheElevenJam-TheSeven.flac
56:10.01 594470396 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.4725 gd68-10-10.005186.SameThingJam-LovelightJam-OtherOneJam-DeathDont.flac
25:36.49 271065692 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5010 gd69-09-29.000079.DoinThatRag-TheSeven-GoodLovin.flac
62:34.39 662297372 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5223 gd69-11-08.017433.StStephen-Eleven-Caution-MainTen-Caution-Feedback-AWBYGN.flac
59:53.65 633958124 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5810 gd70-02-11.028402.DarkStar-SpanishJam-Lovelight.flac
13:42.22 145052588 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5412 gd70-11-08.026975.DarkSpace-MainTen.flac
30:13.13 319843820 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5590 gd73-07-27.100410.SoundcheckJam-WharfRat.flac
22:24.30 237152204 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5978 gd73-07-28.014196.MountainJam.flac
44:26.68 470442380 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5844 gd73-12-02.017278.WharfRat-HalfStep-Playin-MindLeftBodyJam.flac
32:32.45 344438684 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6904 gd74-05-19.079781.Truckin-MindLeftBodyJam-NFA-GDTRFB.flac
53:55.74 570828092 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5664 gd74-06-18.089690.WRS-OtherOne-ItsASinJam-StellaBlue.flac
24:32.52 259783148 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5275 gd74-06-28.016038.Seastones.flac
27:42.46 293285036 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5333 gd74-06-28.016038.Space-MindLeftBodyJam-Jam.flac
29:26.01 311524796 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5375 gd74-07-19.032634.Jam-SpanishJam-Eyes.flac
81:34.02 863306348 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5027 gd74-10-16.090145.Seastones-Jam-Space-WharfRat-Eyes.flac
20:50.25 220558844 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6198 gd78-11-20.032489.Jam-JackARoe.flac
27:19.73 289291340 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5937 gd81-05-06.082368.HesGone-CautionJam-SpanishJam.flac
12:02.57 127494908 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.4888 gd81-08-28.009572.Space-SpanishJam.flac
15:31.00 164228444 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6274 gd81-10-06.003303.Space-BluesForAllahJam-Wheel.flac
8:35.55 90975404 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5281 gd85-11-05.021246.SupplicationJam-PlayinJam.flac
9:51.34 104332412 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5230 gd86-03-27.026347.Space-SpanishJam.flac
21:16.67 225244028 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.5992 gd90-03-24.091828.Terrapin-MindLeftBodyJam.flac
30:44.35 325363964 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6009 gd91-03-21.087289.Scarlet-Fire-StirItUpJam.flac
28:24.22 300637388 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.4297 gd93-03-17.079050.Space-HandsomeCabinBoyJam-OtherOne-DaysBetween.flac
8:13.04 86974652 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.4077 gd93-09-13.034030.TubularBells.flac
799:17.21 8459665380 B 0.5470 (27 files)