Grateful Dead ??/??/66
Viola Lee Blues Rehearsals, Unknown, CA
Source # 18846
Entered by dr.unclear
Checksums shn-md5 , st5
Disc Counts 1 / 1
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Date Circulated
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08/08/2003
08/11/2003
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Source Summary
January 1966 (?) - Viola Lee rehearsals; 47 minutes from unknown generation cassette played back on Nak CR7E; via Uli Teute and Hanno Bunjes
Grateful Dead
January-February 1966 ??
"The Viola Lee rehearsals"

unknown generation soundboard cassette

single disc (47:01)
01 02:31 talk & tunings - "It's just Weir and his ass-holed guitar"
02 00:52 Viola Lee Blues #1 verse 1 - aborted
03 01:33 Viola Lee Blues #2 verses 1 & 2 - aborted - "watch it pig! b, man, b"
04 01:09 talk & tunings
05 00:14 Viola Lee Blues #3 with harmonica - aborted
06 01:26 discussions
07 01:28 Viola Lee Blues #4 with organ verse 1 & harmonica - aborted
08 01:44 tape playback? more talk
09 01:48 Viola Lee Blues #5 verse 1 - "same verse again" - verse 1 - aborted
10 00:34 Phil comments
11 01:29 Viola Lee Blues #6 verses 1 & 2 - aborted
12 00:25 more discussions
13 02:44 Viola Lee Blues #7 verses 1 & 2 & 3 - then stopped
14 02:06 talk & tunings - "that's tasty" - "let's just play"
15 00:16 Viola Lee Blues #8 verse 1 - aborted
16 02:53 talk & wild comments & confusion
17 00:27 Viola Lee Blues #9 verses 2 & 3 - aborted
18 03:57 more talk - "I think you're against us" - "Pigpen's a conspiracy"
19 03:39 "You may know by ..." passage repeated
20 15:37 Viola Lee Blues #10 verses 1 & 2 & 3 ; jam ; tape cuts

This is a wonderful piece of Dead rehearsal tape that I have not seen circulating in the digital realm.

The cassette was played back on Nak CR7E with azimuth adjustment.
Sound Forge was used for noise reduction.
Research and A>D transfer by Uli Teute
Sound tweaking and SHN seeding by Hanno Bunjes
August 2003
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st5
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99bace55f87635e4638c2a49f7f4caf1 [shntool] gd66-01t15.shn
697ea2a9bcd519ed7d630d8f5483b874 [shntool] gd66-01t16.shn
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b514cd74c86ae3a5c936e851e747ac13 [shntool] gd66-01t19.shn
62691d560be32791975950739d3cdbe9 [shntool] gd66-01t20.shn

Comments
Date User Comment
04/20/2006 Mark Goldey Despite some hiss, this sounds remarkably good for the age. Also a fun listen. Who knew that they practiced so much?
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