Grateful Dead
March 20, 1981
Rainbow Theatre
London, England

Spring Equinox

I was out doing yardsales recently.  I had the SYF hat on and was looking for some fans for the hot Tucson summer.  Got to talking with this one fella and the GD came up.  He said to me after hearing about LL that he had some tapes.  I asked him if he knew where they came from.  He said "I cant tell ya man".  I thot he meant that he " didnt know cant tell" but out he walked with a lil treasure chest of some cassettes. The cases werent pretty but the tapes were high end pro tapes.  I asked him again where he got them and again he said "I cant tell you" but it seems your folks in the trading world might like them  Well, i got home and found too many treasure to note.  He told me they werent always on the best dubbing deck and some had been played and were at least 25 years old (some older) but he was sure that these versions were recorded by what he termed a "dear old buddy" and official channels and he had them for years and years and would like some of them to see the light of day. As always,  More to come.

master cassettes > Nak Dr-1 > Lynx2 Studio Interface 24 bit 48kHz.  

Edited and Mastered by Jamie Waddell on the **GEMS** Edit Station
Weiss-Saracon for SRC and Pow-r3 Dither to 16 bit 44.1 kHz

MetaData with Tag and Rename TLH for FLAC Level 8  SBE FREE

happy holidaze   a **GEMS** Production    
Seeded on The Winter Solstice 2009
www.shnflac.net 

-this is a matrix recording
-tape flips before Loser and during drums crossfaded
-very nice C.C. Rider
-first notes of scarlet cut in
-first quality source of this show

    Set One  |1:23:30|
01. |07:16| Feel Like A Stranger 
02. |01:11| tuning and Bobby Joke
03. |09:14| Friend Of The Devil 
04. |07:23| C C Rider 
05. |01:08| Tuning
06. |08:25| Althea
07. |01:36| tuning
08. |02:29| Mama Tried > 
09. |04:27| Mexicali Blues 
10. |08:03| Loser 
11. |06:55| New Minglewood Blues 
12. |01:54| Crowd
13. |07:28| Candyman >
14. |07:50| Looks Like Rain >
15. |08:10| Deal 

    Set Two  |1:30:58| 
16. |10:05| Scarlet Begonias >
17. |11:35| Fire On The Mountain >
18. |05:57| Lost Sailor >
19. |06:02| Saint Of Circumstance
20. |01:46| crowd and tuning
21. |10:18| He's Gone >
22. |02:04| Jam>
23. |09:51| Drums >
24. |05:35| Space >
25. |09:05| Truckin' >
26. |08:07| Wharf Rat >
27. |04:16| Around And Around >
28. |03:59| Johnny B. Goode 
29. |00:35| crowd
ENCORE 
30. |01:44| U.S. Blues ( badly cut)