"Cornell 5/8/77" Remastered Board Being Released

Jerry's guitar tone on Loser is amazing.  I gave away some copies of this show yesterday to some younger deadheads that didn't know about Cornell 77.

Mine arrived on Saturday - For a show that has become a memorized set piece of music for so many of us from so many times listening, it sounds fresh and more amazing than ever!

Glad you felt that way Rob.    My friend and I felt it was no better than some of the versions already out there.    It was a good listen....

Still waiting for the single show, today or tomorrow tracking says. 

Guess they mailed out the box sets first.

Already on iTunes and frankly had faster service from Amazon...

I never learn.

Spotify has had it for a week. Agreed it sounds amazing.

imo the 24 bit 3 source matrix on the archive sounds considerably better

Hopefully they kept Phil up in the mix.  His bass playing on the Spring '77 tour is ridiculous. 

'Grateful Dead Day' celebrates band's legendary 1977 Cornell concert, 4 decades later

Article from Newsday, today 40 years later

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/grateful-dead-day-celebrates-band-s-legendary-1977-cornell-concert-4-decades-later-1.13580707

Got The single show CD on Friday and also bought the download from ITunes . I can't stop listening to it. Sounds freaking awesome. 

What up KK

"Hopefully they kept Phil up in the mix.  His bass playing on the Spring '77 tour is ridiculous."

He's all over these shows, and the re-mastering sounds a bit better than the earlier '77 box.   The bass and drums are noticeably more distinct.

Listened to good chunks of each show over the weekend, IMO the Boston show takes the cake as far as execution and playing quality by the band. 

I'm just a fuckin' custy - but I LOVE this 5-8-77 release. And Phil is still very much in the mix. By now, I have heard a couple of the other shows from this release - I still think, for my taste, Cornell is the shit that will never be beat...again, just my opinion in my own little subjective world.

Streaming this on Spotify now (highest bit rate), and I think the kick drums sound paper thin, like they always do on recordings from this era. Meh.

Phil sounds good though. Nice presence in the mix. 

You lost me at streaming...The kick drum is plenty loud on the vinyl...Shaking the walls...

A big shout out to JERRY MOORE (RIP) and his audience recording of Cornell! This is how I heard it first

https://archive.org/details/gd1977-05-08.ecm33p.moore.berger.miller.1170...

>>>You lost me at streaming...The kick drum is plenty loud on the vinyl...Shaking the walls

Fair enough (and good to hear). I wanted to emphasis the format I spun it on specifically as a caveat.

I'm not going to spend money on this, but your feedback seems like a good motivation to do so for folks who are interested. 

best Take A Step Back ever?

I hope my neighbors like St. Stephen > NFA > St. Stephen.

The Moore recording is very nice but also check out the Stevenson recording which was made 10 feet from the stage

Just finished.

Gotta say despite it not being my favorite setlist the vocal/instrumental production is nearly flawless.  I did not hear one vocal flub. 

Sonically no complaints on the remaster going through the big stereo and cranked.

I did hear Weir with a loud clam in Scarlet and a smaller on on St. Stephen and one tiny Garcia gaff in OMSN but all three clipped out pretty quick.

The slide on RJ...my ear says both Weir and Jerry left much to be desired in that app.  Weir the one chord arpeggiator, Jerry more articulate but poor tone and frankly often pitchy.  

I can see why this show gets the bravos, so tight throughout. 

>> I did not hear one vocal flub. 

Hmm they mustve edited Donna out of the Lady Finger section of St Stephen then

They should rerelease everything Donna was on and cut her out.

>> I did not hear one vocal flub. 

Bob starts the dancing vocal too early.

Ah missed that one...I was paying attention to SS because there are monumental vocal clams in the May 77 box, didn't notice anything egregious on this one.

I was actually wondering if there was "treatment" but the masters are two track right?  And "missing" until after JG's death so no overdubs like skullfuck and Euro 72?

No overdubs or taking anything out possible with live recorded two tracks.  You can emphasis or minimize using a parametric EQ, but that's going to affect any other vocal/instrument in the same frequency range.

I still say Boston is tighter than Cornell, not as good a set list but flawless and Jerry is out of control good.  And the Comes a Time from Buffalo is as good a version of that song as the Dew is from the night before.

Played the whole second set of the New Haven show this afternoon, definitely a warm up for the next three shows but the sound quality is amazing.   They really went over the top with this release.

Just a great set altogether, been playing this more than any recent release.

I ordered it then i cancelled it GLAD i wasnt charged $ i have enough copies of this show.

I still think it's a slightly overrated show. Maybe I'll check out this new release if I can get my hands on it...someday.

I can think of at least 2 dozen shows from the 80's I'd rather see remastered and released.

Get on Buffalo for Cornell part 2. 

Klondie...List some of em I'd be interested to see what you choose. . 

There were some incredible shows in The 80s and since I got on the Bus in Jan 79 I saw many of em but dozens ?!?! 

12/31/81 is a show that needs to be remastered and released. 

Egg - I agree on 12-31-81 - had a cass board of that years ago and loved it.

I'll have to thumb through DeadBase to provide other accurate answers.

Buffalo has an incredible first set like Boston, but the 2nd set (also like Boston) is merely really good with a more "normal" show flow. The Buffalo Comes A Time is truly one of the greatest versions ever played

The booklet with the cd has interesting facts about the show, such as how some 250 ticketless deadheads were allowed in.  They just had to give back something, a joke, a guitar pick, a sandwich etc.  It's a beautiful thing. 

>>>>>No overdubs or taking anything out possible with live recorded two tracks

You can ALWAYS overdub to ANY source by re-mixing, but, yes, you cannot delete anything from an already mixed source.

Haven't finished my listen of the vinyl yet.  It's about as a 2 track recording possible, but limited by the format.  

Recently purchased the 11-10-67 vinyl as well and IMO it is a far superior recording for obvious reason. (Multitrack)

Cornell is a great show and there are great recordings available in the digital format.  Don't spend the money unless your are building a vinyl collection.

>>>best Take A Step Back ever?

" What do you mean no?!?"

The recordings are phenomenal. Phil  and Keith especially  on the Cornell show. It's  funny  Phil does not remember this show at all as  his playing is some of the best that tour. The first set has the band on a mission, as they  just bang away at it and  by Deal you know something is in the air.

The third  dic from Boston is  exceptional and  has the rare improvisation piece between songs that was all too rare this  tour. I still need to listen to the rest of that show as well as New Haven..

Buffalo has a very strong first set, with the Slipknot!, Peggio and Sunrise as  stand outs again with  Keith playing the  best notes on the baby grand this year with this  band.

The Comes a Time is a perfect  jewel of a piece.

I think to round out 1977 they just need to  do a boxed ste of the Palladium shows.then we can move onto the 1980's...FINALLY! 

"You can ALWAYS overdub to ANY source by re-mixing"

My point is that you can't remix a live two track recording, except to alter the balance between the two tracks (which isn't technically mixing).  The mix is what came out of the auxiliary outputs (left and right) from the mixing board that was used for these recordings.  Theoretically you could record each of these two tracks onto a multi-track tape and add overdubs to the remaining tracks, and with digital recordings you could do this without any audio degradation from additional analog tape hiss.  But you can't change the mix of the original recording except by using a notch filter or a parametric equalizer to enhance or depress particular frequencies.  So you could make Jerry or Phil's guitars louder by emphasizing the frequencies where their instruments are predominant, but you would also be boosting any other instruments or vocals that contained those frequencies.

"The Comes a Time is a perfect  jewel of a piece."

As good as the Dew from the night before.

"It's  funny  Phil does not remember this show at all"

Not really. By this point they had played almost 900 shows and been on the road for over 10 years (real touring didn't start until '67 IMO).  It was just another tour to them.  Bob said as much in a recent interview, and in fact implied that he didn't even remember much about the tour itself.

Considering Weir can  barely string a sentence together, I wouldn't rely on his memory for anything.