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Posted: **Mon May 08, 2006 10:03 am**

So today is May 8, a date that will live forever in Grateful Dead history. For those of you that don't know, 5/8/77 is widely regarded as the best show the Dead ever played, and with good reason. I've been lucky enough to never have a complete copy of the show, so I haven't had it burned (or charred) into my brain the way some have, but I do know the Loser from the first set is on fire, Garcia playing one of the dirtiest solos I've ever heard from him. Rather than rave about every tune in the setlist, I'm just going to drop a few links where others can feast their ears on some of the best of the best from the jamband that started it all:

http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-deta ... p?id=12278

http://www.gdlive.com/dead/770508/

http://db.etree.org/lookup_show.php?shows_key=1009

Posted: **Mon May 08, 2006 12:09 pm**

i'm going to rock this out right now. almost 30 years ago and this stuff is still rocking.

Posted: **Mon May 08, 2006 1:51 pm**

Do you know if that GDLive link you provided is lossless? I've had a copy of that show for years that I got off Nugs.net when I really didn't know the difference between MP3 and lossless and shit......and the show still sounds good but I'd like to pick up another copy. If there is no longer a place to DL that show in lossless form, would anyone BnP me?

Posted: **Mon May 08, 2006 2:15 pm**

Here you go headynugget

http://www.gdlive.com/shn/gd77-05-08.shnf/

Grateful Dead
8 May 1977
Barton Hall, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

Lineage: Betty Board Soundboard sections (all but 47 seconds of the show):

WBOTB Source -- 7" two track BBD reel encoded
w/ DBX-1 noise reduction @ 7 1/2 ips
> Sony PCM501ES @ 44.055 kHz.
> Sony PCM501ES analog out
> DBX-1 decoder > analog in PCM501ES
> PCM501ES analog out
> Fostex D5 @ 48 kHz>DATs>ZA2>CDRs>EAC>SHN

Audience Splices -- Teddy Goodbear's
Panasonic AM/FM Stereo 'boom box' (w/condenser mics)
> CM (Cassette Master)
> various equalizers & editors > CD

Disk 1: (63.43)

Set I
1. Minglewood Blues -> (6.13) (21 second AUD splice in beg of track)
2. Loser (8.53)
3. El Paso (5.17)
4. They Love Each Other (9.12)
5. Jack Straw (8.11)
6. Deal (7.26)
7. Lazy Lightning -> (3.51) (26 second AUD splice at end of track)
8. Supplication (4.04)
9. Brown Eyed Women (6.49)
10. Mama Tried (3.47)

Disk 2: (71.57)

Set I (continued)
1. Row Jimmy (13.07)
2. Dancin' In The Streets (16.15)

Set II
3. Take A Step Back/Tuning (1.55)
4. Scarlet Begonias-> (11.35)
5. Fire On The Mountain (15.12)
6. Estimated Prophet (8.53)
7. Tuning/Dead Air (5.00)

Disk 3: (68.47)

Set II (continued):
1. Saint Stephen-> (4.49)
2. Not Fade Away-> (17.21)
3. Saint Stephen-> (.58)
4. Morning Dew (14.30)
5. Encore: Saturday Night (5.02)

Filler - 05/07/77
Master Reel->PCM->DATs->CDRs->SHN (etree source)
6. Terrapin (10.38)
7. Samson & Delilah (7.18)
8 Friend Of The Devil (8.12)

Audience Sections sourced by Teddy Goodbear,
Bettyboard (WBOTB) Sections sourced by Darrin Sacks

EAC Extraction and Shorten Conversion by Darrin (dnsacks@usa.net).

Posted: **Mon May 08, 2006 2:30 pm**

....Betty Boards! I think I got this already, but will check the lineage.

Reminds me to dig into my Betty Board CD collection and do some old-fashioned trading (snail mail). Thanks to Black Peter!

Cleantone, you've kept me busy with the old setlists. 1994? Talk about real old school...that's about when I moved to Rocktown. Who woulda known what was going to happen from there on?

-Phrazz

Posted: **Mon May 08, 2006 3:40 pm**

May of '77 is probably my favorite GD era, although I tend to fall in with the '05/08 is overrated' line of thinking. Thanks for the reminder, it's been too long since I've broken out those shows. For a while I was trading all of the '77 shows I could get my hands on and I think I burnt myself out on them.

Some of my other personal favorites: 05/17 (one of my favorites partially because it was the last time they played on birthday although half a decade before I was born), 05/19 is another good one and, of course, 05/22 (Dick's Picks 3) is also amazing.

I was lucky enough to catch a DSO re-creation from that era once, and knew those set lists so well that I called it within days. The dirty looks I got from a few old-timers nearby were priceless.

Posted: **Mon May 08, 2006 10:32 pm**

Thank you Cleantonian

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Barton Hall - 5/8/77 (NSC)

Barton Hall - 5/8/77 (NSC)

mmmm....