Grateful Dead
12-16-68
alias Mickey & the Hartbeats
Matrix, San Francisco, Ca


cd 1
jam
cd 2
jam



All of the Matrix material, 10/8/68, 11/10/68, 10/30/68, 12/16/68, 12/24/68, 7/30/70, and 12/15/70 was copied by yours truly and my taping partner, Peter Kafer, in 1974 from 7" 1/4 track reels that we borrowed from Peter Abram, proprietor of the Matrix.  We copied it all onto Maxell reels @ 7 1/2 ips. The stuff I just sent you was copied from those Maxell reels directly to CD using an Alesis Masterlink, sampling @ 24 bit, 96k.  I played the reels on a Revox B77.

The question mark with regard to the lineage is whether Abram's 2-tracks 
were copies of 4-track masters, or were  masters themselves. I suspect the former,  but never asked him and have no evidence other than what I've read in various Dead-related postings here and there.

I hope we can put to rest the confusion about the 10/10  sets; they are reversed in Deadlists and Lovelights, as you can tell from my copy, is just a continuation of that jam that comes before.

Bill.