Grateful Dead
5/13/73
State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, IA


Source info: 

Discs 1-3 from: Henry Gross "HOMANHSG@aol.com"
S:MR > reel > DAT > CD > EAC > SHN 
Extraction and SHN encoding by Alan J. Fink

Disc 4 from David Minches <dminches@snip.net>
SBD : MR > ? > DAT > CD > EAC > Cool Edit 96 (Resampled to correct pitch) > SHN
Extraction, SHN encoding, resampling & patches on tracks 1, 4, & 7 by Alan J. Fink

Thanks Alan for this copy!


Disc 1
Set 1
1.  The Promised Land                  2:44 
2.  Deal                               4:38
3.  Mexicali Blues                     3:42
4.  They Love Each Other               5:58 
5.  Box Of Rain                        6:00
6.  Loser                              7:43
7.  Beat It On Down The Line           3:53
8.  China Cat Sunflower >             13:35
    I Know You Rider 
9.  El Paso                            5:34
10. Row Jimmy                          9:00
11. Me And My Uncle                    3:47
Encore: 
12. Casey Jones                        6:25
Total time:                           73:06
 

Disc 2
Set 1, cont.
1.  Don’t Ease Me In                   3:44
2.  Around And Around                  4:48
Set 2
3.  Tennessee Jed                      8:06
4.  Big River                          5:46
5.  Bertha                             5:47
6.  Jack Straw                         5:11 
7.  Sugaree                            7:26
8.  Looks Like Rain                    8:36 
9.  Here Comes Sunshine               11:33
Total time:                           61:01			
 
  
Disc 3
Set 2, cont.
1.  Playing In The Band               28:24
Set 3 
2.  Mississippi Half Step              9:25 
3.  Greatest Story Ever Told           5:33 
4.  Brown Eyed Women                   5:38
Total time:                           49:02

  
Disc 4
Set 3, cont.
1.  He's Gone >                       13:57
2.  Truckin' >                        10:17
3.  Phil And Billy >                   2:56 
4.  The Other One >                   18:44
5.  Eyes Of The World >               15:27  
6.  China Doll                         5:44
7.  Sugar Magnolia                     9:27 
Total time:                           76:35
		

Notes:
Discs 1-3 are clearly from a different source than disc 4; 
the sound is very muffled and the high end is missing; and much of it is 
quite distorted  and degraded. It is generally very poor; parts sound like 
reel problems (e.g. constant background whooshing).

Disc 4, in contrast, is extremely good!


The following flaw notes for discs 1-3 are not by any means comprehensive;
there are far too many flaws to be worth cataloging. The ones listed here are 
just examples of some of the more egregious defects.

D1t01 (Promised Land): Beginning cut; sound system problems throughout.
D1t02 (Deal): Sound system problems (channel imbalance, etc.) throughout.
D1t06 (Loser): very distorted for second half
D1t08 (China/Rider): cut/splice @ 9:08 in Rider
D2t03 (Tennessee Jed): very muffled first several minutes; vocals barely
      discernible until 
D2t05 (Bertha): Cuts @ 5:45
D2t07 (Sugaree): pop @ 7:08
D2t08 (Looks Like Rain): splice/cut @ 2:15
D2t09 (Here Comes Sunshine): pop @ 7:34
D3t01 (PITB): Beginning cut
D3t02 (Mississippi Half Step): light static 5:28-ca. 5:50; discontinuity
      @ 7:11
D3t04 (Brown Eyed Women): discontinuity at 0:18
D4t01 (He's Gone): 0:00 to 0:25 beginning patched from higher gen source
D4t04 (The Other One): dropout @ 12:06 patched from higher gen source
D4t07 (Sugar Magnolia) dropouts @ 7:35 to 7:42 & 7:57 to 8:06 patched 
      from higher gen source