Golden Age

Monday, December 3, 1979

Chicago, IL · Uptown Theater

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Monday
Day 337 of 1979
Show #
67 of 79
Era
Golden Age
Keys
Brent
Recordings
5
Top rating
★ 4.68 (19)
Official release
Dave's Picks Vol 31
Top-rated tape
SBD
Total dl
108,505
Songs played
22 · 3 sets
Show length
2h 59m
Longest track
Fire On The Mountain · 16:33
65CanonicalRank #51 of 1,999
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Featured on: Dave's Picks Vol 31

From the tapers · archive.org · 3

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  • ★★★★★ · Picked by Dave · Gigahaw · 2019

    Got this from Dead.net Hold on to your hat, we’re coming in strong with one from the Windy City that’ll have you movin’ and shakin’ from start to finish. DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 31: UPTOWN THEATRE, CHICAGO, IL 12/3/79 signals a true rebirth of the Grateful Dead, reimagining classics and foreshadowing their 80s sound. This is as much in part due to freshly-minted member Brent Mydland bringing the organ back in as it is to Jerry finding new vivacity with his custom Wolf guitar.

  • ★★★★★ · fantastic sound · Dave B 1986 · 2015

    boy this is fun. the sound is terrific - can really pick up different tones on Jerry's guitar. You know it's a good night when "All Over Now" gets you. simply three chord white boy blues, but its toe-tapping good, jerry's licks are rollin and tumblin, and brent's organ is ripping. Also, I think was unaware of jack-a-roe played in 1979. Its a bit closer to the 1977 version I know (that got put on the fall-out from the Phil zone).

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Official release

Setlist

Setlist from CMU Dead archive (mleone/gdead)

Recordings on archive.org · 5

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gd79-12-03.sbd.miller.29434.sbeok.flacf

Soundboard · ★ 4.68 (19 reviews) · 69,025 dl

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  • gd1979-12-03.135897.mtx.dusborne.flac162 source matrix by dusborne; Soundboard (shnid:29434), Recording Info: Set 1: SBD -> Cassette Master (Sony TCD5M/UDXL-II) -> Dat (Panasonic SV3800/48k); Set 2: SBD -> Cassette Master -> Cassette -> Dat -> CD; Transfer Info: Set 1: Dat (Sony D8) -> M-Audio Dio2448 -> Samplitude Professional v8.0 -> FLAC; Set 2: CD -> EAC -> Samplitude Professional v8.0 -> FLAC, Transferred and Edited By Charlie Miller and Audience (shnid:83611),Recording by Ira Frisch: Master Audience Cassette; 2 Sennheiser 421s + Sennheiser 441> Nakamichi 550 Transfer and FLAC encoding by David Minches: Master played back on Nak Dragon> Grace Lunatec V3 (24/96)> Digital Audio Labs Card Deluxe> Adobe Audition> (dither/downsample)> FLAC * from 1st generation cassette from same master; master played back on Nak 550> Nak 250 · ★ 4.50 · 16,578 dl
  • gd1979-12-03.senn-frisch.minches.83611.flac162 Sennheiser 421s + Sennheiser 441> Nakamichi 550 · ★ 4.00 · 8,812 dl
  • gd79-12-03.sbd.bongripper.1241.shnfSee comments · ★ 4.00 · 5,261 dl
  • gd79-12-03.sbd.miller.29434.sbeok.flacfSoundboard · ★ 4.68 · 69,025 dl
  • gd79-12-03.sbd.orf.320.sbeok.shnfSoundboard · ★ 4.00 · 8,829 dl