"Tuning '77" - a seamless audio supercut of an entire year of the Grateful Dead tuning their instruments, live on stage. Chronologically sequenced, this remix incorporates every publicly available recording from 1977, examining the divide between audience expectation and performance anxiety.



Source: all 1977 recordings from archive.org's collection, as of 12/05/2012.



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Here's a jpg for album art:

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(FYI: The two vbr mp3s are the same file, but encoded at two different rates.)

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Reviewer: BVD - - February 23, 2017

Subject: Lame Fucking lame - February 23, 2017Lame

Reviewer: keymanewb - favorite favorite favorite favorite - October 18, 2016

Subject: Could use a good matrix Hunter Seamons get on it! I would also like Charlie Miller to remaster please! - October 18, 2016Could use a good matrix

Reviewer: Rafi_ifdawn - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - December 4, 2015

Subject: My new audio wallpaper



Here's what I would humbly call a companion piece to this, my audio recordings of Rainbow Gathering ambience and musical acts:



Your Tuning '77 is solid gold for the mavens, baffling to everyone else. I love it.



"if you have to ask, you'll never know" Thank you so much for making this! I was at shows for years and this ambience takes me right back - and its perfect because I can have it on and leave the room and not worry about missing something, but I'm still at the show!Here's what I would humbly call a companion piece to this, my audio recordings of Rainbow Gathering ambience and musical acts: https://archive.org/details/RainbowNM2009 Your Tuning '77 is solid gold for the mavens, baffling to everyone else. I love it."if you have to ask, you'll never know" - December 4, 2015My new audio wallpaper

Reviewer: zkdunn - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - October 27, 2014

Subject: downloaded over 60,000 times beat it on down the line...Dead Air lives on.

Mr. Charlie Dunn - October 27, 2014downloaded over 60,000 times

Reviewer: theoriginalMaxman2 - favorite - October 16, 2014

Subject: .... See you in the pit - October 16, 2014....

Reviewer: Igor@win - - June 19, 2013

Subject: all that tuning and: It's still not just exactly perfect. - June 19, 2013all that tuning and:

Reviewer: PastorTim - favorite favorite favorite - December 30, 2012

Subject: Brilliant Absolutely love listening to this, although I have to say that this is about the same amount of tuning from just one night on 12/31/1978. [chuckle...] - December 30, 2012Brilliant

Reviewer: jtd7 - favorite favorite favorite favorite - December 21, 2012

Subject: Cover Art Does anyone have a version of the cover art suitable for a cassette? - December 21, 2012Cover Art

Reviewer: hepkat - - December 18, 2012

Subject: Where is the secon flac file? Just wondering. - December 18, 2012Where is the secon flac file?

Reviewer: converse - favorite favorite favorite favorite - December 18, 2012

Subject: Too Much fun! Awesome sound quality of one of my favorite parts of a Dead show, trying to figure out what they were going to play based on the tuning.

The only one I can say for certain that I know where it was from is the first Lady With a Fan opener to Terrapin Station from the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino in '77, the only show I ever attended with a significant "breakout", and one that they opened the show with. - December 18, 2012Too Much fun!

Reviewer: Mr. Insight - favorite favorite favorite - December 18, 2012

Subject: Name that tune I just wasted an hour and a half trying to guess which song they were about to play.

Thanks for nothing, Michael.

No, seriously. Thanks. It was actually kinda fun. - December 18, 2012Name that tune

Reviewer: danfleonard@gmail.com - favorite favorite favorite - December 18, 2012

Subject: Step Back 24 hours of take a step back? - December 18, 2012Step Back

Reviewer: Trek1200 - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - December 18, 2012

Subject: Great for falling asleep to I have had wonderful dozing-off experiences listening to '77 first sets over the years. What a pleasant surprise to find this supercut. I will put this on at relatively low volume over earbuds and drift away ... thank you so much - December 18, 2012Great for falling asleep to

Reviewer: Ouish - favorite favorite favorite - December 18, 2012

Subject: More ideas Howabout 3 hours of Bobby sayin, "Well be back in just a little bit." Just sayin... - December 18, 2012More ideas

Reviewer: ehfan4life - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - December 18, 2012

Subject: play it already!!! love it !!!! the ultimate anticipation ...jerry i think would love this...prankster stuff all the way! - December 18, 2012play it already!!!

Reviewer: 42doug42 - favorite favorite favorite favorite - December 17, 2012

Subject: Always new beginnings Like a pregnant woman. Perpetual birth. A never-ending anticipation of all possibilities. Hinting at the 99 Billion names of God. An undefined expansion not needing destination. - December 17, 2012Always new beginnings

Reviewer: rustystrings - favorite favorite favorite favorite - December 17, 2012

Subject: Talking about stringing you along... My oh my, you keep waiting and waiting and you hear a, and waiting and then, and waiting, then the big hint and then waiting...



Amazing - December 17, 2012Talking about stringing you along...

Reviewer: bkelly911 - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - December 17, 2012

Subject: unbelievable So i have been listening to this while working around the house today.. with folks coming in and out. SOME comments like "wow i knew the dead took along time to tune up but" .. "Oh I know this tune.." "I think we were at this show".. to the stock WTF are you listening to.. etc.. 77 was a year I caught quite a few shows but this blows the mind..luv it..how, or why you did this does not really matter.. the quality is superb.. and you take some of the tune ups right to the door of the intro note on a few occasions..complete with quips and banter, nice job the work of a true mad man ,, or a complete Dead head... be well Merry Christmas....in light of recent events,, we all could use this sort of fun right about now..Music DOES HEAL... - December 17, 2012unbelievable

Reviewer: O H Lee - - December 17, 2012

Subject: What he said. ^^^^^^

^^^^^^

^^^^^^ - December 17, 2012What he said.