Music CD Trading

Once in a while you get shown the light
In the strangest of places
If you look at it right
- Scarlet Begonias (Garcia/Hunter)

Magic is what we do. Music is how we do it.
- Jerry Garcia talking about the Grateful Dead

Dick Latvala
joined with Jerry, Pig, Brent, Keith & all the rest on August 6, 1999

Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul
- Brokedown Palace (Garcia/Hunter)

August 7, 1999
Dick "showed me the light" via his Dick's Picks series several years ago. Always a GD fan (since Terrapin first came out), I truly didn't understand the Dead until I rediscovered them in the 90's, when I stumbled across DP7, and thought to myself, "Wow, this looks cool!".

I've never met Dick, though I've read a lot about him in the last 10 days. I sincerely understand his joy in spreading the music. For me, that's what it's all about, helping someone discover something that touches their soul. I can't thank you enough Dick, for rocking my soul.

Trade-O-Meter	B&P-O-Meter
Ever since my (forced) upgrade to Win2k, burning has been a long and painful process for me. As such, I'm not really looking for new trades, and am taking on very, very few B&Ps. Still, there's nothing wrong with dropping me a note asking for one or the other; just don't be too upset if I don't get back to you right away (or even at all).

Contents

Recent Additions
Trade Guidelines
Equipment Setup
Shows I Have To Trade
Shows I'm Looking For
Note to Newbies - including general B&P requests
Songlist

Recent Additions

Show Date	Band	Venue	Location
07-19-1973 (early)	Little Feat	Ebbets Field	Denver, CO
12-27-1980	Grateful Dead	Oakland Auditorium	Oakland, CA
03-26-1973	Grateful Dead	Baltimore Civic Center	Baltimore, MD
05-27-2000	Phil & Friends	Mountain Aire 2000	Calaveras County Angel's Camp, CA
08-01-1973	Grateful Dead	Roosevelt Stadium	Jersey City, NJ
01-02-1970 (late)	Grateful Dead	Fillmore East	New York, NY
04-03-1999	Keller Williams	<Private Party>	Oakland, CA
07-19-1973 (late)	Little Feat	Ebbets Field	Denver, CO
04-10-1973	Little Feat	Ultra Sonic Studios	Hempstead, NY
12-31-1973	Allman Brothers Band	The Cow Palace	San Francisco, CA
04-23-1996	Bruce Hornsby	Newport Music Hall	Columbus, OH
11-20-2002	Robert Randolph & The Family Band	?	?
06-23-2002	Robert Randolph & The Family Band	Ballroom Stage - Bonnaroo Festival	Manchester, TN
08-09-1979 (early)	Robert Hunter	My Father's Place	Roslyn, NY
01-02-1970 (early)	Grateful Dead	Fillmore East	New York, NY
06-13-2002	Dark Star Orchestra	Navy Pier Skyline Stage	Chicago, IL
08-09-1995	Ratdog	Club Casino	Hampton Beach, NH
08-09-1979 (late)	Robert Hunter	My Father's Place	Roslyn, NY
09-01-1973	Santana	?	Chicago, IL
02-13-1967	Bill Munroe & The Blue Grass Boys	University of Wisconsin	Madison, WI
07-23-1973	Old & in the Way	The Boarding House	San Francisco, CA
07-01-1971	It's a Beautiful Day	Fillmore West	San Francisco, CA
02-02-1992 [F]	Little Feat	?	?
10-31-1975	Little Feat	?	?
03-04-2000	David Gans	Maritime Hall	San Francisco, CA
12-15-1999	David Gans & Jim Page	Freight & Salvage	Berkeley, CA
06-09-1973	Grateful Dead	RFK Stadium	Washington, DC
01-30-1970	Fleetwood Mac	The Warehouse	New Orleans, LA
19??-??-?? [F]	Grateful Dead	<unknown>	<unknown>
01-31-1970	Fleetwood Mac	The Warehouse	New Orleans, LA
06-08-1969	Grateful Dead	Fillmore West	San Francisco, CA
06-28-2003	Grateful Dead	Tweeter Center	Camden, NJ
08-18-1970	Grateful Dead	Fillmore West	San Francisco, CA
05-26-1977	Grateful Dead	Baltimore Civic Center	Baltimore, MD
06-14-1976	Grateful Dead	Beacon Theatre	New York, NY
08-06-1971	Grateful Dead	Hollywood Palladium	Hollywood, CA
06-20-1974	Grateful Dead	The Omni	Atlanta, GA
05-22-1982	Grateful Dead	Greek Theater, U of CA	Berkeley, CA
06-12-1974	Chicago (Transit Authority)	RFK Stadium	Washington, DC
07-19-1974	Grateful Dead	Selland Arena	Fresno, CA

Trade Guidelines

• I'm looking for CDs only (no Cassettes, DATs or MiniDiscs, unless you supply the player, also).
• DAO, not TAO (DAO => Disk-at-once recording, as opposed to TAO => track-at-once). If you can't do DAO or the source is TAO, please tell me!
• Loss-less digital only unless clearly marked as otherwise (please don't surprise me with analog gens, MD or MP3).
• Please don't put in filler without asking me! I generally like to trade, and trade for, whole shows. If the show spans 3 discs but doesn't fill them all up, it's OK with me!
• I am currently using TDK & Mitsui blanks. Please use a good quality blank in return. Please do not send Kodaks or Maxell! My player & burner hate them. There are plenty of high-quality, inexpensive blanks out there; don't go for the cheap ones.
• I enclose a JCard with my CDs (trades only); although you don't have to do that, some kind of track list would be nice. If you do send a JCard, a single JCard for 2 or 3 CDs is fine, as I use Slim-Line doubles and triples (both are available at American Digital).
• I've been shown the light w/r/t CaseLogic sleeves and bubble wrap mailers. Just as safe, and way, way cheaper to mail! But if you still want to trade with jewel cases, that's OK too.
• Please, no fiber mailers!
• Newbies welcome! I will do B&P as time permits!
• I can do SHN or Audio trades (SHN preferred).
• I can also do e-trades (downloads) or snailmail (e-trades prefered). My connection is not stellarly fast, but it's decent enough.
• If you'd like to trade, drop me a line at: headlight@northbound-train.com (for B&P, see below)

Trade Status

Equipment Setup

Some info about my setup:

• Plextor PX-32TSi - 32x SCSI CD-Rom source, giving flawless DAE
• Plextor PX-R820Ti - 8x SCSI CD-R Burner, burning a 74 minute CD in under 10 minutes!

An important note about the software I use:

Shows I Have To Trade

• Grateful Dead (134)
• Jerry Garcia - Various (13)
• Phil & Friends (9)
• Dead-related Bands (32)
• David Gans (12)
• Bruce Hornsby (7)
• String Cheese Incident (12)
• Bluegrass (3)
• Jazz (6)
• Miscellaneous Bands (41)

Shows I'm Looking For

GRATEFUL DEAD

Show Date	Venue	Location	Set(s)
09-29-1967	Straight Theater	San Francisco, CA	All
01-126-1969	Avalon Ballroom	San Francisco, CA	All
06-07-1969	Fillmore West	San Francisco, CA	All
07-05-1969	Electric Theater	Chicago, IL	All
06-24-1970 (late)	Capital Theater	Port Chester, NY	All
10-04-1970	Winterland Arena	San Francisco, CA	All
11-05-1970	Capitol Theater	Port Chester, NY	All
11-06-1970 (early)	Capitol Theater	Port Chester, NY	All
11-06-1970 (late)	Capitol Theater	Port Chester, NY	All
11-08-1970	Capitol Theater	Port Chester, NY	All
11-09-1970	Action House	Island Park, NY	All
09-21-1972	The Spectrum	Philadelphia, PA	All
05-21-1974	?	?	All
03-20-1977	Winterland Arena	San Francisco, CA	All
03-28-1985	Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum	Uniondale, NY	All
08-19-1989	Greek Theatre	Berkeley, CA	All
09-29-1989	Shoreline Amphitheatre	Mountain View, CA	All
06-16-1990	Shoreline Amphitheatre	Mountain View, CA	All
12-10-1993	Los Angeles Sports Arena	Los Angeles, CA	All
06-19-1995	Giant's Stadium	East Rutherford, NJ	All

PHIL & FRIENDS

Show Date	Venue	Location	Set(s)
03-29-2002	Warfield Theater	San Francisco, CA	All

BRUCE HORNSBY

Show Date	Venue	Location	Set(s)
10-31-1998 (late)	Yoshi's	Oakland, CA	All
04-12-1999	Community Theater	Morristown, NJ	All
05-16-1999	The Florida Theatre	Jacksonville, FL	All

STRING CHEESE INCIDENT

Show Date	Venue	Location	Set(s)
02-28-1998	Fox Theater	Boulder, CO	All
08-09-1998	Gallivan Center	Salt Lake City, UT	All
09-11-1998	The Wool Warehouse	Albequerque, NM	All
04-27-1999	The Music Farm	Charleston, SC	All
05-08-1999	Stubbs	Austin, TX	All

Miscellaneous

Also, I'm looking to upgrade the following. If you have better copies of these, please let me know!

GRATEFUL DEAD

Show Date	Venue	Location	Upgrade Reason
03-01-1969	Fillmore West	San Francisco, CA	Too many little pops, missing encore.
11-14-1973	San Diego Sports Arena	San Diego, CA	Truckin' fades in, lost channels in Big River and Eyes, Truckin' --> Wharf Rat broken up across CDs!
05-19-1974	Portland Memorial Coliseum	Portland OR	Missing 1/3 of first set.
12-31-1990	Oakland Coliseum Arena	Oakland, CA	NFA and The Other One fades in, Dark Star cut.
06-20-1991	Pine Knob Music Theatre	Clarkston, MI	Bird Song is spliced!

Note to Newbies

Don't let anyone rip you off with 2-for-1 deals, or extra postage or anything like that! If someone isn't willing to spend the time & energy to spread the music for the sheer joy of it, then they shouldn't be doing it! Please don't encourage these people; I'll burn anything you'd like, if I have the time; just ask nicely!

The way I see it, the music isn't mine, so who am I to hoard it?
- me

Trade-O-Meter	B&P-O-Meter
Ever since my (forced) upgrade to Win2k, burning has been a long and painful process for me. As such, I'm not really looking for new trades, and am taking on very, very few B&Ps. Still, there's nothing wrong with dropping me a note asking for one or the other; just don't be too upset if I don't get back to you right away (or even at all).

B&P Requests

• You must email me first, at bnp@northbound-train.com. This is especially true if you don't have my address! I will not accept B&P requests at any other email address!
• Please understand that non-tree B&P has lower priority for me than regular trades.
• I generally limit people to 2 shows or 6 CDs at a time, whichever is greater. Note: if I've invited you to participate in a specific B&P offer, please don't add to it to bring yourself up to 2 shows or 6 CDs!
• I burn at 8x speeds, so please send me CDs that are certified for this! If you don't know which brands are, please ask (I recommend the TDK 6x & 8x Certified Plus blanks). Please do not send Kodak blanks! Even though they say they are 8x certified, not all of them are. See Plextor's Recommended Media list for some, uh, recommendations. Also, please don't use Maxell CDs; while they made great cassettes, their CD-R blanks are cheap. If you send cheap discs and they fail to take the burn (i.e. "coasterize"), it'll be up to you to send me more.
• You do not need to buy Consumer Audio CD blanks -- data CD-R blanks work just fine and cost a whole lot less.
• You can send the CDs in their jewel cases (in which case I recommend the free US Post Office Priority Mail boxes), or put them in Case Logic sleeves (15 for $5.50 at Staples) and send them in a bubble wrap mailer. Just don't send the jewel cases in a bubble wrap mailer (they break too easily). Of course, they're your discs....
• No fiber mailers; boxes or bubble wrap mailers only! The fiber mailers tear, and the fiber crap gets all over the CDs ('cause the jewel cases usually crack), and I'm not going to risk my burner. Hint: if it says Padded Mailer and doesn't mention Bubble Wrap or Bubble mailer, it's probably fiber. I will send your CDs back unburned if you send them in a fiber mailer.
• Please include your mailing address, email address, return postage and a list of the shows you're requesting, in case I lose your email. Oh yeah, a completed return mailing label would be nice, too.
• I can no longer print out JCards for B&Ps; I just don't have the time! I can print out a tracklist if you'd like (it's the same page you can print out on your own, just by clicking on the CD's link in the listing above). That said, if you would like the tracklist, please add an additional ounce to the return postage.
• Please do not send cash or checks! It's a real hassle for me to track who sent how much cash. Besides, I'm tired of people sending me $3.00 for a $3.20 stamp! If you send me cash or a check, I will email you and ask that stamps be sent, and I'll send the cash/check back with the package!
• Please do not send metered envelops! My post office will not accept metered mail from out of the area! If you send metered mail, I will email you requesting that stamps be sent, instead.
• Please read Ed McNicol's excellent B&P How-To, at least once.

In addition, here are some links to get you started:

• Dead.net - Official Grateful Dead homepage -- you can buy lots of Dick's Picks and other Dead stuff here

• DeadBase - The definitive Dead show resource. It's incomparable. Buy the book; it's worth it!
• The DeadLists Project - The definitive online resource, an ongoing project to catalog: lists, circulations, songs played, etc.
• GD Lists - lists traders and what they have to trade (CD-R, DAT, Cassette, MP3 & more!)
• Resources for Tape Traders - Grateful Dead Tapes in Circulation - great list of what shows (or pieces of shows) are in circulation
• Setlist Repositories for Hundreds of Bands, Groups, and Artists

• The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics Project - The definitive Dead lyric resource. It's incomparable, too. Only lists original songs.
• Grateful Dead Song & Lyric Finder - have a line from a song but no song title? This is the place!
• Grateful Dead Lyrics - very comprehensive, but no longer being maintained.
• Roots of the Grateful Dead - ever wonder who wrote that obscure Blues or Country song that you heard on an old Dead tape?

• B&P How-To - Ed McNichol's most excellent reference on the subject
• CD-R FAQ - CD Recordable Frequently Asked Questions
• CD-DA FAQ - CD Digital Audio Frequently Asked Questions
• Plextor's website - did I mention I love my Plextor drives?

• American Digital - this is where I buy most of my supplies
• Terrapin Tapes - a great place to buy equipment and supplies (including CD-R Blanks)
• US Postal Service - Free Priority Mail supplies!
• TapeTracker - home of a great tape collection software package (I don't use it, but lots of people do)

Live Free, that's the message!