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http://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1990/12/14/tuning (Use the Charlie Miller SBD) 12/14/90 - Everyone thought this was the weakest of the 3 nite run. Setlist suggested it and there are a couple valleys but this was still solid gold. Everything is speeded up - and I don't mean the source TLMD - compare this to MSG 1990 http://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1990/12/14-1/to-lay-me-down Let It Grow - fast fingers and bombs http://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1990/12/14-1/let-it-grow Foolish Heart - Sick Midi http://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1990/12/14-1/foolish-heart He’s Gone - It's almost too fast - lol! Check out the post-jam - Unbelievable! http://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1990/12/14/hes-gone Women-R-Smarter - There’s only one - it’s that good. http://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1990/12/14/man-smart-woman-smarter This 3-show run was the best post-Brent I would ever see. It just all came together after a pretty tough stretch. My brother + I still wish each other happy 12/12, 12/13 + 12/14 every year. 27 and counting...

Are you asking about the relative merits of Joe Noel's matrix source? It's a perfectly fine listen, but Tom Darian's B&K recording is the stuff of legend. A rare tape where I think mixing in the soundboard can only hurt it. In fact, Tom's recordings of the entire run are jaw dropping. The union security guy tending to that FOB section at The Garden was a Head, and he was getting greased with cassette dubes of each night the subsequent evening. In return, not only did Tom have carte blance to put his stand nice and high on the aisle seat (the center line was the aisle), but the usher was actually making folks near the mics pipe down. Amazing, and to my knowledge unprecedented. So the bottom line is these B&K audience tapes (or somewhat interchangeably Rick Katzeff's Schoeps tapes which were made at the same seat) should be the go to for this run.