DAT-heads Digest #847

Contents:
  Re: FM or DAB? (Dave Chapman)
  Wilshire Ebell Theatre ("Mark O'Donnell")
  FS: box of unopened Maxell 90m DAT's ("Stephen Pzynski")
  Subject:  Lawrence 'Ramrod' Shurtliff: 1945-2006 (Bob Rao)
  INTERPOL - DSM-6 Tapers + More (North America 2005) (~p)


From: Dave Chapman <dave@dchapman.com>
Subject: Re: FM or DAB?
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 17:02:31 +0100

jpff@codemist.co.uk wrote:
> I would like to record a concert that I know is to be broadcast next
> week.  I could record onto the DAT from FM radio or DAB.  We are in a
> fairly bad reception area but we do have an external FM aerial and
> reasonably good tuner.  Would that be better than recording from the
> DAB?  The DAB has a digital audio out socket (TosLink) and a RDI
> output (TosLink) that I should be able to connect direct to the DAT
> (which?)

A good quality FM recording will beat DAB hands down.

Also, most Radio stations which are available on DAB are also available
on either digital terrestrial TV (aka "Freeview") or digital satellite
TV (aka "Sky Digital") with higher bitrates than DAB.

Digital radio (in the UK, and I think all of Europe) uses "MP2" (MPEG-1,
Layer II) compression, and quality is all about bitrates - the higher
the bitrate, the lower the quality.  Sadly, most DAB music stations
broadcast at 128kbps in the UK, whereas they broadcast via 192kbps via
the digital TV platforms.

Finally, "Standalone DAB receiver" -> "DAT" (even via a digital
connection) isn't the best way to record digital radio.  Ideally, you
want to buy a digital radio (or TV) tuner card for your computer, and
you'll then be able to simply save the MP2 broadcast data to your hard disk.

But saying all that, if your FM reception is poor, then a digital radio
broadcast will be a more enjoyable listen.

If you let me know what radio station the broadcast is on, I'll try and
find out the relative bitrates of that station on the different digital
radio platforms.

Dave.



From: "Mark O'Donnell" <modonn6311@gmail.com>
Subject: Wilshire Ebell Theatre
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 17:16:23 -0400

Has anyone taped at this venue? How is security? Any suggestions?

--=20
Mark O'Donnell
modonn6311@gmail.com



From: "Stephen Pzynski" <stejampzy@hotmail.com>
Subject: FS: box of unopened Maxell 90m DAT's
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 18:16:56 -0500

SSIA. $26 shipped. thanks.





From: Bob Rao <bandrproductions@yahoo.com>
Subject: Subject:  Lawrence 'Ramrod' Shurtliff: 1945-2006
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 19:50:25 -0700 (PDT)

Subject:  Lawrence 'Ramrod' Shurtliff: 1945-2006


He was a psychedelic cowboy who rode the bus with Ken
Kesey and took virtually every step of the long,
strange trip with the Grateful Dead. Known to one and
all solely as Ramrod, he died yesterday (5-17-06) of
lung cancer at Petaluma Valley Hospital. He was 61.

"He was our rock," said guitarist Bob Weir.

Born Lawrence Shurtliff, he was raised a country boy
in eastern Oregon and once won a county fair blue
ribbon in cattle judging. He got the name Ramrod from
Kesey while he was traveling through Mexico with the
author and LSD evangelist, at the time a fugitive from
justice.

"I am Ramon Rodriguez Rodriguez, the famous Mexican
guide," he boasted, and he was known ever after as
Ramrod.

"It fit him," said Steve Parish, his longtime
associate on the Dead crew. "He used to keep us in
line."

"I remember when he first showed up at 710 Ashbury,"
said Dead drummer Mickey Hart. "He pulled up on a
Harley. He was wearing a chain with a lock around his
waist. He said 'Name's Ramrod -- Kesey sent me -- I
hear you need a good man.' I remember it like it was
yesterday."

Ramrod joined the Dead in 1967 as truck driver and was
held in such high regard by the members of that
sprawling, brawling organization that he was named
president of the Grateful Dead board of directors when
the rock group actually incorporated in the '70s. It
was a position he held until the death of guitarist
Jerry Garcia in 1995. Like the rest of the band's few
remaining staff, he was laid off last year.

He traveled the full length of the Dead's tangled
odyssey, joining up with the band when the it first
began playing out of town, about a year after the Dead
got is start playing gin mills on the Peninsula.

Ramrod went to work setting up and tearing down the
band's equipment for every show the Dead played. He
puzzled his way through elaborate situations and
circumstances: from the myriad psychedelic dungeons
the band played through the '60s, to a concert at the
base of the Great Pyramids in Egypt in 1977 to the
baseball parks the Dead filled on the endless tours of
the '80s and '90s up until Garcia's death.

"He was always there," said Hart, "making sure
everybody was taken care of."

Hart said that it was Ramrod's practice to say "all
right" at the conclusion of every performance as the
band filed off the stage. "I looked forward to those
'all rights,' '' said Hart. "It was the way he said
it. It was the tone that said it all -- 'it was all
right ... not great.' You couldn't fool old Ramrod. I
was playing for him."

Hart also remembered one New Year's Eve when he
thought he might be too high to play. Ramrod solved
the problem by strapping Hart to his drum stool with
gaffer's tape. Hart recalled another show in San Jose
with Big Brother and the Holding Company, where the
starter's cannon the band used to punctuate the drum
solo of "St. Stephen's" went off early.

"I looked back," Hart said. "His face was on fire.
He'd lost his eyebrows. You could smell his flesh. And
he was hurrying to reload the cannon in time. That was
the end of the cannons."

A protege of Neal Cassady of the Merry Pranksters, the
intrepid band of inner-space explorers who gathered
around Kesey, Ramrod absorbed lessons from Cassady, a
Beat era legend and model for the character Dean
Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's landmark novel "On the
Road." "He knew Neal better than anyone in our scene,"
said Weir.

He was a quiet, unflappable road warrior. Hart and
fellow crew member Rex Jackson once decided to see how
long it would take Ramrod to say something on a truck
trip across the Midwest. He said nothing through three
states before speaking. "Hungry?" he finally said.

"He was never a loudmouth," said Parish. "He was never
anything but an honest, hard-working guy with a grip
of steel and a hand that felt like leather."

He was first married to Patricia "Patticake" Luft --
their son is Strider Shurtliff, 38, of Los Angeles.
His wife of the past 38 years, Francis Whalen, is
recovering from an anoxic brain injury. Their son is
Rudson Shurtliff, 34, of Novato.

A lifelong cigarette smoker, he was diagnosed with
lung cancer only a few weeks ago. Typically, he didn't
want anybody to know he was dying, although band and
crew members visited him daily.

Guitarist Weir said he could barely remember the Dead
before Ramrod. "When he did join up, it was like he
had always been there. I won't say he was the missing
piece, because I don't think he was missing. He just
wasn't there. But then he was there. And he always
will be. He was a huge part of what the Grateful Dead
was about."

Parish said he and Weir left a recent visit from
Ramrod's hospital bed. "Weir said 'They say blood is
thicker than water, but what we've got is thicker than
blood,' " said Parish.
Funeral arrangements are pending.

Lawrence "Ramrod" Shurtliff (left) with other veteran
Grateful Dead road crew members Steve Parish and
Robbie Taylor.  
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/05/18/MNGGDITL9I1.DTL

Obit:
http://www.jambase.com/headsup.asp?storyID=8532



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From: ~p <asleepfordays@gmail.com>
Subject: INTERPOL - DSM-6 Tapers + More (North America 2005)
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 06:38:06 -0400

Hi.

Few inquires about 2005 Interpol Tour which i did 4 shows on.


#1)
I am looking for 1 or 2 tapers.

They are the guy(s) who Sonics and a D7 or D8
 in:
2005-03-15 - St. Louis - The Pageant
and
2005-09-26 - Cleveland - Agora Theater

#2)
Also does anyone know anything about the Across the Narrows
(2005-10-01) gig in a proshot format?

#3)
Is there a source out there for 2005-09-09 Texas gig.

#4)
Possibly interested in talking with other 2005/2004 Interpol tapers/filmers.


Give me an email, if you can tell me something.


Thanx
~Paul

-- 
no signature this week!
~p    : )


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