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• This is the same seed as http://db.etree.org/shninfo_detail.php?shnid=82, with md5s d1c & d2c, with the tracks renamed to etree yy-mm-dd convention in the correct order. Saint Stephen and AWBYGN were incorrectly labelled as d2t07 & d2t01, respectively. These have had their names swapped to obtain the correct tracking.
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  Jim Wise's essay About 11/8/69
  
  It wasn't too long after I met Dick in person when he let me in on what
  he really was into for a 2-track pick from 1969. When he started coming
  east for Dicks Picks parties several years ago he found comfortable
  accommodations at my home. I had already an internet & telephone
  correspondence with this fascinating man for 2 years prior but had never
  met him in person, & luckily for me, Dick & I had several long time
  mutual taper friends who vouched for me, so the ice was broken in
  advance. I credit my wife Dani for rounding him up. He could have fun
  with her (and vice versa) & we could bullshit about tapes all night
  long.
  
  I had 11/8 in my collection in several different forms for years, but
  never really sat down with it the way Dick showed me how to. Dick was
  like Santa Claus & whenever he would show up (once he called with little
  advance warning & said he was only one hour away, so get ready for him)
  he literally had a bag full of tapes, both cassette & dats. He good
  naturedley would love to see me squirm in anticipation & enjoyed teasing
  me, 'cause he knew that I was a tape addict, much like himself.
  
  On a visit 2 years ago he sat me down in my living room, we smoked a
  fatty, & he pulled out his dat of 11/8 & said "sit down, shut up, &
  listen". As the opening notes of "Dark Star" rang out I watched him curl
  up, close his eyes, & immerse himself in the sound. The last words he
  uttered for the next hour & one half were" Its quiet now, but it gets
  LOUD" This is when 11/8 really made it's impression on me, & so did the
  infamous clicks!
  
  This was Dick's dilemma; he loved this set so much, but knew that there
  were tech flaws on the master. He also had enough experience with his
  teammates John Cutler & Jeffrey Norman, to realize that this would be
  extremely difficult to persuade them to do the work in order for its
  official release as a DP. He was also afraid that it would be rejected
  as a pick, like so many other shows he wanted in the past were.
  
  It was only a few months prior that I had started experimenting with a
  PC based hard disk recording & editing system, so we grabbed his dat &
  downloaded a sample to look at the wav file as it appears on screen. We
  farted around for a bit & I found some clicks visually & zoomed in &
  simply re drew the glitch with something called the "pencil tool". This
  smoothed out the wav & that single click disappeared both visually & on
  more importantly, on playback, auditory.
  
  When Dick's business was concluded on the East Coast, he left his dat
  with me the play with. His aim was to give John Cutler a reasonable tape
  to listen too, in order to introduce him (JC) to the performance. What
  Dick had left with me specifically was a dat clone from his personal
  cassette copy of Bears 7inch-?-track 7/5-ips master reel.
  
  The redrawing of the glitches was unbelievably tedious, but relatively
  easy during the quiet passages, so I spent several days working & sent
  him back a dat of the first few minutes of "Dark Star". He called me
  back in a whirlwind of enthusiasm & a week later the Dat clones direct
  from the masters arrived at my PO box. Now I really went to work &
  believe me when I tell you this was truly a labor of love.
  
  Upon inspection this is what I found; the clicking was present on the
  right channel of the entire show to 11/7, & the entire show of 11/8,
  that is up until the reel flip in the "Other One", when it mysteriously
  vanishes! I uploaded the 94-minute Dark Star & ensuing jam onto hard
  disk. There is a brief segment before Dark Star begins where you can
  really capture what's known as a "noise print". This was basically just
  pure clicks without any music, or other noise in the background, & would
  be needed if it I could determine that a noise reduction run would be
  effective.
  
  The 3 facts that saved this recording are; #