This is the penultimate SYF mix derived from the Grateful Dead’s 2026 “Complete Circulating Ace’s Sessions,” recorded in 1975. It is a sequel to the previous “Grooves Regrooved” mix.
The story so far is here, so I will lean on previous posts as prologue to this one:
This Regrooved 2 mix continues the principles of the first one, but its relationship to source material is a little different:
- Volume 1 exclusively focuses on condensing long takes into more emphatic short edits. I cut slack to create more momentum.
- This new one does some of that, but it focuses more on creating edits from multiple short takes of the same theme recorded on the same day.
Take a look at the screenshot below the track list to see what I’m talking about. I went through all the fragmentary material related to a theme and identified the most interesting bits. Then I edited those bits into a single, coherent track.
The objective, as always with Save Your Face edits, is to enhance listening pleasure by concentrating minutes of music that IMO are more worth hearing again and again than whatever the original context was (e.g. the whole show, five fragmentary studio bits). My hope is that the SYF “regrooved” edits make a lot of the Ace’s ’75 material more accessible and more listened to than might be the case without my… interventions.
60-minute mp3 mix here, edited from FLAC sources.
- Low Down Payment Instr. 1 Composite Edit (4/17/75)
- Low Down Payment Dev. 5, Jam Only Edit (3/17/75)
- EAC Composite Edit (2/28/75)
- Lazy Lightning Composite Edit (3/6/75)
- Blue Noodle Soup Condensed Edit (4/2/75)
- Spoonful Jam Condensed Edit (6/4/75)
- Low Down Payment Instr. 2 Composite Edit (4/17/75)
- Lazy Lightning Composite Edit (4/2/75)
- EAC Blues (4/17/75)
- EAC Blues Composite Edit (3/6/75)
- Proto 18 Proper Mono Remix (3/26/75)
Additional notes:
- “Low Down Payment” (a Crosby song) went through three permutations on the circulating sessions. I’ve included all three here.
- This “Proto 18 Proper” is the most complete/correct performance we have on the circulating tapes, but its original stereo mix is bizarre - Jerry quiet and one channel all-Keith. This mono mix blends Keith into the whole, makes Jerry somewhat more present, and gets closer to a listening experience that takes in the whole band’s performance.
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