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 focused on condensing long takes into more emphatic short edits. This new one does some of that, but it focuses more on creating edits from multiple short takes on the same theme on the same day, creating more coherent “tracks” from fragmentary, developmental material.
To reemphasize: Save Your Face has always leaned hard into creating listening experiences from Dead material that I personally think stands up to a lot of re-listens - keepers, as they say. Cut the fat. Concentrate the positive. Make fake albums from seas of material. Etc.
The 24 hours of Complete Circulating 1975 Ace’s Sessions (2026) is documentary Dead heaven, but it’s not a series of albums you want to keep handy alongside “Blues for Allah” or your favorite 1974 shows.
The Save Your Face 1975 curations are simply one listener’s preferred reduction of a sea of material into something I’m interested in hearing a lot.
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:
- All the “composite” edits combine portions of multiple short recordings from the sessions, simulating longer performances.
- “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.