jems, JEMS Master, Recording Gear: Sony Mic > Sony TC-55, 2014 Transfer: master cassettes > Nakamichi CR-7A > SoundDevices USBPre2 >, Audacity 2.0 24/96 capture > iZotope RX clean-up > iZotope MBIT+ convert to 16/44.1 >, Peak Pro XT (pitch correction / volume smoothing / edit / index) > xACT 2.21 > FLAC, PEEPLES / HAVIS / DENNIS / YOUNG, To the best of our knowledge, this represents the first time any recording of the second, night of the 1980 tour has been made widely available, at least according to the tour and, tape histories chronicled by Olof and Lossless Bob., For years, it has always puzzled us that there were three dates in the Northwest at the, start of Dylan's 1980 tour for which there was no known tape. Puzzling because S of JEMS, and some of his taping peers at the time attended the Portland and Seattle shows, and to, the best of S's knowledge, all the shows were taped. In fact, for years, S suggested that, he's not sure he recorded himself because he was so sure the shows were being covered by, others with better gear., And yet, no tapes from Portland January 11, 12 and Seattle January 15 ever seemed to, circulate. And among the thousands of tapes in the consolidated JEMS archive, including, what we believed to be all of S's masters, the shows weren't there either. And yet, they, had to have been recorded, right?, I've asked S questions about these shows for the last 20 years, so imagine my surprise, when he called a couple of months ago to say our friend WG had found a box of S's tapes, in his house. A box of tapes very likely borrowed in 1986 and forgotten about until two, months ago when they were discovered lurking behind or under some furniture., And lo and behold, there in the box were the masters for January 12 and January 15, missing in action for over 30 years. The box made its way to me for fresh transfers, so thanks to WG and S for that. And while it didn't contain the tape of January 11, (we'll have to keep our fingers crossed on that one), it did contain another 15-20 tapes, missing from the archive that I had held in my own hands back in 1986 and had never seen, again., The bulk of these were first generation copies made for S by a legendary taper, a taper, not known to have ever recorded some of the artists included, but it turns out he did., The tapes are marked in that legendary taper's own unmistakable way. And the notes he, included shed just a bit more light on his legend, both in terms of what additional shows, he captured, but also the gear he used. It would appear he even managed to record the, same show on two different recorders with two different microphones. Two mics--how, appropriate for him. That tease will have to suffice for now, but we will be getting to, those tapes in due time., But until then, it turns out S was underselling himself, as his recording of the lost, Portland show is very listenable indeed and a fine document of this compelling slice of, Dylan's career. Samples provided., Thanks to our brother in arms mjk5510 for his continued assistance in taking these tapes, over the finish line. It is partners like him that truly get the flow going, and right, now we're sitting on a stack of great new tapes to post from Dylan and others., BK for JEMS