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Don't Mess With My Levels, Jim

Grateful Dead, July 28, 1982

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Don't Mess With My Levels, Jim

From The Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction, Colorado), July 28, 1982, page 2

This is the famous tape that has Jim Durkin yelling at Jim Wise at the very beginning for messing with the levels on his tape recorder.

I’d love to hear the Durkin tape to see if we could hear what happened. The whole event is hilarious, and is pretty …

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