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I knew the song right away for #3, #4, #6, #7 & #9. So I focused on what I thought were the harder ones first, thinking if I can get these then I'll spend the time listening to 50 versions of Dogs Stole Things. I knew the soundcheck tune must have been Dog Log...used youtube to find that. I honestly lucked out because I knew that the 5/3/85 McGrupp wasn't on phishtracks. Also I could hear that it had two guitars and keys faintly in the background, so there weren't really a lot of options for what this could be (this is actually Page's first show by the way). It's on the jam chart in yellow and I remember having to download the show in order to hear it. Where I bet a lot of people ran into trouble is the confusion around it being listed but not actually available. If you search songs for McGrupp it doesn't show up because the preceding 18 minute jam is labeled Whipping Post > McGrupp but it cuts just as McGrupp starts. I think I actually even wrote to phishtracks guy a few years ago but he never corrected this. So yeah I found this before I saw the pastebin hint (which I did eventually find). I imagine this is the one that was really hard for people, so once I got that one I put in the work to get the rest. The jamming chart helped me get the version of Dog Faced Boy, but for #3, 4, 6 and 7 I just had to listen to every version until I found the proper clip. The hardest two for me were #2 6/16/95 Jim and #8 8/21/87 Harpua. I knew those had to be the tunes I was searching for because I was running low on dog songs. It's just that #2 could have come from any jam and #8 didn't sound like Harpua. I actually tried listening to a bunch of ambient pieces from Harpuas for #2 (thought for a second it was the end of the Clifford Ball version) before I decided to switch tactics and check out long versions of Jim. There were no drums in that clip so it was pretty easy to find starting at the end of all the major versions and scanning through backwards. Once I got that, I knew Harpua was the last song I needed, so I started from the first version on phishtracks, and hey guess what? Ian's Farm is the first recorded version available on the site. Voila!
You probably didn't need all that info, but there it is!