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OT, but did anyone else notice that the Grateful Dead have their own category under Audio? All those bootlegged recordings, I guess.
by aptwebapps 14y ago
OT, but did anyone else notice that the Grateful Dead have their own category under Audio? All those bootlegged recordings, I guess.
- InclinedPlane 14y agoTechnically the "bootleg" terminology still applies, but to be clear all of the live recordings of Grateful Dead shows are legal as long as no profit is made on them. They even had special tickets for "tapers" to avoid having an unwieldly cluster of microphones at shows.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoThey did literally thousands of shows and over 90% of them were taped! That's a pretty impressive historical record of a band's performances.
- qohen 14y agoThe New Yorker had a piece about it all in very great detail -- turns out there's an official archivist of these Dead recordings and much, much more, if you're interested in this sort of thing: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/11/26/121126fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=all http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/11/26/121126fa_fact_...