Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Grateful Dead Tapers Message-ID: <923@opus.UUCP> Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 22:05:34 EST Article-I.D.: opus.923 Posted: Mon Oct 29 22:05:34 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Nov-84 05:24:22 EST References: <808@fritz.UUCP> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 32 > The upcoming Hallowe'en Dead shows in Berkeley offer something new, the > advent of "taper tickets" - seats behind the sound board where open > taping is "permitted". This is the first time I have really ever heard > the Dead organization *actively* endorse such activities, and their posture > on the issue is good news. It shows that they understand the significance > of the live tapes, and that they don't fell that there is a conflict with > album sales. Hmmm, well, it's sort of the first time that they've really made an open public statement. However, the not-infrequent tape taken from the sound board--i.e., a tape made by a D'Head from a feed from the band's sound equipment--would seem to indicate that SOMEone has been paying attention to the issue. I HOPE they don't see a conflict between live tapes and album sales--given that the last albums came out, lessee, um, over three years ago! There aren't any recordings of the recent songs other than what tapers have given us--let alone wondrous stuff like Dark Star, Smokestack Lightnin', or St. Stephen (for which, on LP, you've got to go back to the antediluvian Live Dead and Bear's Choice). I'm not a taper myself, but I'm eternally grateful to the folks who are. It's a unique phenomenon to the Dead. I agree with John that it's touchy to try to formalize it--but it could be a lot better than having the promoter's goon squad busting up equipment and roughing up people, which has happened on occasion in the past. *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** (But I already wrote my message?!) -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Simpler is better.