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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Grateful Dead Tapers
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Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 22:05:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 29 22:05:34 1984
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> 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.

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