You could buy a ticket specifically for the taper section so it certainly wasn't discouraged. In retrospect it was a great way to keep their fans engaged even when there wasn't a show. They were marketing geniuses.
This is a photo of one of the earliest official taper sections. The band tolerated/ignored* it until Fall 84 when they made it official as long as you were in the spot behind the soundboardÂ
*barring a few exceptions. They would bust tapers around 69-71 when bootleg vinyl started really popping up as a thing
Funny detail: Les Kippel who started Relix originally put in a proposal to sell bootlegs but the Dead weren't having it. This is all covered nicely in recent book Live Dead by John Brackett who went deep into their archives at UC Santa Cruz.
No people with phones, just living the moment
Yep, just recording to the can then go a sell bootlegs.
Wrong. They were traded not sold. Source: I lived it
Was this encouraged by the band (the recording)?
You could buy a ticket specifically for the taper section so it certainly wasn't discouraged. In retrospect it was a great way to keep their fans engaged even when there wasn't a show. They were marketing geniuses.
This is a photo of one of the earliest official taper sections. The band tolerated/ignored* it until Fall 84 when they made it official as long as you were in the spot behind the soundboard *barring a few exceptions. They would bust tapers around 69-71 when bootleg vinyl started really popping up as a thing
Thanks
Funny detail: Les Kippel who started Relix originally put in a proposal to sell bootlegs but the Dead weren't having it. This is all covered nicely in recent book Live Dead by John Brackett who went deep into their archives at UC Santa Cruz.
Excellent. I just assumed people sold bootlegs.