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Official Grateful Dead Thread

Killer Fox said:
It's all right here but above my budget.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HISTORIC-11...836869?pt=Music_Cassettes&hash=item19f6dca1c5
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WOW!!!, I know a guy who has 3 times as many and he got a lot of them via Gans. He's old school though and I highly doubt he would try to sell them.

I used to have a list similar to what's listed. While cool to look at they took up too much space and the digital copies I've acquired are equal if not better then what I had on cassette.
 
Honestly it's really not cool to sell those, IMHO. The GD were nice enough to allow tape trading of their live performances, but it was supposed to be just that...trading. That collection shouldn't be sold for more than what the cassettes themselves would be worth, without any recordings on them.
 
Dswankey said:
WOW!!!, I know a guy who has 3 times as many and he got a lot of them via Gans. He's old school though and I highly doubt he would try to sell them.

I used to have a list similar to what's listed. While cool to look at they took up too much space and the digital copies I've acquired are equal if not better then what I had on cassette.
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Yea, I'm not a huge Deadhead (ducking). 50 or 60 cassettes is plenty for me. The bootlegs on cassette are a nostalgia thing.
 
Skylab said:
Honestly it's really not cool to sell those, IMHO. The GD were nice enough to allow tape trading of their live performances, but it was supposed to be just that...trading. That collection shouldn't be sold for more than what the cassettes themselves would be worth, without any recordings on them.
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While I get what you are saying, I think now that cassettes are no longer made it's different. 1,100 new blank high bias 90s could easily fetch that much on fleabay.

I see they are also taking offers.
 
Dswankey said:
WOW!!!, I know a guy who has 3 times as many and he got a lot of them via Gans. He's old school though and I highly doubt he would try to sell them.

I used to have a list similar to what's listed. While cool to look at they took up too much space and the digital copies I've acquired are equal if not better then what I had on cassette.
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Wow. 4 grand, what a dick. I have a little over 2200 shows on FLAC. Many of them were remastered by Charlie Miller, they were FREE! It takes up about three terabytes
 
I don't see much value in old cassette copies of shows. Even those "in the know" back in the day were generally making their copies from copies that were one generation from the masters.

BTW, bt.etree is legal. And, yes, Charlie Miller SBD shows are quite good. Well balanced, generally, with good midrange chewiness.
 
I agree. Only nostalgia. Much better sounding versions of pretty much everything circulate freely in high quality digital form from etree.

That said, I basically got out of that game too. Once I had almost 1,000 GD shows downloaded and burned onto CDs and put in nice jewel cases. I gave them all away, for FREE, last year. Now I "only" have the official releases, which I have purchased every one of, but these days that's a LOT!
 
KeninDC said:
I don't see much value in old cassette copies of shows. Even those "in the know" back in the day were generally making their copies from copies that were one generation from the masters.

BTW, bt.etree is legal. And, yes, Charlie Miller SBD shows are quite good. Well balanced, generally, with good midrange chewiness.
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Also don't get a good AUD wrong, there are some good ones up at Archive, another you might want to check out is nugs.net, not sure if it's still up and running.

A good resource for show and links here

http://www.deadlists.com/default.asp
 
Skylab said:
Honestly it's really not cool to sell those, IMHO. The GD were nice enough to allow tape trading of their live performances, but it was supposed to be just that...trading. That collection shouldn't be sold for more than what the cassettes themselves would be worth, without any recordings on them.
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Agreed!!!!
 
Hunter Seamons often uses Charlie Miller masters when he makes his Matrixes (Matrices?)
I get the Hunter's Trix if available and Charlie Miller when it's not.

There are a few others that make excellent Matrixes.
Dusborne's are excellent and he's still quite active.
 
On a '77 run, as I suspect a few others are after Dave's latest. It's all good.
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Mowgli said:
Hunter Seamons often uses Charlie Miller masters when he makes his Matrixes (Matrices?)
I get the Hunter's Trix if available and Charlie Miller when it's not.

There are a few others that make excellent Matrixes.
Dusborne's are excellent and he's still quite active.
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This is where it's at! Great clear vocals, non-warbley keyboards and tight upper bass of the soundboard with the loud guitar, super Phil low end and the awesome vibe of an audience recording together.
 
Love the Phil Zone.

The show thing has changed a ton since the trading days. I used to thrive on getting the care package from east coast tours. Once I met other tapers who traded it was a different game. A master or 1st gen aud tape is my preferred over a sbd. I like the ambience of the venue and the air on the tape.

With the various site that offer virtually every show the "collectability" I think is gone. It's all available. What it has done is allow great music in good quality to get to whoever wants it. A great thing.

I work in the school system and a couple Dead moments happened this week. The school psychologist (age 59) saw my Jerry pic in my office and we started talking about shows, turned out both of us were at Red Rocks '84. Cool.
The other was when a student overheard me talking with another teacher about music, was asked what I liked, said Dead. She said she would have never guessed. Funny what clean cut and 51 does to perception.

It's amazing that 30+ years later, a couple lifetimes and who knows what else; the music still emotes off the charts.:thmbsp:
 
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