... Despite the musical and lyrical eclecticism, innovative formal designs, and unconventional recording and production techniques of the Grateful Dead’s earliest studio albums, many fans and critics were skeptical that the Dead were capable of capturing the energy of their live concerts on record...

... In addition to the Grateful Dead’s commercially released live albums, by the early 1970s, fans also had access to a rapidly growing body of unofficial live concert recordings that were being produced and traded within a growing community of tapers and tape traders. Appearing alongside other...

... Live records are often debated and evaluated according to two ways of experiencing music: (1) the experience of the live performance (i.e., the concert), and (2) the experience of listening to the performer’s studio recordings. Both of these perspectives reflect an aesthetic ideology of liveness...

... Within the community and the culture of the Grateful Dead, live recordings have been valued not just for the sounds and stories they transmit but also for their materiality. Live recordings became the primary method by which the Grateful Dead would continue to promote the band’s legacy...

... As the Grateful Dead began to produce and market their archival recordings in the early 1990s, distinctive “languages of liveness” were used to advertise and aestheticize the band’s earliest vault recordings. Produced by Dan Healy, the releases that appeared on the From the Vault series were...

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... Throughout the 1980s, members of the Dead continued to explore the various practical, logistical, and financial aspects of producing live concert recordings. Following the release of “Touch of Grey” in 1987, the Grateful Dead were introduced to a new generation of fans, many of whom were just...

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