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Officially Licensed Grateful Dead Merchandise

Grateful Dead Shakedown Street Incense Burner, LARGE

The Grateful Dead allowed their fans to record their shows like several other bands during the time. For many years the tapers set up their microphones wherever they could.

The eventual forest of microphones became a problem for the official sound crew. Eventually this was solved by having a dedicated taping section located behind the soundboard, which required a special "tapers" ticket.

The band allowed sharing of tapes of their shows, as long as no profits were made on the sale of their show tapes.

Recently, there were some disputes over what recordings archive.org could host on their site. Currently, all recordings are hosted, though soundboard recordings are not available for download, rather in a streaming format.