maybe a fan-owned soundboard was needed..?

the industry thrived when copies of lowered fidelity
didn't threaten them.
the attack of the clones
will the Morlocks become vegetarians?

it's rocking in the free world
not free rocking in the world.

rating for sound/show quality

Audience recordings are recorded by equipment audience members bring in. That was always and will always be allowed, and there is physical recordings on the property of the people who made them, even though they do not own the rights to the music obviously. But soundboard recordings were made using the bands gear. Fans never had a right to those recordings. Recording off of their sound board was never something that the audience had a right to. The band never really agreed to that to begin with. It was just something Healy started doing by handing out board patches. Phil tries to put it forth in his book that they fired Healy because he found out that he had turned stings volume down 50% when he opened for them on the 93 tour. The actual truth is is that he was pissed at Healey for allowing soundboard patches today's Chapel Hill shows. The dead had originally planned to release those shows as official recordings. They would have been the first one since without a net. But leaking the soundboards completely blew that plan and cost them a ton of money. Honestly, the dead screwed up big when they allowed people to just freely trade their soundboards. They gave away something that was their property. Audience recordings are completely different story. Fans that think they should have free access to the sound boards don't understand the basic legality of who owns that equipment and why those recordings would even exist. The fact that you even have access to the sound boards as it is is a true gift. All this deep and Isaac Bob Weir over the soundboards being locked is just silly hippy-dippy I want everything for free mentality stuff. Besides. If you know anything about url manipulation if you lay should you can easily still get those soundboards. To point out a little more hypocracy, nobody complains about how fish Devereux allowed for their soundboards to be distributed, minus a few weeks once here and they are back in the day. But they were smart. They learn from the desert mistakes. Sure you can freely listen to the audience recording, which are great. But nobody cries and whines about how they should have a right to phish's soundboard recordings that they own. I swear, if it were up to these socialist hippie anti-capitalist people, none of these bands would have ever been able to make a living. It's ironic that so many musicians support the last when the left never wants to see covid-19 go away anfwant to take all your rights away. We'll see how that turns out

On this 40th anniversary, what a gem! Love this acoustic set, it just sparkles.

Ask Weir's lawyers.

...which, when I think of it, would make a good band name. Don't touch it! It's mine! On the record!

But this has the Ripple used on Reckoning. Kind of amazing it hasn't been pulled from the archive as "commercially released"...

...which, when I think of it, seems to be of somewhat questionable legality. Seriously, it just occurred to me: how can you suddenly limit the public availability of something (e.g. Grateful Dead soundboard recordings) that has been in the public domain for decades? Because it has been, and if you don't think so, would you like to see my collection of hundreds of Grateful Dead analog tapes, nearly HALF of which are soundboards?

I'm not even talking about the ethical implications. I mean, Garcia himself said that professionally produced electric music could never be free, and he was right. Leave that aside. The Dead allowed live tapes of their music to be distributed for a long time, and there is no qualitative difference between AUD and SBD recordings; the difference is an aesthetic one. In any case, SBDs were also freely distributed for decades. How can they suddenly be...well, "privatized"? I'm not a lawyer, but I think I have a brain.

This is spectacular. A few tracks are far from perfect (not because of Mr. Miller) but what a show. Even the tracks that have issues are still great to listen to. Don't miss this one.