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For about as long as they’ve been playing shows, the Grateful Dead have allowed fans to record them. Naturally, there was a dedicated section for tapers behind the soundbooth at the band’s three day farewell concert, Fare Thee Well.
NYCTaper, longtime chronicler of events in his home city, sent equipment to his friend Bill Walker in Chicago who was able to record the band’s July 3 set. NYCTaper said that his project “would almost certainly not exist in its current incarnation were it not for the Grateful Dead and the tapers who captured the shows.”
You can download a free, professionally recorded version of the first and second sets at the NYCTaper website.
Set 1:
(Run time 1:11:01)
01. Box of Rain
02. Jack Straw
03. Bertha
04. Passenger
05. The Wheel
06. Crazy Fingers
07. The Music Never Stopped
Set 2:
(Run time 1:53:58)
01. Mason’s Children
02. Scarlet Begonias
03. Fire On The Mountain
04. Drums-Space
05. New Potato Caboose
06. Playing In The Band
07. Let It Grow
08. Help On The Way
09. Slipknot
10. Franklin’s Tower
11. [encore break / donor request]
12. Ripple
Listen to NYCTaper’s recording of “The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion” here:
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