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At a time when we’re forced to change the way we must indulge live music, we’re exploring the world of archival recordings with the iconic rock band Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead, a band formed in 1965, were been able to successfully blend genres with their expansive and eclectic style. For decades the group weaved in and out of rock music with elements of folk, jazz, blues, gospel, and more which was always tied together with their own brand of psychedelia. Once labelled “the pioneering Godfathers of the jam band world”, Grateful Dead have never allowed their recorded material dictate live shows. The band would quite regularly allow the atmosphere of a crowd, venue or location dictate their rolling performances which, typically, meant that none of their concerts were the same. Having performed playing more than 2,300 concerts during their active years, Grateful Dead managed to build a community spirit like no other during their touring days. With a devoted fanbase which became known as the ‘Deadheads’, the band would play just about anywhere for anybody as long as their music was appreciated—and it was. Having entered the record books for their commitment to live music, the Guinness Book of World Records triumphed the band and selected the Grateful Dead to take the title of “most rock concerts performed”. It is speculated that the Grateful Dead performed to an estimated total of 25 million people during their time on the road. Despite their achievements, Jerry Garcia, the band’s leader, always deferred back to the fans: “We didn’t really invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead, you know what I mean?” he once stated. “We were sort of standing in line, and uh, it’s gone way past our expectations, way past, so it’s, we’ve been going along with it to see what it’s gonna do next.” Given the commitment of their loyal fanbase, the Deadheads have been scouring the archives to find rare recordings for years. Now though, the Internet Archive has managed to collect 14,566 bootlegs into one convenient location. The Internet Archive, a non-profit internet library that has been plugging away since 1996 in an attempt to make “Universal Access to All Knowledge” through its website, has been collecting books, magazines, television programmes and culturally relevant films with prolific accuracy. As Open Culture points out, Nick Paumgarten detailed in his article for the New Yorker , which focusses on the “the vast recorded legacy of the Grateful Dead”, that a never-ending source of live recordings of the band continues to float around. “It was denser, feverish, otherworldly,” Paumgarten said when getting lost in some of the earliest recordings. “If you took an interest, you’d copy a few tapes, listen to those over and over, until they began to make sense, and then copy some more. Before long, you might have a scattershot collection, with a couple of tapes from each year.” He added: It was all Grateful Dead, but because of the variability in sonic fidelity, and because the band had been at it for twenty years, there were many different flavors and moods. Even the compromised sound quality became a perverse part of the appeal. Each tape seemed to have its own particular note of decay, like the taste of the barnyard in a wine or a cheese.” “You can browse the recordings by year, so if you click on, say, 1973 you will see links to two hundred and ninety-four recordings, beginning with four versions of a February 9th concert at Stanford and ending with several versions of December 19th in Tampa,” he continues. “Most users merely stream the music; it’s a hundred cassette trays, in the Cloud.” gdluckynumbers.org. Request a source to be played on Sunshine Daydream. Update: due to some problems with my login and my own inertia in correcting them, this site has been dormant for years. Now that I've finally resolved them, I intend to make up for lost time. New sources are being put up on archive almost every day, so I have a lot of work to do! Keep checking the "Recent Additions" page for new high quality audience recordings. This site was originally created for the benefit of listeners of Sunshine Daydream, a show on WTJU which plays mainly live Grateful Dead and for which I'm one of the DJs. Whenever I played a cut from an AUD tape I'd downloaded from archive.org and thought listeners would want to download, it would take forever to explain "go to archive.org, click on Audio, then Grateful Dead, then 'browse by year'" - by which time everyone would switch over to WNRN. I needed a shorthand way to quickly direct listeners over to quality AUD sources that they could download. The result: gdluckynumbers.org. That was quick, wasn't it? ;-) I took about a week and a half listening to sample streams from every single Grateful Dead audience recording then hosted at archive.org. Any sources that sounded of sufficient quality to please the average radio listener (those who would be less forgiving of the quality flaws in an AUD than the typical hardcore fan) were listed and categorized as either Pristine (identical in quality to a board or high-quality FM), Good to Excellent (enjoyable to just falling short of Pristine) and Rough Diamonds (not stellar quality, but worth listening to because of the quality or energy of the playing). The result is a list of literally hundreds of great sounding audience sources that you can download legally and for free with the Dead's blessing. I have sifted out the stems and seeds and left you with only the fine, heady bud, the creme de la creme of the currently circulating AUDs. All shows listed are linked to their download pages on archive, and streaming links are posted in the list as well. New AUDs are being uploaded all the time to the Live Music Archive. As they are, I will periodically add the ones that pass the ear test. You can also look forward to information on where to go for soundboards (the Dead still allow them to be circulated, but you have to work a bit to get them), a brief history of Live Dead in the age of the internet and a bit more color and pizazz (but don't expect too much - this is an informational site!). For now, though, enjoy downloading some Grateful Dead shows. Statement from the Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead and our managing organizations have long encouraged the purely non-commercial exchange of music taped at our concerts and those of our individual members. That a new medium of distribution has arisen - digital audio files being traded over the Internet - does not change our policy in this regard. Our stipulations regarding digital distribution are merely extensions of those long-standing principles and they are as follow: No commercial gain may be sought by websites offering digital files of our music, whether through advertising, exploiting databases compiled from their traffic, or any other means. All participants in such digital exchange acknowledge and respect the copyrights of the performers, writers and publishers of the music. This notice should be clearly posted on all sites engaged in this activity. We reserve the ability to withdraw our sanction of non-commercial digital music should circumstances arise that compromise our ability to protect and steward the integrity of our work. over 14,000 free Grateful Dead concert recordings (and counting!) available online. If you took an interest, you’d copy a few tapes, listen to those over and over, until they began to make sense, and then copy some more. Before long, you might have a scattershot collection, with a couple of tapes from each year. It was all Grateful Dead, but because of the variability in sonic fidelity, and because the band had been at it for twenty years, there were many different flavors and moods. Even the compromised sound quality became a perverse part of the appeal. Each tape seemed to have its own particular note of decay, like the taste of the barnyard in a wine or a cheese. You came to love each one, as you might a three-legged dog. Or, having decided that it all sounded like one long meandering dirge, you went back to whatever normal people listened to. [Nick Paumgarten for The New Yorker ] As all Deadheads know, people taping live concerts and then people trading tapes with others was a way of life for Grateful Dead fandom, and because the Dead not only allowed tapers at their shows but set up a designated area for tapers, recordings exist of almost every concert they ever performed.