Grateful Dead

hi, i have 5-6 boxes of my friend's collection, mostly dead, max creek, and other bands, his setup was Nakamichi, so the tapes are good. I would love to have someone take them off my hands :) IN the New England area would help, to avoid expensive shipping costs.

thanks, Steve :)

Just sent you a message! May be able to find your tapes a good home!

Hello - my name is Will. Are you still looking to get rid of old tapes? I'm interested and I'd love to talk to you more!

Gratefully yours,
Will

Hey its Will. I just got a tape player. I'd love your tapes if you still have any. Thanks.

Gratefully yours,
Will

Hey man. I saw your post from like 9 years ago about tapes but didn't know if any were still available? Probably a long shot but thought I'd check.

Gratefully yours,
Will

Please let me know if you still have any tapes you want to get rid of? Thanks. Take care.

Gratefully yours,
Will

They are in WI, in my basement if you can make it here...

I suppose I could use the space... :-)

Anyone got any tapes to help a brother out!?

Where are you located? Maybe I can meet you and give you my tapes

I have quite a collection of live tapes. Dead, Garcia, Weir in many incarnations
Most are original masters that were made by my group, from early 70's til the end (Jerry's passing).
Cassettes and DATS.
I do not have the time to transfer them to digital, and would love to give them to someone willing to do this, and give me high quality digital copies. You can keep the originals. Shipping, etc, to be on your dime.

Please do not reply if the above requirements cannot be met.

If anyone is interested, let me know.

Hug
rhuggins52@optonline.net

I've got quite a few good ones. What are you looking for? Quality, artwork, certain shows...?

Too young for vinyl, too old for Spotify - good ol' cassette tapes have always been my fave music media! CDs were such a flawed technology (left outta the case for 30 seconds‽ Hope you like — like — like — like to skip!). Not so with a tape (just don't leave 'em on your dash in August)! Streaming services are grand, but rely on "internet privilege" (access). You can keep your iPod shuffles, and your subscription services - I'm a sucker for my walkman and a bootleg.
My dad had a brown leather briefcase adorned with a simple Stealie, where he kept his treasures from the Tapers' Section. As I grew in age & taste I relied on those cassettes.

Anyway, I wasn't trying to sing y'all 100 verses in ragtime...

TL;DR—
I would love to gather *any* tapes y'all might be looking to spill!

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I'm located in Southern WV! May or may not be able to chip into shipping, but am always down to *happily, readily,generously* trade some art (mostly watercolor paintings) handmade by yours truly!

CDs of over 1900 shows found a new home!

Let's keep paying it forward!

Hey all, as a few others have chimed in here, I would love to slowly acquire some tapes recorded over the years. I like listening in all different media at different times, depending on how I’m feeling. So I’d love to build a little tape collection. Let me know if you’re looking to offload some of your collection as you digitize, or if you’re up for some old-school blanks and postage dubbing. Thanks!

Hey everyone!
I’m on the lookout for more tapes! Message me if you have some you want to give to a good home!

Hey now! I'm putting together a basement stereo rig for my son and have come into a nice old tapedeck. I was too young to see Jerry back in the day, but I'd love to get my hands on some tapes to start a collection. Does anyone have any they're looking to offload? NFA <3

7.5" reels. High generation audience and soundboards from early days through 1988. 90's VHS hi fi. You pay shipping. Let's discuss details.

I saw your comment. I am not the person whose add you were referring to.
I do however, have maaany Dead cassettes.
Are you still interested in them? Mike S.

Hey now! I too am interested in obtaining a tape or two. Been listening to the Dead for decades via albums, CD’s, streams, archives, etc and only caught my first live performance when I saw Bob Weir & Wolf Bros last year ☺️. I continue to climb my way down the rabbit hole any chance I get, including just about any video or reading material I can get my hands on. I recently finished reading “Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness” and become even more fascinated by the phenomenon of tape trading. Really makes me wish I’d been on the bus! Anyways, would love to get my hands & ears on some of those relics if any of y’all are able to administer to a brother.. ☺️

i have a couple of shows that you might like - Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park London April 21 1981 & Wembley Stadium, London, October 31 1992. However I only have them as CD-R's, but I can send you those, along with cover artwork. Send me your mailing address and I'll post them.

i have a couple of shows that you might like - Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park London April 21 1981 & Wembley Stadium, London, October 31 1992. However I only have them as CD-R's, but I can send you those, along with cover artwork. Send me your mailing address and I'll post them.

I saw your comment. I recently bought an AMPEX 602 - the same model used by the Merry Pranksters for their First Acid tests and where the Dead first played—looking to acquire any reel-to-reel concert tapes. I can make copies and return them. I will pay shipping

Are you still looking for Grateful Dead cassette tapes? I have maybe 80 in a box looking for a new home. Also contains some Jorma-related great music (Hot Tuna, Airplane, Starship) and other fine tunes. I also have maybe 60 home-made CD's mostly Phil & Friends stuff, all excellent! You pay the postage, you can VENMO me. Thanks for letting me know! Adam, in Pennsylvania.

Adam I would love to have any extra tapes as I still use tapes at home and in my car

also in Pennsylvania

I miss the tape trading scene, but not so much the cassettes themselves. They weren't great, sonically, especially given the fact that by the time a show got to me we were usually talking 753rd generation. And you had to contend with the gaps that resulted from having to flip the tape. I remember for a while guys were using VHS recorders, because you could get a three hour show on one tape. CD versions of whole shows were a significant improvement in so many ways.

Still, I do kind of miss the tape trading days. Getting a show--or maybe even just a set, or a sequence--in decent sound was like manna from heaven. And of course it felt good to make that connection that happened when somebody gave or traded you a tape. The fact that it was happening outside of the music biz machinery with no money exchanged made it more special, more real. And often made a friend.

Sigh. I don't even have a cassette player now! I still haven't heard Avalon stuff from the ETR box. (Side note to PTBs: it sure would be cool if those tracks could go on Play Dead.)

Some great memories going with Charlie out to downtown metropolitan Geneseo NY, to Sundance Books where ole Fred would always have shows playing and a bunch of new tapes to stock up on! Chuck would pick me up and we’d spark a couple and enjoy the scenic hour plus ride out into rolling hill farm country, kinda like the cover art to Tucking up to Buffalo lol Buzzo’s music next door was cool too. Cheapest place ever to buy JBL E 120 guitar speakers! Buzzo, Buzzo, Buzzo…had GD staples Finger Ease and Vinci strings too
Those were the daze!

Dual decks with dubbing came long after my taping days. BITD the challenge was having two different decks at exactly the same speed or else your copy might sound more like Alvin & the Chipmonks than Jerry & the Dead. Not to mention the 7th generation one you were copying may have needed correction which had to be done inside the deck with a tiny screwdriver into the back of the motor.
This why one of my current decks has a pitch adjustment on it. Still have plenty of speed issue tapes laying around.
Cheers

Flyers or Penguins?

FLYERS

had and have Family in Bath and Hammonsport New York that store dose ring a bell for sure 1980's