Grateful Dead Sleep Stories | The Tapers, the Tape Trees and the First Online Deadheads and more
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Tonight, not a show but the people standing at the back of it, holding microphones up into the dark: the tapers. Then their little cassettes follow them home, into envelopes and mailboxes and kitchen tables, and from there, very slowly, onto the first glowing screens where Deadheads found each other. A man with a trading sheet, a woman with a stack of reels, a fan typing setlists into a terminal at a university in the middle of the night. A long, calm story for a long night. CHAPTERS 0:00 Settle in 1:31 The taper section 6:38 Microphones past the crew 11:45 Mic stands and Nakamichi decks 17:08 Dead Freaks Unite 22:30 The Dead Heads newsletter 27:52 Les Kippel and the tape exchange 33:08 Trading by mail 38:15 Generation loss 43:36 Tape trees 48:29 Handwritten J-cards 53:42 Betty Cantor-Jackson's tapes 58:37 Dick Latvala and the vault 1:03:35 When we're done with it 1:08:44 Soundboards or audience tapes 1:13:54 The DAT era 1:19:14 DeadBase 1:24:28 Mail order tickets 1:29:23 net.music.gdead and Usenet 1:34:30 The WELL in Sausalito 1:39:40 Deadheads on the WELL 1:44:45 David Gans and the Hour 1:49:57 rec.music.gdead 1:55:24 etree and the Live Music Archive 2:00:56 The Thanksgiving downloads dispute 2:06:18 Drifting off The Shakedown Archives Sleep Stories are long, calm, spoken-word journeys through the real history of the Grateful Dead, made to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. No jarring music, no ads breaking the spell, no bright screen. Just a quiet voice and two hours of true stories from the band, the scene, and the people who lived it. Perfect for insomnia, winding down, long nights, travel, or anyone who loves the Dead and wants to drift off inside the history. Dim the lights, get comfortable, and let it carry you off. If this helped you sleep, following the show is the one thing that keeps them coming. Sweet dreams. TAGS: tapers, taper section, tape trading, tape trees, nakamichi, dead freaks unite, dead heads newsletter, les kippel, betty cantor-jackson, betty boards, dick latvala, dead vault, deadbase, the well, usenet, net.music.gdead, rec.music.gdead, david gans, grateful dead hour, etree, live music archive, archive.org, grateful dead sleep story, sleep story, sleep stories for adults, history for sleep, fall asleep fast, bedtime story for grown ups, boring history for sleep, calm history narration, long sleep story, stories to fall asleep to, insomnia sleep story, grateful dead history, deadhead
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