Vast Recorded Legacy of the Grateful Dead, New Yorker. From spontaneity to curation!
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[Archive.org] is home to 8,976 Grateful Dead recordings—over six thousand more than any other band. 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.
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Dark Star Orchestra, a Grateful Dead tribute band
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http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/11/26/121126fa_fact_paumgarten