Editing Grateful Dead (section)

===Tapes===
Like several other bands at the time, the Grateful Dead allowed their fans to record their shows. For many years the [[Taper (concert)|tapers]] set up their microphones wherever they could, and the eventual forest of microphones became a problem for the sound crew. Eventually, this was solved by having a dedicated taping section located behind the soundboard, which required a special "tapers" ticket. The band allowed sharing of their shows, as long as no profits were made on the sale of the tapes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead|title=Internet Archive: Grateful Dead|access-date=July 16, 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719012925/http://www.archive.org/details/GratefulDead|archive-date=July 19, 2011}}</ref>

Of the approximately 2,350 shows the Grateful Dead played, almost 2,200 were taped, and most of these are available online.<ref>{{cite news|author=Ratliff, Ben|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/arts/music/12ratl.html|title=Bring Out Your Dead|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 10, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160521041217/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/arts/music/12ratl.html|archive-date=May 21, 2016}}</ref> The band began collecting and cataloging tapes early on and [[Dick Latvala]] was their keeper. "[[Dick's Picks]]" is named after Latvala. After his death in 1999, [[David Lemieux (archivist)|David Lemieux]] gradually took the post. Concert set lists from a subset of 1,590 Grateful Dead shows were used to perform a comparative analysis between how songs were played in concert and how they are listened online by [[Last.fm]] members.<ref>{{cite news|author1=Rodriguez, Marko |author2=Gintautas, Vadas |author3=Pepe, Alberto|url=http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2273/2064|title=A Grateful Dead Analysis: The Relationship Between Concert and Listening Behavior|work=[[First Monday (journal)|First Monday]]|date=January 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101202170336/http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2273/2064|archive-date=December 2, 2010}}</ref> In their book ''Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead: What Every Business Can Learn From the Most Iconic Band in History'',<ref>{{cite book|isbn=978-0-470-90052-9|title=Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead: What Every Business Can Learn From the Most Iconic Band in History|author1=Scott, David Meerman |author2=Hlligan, Brian|date=August 2, 2010|publisher=John Wiley & Sons }}</ref> [[David Meerman Scott]] and [[Brian Halligan]] identify the taper section as a crucial contributor to increasing the Grateful Dead's fan base.