Blanks +
Postage
Welcome to
the only (that I know of) Grateful Dead music trading cache. I
think that this cache will appeal to serious "Deadheads" as well as
others who have never been exposed to their music
The
Grateful Dead always allowed folks to record their live shows and
encouraged sharing as long as there was no profit motive involved.
Many different distribution formats were created, with the most
popular being a person with duplication equipment offering copies
of concerts for "Blanks + Postage". The way that this worked was that
this kind soul would make anywhere from one to a dozen sets of
tapes and then offer them to whomever wanted them asking only for
"blanks" (tapes) + "postage" (usually in the form of a stamped,
self addressed envelope).
Currently
there are many sources for these concerts on the internet, but they
all require a high speed connection and varying levels of
experience with converting different file formats to a "listenable"
CD.
At the
"Blanks + Postage" cache, I've tried to make obtaining this music a
little less difficult with the added benefit of adding a cache to
your list of finds :)
This cache
contains several copies of a specific concert. Each concert
will typically be a 3 CD set that has been selected for it's set
list, sound quality and all around listenability. As the CD's are
depleted I will replace them with other concerts I have selected.
If you choose to pick up the current offering, I ask that you leave
a set of 3 blank CD's in either CD envelopes of jewel cases. Other
welcomed items would be your own concert recordings as well as any
other Grateful Dead "stuff" i.e. stickers, ticket stubs and other
doo-dads.
The
current offering is listed below.
#1 (Placed
Sept '05)- Warfield Theater in San Francisco, CA- Recorded Sept
29th, 1980