After All Is Said And Done – Taping The Grateful Dead 1965-1995
With live shows that were experiences all their own, fully separate from the band’s studio releases, a bootlegging industry sprung up around the Grateful Dead, and After All Is Said And Done – Taping The Grateful Dead 1965-1995 is a loving history of the band and the community that grew alongside them.
The cultural significance of these bootlegs – live concert cassettes which solidified the Dead’s legendary status even as they occupied a legal gray area for decades – is utterly unique in the annals of music, and the story of their creation, trading, and endless proliferation is a people’s history unto itself. Featuring dozens of interviews with tape enthusiasts and members of the Grateful Dead organisation as well as the show-stopping visuals from hundreds of archival cassette covers, After All Is Said and Done is artist Mark A. Rodriguez’s exploration of that history, a saga of homegrown psychedelia, anarchic graphic styles, and black market fandom as written in magnetic tape.
