--- In [email protected], Richard Williams wrote: > > The Grateful Dead > > Rolling Stone ranked them 57th in the list of the "Greatest Artists of all > Time." I attended several Dead performances in San Francisco in 1966 at the > Fillmore Auditorium and at the Avalon Ballroom along with Owsley Stanley. > The Dead are listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as performing the > most rock concerts - 2,318 concerts.
The Dead are also the most recorded musical group in history. This is because they never felt "propietary" about their live music, feeling as if it was created in the moment and belonged to the moment, so they allowed fans to record the concerts. They even provided jacks off the sound system so that the early arrivers could get the best quality recordings. As a result, there are very few of those 2,318 concerts that are *not* available somewhere.
