Sentence examples for dead tapes from inspiring English sources

At that time, trading Grateful Dead tapes was an arduous experience, often conducted by mail, and there was one big problem: sound quality.

THOMAS M. BRENNAN Rock Tunes and Giggles When Jennifer Brennan was pregnant with her first child, her husband, Thomas M. Brennan, would play Grateful Dead tapes loudly, hoping the music would reach the ears of his unborn daughter.

Despite deftly covering "Zombie," by the Cranberries, in one clip, the musicians had no secret stash of Dead tapes to draw from: their attraction to fuzzy electric guitar is indebted to the phin, a pear-shaped lute from the Isan region of Thailand (the instrument eventually went electric).

But her most compelling illustration of how you can make money by giving stuff away was that of the Grateful Dead, who encouraged people to tape live performances because "enough of the people who copy and listen to Grateful Dead tapes end up paying for hats, T-shirts and performance tickets.

I have a Well account, from the old days when I used to trade Grateful Dead tapes: [email protected].

Brooklyn imprint Firm Tracks will release San San (remixes) on April 21, and Already Dead Tapes will release Chao's debut album the same day.

It was first created by word of mouth — from the demons who started the cult of Dead tape trading in the early '70s — and later by fanzines and books like "The Deadhead's Taping Compendium," three volumes of concert-tape reviews and essays on minutiae.

It was dead tape until something happened.

Once we were on the freeway, I popped in a Grateful Dead tape, a live recording of a show from the 70s.

Plug in your MP3 player or portable CD player or whatever fits a 1/8 jack, pop in the dead tape and enjoy.

The attempt to fill the museum with personal ephemera — the vitrines are stuffed with relics and mementos of the dead; even tapes of final phone calls play on a perpetual loop — seems merely macabre by comparison.