A man recording with a cassette tape recorder at a music festival in the 1980s.

A man recording with a cassette tape recorder at a music festival in the 1980s.

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kittencat · 41-45, F

@sstronaut Boom boxes were amazing. They could record and play. And if you had a double decker you could make all the copies of tapes you wanted.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

A man? At least three of 'em! The one in the middle seems have fitted an external microphone to his radio/cassette set.

I don't suppose the result was very "hi-fi..." By the look of them all, I reckon the performance was not exactly hi-fi either. They don't look very happy, do they?

That pass or whatever it is the foreground man is also wearing makes me wonder if he was one of the staff.

ElwoodBlues · M

@emmasfriend At Grateful Dead concerts, recording was allowed -- even encouraged! They would allocate seating sections to tapers; that way you knew everyone around you was going to stay quiet and let the recordings happen. Often they would mix a stereo pair off the soundboard and feed it to the tapers' section. Some people brought battery powered pre-amps to distribute the soundboard feed.

https://redclaysoul.com/tapers-grateful-dead-62189/