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

@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/

@ElwoodBlues Friend back home: "What was the band like?"

Concert goer: "The music was great but I couldn't see the band for the forest of microphone poles!"