Truckin’ into the archives: The Grateful Dead’s live legacy gets the app treatment.
| Grateful Dead’s vault recordings find new online home |
The Grateful Dead’s live recordings have an online home fit for the streaming age.
A collection of hundreds of performances and albums by one of The City’s most iconic bands will appear on Play Dead, an app released Thursday by the San Francisco-based music-streaming company Nugs.
Play Dead will debut with 20 previously unreleased shows from the Grateful Dead’s vault, and new releases will be added to the app every week.
Longtime Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux curated the offerings by combing through shelves in the band’s vault and turning physical tapes into audio files. The high-resolution recordings were enhanced for sound quality and mastered by producer David Glasser.
Deadheads will have the option of listening to the band’s live recordings in chronological order by performance date.