Artist and collector Mark A Rodriguez has explored the groundbreaking history of the devoted bootleg tapers community with his upcoming book 'After All Is Said and Done: Taping the Grateful Dead 1965-1995.'
Along with the vinyl resurgence, there are more bootlegs around today than any other time in the last 20 years.
The John Peel Sessions include just about everybody who was anybody in music during that time, while the Internet Archive has compiled no less than 14,566 Grateful Dead bootlegs.