Along with the vinyl resurgence, there are more bootlegs around today than any other time in the last 20 years.
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.'
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.