"A breathtakingly impressive work, After All is Said and Done represents the kind of creative fanaticism that could only come from a Deadhead." - Good Times, 2022If any one musical act of the rock and roll era can be said to have transcended the simple categorization of -band,- the Grateful Dead is it: by the time they stopped performing in 1995, the Dead had become an international institution with a vast backing organization, a massive and devoted fanbase, and archival recordings both official and bootlegged. The cultural significance of these bootlegs-live concert cassettes which solidified the Dead-s legendary status even as they occupied a legal gray area for decades-is utterly unique in the annals of music, and the story of their creation, trading, and endless proliferation is a people-s history unto itself. Featuring dozens of interviews with tape enthusiasts and members of the Grateful Dead organization as well as the showstopping visuals from hundreds of archival casset
