Favorite taper friendly bands?

What is your favorite taper friendly bands?
Mine are (In no particular order):
Grateful Dead
Yonder Mountain String Band
String Cheese Incident
Hot Buttered Rum String Band
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Leftover Salmon
Keller Williams
Tea Leaf Green
Railraod Earth
Phish
New Riders of the Purple Sage
North Mississippi Allstars
........................alright i'm gonna stop because I love too much music to list, but you get the point!

 

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Allman Brothers
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones (My #1 favorite of all taper friendlies)
Buckethead
Butthole Surfers
CKY
Clutch
The Dead
Derek Trucks Band
Disco Biscuits
Gov't Mule
Oysterhead
Primus
Chili Peppers (Only their older stuff I like like 2000 back to 82.
SCI
Tom Petty
Widespread Panic

All the ones I like, can't think of anymore.

 

Good Forum! A lot of the music I really dig is from taper friendly bands. Here are some of my favorites...

Lotus
Particle
Perpetual Groove
Pnuma
Umphreys
Moe.
Signal Path
Yonder Mountain String Band
Hot Buttered Rum
Moonshine Still
Papa Mali
Blue Turtle Seduction
Jah Works
Dubconcious
Accoustic Syndicate
Raq
Dark Star Orchestra
Gomez
John Butler Trio
Sound Tribe Sector 9
Unexplained Bacon
Tea Leaf Green
Chinese Fingertrap
Green Lemon
String Cheese and all the incarnations...

Many more that I can't come up with right now. I love Archive.org!

 

pretty much everybody i like lets people tape their stuff. Save for Galactic, they arent too cool with that for some reason. And Jazz Mandolin Project shows are pretty tough to find but ive got my hands on a few. My faves (on a live album) :

Charlie Hunter - most his shows are very crisp and you can hear them very well. There is one in particular i really like with some guy on Vibraphones playing at a Jazz festival somewhere in Poland or Russia or something. ive never heard Charlie playin w/some vibes on any other show (except when hes with Garage a Trois and Mike Dillon ofcourse)

Pnuma Trio - most electronic bands like Pnuma for some reason come out a lot better sounding than acoustic shows like Keller Williams per say. I have yet to find a really crisp sounding Keller live show. dl a few Pnuma or Lotus shows and if you find the right ones you would have thought it was recorded in the studio.

Medeski, Scofield, Martin and Wood. the Tour they did in 2006 was one of the best pieces of music i have ever witnessed. and it shows on the live recording. Do a torrent search for them at Liberty Hall in Lawrence, KS in December of 2006. Extremely good qual and set. Scofield steals it.

Lotus, STS9 also have some really good live albums as well. Robert Walter's 20th Congress also has some really funky shite.

 

My fav (outside of whats been said) would have to be
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Are any of you familiar with Kevn Kinney?

 

Just a few here.

Tea Leaf Green
Wishbone Ash(do not confuse Wishbone Ash with Martin Turner's Wishbone Ash, as Martin has a bone up his ass when it comes to taping.)
Joe Bonamassa
Honeytribe
Kelly Richey

 

Hey check out this free show from Ultraviolet Hippopotamus!
http://www.archive.org/details/uvh2007-10-19.uvh2007-10-19.sbd.flac