THE 30 BEST GRATEFUL DEAD SHOWS EVER From their earliest days to Jerry Garcia's final years, here are our picks for the Dead's most magical, must-hear concerts. ~ Rolling Stone 30 Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, CA, 10/31/84 The Grateful Dead had long allowed people to record their shows and trade them for free (as opposed to profiting from those shows via bootleg LPs or CDs). But it wasn't until their week-long 1984 Berkeley Community Theater run that the Dead debuted an official taper's