Thank you to every taper who kept a show.

What is this?

Pick any Grateful Dead song and hear every documented live performance in order, from the first time they played it to the last. That is the whole point.

How do I start?

Search for a song, or open one under Most-played. On the song page, Play all lines up every performance. You can also open a year and play a single date.

What happens when one song flows into the next?

When Respect Segues is on, Play all keeps going into the song that followed. The lightning bolt in the account menu turns that off, or limits it to just the next song. A pause in the show stops the run.

Where is the music?

The browser streams the tape from the Internet Archive. This site does not host it. A performance with no tape stays on the page and is marked unavailable. The taper's name stays on the recording.

Do I need an account?

No. Playback, favorites, and saved queues work on this device. Sign in only if you want that library on another device.

Does this cost anything?

No. No ads, no subscription. The tapes stay online because of the Internet Archive. Donate there if you can.

About KUSH

Nothing Lasts, 1994

More of that work is at metamushrooms.xyz.

KUSH is a lifelong Deadhead, taper, musician, sound engineer, and multimedia artist who has spent more than 30 years exploring the intersection of live music, technology, and creative expression.

Raised in the Santa Clara Valley, with Steinbeck, Kerouac, Kesey, and Tom Wolfe on the shelf, he grew up a few miles from ground zero of the Grateful Dead lore: Palo Alto. Kush was exploring the fabric of space and time, the music was the Help on the Way... KUSH's journey took him deep into the heart of the Grateful Dead's extended family, living, traveling, and making music with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Those experiences helped shape a lifelong belief in the magic of live performance, the power of community, and the importance of preserving the moments that make every show unique.

As a dedicated taper and recording engineer, KUSH has spent decades capturing live music, not just for the sound, but for the experience. The improvisation, the spontaneity, the audience, the energy in the room, and those unexpected moments when everything comes together. It's a passion that continues today through his work recording and mixing artists like Everyone Orchestra, along with decades of live and studio work.

Under the name KUSH, he's also created immersive visual and multimedia experiences for artists including DJ Shadow, Meat Beat Manifesto, Dream Theater, The Disco Biscuits, Everyone Orchestra, and many others. His creative work spans music production, live sound, video, animation, and 2D/3D visual art, always embracing the possibilities of new technology without losing the human spirit behind the music.

All The Years Combine grew out of that same lifelong obsession: a love for the Grateful Dead, the incredible community of tapers who preserved their music, and the belief that this extraordinary archive of performances deserves to be explored, enjoyed, and shared by everyone.

For KUSH, it's about more than listening to a song. It's about following the music through time, hearing how it evolved night after night, and discovering the beautiful differences that made every performance its own adventure.

The music never stopped. Neither should the exploration.

Why I Built All The Years Combine

I've been a Deadhead for most of my life. I've traveled to shows, lived with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, taped concerts, mixed live sound, and spent countless hours listening to recordings of music that happened once, in one place, on one particular night.

One of the things I've always loved about the Grateful Dead is that a song was never really finished. It was a living, breathing thing. A song played in 1969 could sound completely different in 1977, 1985, or 1990. Different tempos, different arrangements, different energy, different adventures. Sometimes magic happened. Sometimes things went completely off the rails. That was part of the beauty.

And thanks to an extraordinary community of tapers, so much of that history survives.

I've always wanted a simple way to pick a song and travel through its entire history, listening to every performance in chronological order. Not hunting through hundreds of shows, juggling playlists, or trying to remember which version came next. Just pick a song, press play, and let the years combine.

That's why I built this.

All The Years Combine is my little contribution to a community that has given me so much. It's a way to explore the evolution of the music, discover performances you might never have heard, and appreciate the incredible work of the tapers who made all of this possible.

It's also why this will always be free. No ads, no subscriptions, no paywalls. The music was shared with us, and I believe the joy of exploring it should be shared too.

I'm still making music, mixing shows, creating art, and chasing those moments when everything clicks. This project is simply another extension of that lifelong adventure.

So pick a song. Start at the beginning. Skip around. Get lost. Find something amazing.

There is a road, no simple highway.

See you out there.

KUSH