Collecting recorded live music is not bootlegging, in the way I use the
term. _Selling_ recorded live music or collecting music that the artist
doesn't want you to would be wrong, but the Dead have a long tradition
of supporting and encouraging taping, as do many if not most current
live show musicians. The Dead used to string out patch cables from the
mixing board to a special taper's section, so everyone had the best
quality that there was. A lot of collectors think these soundboard
(sbd) tapes are too good, so they prefer audience (aud) recordings. For
those of us who suffer from a modicum of OCD, this means that i need two
recordings of each of 2400 shows!
Then a smart guy started mixing both the aud and sbds together, these
are called matrixed, so there is another whole thousands that I need to
download. Lately, they are re-digitizing the original tapes to 24-bit,
which is better than cd quality. Better than cd means they have to be
played back through a computer with a 24-bit sound card, but these
recordings are awesome!
Here is an offer: I will send any of you a cd copy of the GD show you
saw, just tell me when and where, eg. 5/8/77 Cornell, (or as close as
you can remember <gr>) and your address. Then put on your headphones
and you are back lissening to Jerry... Cool, man...
This project really did take 2/3rds of my life. Trading tapes was a
huge social network, decades ago, and my first 100 shows took as long to
get as the last 2000. This is the miracle of the internet...
>> And they are all mine!
>> And all were downloaded as bit torrent files over the course of a half
>> dozen years.
> So YOU'RE the guy SOPA is after!!! I'm telling Hollywood! 8>)
>
> (Seriously, if it wasn't for bootleggers, that kind of material would
> never exist and entire generations to come would never have a chance to
> hear it!)
>
> Good for you! (I'm not a dead fan, but I'm a little jealous!)
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