Concert Vault

[Steve Schell]

Hi Heather,

Thanks for your comments. I looked around on the web, and found plenty of references to the recent lawsuits. It is an interesting question- should the owner of these tapes be restricted from giving the music away for free? I'm sure the bands and record companies who are suing cringe at the prospect of any music getting out there without their profit participation, but in this case there's no profit to be had.

Am I just getting old, or does most music these days just suck out loud compared to the Concert Vault stuff? I've found it difficult to find a bad cut anywhere in this vast archive. I'm sure the free Concert Vault streams are much too good to last, but I'm gonna listen to as much of it as I can while it is still up.

[Hoerninger]

I'm sure the free Concert Vault streams are much too good to last, but I'm gonna listen to as much of it as I can while it is still up.

Steve,
thank you for the tipp, it's still running. After som tries I've got it - Sign in, Flash + Javascript.
There are more than 300 concerts right now, interesting for European ears too. Chuck Berry, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Beach Boys to name a few.
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Peter

[hjames]

Hi Heather,

Thanks for your comments. I looked around on the web, and found plenty of references to the recent lawsuits. It is an interesting question- should the owner of these tapes be restricted from giving the music away for free? I'm sure the bands and record companies who are suing cringe at the prospect of any music getting out there without their profit participation, but in this case there's no profit to be had.

Am I just getting old, or does most music these days just suck out loud compared to the Concert Vault stuff? I've found it difficult to find a bad cut anywhere in this vast archive. I'm sure the free Concert Vault streams are much too good to last, but I'm gonna listen to as much of it as I can while it is still up.

I know what you're saying ... I have found a few newer artists that I can listen to, but many ... ack!

One things I found interesting over the last few years. There was a huge online concert archive for the Grateful Dead. of course, back in the old days they encouraged folks to plug in to the Tapers feeds and there was a huge number of folks trading tapes of old Dead shows - I fully believe its one reason the Dead had such a long life and such gung-ho fans. And in the internet era, it just made sense for the tapers to create an online archive of all the old shows, strictly a non-profit exchange.

Of course, once Jerry Garcia died there was a lot less interest in the Dead as an ongoing band. They even changed the name to reflect that they weren't the same band, exactly, but the big concert venues and road tours were a thing of the past at that point.

Well, a couple of years ago there was some legal action from the Grateful Dead, INC and all those online archives were shut down. The Grateful Dead is more in the business of selling those old archives now, and I'm sure all the free trading impacted their sales ...

Again, I make no comment on the right or wrong of that, and I'm certainly glad I got copies of the shows I attended (one of which was a regular purchase through the Dead organization), but it IS a change from how they used to handle things ...

Heck, I'm willing to buy shows to support the bands - I'd much rather do that then see all that great classic rock music used for TV ads ...
(say, using Casey Jones to sell Amtrack tickets - might not work so well!)

But who'd a thought LedZep could be used to sell Cadillacs?

[jim campbell]

there is good new stuff out there but you really have to look.the small indie labels and low budget live acts somehow manage to survive amid the corporate sponsored duck---- that passes for music these days.remember when we were young and went out to see live music all the time.................thats where it lives

[Donald]

But who'd a thought LedZep could be used to sell Cadillacs?

Or The Who used as TV show themes.

[Titanium Dome]

Or The Who used as TV show themes.

Or Roger Daltry starring on one of said shows.

[hjames]

Or Roger Daltry starring on one of said shows.

Oh, Daltry is a ham from way back ...
see his many TV and movie roles (over 50!) at - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002032/

He was hilareous as "Hugh Fitzcairn", a drunken rogue on the Highlander TV series on a few episodes between 1996-98.

[SEAWOLF97]

Or The Who used as TV show themes.

Or the Stones to sell Windoze 95.