HW: live material

[Colin Allen]

When I discussed this with Dave back in 2003, his main objections were:
   
  1. The amount of work involved in putting material together.
   
  2. That people would just make copies of the downloads and distribute them.
   
  My responses were/are:
   
  1. Work is how people get money!
   
  2. That also applies to CDs; this is no different.

  However, the real stumbling block would be getting everyone involved to agree.  There might also be a problem about who actually owns the rights to some live recordings.  Some recording contracts cover not just released material but also assign the rights to any recordings made during the period of the contract to the record label!

Paul Mather <paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU> wrote:
  On 11 Jul 2007, at 1:10 PM, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:

> Still, the likelihood is that Dave's got a few gems squirreled away 
> that
> could well be polished off. IMO, selling digital downloads of any
> forthcoming archival material direct from the band's web site or 
> through
> an outfit like livedownloads.com or whatever is the way forward. 
> No CD
> production and shipping costs! :) More percentage for the band, 
> cheaper
> music for the fans :)

I wouldn't hold my breath expecting this to materialise. Wasn't a 
live shows downloads service announced as "forthcoming" (or similar) 
around the time the band decided officially to put the kibosh on fan 
trading of same?

Given past history, I just don't see anything like this happening, 
but it would be nice to be proved wrong. :-)

Cheers,

Paul.

> ps - I've heard some very good fan-made rescues of archival Grateful
> Dead live recordings, though when I say "fan" here, I mean fans who
> happen to be pro audio engineers with a studio full of snazzy gear 
> over
> which hunched for *aeons* of their spare time, manually ironing out 
> each
> click and pop in the source tapes. Sounded pretty good in the end, 
> but
> clearly a _lot_ of work.

Not to mention the various matrix versions of live shows that get put 
out by tapers and traders.

Didn't the Allman Brothers Band actually officially release some of 
the Capt. Skipper remasters on their own archive label?

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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