DAT-heads Digest #691, Volume #7 Wed, 14 Dec 05 13:50:01 EST Contents: "Wolfgang's Vault"... (Phil Thenstedt) CD Printing Advice? ("Brian Sleeman") Music Stash Recalls When Rock Was Young (Phil Thenstedt) ISO: Yoshida Kyodai (Brothers) (Masato Kato) FT:Seether @ "Abart" Zurich/Switzerland 12-13-2005 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Karsten_K=FCpfer=22?=) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Phil Thenstedt Subject: "Wolfgang's Vault"... Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:25:15 -0800 From an article in today's Wall Street Journal... "When Bill Sagan bought a warehouse full of memorabilia from the archives of Bill Graham Presents, he had no idea that inside was a sweeping, unheard history of rock 'n' roll. He is now in the early stages of negotiations to sell the recordings on discs and as downloads." Apparently over 5000 audio and video recordings were in that warehouse... ------------------------------ From: "Brian Sleeman" Subject: CD Printing Advice? Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:36:32 -0500 I'm wondering if anyone out there has any experience with CD printing (laser or inkjet), and could recommend any particular printers and/or CDR media they've had success with. I'm also curious if anyone has had any good experience with professional services who've done the whole project (ie you turn in your discs and artwork design and they put it together for you - something like that), and could make any recommendations on those as well. This would be for about 400 CDs total (200 2-disc sets). Thanks very much! ------------------------------ From: Phil Thenstedt Subject: Music Stash Recalls When Rock Was Young Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:54:09 -0800 Music Stash Recalls When Rock Was Young By ETHAN SMITH Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL December 13, 2005; Page B1 Two and a half years ago, a Minneapolis entrepreneur named Bill Sagan spent more than $5 million to buy a treasure trove of rock 'n' roll memorabilia: millions of T-shirts, posters, handbills, photographs, concert tickets and other items from the archives of Bill Graham Presents, the legendary San Francisco rock promoter that virtually invented the modern concert business in the mid 1960s. But what neither Mr. Sagan nor the seller, Clear Channel Communications Inc., realized at the time was that the archives contained an even more valuable bonus: more than 5,000 live audio and video recordings made between 1966 and 1999, featuring artists varying from the Doors to Nirvana. The recordings were made at rock concerts that the late Mr. Graham ran or promoted. They were uncataloged and collecting dust when Mr. Sagan acquired the archive. Today, the 55-year-old Mr. Sagan controls what may be the most important collection of rock memorabilia and recordings ever assembled in one business. Called Wolfgang's Vault -- from Mr. Graham's given name, Wolfgang Grajonca -- the company has a staff of 14, projected sales this year of $3 million, and nearly 20 million separate items in its San Francisco warehouse. Having set up a business selling vintage rock T-shirts and concert posters on the Web, Mr. Sagan is only now turning his attention to the audio and video assets, where he faces a tremendous challenge. He is in the early stages of complex negotiations with artists, their representatives and record labels over the rights to sell the recordings on discs and as downloads. In the meantime, Mr. Sagan plans to begin streaming some of these recordings as Internet radio feeds on his company's Web site, which involves little more than paying royalties to organizations that represent songwriters. The performances, many of which are professionally recorded and extremely high quality, amount to a sweeping, unheard history of rock during its seminal years and beyond. The archives include performances by artists including Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, the Who, Tom Petty, Stevie Wonder, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Emmylou Harris, Aretha Franklin and Tracy Chapman, all of whom played shows put on by Mr. Graham. The are videotapes of early performances by Crosby Stills Nash & Young and from 1978, the Sex Pistols' last show for nearly 20 years, before their reunion in 1996. Though some of the recordings have leaked as bootlegs over the years, they contain some revealing moments that may surprise fans. For example, a recording taken from Led Zeppelin's first U.S. tour, in 1969 -- when the band was opening for Country Joe & the Fish -- finds lead singer Robert Plant displaying little of the rock-god swagger that would eventually become his trademark. Instead, he makes nervous small talk to the audience as guitarist Jimmy Page changes a broken string. I don't know if [Mr. Sagan] really knew exactly how much rich material he had, says Bill Thompson, the longtime manager of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship, which played Bill Graham events frequently during the heyday of the San Francisco rock scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This is a goldmine. Mr. Graham's company mounted more than 35,000 concerts world-wide between its inception in 1966 and its sale, earlier this decade, to Clear Channel, which bought up a number of regional concert promoters during that era. Mr. Sagan bought the archive from Clear Channel, which had little interest in sifting through the thousands of items that were jammed into the company's warehouse. Mr. Sagan and his staff spent their first six months in business doing nothing but organizing and cataloging the vast collection, much of which had been thrown haphazardly in cardboard boxes, and some of which had been damaged in a warehouse fire. Today, on WolfgangsVault.com1, shoppers can find individual tickets to the Yardbirds' July 25, 1967, show at the Fillmore West for $51 each (a $48 markup over the face value). Prints of photographer Joe Sia's blurred shot of a police officer arresting Jim Morrison on stage in New Haven, Conn., go for $550 to $750. Even the Rat Pack gets the collectible treatment: A black faux-tuxedo T-shirt commemorating a 1988 concert starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr., costs $82. But the music and video recordings are the most intriguing and commercially promising. Mr. Graham's company made the recordings partly for posterity's sake, and, in some cases, for a more base motive: adjacent to the Fillmore West was a restaurant owned by Mr. Graham. Rather than lose customers when concerts started next door, Mr. Graham installed a closed-circuit video system that let diners watch the show live -- and also captured it on videotape. When, or even if, the general public will ever hear or see many of these recordings is unclear, however. The recordings were made legally; Mr. Sagan has a filing cabinet filled with documentation to prove it. But selling them will require various permissions and revenue-sharing deals -- not only with the artists themselves, but often, too, with whatever record label they were signed to at the time of the show, or its corporate successor. In the case of dead performers, permission is required from their families or other heirs. Mr. Sagan's employees have already digitized more than 1,000 audio recordings and sent them to engineers to have the sound quality cleaned up. Now they are in the process of seeking clearances to release the music. Mr. Sagan says he is in active discussions with two major record labels, and believes he is close to a deal for at least some music with one of them, although he declines to name either. Is it easy? he asks. No. But in some cases they're excited as hell they might be able to make some money of old bands. Even with clearances, much of the material in the archives is simply not up to snuff for commercial release. I don't think a large percentage of it will end up on CD, or in any monetized form, says Gavin Haag, who oversees the company's music-licensing efforts. For instance, he adds, there may never be an appetite for dozens of separate concerts by acts like Eddie Money. Mr. Thompson, the Jefferson Airplane manager, says he is in early discussions with Wolfgang's Vault and Sony BMG Music Entertainment to sell the dozens of live recordings made of his clients at Mr. Graham's various venues. Sony BMG, a joint venture of Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG, controls the rights to distribute the band's recordings. Sony BMG and Wolfgang's Vault declined to comment on the continuing licensing negotiations. URL for this article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113443205766020664.html ------------------------------ From: Masato Kato Subject: ISO: Yoshida Kyodai (Brothers) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:45:22 +0900 I hear Yoshida Brothers opend Dark Star Orchestra shows in Los Angeles area a couple of months ago. Did anyone tape them? And I am also looking for Tribute To Jerry Garcia show last Sep. I have some great "world music" shows for trade. They are all my recordings with Sanken COS-11PT > handmade pre-amp > D8 (*COS-11S > Wendt NGSX2 > D8, **COS-11S > Wendt NGSX2 > Edirol R-1) If you are interested in any of them, contact me please. Do not worry if you do not have similar kinds of music. 2004****************************** 06-04 Yoshida Kyodai (Tokyo) 2discs * 08-31 Fanfare Ciocarlia (Tokyo) 2discs 10-01 TN Majundar (sarod) + S Banerjee (tabla) 2discs 10-19 Taraf De Haidouks (Tokyo) 2discs 12-03 Naseer Shamma Group (Tokyo) 2discs 12-04 Yoshida Kyodai (Tokyo) 2discs 2005***************************** 05-04 Mahala Rai Banda (Tokyo) 1disc 10-30 Manilal Nag (sitar) (Yokohama) 1disc * 11-06 Sonny Rollins (Tokyo) 2discs * 12-02 Dzitari (Tokyo) 2discs ** 12-08 Harlem Gospel Choir (Tachikawa) 2discs ** -- Masato Kato heyjude1968@tbm.t-com.ne.jp ------------------------------ From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Karsten_K=FCpfer=22?= Subject: FT:Seether @ "Abart" Zurich/Switzerland 12-13-2005 Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:36:46 +0100 (MET) Hi all, haven`t seen much any cool show here up for trade in ages (apart from the Page Frankfurt, of course)..Here is one: Catched Seether last night at their sold out Zurich show...although they used the extra lousy house PA (looked to me much like a small satellite home theater sound system), tape came out extra nice and close with close to none annoying crowd noise..Show is some 90 minutes long... Seether @ "Abart" Zurich/Switzerland OKMII Pro > SBM-1 > M1 90 min Would love to trade for any other complete Seether show or any other cool metal/alternative/grunge you taped lately... Best, Karsten -- 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** To unsubscribe from this digest, please send email to dat-heads-unsubscribe@datheads.phish.net If your email address has changed, you may (optionally) send the message to dat-heads-unsubscribe-oldaddress=olddomain@datheads.phish.net and the old address will be removed. 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