DAT-heads Digest #691
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 <phil.thenstedt@zones.com>
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" <bjsleeman@hotmail.com>
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 <phil.thenstedt@zones.com>
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 <heyjude1968@tbm.t-com.ne.jp>
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?= <BlackCrowe@gmx.net>
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
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