FunkyHiFi
02-10-2006, 02:42 AM
Saw this story on CNN today. Looks like some really cool stuff for rock, jazz, etc fans:
Vault Radio (http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/)
>>> this is free btw.
From the above site:
Bill Graham and his concert promotion company, Bill Graham Presents, produced more than 35,000 concerts all over the world. His first venue, the legendary Fillmore Auditorium, was home to many of rock's greatest performers - Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Prince - and the list goes on and on.
Graham taped thousands of live performances and stored the tapes in the basement of the BGP headquarters.
These tapes and the concerts they captured lay dormant until the Bill Graham archive was acquired by Wolfgang's Vault (Bill Graham's given first name was Wolfgang) in 2003.
Vault Radio is now playing selected tracks from these concerts in an FM-quality, 128K digital radio stream. Songs will be added to and removed from the radio show on a regular basis. We will be broadcasting unaltered live performance music from many of the greatest bands of the last 40 years. The music you hear on Vault Radio has not been sweetened or polished. You'll be listening to what the band played that night - nothing more, nothing less.
This is the real thing and we hope you enjoy it. If you like the music or would like us to add other bands to the playlist, let us know through Feedback.
Cheers!
Thirty five THOUSAND concerts, eh? That's a lot of tape!!!
I read elsewhere (http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=72160&page=1&pp=20) that a lot of *film* of many concerts is also in that 22,000 square foot(!!) vault & it's supposed to be in very good condition. The owners are cautiously saying there may eventually be CDs and dvds of this material, but copyright issues are a bit murky.
Vault Radio (http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/)
>>> this is free btw.
From the above site:
Bill Graham and his concert promotion company, Bill Graham Presents, produced more than 35,000 concerts all over the world. His first venue, the legendary Fillmore Auditorium, was home to many of rock's greatest performers - Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Prince - and the list goes on and on.
Graham taped thousands of live performances and stored the tapes in the basement of the BGP headquarters.
These tapes and the concerts they captured lay dormant until the Bill Graham archive was acquired by Wolfgang's Vault (Bill Graham's given first name was Wolfgang) in 2003.
Vault Radio is now playing selected tracks from these concerts in an FM-quality, 128K digital radio stream. Songs will be added to and removed from the radio show on a regular basis. We will be broadcasting unaltered live performance music from many of the greatest bands of the last 40 years. The music you hear on Vault Radio has not been sweetened or polished. You'll be listening to what the band played that night - nothing more, nothing less.
This is the real thing and we hope you enjoy it. If you like the music or would like us to add other bands to the playlist, let us know through Feedback.
Cheers!
Thirty five THOUSAND concerts, eh? That's a lot of tape!!!
I read elsewhere (http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=72160&page=1&pp=20) that a lot of *film* of many concerts is also in that 22,000 square foot(!!) vault & it's supposed to be in very good condition. The owners are cautiously saying there may eventually be CDs and dvds of this material, but copyright issues are a bit murky.