Hey Now,
I was hit with an idea last night. Friday is beer day, walk a mile or two on the treadmill, suck down a couple or three tall beers and crank some tunes. Especially fun as I built most of the audio gear! That brings me to my idea.
Besides owning this place, well the domain anyway, I also owned a music sharing website, Planet Rock Lossless Bootlegs. We were very popular at the time, one of the better ones, actually. We shared via BitTorrent live music recordings and as the name said always lossless. So, I have lots of live music recordings.
Obvious to anyone looking in on LS would be how much music we all share here. I have one of the larger Grateful Dead collections out there. I started with tape trading and move on to CDs when they became popular. We traded CDs in a cool way called Vines. This all went away when BitTorrent came on the scene. What a vine is, is pretty simple, start a thread on a site with a list of names interested in the show you want to trade, like we do for testing. You get the disk in the mail, copy it, PM the next name on the list for an address and send it along.
So that’s vining. What I have in mind is starting a vine here at AFN. I was listening to this last night when I came up with this idea. I have an amazing show, WLIR’s Ultrasonic Studios in Long Island NY, Oct. 17 1972. This is a DAT copy from that show, it is not from the broadcast, it is the tape they used to make the broadcast. Bonnie Raitt, her bassist Freebo, Lowell George, and John Hammond. The audio quality is amazing and the music, oh my. This is my absolute favorite cover of Blind Faith’s Can’t Find My Way Home. Also another Bonnie show, this time at the WMMR’s Rainbow Room in Philly, Feb 22 1972, just Bonnie and Freebo. Another pre FM DAT, great audio quality again. But wait there’s more, Hot Tuna, just Jack and Jorma, Rams Head Tavern, Dec. 22, 2002. Another fantastic acoustic show.
So! That’s what I had in mind. Let me know if anyone is interested. I’ll make up a micr SD card and mail it of the the 1st one on the list. We can do a few so we can have them on different continents to save on postage.
Peace,
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