[net.music] Dead taping

rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) (10/16/84)

[from Cliff Matthews]
> ...  With the Deads' officially sanctioned taping tix, I think we can
> all come above board and start discussing trading over the net (maybe we
> will need our own newsgroup).

Actually, I don't think it's that big a deal to discuss taping and trading
on the net--for a couple of reasons:

	Taping Dead shows has for some time been pretty open--at most
	shows.  It seems to be a matter of what the promoters and/or
	concert hall/theater/whatever folk will allow--I've been to shows
	where taping was explicitly allowed and shows where it was not.

	I think that if there were any serious challenge to tapers, we
	wouldn't see people advertising.  As it is, both "Relix" and "The
	Golden Road" (and who knows how many others) publish classifieds
	from tapers--they do so quite openly, and Relix has been doing it
	for a long time.  Their only criterion (with which I wholeheartedly
	agree) is that they don't put up with people trying to sell tapes.

Besides that, we gotta get our music somehow...and it just isn't possible
to get to all of the concerts.  Sure would be nice if they'd get on their
asses (yes, that's what I meant) and get an album out again--it's been
years since the Dead Set / Reckoning pair, and they've got plenty of
material.
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
   ...Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been.