Well, That’s Certainly One Way To Do Mobile Music at MobHappy: Did I read that right…. the Stones will only play 7 minutes through the phone from soundboard… to prevent BOOTLEGGING????? Yes, because bootleggers get kicks out of the compression from telephone lines. When will (most) bands realize that bootleg recordings of shows are the best inner and post record cycle marketing tools they have?
Cool stuff, but using Control4 is cheating. And expensive.
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The grass is always greener on the other side...
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This is so cool. Love that under New York is this hidden world of old.
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So, its not as good in the screen, the speed, weight, cell modem, video or apps, and yet is a competitor? How?
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I find it amusing that the same people who lament, mock and take glee in the demise of traditional media are very happy that one of the hallmarks of "New Media" - Techmeme - got a (deserved) profile in the New York Times.
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Pretty much sums up my feelings on Android. I fear as well that with the rapid pace of "This is the BEST ANDROID PHONE ON THE MARKET" -- seemingly every three weeks -- we are nearly to the point where one company (say HTC) will cause an Osborne Effect on another manufacturer (say, Motorola or Samsung). It is only in each companies best interest to have the worlds best Android phone (WBAP for short). I fear its about to get nasty.
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Shocker!
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Here here!
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R.E.M. should, one random day, close down College Ave between Broad and Washington, setup a stage, play, pack up and head back into their office. Unannounced.
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My guess, probably when the — and I hate to say this — MySpace bands become popular enough to warrant bigger recording contracts. They seem to truly understand — or in the case of older bands, remember — how bootlegging and word of mouth advertising work.
This has worked in the Jam Band scene for years. The Grateful Dead, Phish, and many other similar bands would sell special ‘Taper’s Tickets’ for people with professional equipment to make legitimate recordings of concerts. The taper’s section is usually close to the soundboard.
It is easy to find bitttorrents of these recordings: bt.etree.org and archive.org/details/etree
Before bittorrent, people at etree.org used to create distribution trees. Person B downloads from Person A, Person C downloads from Person B, and so on. This worked surprisingly well (not as effective as bittorrent) because most people involved in the distribution tree cared about spreading the band’s music.
Before distribution trees, kind enough people would host recordings on their ftp servers.
Before CD-R’s, people traded tapes.
Before the internet, well, I have no idea how that worked, but it did. Dead-heads had been trading tapes for years.
The best example of a band that offers easily-accessible music is Umphrey’s McGee. They have free monthly podcasts (soundboard recordings!) from highlight moments of recent shows. I’ve been listening to this band for the last couple months, and I haven’t yet paid a dime. However, I will go see them live this fall, so I’d say their marketing tool has been a success.
Rather than turning me away by putting a price tag in front of their music, they invited me as an active listener, and I am now much more willing to shell out the $$ to see them in concert.