Re: Klezmer "bootlegs"?

[Seth Austen <klezmusic...>]

on 1/28/01 5:14 PM, Brian Dichter at dbrian (at) enteract(dot)com wrote:

> visit http://www.etree.org/
> for example you would learn that this is actually a legitimate distribution
> stream for certain shows, as authorized by the artists. No one is
> "demanding" that artists give away anything. It's a choice and we are asking
> permission. There is a fine community of serious music enthusiasts who spend
> a lot of money on recording gear, computer equipment, CDs and concert
> tickets who only make legal, authorized recordings. The etree site lists a
> few examples of bands that allow these recordings to take place including
> Phish, Medeski, Martin and Wood, String Cheese Incident, The Grateful Dead
> as well as many others.

Brian,

Thanks for posting the URL, I checked it out this afternoon thinking I
should educate myself about etree. It looks to me like a very conscientous
group of fans who have the artists' permissions to live taping. Now, if I
could find someone with a 24/96 DAT and a nice stereo mic that feels like
following me around to all of my gigs...

There certainly seems to be a difference between this sort of thing vs
napster or copying of CDs onto tapes and distributing free copies to
friends.

Seth 

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