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Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive

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Re: Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive

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Tangent idea: musicians should record every live show, and then put it on a streaming service, only for people who bought tickets to the show (possibly for an extra small fee on the ticket). Extra revenue for the artist, and a cool benefit for the fan (the liver performance you attended).

why not have it accessible to everyone so collectors can have a field day with it!

Are you working for free too?

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For those interested, Relisten is another repository of live concert recordings. It skews heavily towards improvisational music, ie jambands, but there's some indie rock on there as well. https://relisten.net/

Cool site, thanks! it seems to also be backed by archive.org, i wonder if there's a way to move more stuff into that interface. the nirvana performance in the article isn't there for instance.

One of the authors/maintainers of Relisten posted that they are working on adding the Aadam Jacbos collection - https://bsky.app/profile/saewitz.com/post/3mjawvvklls2v

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I remember back in the early 90s I think on the internet when it was only accessible via my university, reading on a newsgroup about how people traded bootlegs from various concerts. People would mail cassette tapes around the country and would use double cassette recorders to make a copy of their bootleg and mail it back to people. It was definitely a different time

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

why not have it accessible to everyone so collectors can have a field day with it!

Are you working for free too?

Available for everyone to purchase*, not just the local venue ticket holders.

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This is one of the best things I've read about in a bit. It wasn't uncommon to buy marked-up (overpriced) bootlegs of live performances on CDs in the 90s. You never knew in advance if it'd be a quality recording or total garbage. We've lost that. I still love when one of my live bootlegs of Faith No More comes on with them doing (sometimes mocking) parodies of popular music (their rendition of Nothing Compares to You…

I remember this too. Those bootlegs were $30 each and my friend group was really into Pearl Jam. If I remember correctly a lot of these were made out of Italy. In college (maybe late 90s) I somehow managed to come up with $500 to buy a CD burner. I would make copies of these bootlegs and sell to friends for $10. I couldn't keep up and made my money back to pay for the burner relatively quickly. I think I was even able to find some to download then burning saving me the $30 at the record store. I made my own funny CD covers. Once I got my money back for the CD burner I just asked for the cost of the Cds. Great trip down memory lane.

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if you really want to hear a live performance, there seems to be a nudge from amazon lately.

if your into providing music, dont default to a live version.

some live recordings are good, you can actually hear the music, and the crowd is only noticble between songs.

im thinking that an online archive of live concerts will only steepen this trend.

im just going back to all my mp3 media more often nowadays [bcz i actually bought it mp3 versions, decades ago when you still could]

that way i can hear music, instead of a bunch of people screaming over the music.

now heres somthing else, maybe you remember that concert, you were there, you love hearing you and friends at the concert, maybe people who no longer live are still there. jimmy dean, rock on,

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Tangent idea: musicians should record every live show, and then put it on a streaming service, only for people who bought tickets to the show (possibly for an extra small fee on the ticket). Extra revenue for the artist, and a cool benefit for the fan (the liver performance you attended).

At the last "That Damn Show" in Phoenix (2001 iirc), a couple of the bands were burning and selling CDs from that show. Was kind of nice/wild to see.

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There are so many concert recordings of awesome performances that sound like crap because they are audience tapes. Often before a performance recorded music is played and captured in the audience recordings. Would it be possible to train a model on an archive of these concert audience recordings of studio recordings paired with the original studio recordings to develop a system to “clean up” audience recordings?

Maybe... however, most bands tend to drift a LOT from the studio versions of songs while touring.
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