More Dead on iTunes coming [soon?]
From a Rat Dog article:
Great that iTunes is up to the task, and great that even 15+ minute songs will still be $.99.
Quote:
By Mark Brown, Rocky Mountain News
March 15, 2004
...
The Grateful Dead is still putting its own archive
out. Besides standard CD releases, the Dead is
finalizing a deal with Apple's I-Tunes to make every
live note they've ever recorded available for
download.
"Everything, sooner or later, will end up being
released on the Web," Weir says. "What we wanna do is
digitize our entire catalog, our entire collection of
tapes . . . and make that stuff available. I think
I-Tunes is up to that."
...
And compared to most music at I-Tunes, the Dead's jams
are a bargain, he says with a laugh.
"At 99 cents a tune, it's a pretty decent price,
because most of our tunes are pretty long."
By Mark Brown, Rocky Mountain News
March 15, 2004
...
The Grateful Dead is still putting its own archive
out. Besides standard CD releases, the Dead is
finalizing a deal with Apple's I-Tunes to make every
live note they've ever recorded available for
download.
"Everything, sooner or later, will end up being
released on the Web," Weir says. "What we wanna do is
digitize our entire catalog, our entire collection of
tapes . . . and make that stuff available. I think
I-Tunes is up to that."
...
And compared to most music at I-Tunes, the Dead's jams
are a bargain, he says with a laugh.
"At 99 cents a tune, it's a pretty decent price,
because most of our tunes are pretty long."
Great that iTunes is up to the task, and great that even 15+ minute songs will still be $.99.
Comments
10 million deadheads downloading 15 minute songs has to be more costly than 10 million punk fans downloading 50 second Ramones songs
The Beatles could put out their entire collection as one song and bankrupt Apple in bandwidth costs
For free legal Dead tunage, look no furthur
www.gdlive.com
www.sugarmegs.org
www.furthurnet.com
Originally posted by PBG4 Dude
Considering you can get Dead shows in pristine format legally for $0.00 I don't know who will be downloading Dead from iTunes.
For free legal Dead tunage, look no furthur
www.gdlive.com
www.sugarmegs.org
www.furthurnet.com
The Free Legal Dead Downloads are generally audience tapes (which are "good enough" for many people, but not everyone). The stuff that Bobby is talking about releasing is the archival soundboard copies - yes there is a difference!
You may be familiar with earlier archival releases on CD as "Dick's Picks" which sold pretty well.
And, regarding free downloads, you left out www.nugs.net.
Originally posted by FormerLurker
The Free Legal Dead Downloads are generally audience tapes (which are "good enough" for many people, but not everyone). The stuff that Bobby is talking about releasing is the archival soundboard copies - yes there is a difference!
You may be familiar with earlier archival releases on CD as "Dick's Picks" which sold pretty well.
And, regarding free downloads, you left out www.nugs.net.
Maybe you need to dig through the gdlive.com archives. There's stuff there in .SHN format that has been mixed down to stereo by places like Seraphin Studios. There are mixes that have never been touched by an analog process.
Really, check out the archives before you make blanket statements about the audio quality of freely available live Dead.
Originally posted by PBG4 Dude
Maybe you need to dig through the gdlive.com archives. There's stuff there in .SHN format that has been mixed down to stereo by places like Seraphin Studios. There are mixes that have never been touched by an analog process.
Really, check out the archives before you make blanket statements about the audio quality of freely available live Dead.
The only blanket statement I was trying to make, is that there is a proven market of Deadheads willing to pay for the band's own archival soundboard recordings, regardless of what is available for free via downloading or trading.