To: lunarbicep
"...persuaded then-owner Clear Channel to sell him the entire archive for "somewhere between $5 million and $6 million." [snip]
The warehouse itself is a rock history buff's dream. Three floors are lined with shelves, which are stacked full of boxes of posters, pristine tickets for the Fillmore West and Fillmore East shows, postcards, T-shirts and original photographic negatives. Sagan estimates there are more than 20 million individual pieces here.
Bargain priced if you ask me. The negatives, posters, and recordings have got to be worth a good deal. Only issue is who owns the rights to the images on those negatives and the music on those recordings.
18 posted on
02/17/2006 11:33:08 AM PST by
weegee
("...the left can only take power through deception" -W. Chambers, former mem of Communist Party USA)
To: weegee; lunarbicep; Supernatural; nuconvert; Michael.SF.
Here is a link to a NPR interview with the guy behind the site...
Click on the listen here ....
Its about 9 minutes long but it is very interesting.
Apparently a lot of the bands signed releases on the original contracts so it is legal to circulate the music.
It really is an incredible site--
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5201801
19 posted on
02/17/2006 11:52:33 AM PST by
scott says
(MSM=Morons Spouting Misinformation)
To: old_sage_says
25 posted on
02/17/2006 12:52:37 PM PST by
Supernatural
(All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie! bob dylan)
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