This should be good for those who have a taste for live performances from some of the legendary artists who made rock history.
http://news.com.com/Rocks+living+history%2C+streamed+online/2100-1025_3-6040730.html?tag=nefd.ledeSince 2002, Sagan has owned the full archives of legendary promoter Bill Graham, whose concerts featuring performers such as the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix and others helped define the late 1960s and early '70s. Late last week, Sagan began putting excerpts from these concerts, many of which have never been released, online by way of a free Internet radio station on his company's Wolfgang's Vault site.
"My view is that a live performance is better than the studio," he says. "Live is what a band played that night. If they talked between songs, it's there. If they broke a string, it's there."
For all the Amazon.coms, Rhapsodies and iTuneses in the world, it's these nuggets of music history past and present that illustrate the real power of digital music. Graham's archives contain thousands of hours of recorded audio and video that's rarely been heard or seen, but is finally being digitized and distributed.
I can see there being many happy customers for the video footage, its great to see a business man actually care about the end users and still be able to make a profit on what is after all a slice of rock history.
