--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "george_deforest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > And y'know...I just can't work up that much > > Buddhist guilt about it. I was a Deadhead for > > too long as a youth to believe overmuch in > > copyright in my dotage. :-) > > Dead Head, eh? then prehaps you also like their > recurring collaborator, Bruce Hornsby??
LOVE Hornsby. I've seen him live a number of times. > i got to see Bruce live a couple weeks ago, > at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco > (comped by my Deadhead brother-in-law). > > it was a beautiful experience, what an uplifting > stage presence ... plus, they handed out a > new "live" DVD, for everyone who had a ticket! Yeah, that's Hornsby. And that attitude and approach of "sharing" is actually what I was commenting on above, with regard to "piracy." The Grateful Dead are an interesting phenomenon. It is safe to say that they are the most well- documented set of musicians in history. Almost *every* concert they have ever performed was recorded, often with the recorders being plugged into the sound board, with the full cooperation of the Grateful Dead and their crew. Their approach was always that they didn't care if their fans recorded and shared their music (since it was going to happen anyway). They did ask that that sharing really be sharing, and they urged fans not to *sell* the concerts they'd recorded, but naturally not everyone got that message. Even so, I think it's an interesting paradigm, especially in a music industry that seems to be trying to hold onto every note, and charge as much as possible for it.
