Jam bands that allow audience taping, such as the Grateful Dead and Phish
are an excellent source of covers. Unlike commercial albums, where the
primary reasons for copying are piracy and, umm, fair-use evaluation,
there are active trading communities because that's the only way to
hear what Jerry played last Thursday (he forgot a few more words than he
used to,
but Phil's bass improv was really hot), most of the recording was analog,
every taper sat somewhere different (and even multiple people getting feeds
off the sound board had different analog equipment), multiple copying
adds more random noise, and even if the audio isn't perfect,
there are nights that were pure magic so it's worth copying.
There just _is_ no master 5/8/77 recording, especially by now,
though digitization and Napsterizing will probably concentrate
the subsets getting passed around.
> In addition to the version "loaded" with stego data,
> it would be simple to make subtle bit modifications to a hundred or a
> thousand different "unloaded" copies of the same track and insert them
> all into the system, where they will spread if audio quality is not
unduly compromised.
(And if taping could only reflect each audience member's pharmaceutical
loading, the versions would be even _more_ different :-)
Thanks!
Bill
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