Wolfgang's Vault

[Ramona_A_Stone]

Entrepreneur Bill Sagan once came upon a fleet of 40 foot trucks filled to bursting with 60's and 70s music memorabilia collected by rock impresario Bill Graham, and bought the whole lot for about 6 million: photographs, posters, tickets, any and everything you can imagine, including thousands of high quality soundboard recordings of the biggest rock stars of the time caught in the act. This collection was the impetus for Wolfgang's Vault--originally created to sell off bits of these archives and now mostly hawking reproductions on T-shirts and coffee mugs etc. More interestingly, the site also allows visitors to stream these never released live recordings of Cream, The Doors, Hendrix, Zeppelin, Floyd, The Stones, Zappa and others.

Well, man your streamrippers and get 'em while they're hot if you're interested folks, because these recordings may soon disappear (into the P2P Underground, at least). Members of Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Grateful Dead and Carlos Santana are taking Sagan to federal court friday to sue his pants, and most likely his website, off. Stay tuned.

[theknife]

Originally Posted by Ramona_A_Stone

Entrepreneur Bill Sagan once came upon a fleet of 40 foot trucks filled to bursting with 60's and 70s music memorabilia collected by rock impresario Bill Graham, and bought the whole lot for about 6 million: photographs, posters, tickets, any and everything you can imagine, including thousands of high quality soundboard recordings of the biggest rock stars of the time caught in the act. This collection was the impetus for Wolfgang's Vault--originally created to sell off bits of these archives and now mostly hawking reproductions on T-shirts and coffee mugs etc. More interestingly, the site also allows visitors to stream these never released live recordings of Cream, The Doors, Hendrix, Zeppelin, Floyd, The Stones, Zappa and others.

Well, man your streamrippers and get 'em while they're hot if you're interested folks, because these recordings may soon disappear (into the P2P Underground, at least). Members of Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Grateful Dead and Carlos Santana are taking Sagan to federal court friday to sue his pants, and most likely his website, off. Stay tuned.

seems like the bands in question would have a case, no? selling reproductions of memorabilia is not the quite the same as selling memorabilia.

edit: btw, the quality is good - anybody know how to rip this stuff?

[JackSpratts]

they can have the pants. just let me at those soundboards.

btw, the comments are harsh, if comical.


December 19th,
2006
3:21 pm

OOOH, I’m worried about my collection now. Who’s gonna come looking for me when I sell my Tuesday Night Jam poster? The pig??

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/200...-love-for-you/

- js.

[theknife]

so how do you rip it all?

[JackSpratts]

Originally Posted by theknife

so how do you rip it all?

i haven't registered.

you'll need to know a few things about this to say.

- like -

open or propriatary player?

can you find the stream (notepad or netstat) and feed to winamp?

[theknife]

Originally Posted by JackSpratts

i haven't registered.

bugmenot@bugmenot.com
bugmenot

[goldie]

i'd think totalrecorder would work too........i used for grabbing certain otr files a few times.

i have one somewhere but you can find one "somewhere"...


more about it here:

http://www.highcriteria.com/

[JackSpratts]

there is a well-known issue with logins where you keep getting sent back to the login popup instead of getting the player popup so i'm happy to see they've posted a work around. essentially close out your browser, clear your cookies and go directly to login before you select your stream. needless to say it doesn't always work so they're adding a true fix soon. in the meantime i've emailed them for additional help about this (it only affects ie here, ff and opera are ok) and i've used the opportunity to ask them about the encoding process. while they've returned my emails about the login problem they haven't responded to the codec querry. if and when they do i'll pass it along. course if anyone knows please tell me. oh yeah, my tape came out great - it sounds identical to the stream.

- js.

[theknife]

i couldn't get the damn thing to play last night...everything looked right, but no sound?

[Ramona_A_Stone]

I had no problem TK. (The Bowie concerts are awesome, but not really that hi-fi).

I also noticed this posted on the site:

Originally Posted by Wolfgang's Vault

The Concert Vault is fully licensed by BMI, ASCAP and SESAC, and we pay these performance rights organizations every time you listen to a concert. The license fees make their way back to the performers that made the music. One of our top priorities will always be to make sure that the artists are compensated for their performances.

Yes, downloads are coming! We still have a few details to work out, but plan to begin offering music downloads in the next three to four months. Stay tuned for updates and announcements. Registered Concert Vault listeners will be the first to know.

There's still a lot of genuine memorabilia on the site, and if it's actually paying licensing perhaps they won't completely shut it down. We'll see. Also I registered straight up so I'll keep everyone posted on any announcements.

[Ramona_A_Stone]

Don't miss Genesis: especially The Cage and Afterglow, (Cinema Show and I Know What I Like (In your Wardrobe) are great too), at the Hofheinz in Houston, 1978. Amazing recordings/performances, even though it's sans-Gabriel. (Normally Philbert makes me puke, but I was a little drunk before noon today and really enjoyed the flashback; so far it's the only one I've found that I was actually at.)

[theknife]

Originally Posted by Ramona_A_Stone

I had no problem TK. (The Bowie concerts are awesome, but not really that hi-fi).

this is my problem:

We have an update on this problem. Specifically, on the problem of the player issuing the "Buffer Full..." message, but NEVER playing any audio.

If the track counter stays at 0:00, then you may be affected by a known network issue that is affecting a small number of listeners. We hope to have it resolved soon. For most people who do see this, it’s sporadic; if you close the player and reopen it you may get a connection. When we have an update on this problem we will post it here.

http://forums.wolfgangsvault.com/forums/post/6289.aspx

lucky me. i'm especially pissed because it worked the first time i tried