secondtube Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 The Rocky Mountain News reports that the Grateful Dead are "finalizing a deal" with Apple to put their entire collection of live performances available for purchase through the iTunes Music Store. The Grateful Dead has a long history of allowing fans to make bootleg recordings of their concerts. Over the years, countless bootleg Dead concert recordings have made their way onto the Internet, available for download through peer-to-peer file sharing services and elsewhere. From Weir's perspective, getting the Dead's own recordings of their shows is a natural progression. "What we wanna do is digitize our entire catalog, our entire collection of tapes ... and make that stuff available," said Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir. "I think I-Tunes [sic] is up to that." In fact, The Grateful Dead are already featured artists on the iTunes Music Store -- eight studio albums are available for download and purchase, including classics like Terrapin Station, Blues for Allah and In the Dark, the 1987 album that sports the Dead's only top 10 hit, "Touch of Grey." Steve Jobs even played a Dead track when he introduced the second-generation iTunes Music Store during last October's special music event in San Francisco. But thus far, the Dead's live music -- what the quintessential jam band is best known for -- has been absent from the store. Weir told the interviewer that the Dead has recorded all of its live shows since the late 60's "just so we could listen back, see what it sounded like and make any changes." What's more, said Weir jokingly, the iTunes Music Store's current track price is a bargain for value-conscious consumers. "At 99 cents a tune, it's a pretty decent price, because most of our tunes are pretty long." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irie Guy Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 Now if iTunes would only be available in Canada. Any other Mac users out there??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 i use itunes on my pc... it's really really good for what i use it for... been thinking about moving to mac, but am not yet convinced.. ad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewRider Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 like I said to Bobby last October in Toronto... "hey man, why not sell the catagog to Michael Jackson!!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinw Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 iTunes is available in Canada isn't it? Does anyone know what kind of files you download - are they WAVs, MP3, FLAC, SHN, or something else? Also, isn't a buck a song kind of high priced? How many tunes in an average Dead show - maybe 20? That's pretty steep for a three disc show compared with other band's live downloads for a complete show. I prefer the "pay for an entire show" approach. The Dead fans would be better off that way. I am curious to know what all those Deadheads who bitched and moaned about Phish selling their catalog and destroying the taping community feel about the Dead doing the same thing at a higher price! Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 Wasn't digitizing the entire catalog the major disagreement that made for a huge parting between weir and lesh in the 90's? iTunes music STORE is not available to Canadians. In fact, any online music purchasing service in the US is not available outside of the US. It's seriously defeating the purpose of using the net to distribute music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kung Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 That whole row was fairly involved. The whole thing revolved around a venture capitalist (in a Dead cover band friend of Al Gore's) who wanted to invest to digitize the vault with the catch that the vault was in some way collateral. The boys i.e. everybody except Phil thought it was what needed to happen and a great opportunity, Phil rightly believed that the Dead corporation had never needed outside capital before and that in fact many of their long term employees may have found themself out of work if anything went wrong. Alot of this came out via Hunter who put up a cryptic post about 'papering the vault with advertising' which prompted Phil to come out and explain (under his alias Reddy Kilowatt) his perspective. All of this is after he got the liver of a prick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secondtube Posted March 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 i so hope they digitize their whole collection into MP3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 quote: secondtube Member # 68 posted 03-22-2004 09:33 AM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ i so hope they digitize their whole collection into MP3. Me too that would be so great... mp3's are horrible... Paisley told me that Esau once said every mp3 you download is like a vote for communism. I just think mp3s have the possibility of tainting the live show pool... Keep it shn/flac & wav, boo to mp3's! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secondtube Posted March 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 i know the 'hub would be happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 Yeah, they LOVE their mp3's over there... Quite militant about it in fact... Maybe one day they'll understand... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irie Guy Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 It will be in the AAC format which supposedly has better compression and better sound than MP3. The iTunes software can covert AAC into MP3 files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secondtube Posted March 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 sweet, COMPRESSION. now lets compress all of the deads archive... hell, i might get a mac, just to take advantage of this amazing deal. x 1000000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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