HW: Live at The Kinetic Playground

[Paul Mather]

On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Horse Whisperer wrote:

> Why not download 'em, save the pictures, and burn our own CD's?
> Free Bootlegs...or am I stating the obvious?  I know if could make good
> quality recordings of gigs, I'd pass them on

The fly in the ointment is that it's illegal.  Personally, I'm an
advocate of "beat the boots," but I don't want to get in trouble from
Doug Smith, Dave Brock, Hawkwind, or whatever, for "bootlegging."  I'm
sure even though I was giving it away for free (e.g. downloadable MPEG
audio), they'd take a dim view of it.  I know trading of live tapes is
pretty much "sanctioned," because it is relatively low-level, but, it
seems, whenever you go to a wider distribution, some people take umbrage
and want to stop it.

So, does anyone know Dave's position on trading live audio?  Do Hawkwind
officially allow taping at gigs?

Cheers,

Paul.

obTape: Govt. Mule, Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA, 11/7/96; 11/8/96

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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