BOC-L Digest - 20 May 1999 to 21 May 1999

[Julian Christou]

Certainly MP3s are a good way to store the sound files being relatively
cheap on disk space.  The idea of short sound samples of official
relaeses is good and the "boot the bootleggers" is ceratainly a way to
make the live recordings available for the general fan base (at least
those with computer access) w/o paying exhorbitant prices.  I know that
there is a circulation of live recordings between the list members and
an mp3 site would be a boon to us all.  What is Dave's position on the
bootleg situation? A site with band approved rare stuff as mentioned
below would also be great.

Julian

> Date:    Fri, 21 May 1999 11:32:08 +0800
> From:    William Duffy <xl5 at IINET.NET.AU>
> Subject: Re: Hawkwind Sound Files
>
> Hi there
>
> > I asked Dave once if i could put up a site with short sound samples
> > (no full versions.)   He thought it was a great idea, and told me to go
> > ahead.
> > But as I had not yet heard of MP3, I quickly canned it after seeing a 30
> > second
> > sample fill over 8 MB on my HDD.
> > I may do it now that I have an MP3 encoder.
> > As for full versions, bad idea.  But I can't see the band getting
> > upset over
> > bootlegging
> > the bootleggers.  My guess, if they stopped to think about it, they would
> > probably approve...
> >
> How about a site with some of the unreleased live and studio recordings (ie
> Make What You Can, The full version of Phone Home, Elliott, etc..) in MP3
> format. If there wasn't enough room on the server, maybe some other member
> won't mind lending some space, or the site could have different tracks each
> week or two?
>
> William
>
> PS Could also put some other stuff, such as the tracks recorded by former
> members that never made it to official releases, such as Robert Calvert'
> poetry readings, the outtakes from Nik Turner's Xitintoday, and the other
> Michael Moorcock recordings.