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Johnny, i agree… Phanerothyme is one of the few LPs still missing in my collection (together with Timothys and Barracuda….)
This is what I sent:
Dear Motorpsycho Management,
my Name is Marcel and I am a big fan for more or less 20 years now. I regulary attend the concerts in Leipzig, Berlin and Dresden and I consider myself somewhat of a very very lucky guy calling Motorpsycho my absolute favourite Band.
I am also discussing Motorpsycho-related stuff in the fix.no forum and after another breathtaking European Tour we were thinking, that it would be awesome to make the many many fanmade recordings of the shows, made over the years more easily accessable to the family. Back in the days Motorpsycho gave their go for fan-recordings and distribution in the fanbase. For many years this went on over the torrent-platform dimedozen. Since most of the older torrents are now kind of dead and the process of sharing is becoming more and more complicated for some people obviously, we thought of an alternative.
Several options were named and we agreed that the live music archive on the achive.org plattform would be perfect. Not only is it home to the massive Grateful Dead live tape collection, but it has since developped and hosts lots of fan recordings from other interesting bands such as Snarky Puppy, Godspeed You Black Emperor or Oresund Space Collective. Besides there is a policy at archive.org to stick to the copyrights of musicians and seek their permission.
We agreed in the Motorpsycho forum that we don't like the idea to proceed without permission of band and management. We are certain that this will not diminish Motorpsycho's income in any way – on the other hand there might be raising even more interest in the band via an archive.org Motorpsycho collection of fan recordings. Should any conflicts arise uploaders could easyly be contacted with their given archive.org mail adress.
We would be very happy to receive a positive answer for our undertaking.
Greetings
Marcel
@anders, thanks for the clearification. I agree with you
Please comment on my attempt. If you agree I would sent something like that:
Dear Motorpsycho Management,
my Name is Marcel and I am a big fan for more or less 20 years now. I regulary attend the concerts in Leipzig, Berlin and Dresden and I consider myself somewhat of a very very lucky guy calling Motorpsycho my absolute favourite Band.
I am also discussing Motorpsycho-related stuff in the fix.no forum and after another breathtaking European Tour we were thinking, that it would be awesome to make the many many Bootleg Tapes made over the years more easily accessable to the family. Back in the days Motorpsycho gave their go for fan-recordings and distribution in the fanbase. Over many years this went on over the torrent-platform dimedozen. Since torrents are kind of dead and the process of sharing is becoming more and more complicated, we thought of an alternative.
Several options were named and we agreed that the achive.org plattform would be perfect. We also agreed, that we don't like the idea to proceed without the permission of the band and the management. So I am writing to you and seek for the permission.
We would be very happy to receive a positive answer for our undertaking.
Greetings
Marcel
what is uploaded there is not our doing and i wouldn't encourage anybody do up or download the official records! we should make clear, that we are strictly against that.
regarding the official bootlegs… these are the roadwork records. i will always buy vinyl if there is a vinyl.
what we are talking about here is only the tapes made and uploaded on dime. they are on dime anyways. so why not make them accesable more easy due archive?
lets not search for reasons why not to do it. what we need is a contact in the management and then we just ask. if they say no, we don't do it. if the apply certain rules. we agree to them and do like the say.
sure, i totally agree. i thougt it was said already that we ask for permission from the band. Wouldn't do it without it.
If there is nobody with a direct land line to the bands badrooms i would write to the management. if you want, i will post my email before sending for further suggestions.
sooo.. are we doing this or what? how can i help. my time is somewhat limited lately since i am in the middl of my tesis but if i can help, just tell me
buzzzzzing
Stickman starts at 15 of July with the presale waiting for some intel ^^
the thing with the Archive is also interesting. (as well as the two Bands you mentioned. seen them both, great Bands!!)
The question here is, whether the people who recorded the stuff is willing to upload them. guess it is a lot of work to do this.
personally i dream of finding the best live version of all the songs (i know… this already seems impossible ^^) and make a 'live' Discografie out of them. Means, f.e. Trust Us Live which would contain the best versions of each Trust Us Song. Actually i am listening more to the bootlegs lately then to their official records since they are at some places much more exciting ^^
hm… what about a cloud? would this be suitable in any way? or maybe some remark in the database like who made the recording of a certain gig. so others would know whom to ask for a wetransfer or sth
