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Thursday, 16th February 2006

A New Archive of Classic Rock and Roll Hits the Web

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By Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor

Short write-up of a fun resource this week. Your deputy editor had her broken finger reset yesterday, and typing is awkward once again. Also, jury duty beckons...

Rock and Roll--Classic--Streaming Audio
Source: Wolfgang's Vault
Vault Radio
"Bill Graham and his concert promotion company, Bill Graham Presents, produced more than 35,000 concerts all over the world. Graham taped thousands of these performances, and the tapes were acquired in 2003 by Wolfgang's Vault. (Brief biographical trivia: Bill Graham was born Wolfgang Grajonca in Berlin in 1931. He escaped Nazi Germany, grew up in a foster home in the Bronx and anglicized his name at the age of 18. Graham died in 1991. Read more at CNET's News.com.)

You can now listen to selected tracks from these concerts via FM-quality, 128K digital radio stream, freely available on the website. Just click "PLAY NOW," and you're up and running. Bill Sagan, the entrepreneur who paid more than $5 million for the collection of tapes, would like to license and publish the material and make it available via CD/DVD. In the meantime, you can buy posters, vintage tickets, T-shirts, and other rock-and-roll memorabilia here.

Tracks by "many of the greatest bands of the last 40 years" will be added to and removed from the Vault Radio playlist on a regular basis. A "Currently in Rotation" page shows you which artists and tracks are currently available. And this is the real thing: "The music you hear on Vault Radio has not been sweetened or polished. You'll be listening to what the band played that night -- nothing more, nothing less."
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See Also: A Few More Web Resources for the Music Fan

+ The Internet Archive: Live Music Archive
Over 30,000 shows ready for download. Free!
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+ AllMusic.com
The best! Classical music, too!
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+ Gracenote: The Music Info Database You've Used But Possibly Know Little About
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+ Yahoo Releases Audio Search Engine
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+ GoFish Adds Song Lyrics Search Option
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+ The Search for Music
Cool!!!
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+ A Visual Search Engine for Music
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+ Ask Jeeves Adds Multimedia Search
Direct links to bios, pictures, downloads, and more.

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