Re: ISO info on Patti 10/29/97 recording

["weapons of mass destruction-related program activities" <spamtony>]

skywalker (skywalker919919) wrote:
> 
> oops, I just noticed that it is the webcast, not the audience
> recording, which is missing a song (the opener, Waiting 
> Underground).

Any version of the 10/29 webcast missing WU, I'd be
suspicious of, because it's very very very very very 
likely to be originally sourced by some idiot (I've 
known him for more than 40 years - he's ugly and his
momma dresses him funny) who taped the webcast at 
work onto analog digital cassette (a vintage 1983 
Technics cassette deck, which was actually very good)  
connected to the outputs of a Creative soundblaster 
soundcard. 

Anyway, he managed to SOMEHOW erase WU, not realizing 
it until it was too late and rocktropolis had eliminated 
the archive forever, and it was too late to re-stream 
it and try again. 

Main deficit of this version is that this IDIOT 
didn't know how to capture RA to the hard drive at
the time. His "source" was and continues to be 
the analog cassette.

The person quoted from the archive who offered 
an analog tape for private trade only (Stuart) 
is not the same guy. Stuart's "master", if it 
can be found today, is probably a better source 
of the webcast. (Obviously, the bestest source
would be the original digital masters, but whaddaya
gonna do?) 

Anyway, back to the idiot -- he also created MP3s
and distributed them without asking on the Interweb. 
So there are probably quite a few MP3-sourced versions
out there. 

And their real lineage would be: 

 webcast --> 
 Technics audiocassette deck --> 
 another computer acting as recorder --> 
 CoolEdit96 --> 
 WAV files. 


I'm not saying this guy's stuff is THE ONLY SOURCE OUT
THERE IN THE WHOLE WORLD FOR THIS SHOW, but just letting 
you know what you are _probably_ listening to if you have
a webcast without WU.