[Dixielandjazz] Taping

[TCASHWIGG at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/11/04 10:42:17 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
jnt at blueyonder.co.uk writes:

> 
> I have a collection of somewhere in the region of 2000 commercially produced
> CDs and about half that number of CDs that  have made from private
> recordings.
> 
> I never record a band without first getting permission from the leader and
> have only been refused on 2 occasions - once by a Russian band and once by a
> Dutch band. (The Russian band did me a favour, in fact, as I would have
> deleted the recording.)  I always offer to provide the band with copies of
> the CDs that I make from my recordings and in so doing make it clear that if
> the recording is good enough, then the band can use it for whatever purpose
> wished. Several bands have issued material recorded by me.
> 
> I never make copies other than with the permission of the leader.  If I am
> asked for copies by members of the audience, I refer them to the bandleader.
> 
> I agree with Steve that it is a good way of spreading a band's music to a
> wider audience.
> 
> Incidentally, I generally also have commercial recordings of bands that I
> record
> 
> Norrie
> 
> 
> 

This is the professional and certainly courteous way of doing it folks, and 
iuf it were not for a few good upright and honest folks like Norrie, ( whom I 
have never Met)  many good performances of many bands would go unrecorded and 
unheard forever.   Many times those live recordings are actually the best the 
band  or artists has ever played and to not have it recorded is a shame indeed.

I used to record all my concerts that I produced in the 60's of known and 
unknown acts, and always gave them a copyh of the tape.  I never even had an 
inkling that I would be in the record business one day, and certainly had no ideas 
about making copies and selling them.   I also used to record radio shows off 
the air to get new material for my bands to learn, (didn't have any fake 
books) and always thought they were illegal anyway.   The Union used to tell us we 
could not use them, (remember).

I promoted a concert with a very big hot popular Rock group in the late 60's 
which broke up shortly after the concert tour.   They played an unbeleivably 
fantastic performance at that show and I had not recorded that concert, because 
people were starting to get uptight about recordings at concerts by then and 
the major record lables wanted to sue everybody with a transistor radio.    
After the concert the manager of the group[ was going berserk running around 
begging to know if somebody had recorded the show he and the band and their 
record lable all wanted a copy of it and were willing to pay ANYTHING to get one.

Alas! but I missed my winning lottery ticket that day, because I was afraid 
someone might discover my recorder and take it away.   Not to mention the world 
missed the opportunity to ever hear that band again play at their greatest.   
Those who were in the audience are the only ones who lived and heard that 
world class performance.

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins