[78-L] ^Grog back [FWD]

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Harkin" <harkinmike at yahoo.com>
> Somehow I find it hard to take seriously all the schwetzing about 
> preserving a heritage....  I think the Sony execs were having the reporter 
> on.
>
Well, we can only hope that somebody at BMG/Sony/Whomever realized the 
CULTURAL value
of their audio archive (in spite of the harsh reality that in the 21st 
century MEANINGFUL values
MUST be prefixed by $ [or other symbol for currency?!] and followed by 
numbers well beyond
the comprehension of us hapless peasants?!) and decided to, first, preserve 
it...and, second,
make it available in digital form...?!

After all, they don't seem to be having much luck with their present-day 
artists/music (who, from
what I have heard, well deserve their rapid descent into obscurity...?!)...! 
What I HOPE to do
(if I ever receive my US Social Security...?!) is to copy some of my 
half-vast shellac archive to
my hard drive, and then "burn" that to CD-R's and flog the result. Since I'm 
here in Canada,
this is (so far?!) entirely legal...it would be any US buyers who were 
breaking copyright law,
since the records there are all officially protected until 1/1/2067 (subject 
to change...!)...!

> Mike in Plovdiv
> --- On Thu, 10/1/09, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] ^Grog back
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> And this reminds me, I wonder
>> what is happening
>> with the project of streaming 10,000 acoustical recordings
>> from the Sony
>> archive by LC from the Culpepper Cave?
>>
Meaning streaming from the cave(?!)...or streaming the contents of "metal 
parts"
STORED in the cave? Seems to me that caves are quite a bit too damp for such
storage, unless one invests MANY simoleons on de-humidifiers?! OTOH, seems
like an ideal place to store the stamper(s) for "The Death Of Floyd 
Collins"...?!

Steven C. Barr
(BMG EMPLOYEE ATTACKED BY STALAGMITES!! MORE LATER!!)