Trapped in The Vault…
I just stepped into Wolfgang’s Vault. It’s the truly amazing collection of rock poster’s, t-shirts, other art items, and most importantly, concert recordings, collected by the legendary Bill Graham productions of San Francisco. My god.
I heard about this on NPR, but here’s a Wall Street Journal article on how the new owner of this material bought the collection for a relative song ($5 million) from those mega-assholes Clear Channel, before either of them realized it contains what might be the most important audio archive of popular music history in existence.
Now Wolfgang’s Vault is on the web, and you can download the concert material. And as a bonus, the new owner is providing much better royalties to the original artists than their record companies give them. Makes up (a little) for how these artists were generally screwed by the music industry over the years.
Rock On, Wolfgang!
