Bit late on this thread, but just wanted to chuck in my 2 cents...
I understand the whole thing about artists' rights. I also understand a
little about the conflict between the artist's creative process and the
marketing of the "product". With a few notable exceptions, legit live
recordings are released once in a blue moon not necessarily because a band
don't want any more than that in the public domain, but because the record
company would not "allow" them to release any more due to limited market
appeal or whatever.
I suffer some guilt pangs over my live tape collection, but I know my life
would be the poorer if I had never got to hear Son Volt covering "Aint No
More Cane", "Holocaust" or "Sing Me Back Home", countless unreleased Neil
Young recordings, or the Dylan 66 material (to name but a very few) - the
latter, remember, finally got released 32 years later, and I don't think this
necessarily had a lot to do with Dylan not WANTING those tapes in the public
domain.
It's a poor 2 cents, mebbe, but it's all I got right now...
Stevie
