Lucas,
I'll definitely trade some shows with you, and I am always up for Dead and Phish classics. If you can burn DVDs, let's setup a 1 or 2 disc trade for an assortment. I also must recommend Gecko and Does since that will round out your studio collection and provide historical foundation (plus you never know how long these older ones will be around). These were the references for quite some time before the major expansion of BAM's repertoire. I'll send back a similar mix of live shows, one all Slip and one of miscellaneous bands I think you'd like.
Email me your list or let me know what years you need filled in and I'll do the same. That's still the fastest way, even if we have to wait for the mail. Torrents are great when there's enough people on, but there's nothing like a fast FTP server for a more permanent repository (and consistency).
It's also easier to trade even steven and not worry about B+P. So let's do 2 DVDs because that won't take too long, and I'll see if I can find my latest Slip list...it's maybe 70% complete by now (still finding mystery discs scattered from when I've traveled, some lost their original jackets when moved to booklets, so I'm still sorting some out).
If I recall from older posts, you're up in CA, right? You get any snow up there? We finally got hit down here around DC...odd that I actually missed the snow in the winters. And I was telling locals it won't snow here 'til 2008. The very next day we got about 3". Haha, joke's on me.
[but I don't drive, no big whoop]
What kind of iPod you got? I just picked up a Touch, and it's fantastic, but I've discovered the iTunes ripper really sucks. Even when set to "error checking", it's pretty sloppy with dropouts. I discovered the latest
dbPowerAmp ripper is all pumped up now, with album art and pretty much blazing speed with every CODEC, and 0 errors out of dozens of rips (never got 'em with the old version either). I
strongly recommend this ripper for anyone with a PC (Mac people, sorry, but maybe iTunes has less trouble on Apple iron...I dunno). I also noticed a CPU # on the ripper screen, so I'm pretty sure it'll handle multi-core systems (my box is getting old, but I'll jump to a quad when the price comes down a little more and Vista I might never install if they don't fix all the major glitches I've read and heard about).
So far I haven't quite filled 16 GB...I'm trying to be selective about what I put on there. For photos and video, however, it's da bomb factory. All I've got are a couple Slip and SMMD vids so far. I haven't gotten on the video conversion path...that'll be easier with a faster system. Any suggestions are welcome...particularly if anyone has experience converting specifically for iPhone or iPod touch limitations.
-Take a beetle,
Phrazz
P.S.: I may move this thread to Tapers and Trading. Also if you want to include your original post in your signed-in response, I'll remove the old guest post and references to not being logged in.
P.P.S.: Harry, you lucky dog!!! Have a great time...that's gonna be a hell of an adventure. You'll get to see some magic (of all sorts).
Oh nice...Echo Park just came on. Another great new release! [Play Pause Stop]
And you gotta see this hilarious
video of Marco trying to wake up this guy right in front at the Blue Note during his appearance with MK Orchestra (courtesy of our friends at organanddrums.net). Nice!
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