| Wolfgang's Vault - You won't believe this... [message #70168] |
Sun, 09 July 2006 22:48  |
DC
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Registered: July 2005
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http://www.wolfgangsvault.com
Wolfgang Grajonca, aka Bill Graham, was a notorious obsessive. But
he loved what he did, and we are now all his beneficiaries because
one of his obsessions was that he kept everything from all his
shows. Everything.
It was all stashed in a warehouse; nobody even knew what was
there, and after Graham died in a helicopter crash in 1991 nobody
knew what to do with it, or didn't want to invest the time to find out
what was there. After passing thru several owners, businessman &
music fan Bill Sagan bought the whole 'mess' for about $1.5 million.
It was piled over 25 feet high in that warehouse. It took
TWENTY-FIVE tractor trailer rigs to carry it all to its new home
where Sagan began digging thru and cataloging what he'd bought.
He found:
Original Contracts signed by the artists
Mint condition super-rare posters; some worth $15k each today
Handbills
Unused tickets
Over a million slides, negatives and photographs.
Then one day while poking thru it Sagan found what he'd never even
dreamed of: Bill Graham had even saved the concerts themselves.
He'd made video & high res audio recordings of thousands of shows!
Sagan is not even sure, but it might be over 7,000 recordings in
number.
He is selling some of it thru the above website. He is also making
available "Vault Radio" where you can click on the link and listen
(free) to some of those recordings in a rotation that includes dozens
of those recordings.
Just click on "vault radio" Priceless....
DC
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