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Re: Sneaking a new album out??? Not!
>"Did anyone really notice the Denver concert download? It seemed to
>get ignored by the "press", but then again I ignore the press, so it
>only seems fair :)."
>
>It was ignored by the press because there was no promotion. This is a good
>thing, because it was an experiment that did not work out very well. A
>widely publicized Denver download would have been a black eye on TED. Many
>distribution problems were followed by withdrawal of the product.
Plus it was posted for download elsewhere, wasn't it? Showed up as a
bootleg?
>I am sure Eelpie learned much from the experience.
Everybody did. It's a case of Pete/The Who being ahead of the times again.
Experiments like this can reveal what the market will look like five or ten
years down the road.
keets