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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