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From: david@varian.UUCP (David Brown)
Newsgroups: net.music.folk
Subject: Re: Bill Staines schedule
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Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 16:10:15 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 17 16:10:15 1985
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1) I have been posting local folk music schedules to net.music.folk
with a distribution of ba (San Francisco Bay Area).  I don't know
if there is much interest in schedules being posted net-wide.

2) Bill Staines was out here in November; he comes about once a year.
He lives in New Hampshire, so I would expect he plays Boston more often
than that.  A magazine that covers the New England folk scene pretty
well (I subscribe to it just to see what's going on) is Black Sheep
Review.

3) Compact Discs -- Bob Calin (clawhammer banjo player from Philadelphia)
was here last weekend and was discussing the record that he's currently
working on (his 3rd for Rounder).  It's being recorded digitally,
and he was fantisizing about releasing the first (or nearly first)
folk CD.  It's not likely to happen, just because the market isn't there.
I don't know a single person with a CD player (on the other hand,
I know very few folkies in the Bay Area with VCR's either, though when
I was visiting in LA, it seemed like everyone had them).

Bob did mention an interesting alternative though.  There is an $800
attachment that allows a Sony Beta VCR to be used for digitial audio
recording and playback.  The main problems with CD is the mastering
and production costs; the costs for duplicating a limited number of
VCR digital tapes would be much less.

-- 
	David Brown	 (415) 945-2199
	Varian Instruments 2700 Mitchell Dr.  Walnut Creek, Ca. 94598
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