Matchbox Twenty

Wearing A Concert Home On Your Wrist

Posted by Chaz Repak on December 22, 2009
Consumer electronics, Entertainment, Music, Technology / Comments Off
All Access Today replicates a live performance for instant sale.

All Access Today replicates a live performance for instant sale.

For those who came of age as fans of rock music in the 1970s, there’s a romance about the bootleg – a surreptitious, illegal recording of a rock concert circulated among hardcore fans. Bootlegs of legendary live performers of the Grateful Dead, Bruce Springsteen and others became necessary acquisitions for anyone who considered himself a true fan of one of these rock gods.

Thirty years later, technology and a bit of creative thinking have turned bootlegs into a respectable revenue stream, which I learned during a weekend excursion with my wife to a Rob Thomas concert.

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