Bill Graham's Vault Is Open

[Furtherman]

<p>This is great stuff... </p><p><font color="#000033"><font size="1"><strong>Vault Radio </strong><font face="Verdana">has begun streaming some 75 songs culled from thousands of hours of tapes from the archives of legendary promoter </font><font face="Verdana"><strong>Bill Graham </strong></font><font face="Verdana">. &nbsp;It appears that some of these performances from Graham's archive will eventually make it to stores, perhaps by the end of the year. </font></font></font><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><br /><br /></font><font face="Verdana" color="#000033" size="1">Located in a 22,000 square foot warehouse in San Francisco, Wolfgang's Vault boasts authentic concert materials from such artists as Johnny Cash, Miles Davis, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Rolling Stones, U2, Tom Petty, Jimi Hendrix and the Who. </font><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><br /><br /></font><font size="1"><font face="Verdana" color="#000033">The bulk of the music was obtained for more than $5 million in 2003 by entrepreneur </font><font face="Verdana" color="#000033"><strong>Bill Sagan </strong></font><font face="Verdana" color="#000033">who named it in honor of Graham, born </font><font face="Verdana" color="#000033"><strong>Wolfgang Grajonca </strong></font><font face="Verdana" color="#000033">. &nbsp;Graham died in a 1991 helicopter crash. </font></font><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><br /><br /></font><font face="Verdana" color="#000033" size="1">The initial Vault Radio playlist is &quot;all over the board in terms of performer, year, venue and genre,&quot; Sagan tells Billboard.biz. &nbsp;&quot;You'll hear Miles Davis, Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen from 1973 when he opened for Blood, Sweat &amp; Tears at the Berkeley (Calif.) Community Theatre,&quot; Sagan says. &nbsp;&quot;You'll hear instrumental-only from Booker T &amp; the MGs, and you'll also hear Jeff Beck and Elton John. &nbsp;The single thread of continuity is these are all concerts Bill Graham promoted from the mid-1960s through 1975, for the first group.&quot; </font><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><br /><br /></font><font face="Verdana" color="#000033" size="4"><font size="1">The site is free and requires no subscription fee for streaming at 128k.</font> </font></p><p><font face="Verdana" color="#000000"><a href="http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/">http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/</a></font></p><p><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">Click on Vault Radio.</font></p>

[Tall_James]

This is awesome.&nbsp; Thanks for the info.

[Mike Teacher]

<p><font color="#000033" size="1">Sagan tells Billboard</font></p><p><font color="#000033" size="1">=</font></p><p><font color="#000033" size="1">'They will sell Billions and Billions of albums...'</font></p>

[KC2OSO]

<strong>Furtherman</strong> wrote:<br /><p>This is great stuff...<br />
<font color="#000033"><font size="1"><strong /><font face="Verdana">...culled from thousands of hours of tapes ...</font></font></font></p><p>
</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Can't wait to get home and hear what's on there. <br />
It's a good thing they're getting to this&nbsp; now considering how
fast tape degrades.&nbsp; It'd probably be a pile of shit 10 years from
now.<br />
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[FUNKMAN]

Great Site!&nbsp; Thanks for the info...

[torker]

<p>I thought this was going to be about church coffers.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <img height="242" src="http://www.teddwebb.com/legends/billy_graham.jpg" width="193" border="0" /></p>

[Furtherman]

<p>Bump.&nbsp; 'cuz I hear the boys were talking about it.</p>

[Death Metal Moe]

Was Geraldo involved?&nbsp;&nbsp;He deserves to be part of at least one good vault opening.