4.7 Tape Trees (Smashing Pumpkins)
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This article is from the Smashing Pumpkins FAQ, by Mike Hamilton michaelh@ualberta.ca with numerous contributions by others.
4.7 Tape Trees (Smashing Pumpkins)
Recently, the Smashing Pumpkins Live Recording Association (SPLRA)
has either set up, or sponsored a number of "tape trees". This began
with the Bridge School Benefit concert in October 1997. The show was
taped, and the master was donated to the SPLRA for a tape tree.
For those of you who don't know what a "tape tree" is, it's
essentially like a family tree. The seed (someone with a good
quality, master or 1st generation tape) posts to the newsgroup and
Listessa, looking for people to sign up as "branches" and "leaves".
Once the allotted time for sign-up to the tree has expired, the branches
send one blank tape and a few dollars for postage to the seed. The seed
then dubs the tapes for the branches and returns them. The branches each
do the same for their leaves, which they have been assigned.
For a better description, go to http://www.tapetrading.com/treehouse/
For more information on the goodness that is the SPLRA, go to:
http://www.starla.org/splra/
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