{"id":8489,"date":"2012-10-20T15:56:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T20:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=8489"},"modified":"2012-10-20T15:56:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T20:56:19","slug":"8979-shows-too-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/8979-shows-too-many\/","title":{"rendered":"8,979 shows too many"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently discovered that the Internet Archive<\/a> contains over 100,000 live concerts that you can download, free and legally. Most of the performers<\/a> I haven’t heard of, but there are quite a few of note. Acts represented include Bela Fleck and the Flecktones<\/a>, Brave Combo<\/a>, Hot Club of Cowtown<\/a>, as well as my recent enthusiasms Estradasphere<\/a> and Secret Chiefs 3<\/a>. There are also 8,980 Grateful Dead<\/a> concerts. The archive also gives me a chance to sample bands who were previously just names to me, such as bluegrass eccentrics Split Lip Rayfield<\/a> and Bad Livers<\/a>, and just plain eccentrics like Hypnotic Clambake<\/a>. The recording quality varies; most concerts I’ve listened to sound like good bootlegs.<\/p>\n

Let’s all do the “Bulgarian Boogie<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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Now let’s do the “Hokey Pokey<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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I recently discovered that the Internet Archive contains over 100,000 live concerts that you can download, free and legally. Most of the performers I haven’t heard of, but there are quite a few of note. Acts represented include Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Brave Combo, Hot Club of Cowtown, as well as my recent enthusiasms … Continue reading “8,979 shows too many”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[669],"class_list":["post-8489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-2cV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}