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The e-word has been thrown out. Everybody drink!
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My point is that he’s not coming on the podcast because he runs their social media. That will be a small part of the discussion, but the interview will be focused on many more topics than that
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Reading the last posts I think that a brutal question to ask to Rodrigo would be about the video footage of live shows (what some Ants refers as
the vault).
We know that Rodrigo takes tons of photos and has a large archive of other photos (Rene Huemer’s mainly, and others). And he selects from this archive when posts about a birthday or a show anniversary.
The question is:
why the management don’t provide him access also to the video footage that is filmed almost in every show? Where is all this material, who keeps that, if not him, and why we cannot get regularly live clips from those unreleased shows?
Now, looking at credits in Drive-in videos, the guys that should have physical access to the
vault should be:
• Tucker Rogers (DMB music archivist for 21 years)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tucker-rogers-45268618
• Stephen Thomas (should be this guy here, a freelancer specialized in music recording that has worked with the Stones too:
http://www.stevethomas.info).
• Mike Lane (video director of many DMB videos, including Gorge, Piedmont Park and I think most of all Drive-ins.
From
here we know also that
“Each camera footage is isolated and a copy of the director’s cut is kept for post-production reference. DMB typically plays a two and a half hour set, accruing up to two terabytes per show. Each of these shows are archived on external drives and catalogued back at DMBʼs studio in Charlottesville, VA. After the content is captured it is then considered for future uses that include web videos, social media and potential live show releases.”
We also know that when Sam Erickson made the wonderful documentary “The Road to Big Whiskey”, back in 2009, he was given access to a huge archive of unreleased footage, which included behind the scene footage, concert clips and so on (one example is the unreleased footage of 2008.08.19 @ Staples Center show, when Dave announced Roi’s death).
All that amazing footage was credited to Red Light Management (of course), and I believe that
Patrick Jordan is one of the managers that takes care of that aspect.
Curiously, Jordan is quite active on social media under the nick of
quarterroy (see
here his FB), posting DMB photos and links to streams. I assume that the same guy is taking care of sharing the material for broadcasts also for Phish, and maybe is involved in Livephish portal too (which is powered by nugs.net).
The bottom line is the same outlined by other Ants before me:
since Red Light Management is the same company managing all these artists, why not giving the same treatment in allowing the sharing of quality videos also for DMB? This is the question I would like to be answered.