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I forward your post to Chris Mickle. You should be hearing from him soon, if not already. Angie Dickinson Avocado Productions John Ross wrote: > I have an odd problem. About 60 concert and radio broadcast tapes of major > rock bands and local Seattle acts, all recorded in the mid-1970s, have come > into my possession. Based on some web research, it appears that these > recordings do not exist as bootlegs. It is quite possible that these are > the only extant copies of these recordings. > > A few of the performers on the tapes include Fleetwood Mac, The Pointer > Sisters, Frank Zappa, Deep Purple, Rush and Robin Trower. There are many > other equally important bands and performers. > > This stuff is out of my own area of expertise, but I know enough to > recognize that this is probably an important collection. So I'm looking for > a place to either donate or sell the tapes to somebody in a position to > deal with them without diluting the musicians' intellectual property. While > I have the tapes, I don't believe I have any claim on the rights to the > performances they document, so I don't want to make them available through > the bootleg channel. > > I have offered to donate these tapes to the Experience Music Project Museum > here in Seattle, but they are not able to accept them. So I'm looking for > other options. > > Can anybody suggest any other museums, libraries or private collectors who > might be interested in this material? > > John Ross > Sound Archivist > Northwest Folklife > > >