From tfischer@purdue.edu Mon Sep 04 00:10:03 1995
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From: tfischer@purdue.edu (Takeshi Fischer)
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Subject: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories
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For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect?

You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens.
Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn.

It was a collective, beautiful illusion. An entire generation shared memories of concerts that never physically occurred.

-- 
Takeshi Fischer
Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Purdue University Engineering Computer Network.
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From jkowalski@titech.ac.jp Mon Sep 04 15:54:03 1995
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From: jkowalski@titech.ac.jp (Joachim Kowalski)
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Subject: Re: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories
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In article <1995Sep04.001003.7854@purdue.edu>, tfischer@purdue.edu (Takeshi Fischer) writes:
> For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect?
> You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens.

Let's not romanticize government bans on live music. It was censorship and corporate control, plain and simple.

Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs.

-- 
=== Joachim Kowalski ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre
"Row 14. No joke."