From lweber@demon.co.uk Sun Jul 09 22:42:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!demon!lweber From: lweber@demon.co.uk (Lisa Weber) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Jul09.224208.4690@demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 09 Jul 1995 22:42:08 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. Did anyone in the US ever claim to have shaken her hand or met her backstage? -- === Lisa Weber === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Demon Internet Services UK "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From vandersson@tum.de Mon Jul 10 19:37:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!tum!vandersson From: vandersson@tum.de (Valeria Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Jul10.193708.3248@tum.de> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 19:37:08 GMT References: <1995Jul09.224208.4690@demon.co.uk> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul09.224208.4690@demon.co.uk>, lweber@demon.co.uk (Lisa Weber) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. > We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. Let's not romanticize government bans on live music. It was censorship and corporate control, plain and simple. -- Valeria Andersson "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Atari Falcon 030 / NEXTSTEP 3.3