From aoliveira@pipeline.com Sat Jun 11 02:53:42 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!pipeline!aoliveira From: aoliveira@pipeline.com (Andrei Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [SPECULATION] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Jun11.025342.7856@pipeline.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 1994 02:53:42 GMT Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 Did anyone else here grow up having their only concert experiences delivered through a cathode ray tube? With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. It was a collective, beautiful illusion. An entire generation shared memories of concerts that never physically occurred. -- Andrei Oliveira -- The Pipeline Internet Network "We don't sign stars. We build them." From nfournier@netcom.com Sat Jun 11 20:14:42 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!netcom!nfournier From: nfournier@netcom.com (Nadia Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Jun11.201442.7106@netcom.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 1994 20:14:42 GMT References: <1994Jun11.025342.7856@pipeline.com> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jun11.025342.7856@pipeline.com>, aoliveira@pipeline.com (Andrei Oliveira) writes: > Did anyone else here grow up having their only concert experiences delivered through a cathode ray tube? Let's not romanticize government bans on live music. It was censorship and corporate control, plain and simple. -- Nadia Fournier Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."