Honoring LeRoi Moore

Honor and remember LeRoi Moore and enter the September dbtp.org contest. To enter, simply post in the September Contest Thread anything to honor LeRoi Moore. Post your favorite picture of LeRoi, a memorable song performance, original or photo-shopped artwork, a poem expressing your memories or gratitude to LeRoi…anything that gives a special tribute LeRoi Moore.

Your post will be your entry for this contest.

The winner will be chosen by random drawing.  One lucky winner will receive a copy of Live Trax: Volume 13.

The winner will also receive a LeRoi Moore "Stage Left" Charity Bracelet.

A picture is worth 1000 words…but can you use it to represent your favorite band, song or lyric? Now is the time to try and win!  This month’s DBTP contest is coming to a close soon.  Be sure to submit all photos by August 31st by 11:59pm EST to qualify.

Winner will receive an 8 gig (3RD Generation) IPod Nano!

Runner Up will receive 1 DMB Live Trax of your choice (with 12 volumes to choose from!)

Haven’t entered yet…there is still time to sort through your pictures. All entries must include 4 photos, one from each category:

- Song Title
- Band Member
- Song Lyrics
- 'Wildcard' DMB related photo

Please remember that pictures may not be found on the internet or edited in with any photo editing software.  They must be your own!

Top entries will be chosen by the DBTP.org staff based on creativity and originality. These entries will then be voted on by all DBTP members. Be original! Be creative!

Submit Photo by:

1. Post your pictures in the Photo Contest Thread or
2. Post a link to your pictures (like photobucket or flikr) OR
3. Email your pictures to dbtpadmin@comcast.net

November 2nd, 2007

As we approach the final concerts of 2007 and look back on the concert year, we, as DMB fans need to give a "thank you" to the tapers who have allowed the fans to enjoy the concerts we have not be able to attend and to enjoy again the concerts we did attend. And, of course, a special "thank you" to our favorite bands who allow the tapers to tape their live concerts and to share their recordings with the rest of us.

Organized taping and trading of live concerts can be traced back to the early '60's and 70's.  The first band to encourage and allow taping was the Grateful Dead. The Dead and other jam bands just loved to play and enjoyed getting their music out to the public.   This next generation of taper friendly bands were jam bands that can be traced back the H.O.R.D.E. and include such bands as Phish and the Blues Traveler. From them, grew a movement known as "taper friendly" bands of which the Dave Matthews Band is a leader and strong promoter.

Taper friendly bands do not allow the "unauthorized" distribution of copyrighted recordings, but allow the free trade of live concerts. Illegal selling of album copies and the selling of live concerts became known as "bootlegs" after the illegal alcohol trade during prohibition.  The first album know to be bootlegged was Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes.

We recently had the privilege of interviewing a taper whose recordings most of us have probably enjoyed and who freely trades his recordings on DreamingTree.

Tim Brown is a middle school band director who has been taping concerts for almost three years.

Read the dontburnthepig.org interview with Tim Brown

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