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So glad you're doing this work, JD. It's great to know someone is  
preserving our music!
 
Jamie
 
 
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In a message dated 1/14/2011 9:59:18 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
jddoyle1 at aol.com writes:


Sandy, 
That's a difficult one...........as a  collector and archivist I seek out 
cassettes by GLBT artists because very  often that was the only format in 
which an artist released a work, so it's  valuable history to me. I've done 
entire shows, several times, based just on  songs available only on tape. And 
you've sent me your tapes, thank you..:) But  if the material was or is now 
on CD, I prefer that, for sound quality and ease  of use.

As a collector I've also found that it's hard to find those  rare releases, 
dealers (such as on eBay) just do not want to bother with them.  I quick 
trip to eBay and inputting a "search" in "music" on the word "gay" got  me 
1144 hits, 11 of them tapes, and none of those were particularly  collectable.

But your question is what should an artist do with  quantities of their old 
releases on tape. The only thing that comes to mind is  to donate them to 
GLBT archives...and a catch is to check first to see if even  they would want 
them. They may not have any capability for visitors to play  tapes. This is 
almost always the situation I've found when visiting archives  around the 
country, if they even have a music collection. And as they would  not likely 
want "quantities" of a donated item, the option of you tracking  down the 
whole list of these archives (and I'm not sure where that list is)  would be 
more work than most might want. [Of course you would want to assure  the 
Lesbian Herstory Archives gets a couple copies of each; their tape  collection 
is superb.] 

Okay, sorry, I know I gave you more of a  discussion than a solution....:)

Oh, for those out there who have  collections of tapes by GLBT artists, and 
are ready to throw them  away...please, ask me first, I may take the off 
your hands and at least you'd  know they are ending up in an archives that 
appreciates them. I've "inherited"  two or three collections like this in the 
past, and loved it.

JD  Doyle
www.queermusicheritage.com


In a message dated 01/14/11  08:33:49 Central Standard Time, SandyRapp 
writes:
>From SandyRapp.com  
I've got a number of tapes from my 1995 We The People album and even   more 
from a 1986 release called "Hardweather Friends" which preceeded CDs.  Has  
 
anyone found a use for tapes? No one buys them anymore but  if there's 
anywhere  to send them, they're political and still  relevant and I'd like 
take them 
somewhere other than the landfill.  Thanks,  SandyRapp at aol.com  
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