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Random music news for Tuesday, March 10, 2020

You know that things are weird when my visit to Costoco revealed that my local store totally out of antiseptic

Illegally made recordings are as old as recorded music itself. In 1901, Lionel Mapleson, the librarian at the Metropolitan Opera

I understand why people back into parking spaces at the mall, but when it’s crowded and busy during the holiday

Unauthorized sharing of songs goes back further than Napster. Much further. As proof, here’s a short film Neil Young shot

I confess: I used to buy a lot of bootleg CDs. And I mean a lot. They ran the gamut:

It was on this day in 1963 that the first-ever push-button telephone went into service. And now, some music news…

The first known example of a successful bootleg was an unauthorized Bob Dylan collection of–ahem–misplaced tracks called Great White Wonder

[For some reason, I’ve recently been getting a lot of people asking about the old illicit Soviet method or distributing

There was a time not that long ago that mobile phones were banned from concerts. You may remember seeing signs

Although bootleg recordings date back more than a hundred years, they first appeared as wax cylinders, acetate recorders and magentic tape.

Sam Galet in Conversation with TBP Podcast Ep 003 August 5, 2020
Sam Galet is one of the sponsorship industry’s most successful connectors. Over his 20+ year career, he has been directly involved in leading a number of massive sports, entertainment and lifestyle sponsorships, endorsements and naming rights deals. From an early age, Sam knew what he wanted to achieve in his career and he set his […]
Mark Silver
Dave Krikst in Conversation with TBP Podcast Ep 002 July 29, 2020
Dave Krikst (aka My Man D) is the creative mind behind many of the most memorable shareable off the court or ice moments in Canadian sports over the last 20 years. Throughout his career, starting early on with theScore television network and Rogers Media’s’ FAN 590, and then with Bell Media’s TSN, Dave has established […]
Mark Silver
Launch Day – The Backstage Project Podcast July 23, 2020
Welcome to the launch of The Backstage Project Podcast! I’m Mark Silver, and I’ll be your guide as we weave our way through the history, here and now, and future of the Canadian sports and entertainment landscape. The Backstage Project Podcast takes you on a journey into the sports and entertainment world. We focus on […]
Mark Silver