6 Degrees Below Zero (1-19-02) Tree Sign Up

That' s right! The BBKings Warm Up gig gets a fresh spin.

This is a previously unavailable recording of the January 19th 2002 show at BBKings in New York City! IMHO this is better than any of the other 3 versions in circulation, complete right down to MP' s " ERT" at the end!


Made available by 31608 Records, with CD and cover art by Yudhi Sutjiawan - I am going to spread this via Tree. Sign up begins today and will end at midnight on Saturday 02-08-03

Dream Theater : 6 Degrees Below Zero, BBKings, New York, NY – 2002-01-19

CD1: The Glass Prison – UAGM – Guitar Solo – Scarred / 2112 : Grand Finale – Cover My Eyes – SDVu – 2112 : Grand Finale 2 – SDVu Take 2 – Through My Words – Fatal Tragedy – LSOAD

CD2: Blind Faith – Keyboard Solo – LITS – Misunderstood – Lie – TSCO – PMU

CD3: Home – Hollow Years – Take The Time / Working Man / By-Tor

To sign up for the tree, email Weymolith@mikeportnoy.com with the subject BBKINGS TRADING TREE with the following information :

Name:
Email:
City / State (Where applicable, I will attempt to hook leaves up with branches close to them) :
Can you do disk-at-once burns?:
Leaf or Branch :
Number of copies you are willing to make and send if you are a branch:
If you are a branch, would you download your seed in SHN format from a private FTP?

Sign Up Now!

~Weymolith~
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I' ve gotta get this. I missed this show because of the damn snowstorm that day. I wasn' t really confident in driving 3+ hours to New York, which I had never done before, in the snow. Thanks for posting this, I' ll sign up now.

I waited in the cold and froze my ass off, but I didn' t care. I felt bad for my friend though who isn' t a huge DT fan...

E-mail sent - I' m in.

Thanks for mentioning my name Wey! You gotta sign in guys! The cover is delicious!!!

I only have 3 or 4 boots in my cd collection & this seems like a good one to have, I' m in.

E-mail sent, thanks!

Kick ass.

Count me in too

Is this an audience or a soundboard recording? What grade (A/B)?.

Thanks

This might be a stupid question, but I' m gonna risk it anyway: is this also open to non-US residents? Because I sooooo want this one.

ok, an even dumber question...How exactly do we get this disc(s). I am totally out of the loop, and have no clue what a " tree" is. Insert jokes below:

ORIGINAL: acos2

ok, an even dumber question...How exactly do we get this disc(s). I am totally out of the loop, and have no clue what a " tree" is. Insert jokes below:

No, man...I' m clueless too actually and was about to ask the same question. I' m in but I need to know exactly how this works.

Don' t be fooled by the rocks that I got, I' m still I' m still leafy from the block.

i wanna be in too, but am not all clear on the tree / branch thingy. anyone care to explain??

BBKINGS TRADING TREE

email sent!

Tree:
Trunk (or Root) - The person with the Master or the copy being distributed.

Branch - People with burners who can spin copies for multiple people.

Leaf - People who either can' t spin copies or can only make one copy.

Typically a Root gets the discs out to the Branches, who in turn distribute them to leaves. This is normally done by trading, though the Tull Usenet group used to do them for $20/set.

The newest method is a " Weed" , where one person agrees to send copies to 2 or 3 people (either for free or in trade) if they' ll agree to " re-Weed" the set to 2 or 3 other people in turn. After a few re-Weeds, a set usually makes it to everyone who wants it. There' s a Zeppelin Yahoo group that does this extensively.

Or you can be a dick and sell them.

Mail sent.
To you too, Rai.

Xan, thanks for the explanation!! I don' t have a burner on my pc, but I seriously want a copy. What should I do? I would be more than willing to trade.

Thank you for explaining the Tree idear Xan.

Here' s another question that I' ve seen pop up in multiple emails (45 so far guys keep ' em coming!!)

I will be leaving it up to the Branches to work out trades or blank & postage deals with the Leaves they are assigned.

I' m getting a lot of people willing to be branches this time which is awesome!!

Some people have gotten emails in response to their request " ONLY" if they have asked a question that needed answering. You will receive a confirmation email on 2-8-03 that you have been placed on the tree.

Tree structuring has already begun (because I' m being flooded with emails) and I hope to have everything ready to go by 2-10-03 - Some branches will be receiving their copies over the next 2 weeks. If you have been selected for this you will receive an email. Branches willing to download the SHNs from my private FTP will also be receiving an email shortly.

31608 Records and I would like to thank you all for making this so successful in just under 10 hours. Providing this goes smoothly, I' ll be starting another " goodie" around in March :)

So, I guess in my email you' ll tell me what an SHN file is and how to use it when I make copies for the leaves, right?

ORIGINAL: Weymolith

That' s right! The BBKings Warm Up gig gets a fresh spin.

This is a previously unavailable recording of the January 19th 2002 show at BBKings in New York City! IMHO this is better than any of the other 3 versions in circulation, complete right down to MP' s " ERT" at the end!

Is there any chance of getting a sample put up somewhere to compare sound quality? I' ve got this show already and would like to check out the difference...

Thanks..

Adam

SHNs are compressed WAV files, like MP3 but they' re " lossless" . MP3' s contain algorithms that chop off certain frequencies deemed undetectable to the human ear at determined bitrates (which is why higher bitrate MP3s sound better...), where SHN only compresses the file and doesn' t cut anything from the original file.

You can download SHN plugins for WinAMP, convert them to WAV and burn as CD. Just check the files with a WAV editor before you do, some compressors insert a split second of silence at the beginning and end of a SHN file and if you don' t cut that silence out it will almost sound like it was burned in track-at-once mode with the gaps between tracks.

Xan makes me feel stupid....

ORIGINAL: Xanadu
You can download SHN plugins for WinAMP, convert them to WAV and burn as CD. Just check the files with a WAV editor before you do, some compressors insert a split second of silence at the beginning and end of a SHN file and if you don' t cut that silence out it will almost sound like it was burned in track-at-once mode with the gaps between tracks.

Actually, if the CD is ripped properly you' ll never get those little blank spaces when encoding to SHN. SHN was designed with that in mind. MP3 encoders, however, do seem to " pad" the files with silence. Just one more reason MP3 is worthless for anything other than a cursory listen.

Adam

Maybe I can " dumby-down" and not download it, then, or, wait, I can look at this as a chance to learn something, and really figure that stuff out...
Well, hell, if he' ll just send me a copy, I would be happy happy to branch it that way.

John, ya get me email? (Sorry to use your thread, Wey)

For information regarding SHN - Visit www.etree.org

Here you can find the plugins for winamp, and the links to Michael K. Weiss' s software which I use for encoding / decoding and verification of MD5 signature files.

To clarify : Only branches willing to download the show via FTP will be getting SHNS - All others will be burning AUDIO CDs

*** And Alpine, I' ll have some samples available this weekend ****

Hey Wey, do the branches have to trade with you (i have exactly 0 boots), or are you just one of the coolest guys around and are going to let the branches simply download off of you? Also, about how many leaves will each branch take care of? (I realize you have us answer that question when we sign up, but I dont want to sign up for 7 or 8 leaves while everyone else is doing 45)

Im deciding whether or not I have the time to be a branch.

I do want in on this since I was at the show BUT, due to all of my time involved in school right now, I can' t be a branch, otherwise I could.

All I need is a copy of this, however, I WOULD have enough time to make a few copies, but not a mass amount of copies.

Anyone?

would any branch be willing to tell me how many leaves they are going to service? I really want to see if I can do this, but I don' t want to be a useless branch servicing a small amount of leaves.

edit: and also, how do I go about the artwork?

Shweeeeeeeeeeet. You da fookin' MAN, er... Wookie!

I' d like to sign up as a leaf because I don' t own a CD burner. However, I' d like to also request that I be paired up with a branch who can print me color liners, since I also don' t have a color printer.

E-Mail forthcoming...

Yeah, guess Im still not quite catching this...how does it work? I have a burner on my CPU, but I dont understand what the branches/leafs/ all that stuff means. I get the cd? and then burn it a few times and send it out again?

Any help would be appreciated since I would love to get this cd set. And I have time to burn/send out more too, just need some help getting started.


Thanks...
Don

id like to be a leaf.. i could possibly even burn a few copies.. just let me know what i need to do.. matt

guys, xanadu explained the basic setup. Im just really confused as to how many people a branch is expected to burn for.

Most of the people who have volunteered to be branches are doing 4-5 shows a piece average.. Right now we' ve got a lot of branches so sign up for what you feel you can burn and I' ll set you up occordingly

~W~

This show rocked!!!! I' m in I just emsiled!!!!

i think more people will want to see this.....

Meaning what, you' ll hold a sign up behind a live on the scenes newscasters head on your bare chest, a-la W.O.W?