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Doors Dusting Off Concerts For Download |
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Written by Mike Stahl
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Sunday, 23 April 2006 |
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As part of the Doors' 40th anniversary celebration, the band will soon make more than a dozen concerts from 1967-1970 available for download from its Web site. Fans will have the option to pick and choose from the selections, many of which are previously unreleased, rather than having to buy a complete show.
The delivery mechanism will be powered by Basecamp Productions, which built Pearl Jam's successful concert download store last year. "Basecamp's entire business model is that these huge bands have all these fans that spend hours online," company principal Joshua James tells Billboard.com. "Why send them off to iTunes to buy music when they want to hang out right there on the band's Web site?"
Among the shows being tapped for the initiative is a run at New York's Felt Forum and a 1967 performance at the tiny San Francisco club the Matrix, just a few months after the release of the Doors' first album. This gig will also be released on CD as well as made available for download. Full Story
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