FAYETTEVILLE TAPER'S SWAP STATS
Fayetteville's Taper's
Swap #1 (the first one) was 3/22/99.
The next one will be: Taper's Swap
#17
Estimated total number of live tapes exchanged through Taper's
Swap:
267
That's a lot of live music going around in Fayetteville!
Here are some of the bands that have
been traded at Taper's Swap:
Grateful Dead, JGB, Phish, Widespread Panic, moe., KVHW, Galactic,
Gov't Mule, String Cheese Incident, Leftover Salmon, Big Smith,
Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit, Bob Marley,
Peter Tosh, Bob Dylan, MerleFest, Doc Watson, David Grisman,
Miles Davis, Shockra, Ratdog, Bruce Hornsby, Other Ones, Phil
Lesh & Friends, Zero, Funkadelic, Steely Dan, Maceo Parker
Here are some of the tapes that have
been daisy-chained for folks at Taper's Swap:
- Jazz Is Dead - Atlanta 10/30/98
- Widespread Panic - S.F. '97
- Bob Dylan - Chatanooga '96
- String Cheese Incident - Fayetteville
'99
- Phish - 7/1/99 Nashville Set I
- moe. - Lawrence, KS - the Bottleneck
'99 Set II
- WSP - Aspen 8/8/99
Most folks bring analog cassettes
to swap, but we have also used the following media:
- CD-R
- DAT
- Hi-Fi VHS
- mp3 recorded to tape
We have linked multiple recording
machines in a daisy-chain, including:
- DAT
- Hi-Fi VHS
- Analog Tape
- CD-R
- MiniDisc
Some extra equipment to remember:
- Power-strip
- RCA cords
- RCA>mini cords for DAT>analog
- Paper, pen and scissors to make numbers
to draw, determining the order of picking tapes
- Extra blank tapes
- A copy of your tape list
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What is Taper's Swap?
- It's a way to meet other people who trade live tapes. Everybody
brings a copy of two favorite live sets (two tapes). You put
your two tapes on the table, and you take two new tapes from
the table. Score!! Trade tapes that are the peaks of everyones'
collection. Get tapes of bands you don't know and learn about
new music. Pass your tape-list around to other tape-traders in
your area. Listen to tunes.
Can I go?
- Everyone's invited to the Taper's Swap of Fayetteville, if
you want to trade tapes up here. If you don't live around here,
you might want to start your own Taper's Swap. Three avid tapers
in Fayetteville, Arkansas, came up with a similar idea independently
of each other, in the same week. Heads together, they merged
to create Taper's Swap of Fayetteville. The idea has gone so
well that we want to spread it around.
How can
I start Taper's Swap in my town?
- Decide where to have your Taper's Swap (your house, or a
local restaurant, preferably one that has a stereo they will
let you take over for a few hours). Publicize. Everything else
is details... and you can change the rules to fit your style
(this page is just guidelines). Have fun!
- Print out the Generic Taper's
Swap flyer (PDF file), adding your place and time, or make
your own posters. Put up the posters in local record stores,
head shops, and friendly restaurants.
- Give a stack of posters to any any local tape traders you
know, and ask them to pass them on to other tapers. Pass a few
flyers around the taper's section at a show.
- Take out a classified ad (often free). The goal is to reach
tapers you haven't met before, so you have access to something
other than the same old tapes. Here is the wording from the free
classified ad I took out in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:
- PHISH TAPE traders - biweekly Taper's Swap. Widespread Panic,
Grateful Dead, all live bands. Analog, DAT, CD-R welcome. Call
Daniel for time/place.
- Choose two of your favorite tapes. Make a copy of them on
blank Type-II analog cassettes. Label your tapes so people will
be psyched when they see it. (Or, leave the setlist for a surprise
like Will does sometimes.)
- How to daisy-chain your tape decks at the Taper's Swap:
- Bring your tape deck and an extra blank tape.
- Bring one of your best shows that is on a 90-minute tape.
- Get someone else to bring a tape deck (or DAT).
- Connect: Play/Line-Out >> to >> Record/Line-In.
Continue connecting Line-Out's to Line-In's on all the decks
(this is what we call a daisy-chain). Plug the last Line-Out
into the receiver (at your house, or the restaurant's - if you
can't use their system, you can still record and monitor with
headphones plugged directly into the tape deck).
- If you have extra recording slots open, offer other people
at the swap the chance to throw a blank tape in. My deck records
in both slots, so I can spin two copies at the same time - one
for me and one for someone else.
- Press Record-Pause on all the recording decks. Put the show
of choice in the play-deck and press Play. Set the levels on
all the decks. When setting levels, start with the first deck
in the chain - each deck will affect all subsequent decks' levels.
- Now you are ready to spin multiple copies of a great show!
Invite everyone to bring a tape-deck to the next Swap.
- Put your two tapes on a table. Ask everyone to put their
tapes on the table for the Swap. Don't trade the tapes yet; wait
until everyone is there, and the daisy-chain is rolling.
- It's easier to select tapes one at a time, instead of everyone
diving in at once. Here's how we decide who gets to go first:
- If there are 20 people who brought tapes to swap, we put
slips of paper numbered 1-20 in a hat. Each person draws a number.
- Number one goes first, selecting only one tape from the table.
Then number two picks a tape. And so on, until we get to the
last number -- number 20 gets to pick two tapes in a row.
- Then we proceed backwards through the numbers (19,18,17...)
so everyone can pick the second tape. You only get to pick two
tapes if you brought two tapes and put them on the table.
- Some people only bring one tape, and some people bring three
or four - if you brought more, you simply have to wait until
everyone else has redeemed two tapes before you select your additionals).
Most people at our Swap feel that this method is fair.
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