I don't think I've posted this here before.
Adventures at the Bottom of the Music Trade
That used to be a tragedy that they threw out the tapes. Nowadays, be assured every name-brand musician with twenty, thirty, forty records released during their twenty, thirty, forty years of performing also has twenty, thirty, forty years of sound board tapes. Every note and squiggle played onstage during those twenty, thirty, forty years has been immortalized forever on tape, and all are likely about to be re-engineered, recombined, and released in untold numbers but are likely to be twenty, thirty, forty small plastic volumes of vanity.