Some words about tape CD-R trading

The best, cheapest and most enjoyable way of expanding your collection (or even starting your collection) of Pink Floyd and Solo live material is through tape/CD-R trading.

Brian Davis created the Tape Trader's bible, which explains this all much better than we could ever hope to do. The Tape Traders bible can be found at http://www.jasongeo.com/gerhard/tradebible.html

"What are CD-R/tape trees?" A tape tree is a fast way to spread a show to a large group of people. A (long) document explaining this in more detail is available through echoserv, as tape tree.long

And can be found online at the Essential tape tree home page (http://www.jasongeo.com/gerhard, click on the Essential ROIO tree icon)

"What is a tape/CD-R weed?"

A weed is an alternative method of spreading a recording fast through a large number of people, without having the overhead of making a tree structure. Basically the person starting the weed ships a copy of the recording to N people (for free, there is no trade involved) those N people promise to do the same. So they announce on Echoes that they are weeding, and will ship a free copy to the first N people who respond. Those N people in turn will offer free copies to the first N people and so on and so on.