“Wolfgang’s Vault is the collector’s site for multimedia music memorabilia, offering a vast selection of some of the world’s rarest – and potentially most treasured – music and music-related ‘stuff,'” Jonny Evans reports for Distorted-Loop.
Wolfgang’s Vault “released its Concert Vault application on November 11, you can download it now for free from the App Store, and it offers a wonderful thing, free access to the world’s largest collection of live concert recordings directly from the Apple device,” Evans reports.
“We think it’s pretty cool to be able to explore all the new music and live concert footage as it’s added to the vault, and it’s also a musical treat to listen in to any of the four radio stations the service offers. These aren’t your standard stations – they play songs taken from the Vault’s huge (really huge) collection of live gigs from the ’60’s right through until today,” Evans reports.
“It’s an absolute delight for anyone who has a love for music through the ages, an able representation of one of the world’s more unique online music services,” Evans reports.
More in the full article, including an interview with Eric Johnson, President and CEO of Wolfgang’s Vault, here.
More info and download link for “Concert Vault” via Apple App Store (iTunes link) is here.
MacDailyNews Take: If you want to hear how U2 sounded at the Orpheum on May 6, 1983 or The Who at Filmore East on October 22, 1969 or Genesis at the Hammersmith Odeon on June 10, 1976 or… you get the idea: Go get this app!
Do they have Beethoven’s first performance in Vienna from 1795? That would rock!
@MacAngus;
Sorry, but these days, Beethoven is decomposing.
@ Sixvodkas
and Schubert doesn’t answer the door.
ConcertVault is effing brilliant!
Thanks for the Monty Python references, always appreciated!
I love this app on the iPhone. Even better than the full website (which is amazing as well). If you’ve been a concert goer for as long as I have this is a must have app.
The best two sequential comments on MDN, ever:
Comment from: MacAngus
Do they have Beethoven’s first performance in Vienna from 1795? That would rock!
Nov 22, 08 – 10:14 amComment from: Sixvodkas
@MacAngus;
Sorry, but these days, Beethoven is decomposing.
@MacAngus
Do they have Beethoven’s first performance in Vienna from 1795?
What’s brown and crusty and sits on a piano bench?
Beethoven’s last movement.
Wonderful Beethoven jokes notwithstanding, Wolfgang Grajonca was Bill Graham’s birth name. Bill founded the historic concert series at The Fillmore and Winterland.
I was at the Doors-Chambers Brothers concert September 1968 in San Diego. Fabulous!
MW: soviet-weird!
Now, why should I have to listen to the whole concert and not just be able to download the song or two I want to hear? That’s called bundling!!!
After beating around the bush since last June, waiting for either my phone or my wife’s to go kaput, I finally bought an iPhone. For me, this is an upgrade from a basic “dumb” phone, and it’s really a revelation. I had been reading about all the cool and useful apps available, and now that I’m using them, apps like Google’s voice search app and street-view in maps, Pandora, even the iPod software (I am upgrading from a Shuffle) I just can’t believe how functional and powerful this thing is. I mean, will Blackberry ever have an app like this Concert Vault for the Storm? Will Palm?
Granted, I’m not a business person. I couldn’t care less about native copy and paste on the phone. It’s just an astounding machine, much more powerful than the first Mac I owned, a Performa 575, I think it was. My iPhone has performed better than my expectations on just about every level.
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Concert Vault is an extraordinary piece of software. It seems to hang every now and then but to hear some of the old bands live is like adding thousands of songs to my iTunes at no cost.
Where does ConcertVault make their money?
I hope it’s not from selling registration information.
Shouldn’t those jokes be Mozart jokes?