Your parents' rock and roll

And mine too. Courtesy Shirl at the Resource Shelf, I've been made aware of a new project at Vault Radio. Here's the blurb:

Bill Graham and his concert promotion company, Bill Graham Presents, produced more than 35,000 concerts all over the world. His first venue, the legendary Fillmore Auditorium, was home to many of rock's greatest performers - Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Prince - and the list goes on and on.

Graham taped thousands of live performances and stored the tapes in the basement of the BGP headquarters. These tapes and the concerts they captured lay dormant until the Bill Graham archive was acquired by Wolfgang's Vault (Bill Graham's given first name was Wolfgang) in 2003.

Now you can stream selected tracks from these concerts by listening to Vault Radio. But wait, there's more. You can purchase vintage posters, tickets, and handbills. And for absolutely free, you can install the likes of Summer of Love screensavers and Phil Lesh wallpaper.

Funny, in an earlier post, Shirl quoted the bumper sticker that says "Yes I'm old, but your music really does suck." Thank you, Vault Radio, for bringing on the good stuff.