In late 1999 and early 2000, Ben Kohn and I started up this thing called
"Zeppelin Digital", wherein we used the brand new shorten format to
distribute a ton of shows.  It was very sucessful and popular for a while.
Personal issues required that I went on hiatus from trading for a while
(2 years) and left ZD to Ben.  I've been informed that it continued for
a short time until he likewise left the trading circles.  Since then,
SHN has taken off and is used as a standard means of distributing and
archiving digital music, maintaining digital integrity in the process
and reducing the frequency of DAE in trades and trees.

I'm not really going to resurrect Zeppelin Digital as it existed before.
The SHN format is now used commonly enough that I can just do a tree in
SHN with the same result as before.  I'll be distributing these shows
in SHN.  Lower level branches can burn raw audio discs for their leaves
where needed.

Included in this tree:

2/12/75 - Flying Circus - The incredible new soundboard released by EV.

11/6/69 - Master tape -> CDR - This is a source different than the one
used in the "C'mon Everybody" bootleg, and has hardly circulated at
all, and even then as only higher generation copies (M->tape1->tape),
never from the master.  The master was recently transferred to CDR by
IMAZEPHED@aolcom, and he was kind enough to send it to me for this tree.

5/27/72 - Master -> DAT -> CDR - Nothing "new", but it's an upgrade from
the bootlegs. 

4/25/69 - Master -> DAT -> CDR - Also nothing new, but better than the
bootlegs, and same venue as 11/6/69 above, and it'll fit on the SHN CDR,
so why not?

***A Email was sent to the FBO List. The Lineage for the 04/25/69 is 2nd Gen>DAT>CDR****

Some SHN help:

http://home.att.net/%7Emkw/mkwact/
http://research.umbc.edu/~hamilton/shnfaq.html
http://research.umbc.edu/%7Ehamilton/shnlinks.html

To be a Branch, send the following email to phil@dmillard.com do not
reply to this announcement message.

In the Subject put, "Branch - ZD Returns" without the quotes.

In the body of the email put a comma delimited string with the following
info:

name, email address, State (USA only), Country, Number of leaves, Trade
overseas Y or N

i.e.:

Les Sutton, slooby@optushome.com.au, TN, USA, 4, Y,


To be a Leaf, send the following email to phil@dmillard.com do not
reply to this announcement message.

In the Subject put, "Leaf - ZD Returns" without the quotes.

In the body of the email put a comma delimited string with the following
info:

name, email address, State (US only), Country

i.e.:

Les Sutton, slooby@optushome.com.au, TN , USA

(hey les!)  ;)

Signups will close Tuesday, 10/15/2002.

I didn't send this announcement to the yahoo list because I read something
about no SHN content.  I wouldn't wanna get banned or anything, so if some
of you wanna pass this announcement along to those guys somehow so they
can get in on the tree, by all means do it.  This tree is open to anyone.

Email me with any questions.  Let's have a good tree folks.

Regards,