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Monday, August 6. 2007
We started out with all of the 35mm negatives Doug had left his sister. He had a lot of notes on the envelopes that held the negatives... but not all the information.
Connie diligently placed each roll of negs into a proper protective sleeve and put all of Doug's information into a database.
Then we began the scanning process... every frame was scanned at 4000 ppi and burned to CDs. This started in 1993 and when we went back to check our scanned CD archive several years later, many of the CDs appeared to have damaged data (bummer)!
However, with the advances in the digital domain, as we have rescanned the negs, we have ended up with better scans... so it all does work out. Of course the emphasis here is WORK!
Meanwhile... the process of building the web site (which has gone through at least 3 major overhauls and many refinements) and image research began. A lot of the performers were easy for us to recognize and those headliners were the first to go up. Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, The Doors, The Who, Donovan, Simon & Garfunkel, Iron Butterfly, Canned Heat, Blue Cheer, Blues Image, Jefferson Airplane, Lee Michaels, Delaney & Bonnie, The Rolling Stones, Blind Faith, Steppenwolf, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chambers Brothers, Poco, Mothers of Invention and Quicksilver Messenger Service were easy. We had to research band members, discographies and such, but the identification of the act was easy enough.
In that process we were approached by Janis Joplin's brother. We were excited and we sent him regular prints of all the photos we had of his sister. Suffice it to say that nothing came of that contact. We were back into our little groove stumbling along on our own devices.
The Internet has obviously been a tremendous help to our research as well as the Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll.
The first "obscure" band for us was Hamilton Streetcar. In my next post I'll tell you how that all came about.
Rock On!
Noel
