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Phish @ Jones Beach | June 2, 2009

We Need a High-Quality Paid Webcast for Concerts

After witnessing the evolving and ever-expanding online activity surrounding Phish’s recent reunion tour, I’m now thoroughly convinced that the Phish fan base is primed and ready for a high-quality and paid live video stream for the band’s next tour. If done properly and in innovative Phish fashion, it could create an untapped revenue stream for the band while allowing more Phish fans to engage with the band’s music – in particular those fans that can’t make it out to every show on tour.

Given the band’s recent history of wanting to scale down their in-house operations, I could see why you might think that a large-scale paid webcast would not be worth the large investment and effort it most certainly would require. But it’d be wrong to think so. There are some very compelling reasons why this should happen now and why Phish is the band to do it.

Phish, Red Light Management, please hear us out. We’ve really thought this one through…

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It looks like Hulu will be streaming live from the Austin City Limits festival this weekend. You may remember iClips.net also announcing a live stream for ACL fest. As such, I thought for a minute that these might have been two separate streams. But I’ve just confirmed with Nate at that this is, in fact, the same live stream which .net is just syndicating to .

Speaking of the , over at the ACL fest blog they just posted a 16-song sampler of bands that are playing this weekend. The digital sampler is available for free at iTunes with a redemption code.