1995
Standley produces one of the 1st webcast in
history
1995
Standley produced one of the very first live Internet cybercast. The webcast was from
the
famous Troubadour
in Hollywood. On the lineup were some classic LA acts including,
Bum Steers
John York from the Byrds, Greg Harris of Flying Burrito Brothers, Buck Page founding
member of
the Riders of the Purple
Sage, county "hit" writer Steve Hill, producer Sid Smith (Circus
of the Stars,
Bob Hope's
Christmas Specials for 10 years, Miss Universe Pageant) was playing cardboard box
with some other great LA talent riding the super informational highway
click
for flyer
from 1995
"The
earliest webcast equivalent of an online concert and one of the earliest
examples of
webcasting itself was by Apple Computer's Webcasting Group in
partnership with the
entrepreneurs Michael Dorf and Andrew Rasiej.
Together with David Pakman from Apple,
the
launched the Macintosh New York Music Festival from
July 17-22, 1995.
This event
audio webcast concerts from more than 15 clubs in
New York city.
From the dates above,
Benford produced the second webcast in history... we are sure needs
to be
more research to
confirm...but we see the race is on...and/or was on.
In
1997, while living back in
Austin, Tx, Benford produced a live Internet cybercast
of Willie Nelson
and
Kinky
Friedman and Friends,
playing for the 100 year birthday party of Jimmie Rodgers
( Father of
Country
Music). The cybercast was
produced in concert with Sony/Columbia Online and
he produced the
show on
a Bob Dylan website. The
show was a
Yahoo "Pick of the Week," and
a
pick by
CitySearch.com,
and was so successful that the Sony
server system crashed in San
Francisco.
thank you very much...
Benford
Standley's & West Multimedia Digital History
