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SEVERE TIRE DAMAGE OPENS FOR THE ROLLING STONES To drive home the point that Severe Tire Damage was first, the band "opened" for the Stones by returning to the MBone on November 18, 1994, from 6:30-6:50pm PST. When people tuned in to see the Rolling Stones, they saw this animation and cheesy music. (Not in RealVideo, of course.) Broadcasting from the Digital Systems Research Center in Palo Alto, Severe Tire Damage played a short warmup set before the Stones, which began on the same MBone channel at 7pm PST. Severe Tire Damage also played some tunes after the Stones, at 8:05pm PST, on the same channel. Audio engineering was by Ken Beckman, MBone engineering was by Lance Berc, both of Digital's Systems Research Center. The press was generous, and STD received many other comments about our 'cast. If you were there, STD wants to hear from you!
Comments Received During the 'cast November 18, 1994
From: G.Huston@aarnet.edu.au (Australia)
From: Michael.Yee@Eng.Sun.COM (Michael Yee)
From: chang@cs.UMD.EDU
From: Ross.Finlayson@Eng.Sun.COM (Ross Finlayson)
> What did you think of the warm up act?
From: Stephen Casner <CASNER@ISI.EDU>
From the Producers of the Rolling Stones 'cast
From: sfitch@stones.com (Stephan Fitch)
From: Stephan Fitch <gmo@media.mit.edu>
Comments from Others in the Audience
From: jbehrle@bbn.com Hey Guys,
Great job opening for the Stones on Friday! You were mentioned in today's -Jeremy Behrle
From: lazowska@cs.washington.edu "Tarnished"? What the hell do they mean by "tarnished"? [see NYT article.]
From: smiller@bbn.com Hey Severe Tire Damage! We were at the BBN Network Operations Center in Cambridge ("ops@nic.near.net") with the Boston Globe reporter. We saw your video come up and brought you up (we were watching on a 5x8 foot screen with 8 speakers in the ceiling... Overkill, but fun). Anyhow we caught you mid song and it was the guy from the globe who first recognized the "Ass*&^e" song. You guys were great, very entertaining (My favorite was the vat only rendition of "Jungle Love" after the show. If you send a Tshirt, It will hang in our Tshirt hall of fame here at the NOC Take Care, hope to see you online again. Steve Miller, BBN, 20/2d, 150 Cambridge Park Drive, Cambridge, MA 02138
From: slevy@geom.umn.edu Hi. By chance Nov 18th was the night our MBone connection started working, and the Stones was the only broadcast running, so we used it as a test. Tuned in in the middle, so didn't hear your music. I'm not crazy about the Stones, so didn't listen long; the audio quality would have been pretty poor even if I'd wanted to listen. This definitely seems to be technology whose time isn't quite here yet. I haven't seen anything in the local papers about this event. What we actually wanted to use the MBone for is to "attend" a conference, Frontiers of Mathematical Communication, from MSRI in Berkeley; it happens to be going on today & tomorrow, under the session name "FMC". Stuart Levy, Geometry Center, University of Minnesota
From: ted.brunner@email.hub.tek.edu Mark- I wasn't in fact listening. I had set up vat/nv tools and vat_record/nv_record, and went home for the evening. What I got on nv was nothing. (Our ip provider just isn't very well connected.) The vat got just the stones segment, because I set up the timers accurately... But if you want to send me a tee-shirt I'd be happy to receive it :^)
Ted Brunner Communication Systems Research Lab
From: rcs@cs.arizona.edu My connection was crummy: The broadcast would be fine for maybe a minute, then go catatonic for two, then come back. Frustrating, because I'd recognize a song, and then have it disappear in the middle. I gave up on it after fifteen minutes or so. (Also, we need better speakers on our workstations.) Rich Schroeppel rcs@cs.arizona.edu (University of Arizona, Tucson)
From: ryeatman@comp.uark.edu Hi Mark, Yes, I did get to enjoy your performance! Very interesting. Your mcast came through MUCH better than the Stones. Location: University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR
From: acmansker@ucdavis.edu Russ Hobby forwarded your email to me -- I was one of the viewers? participants? -- kind of hard to categorize the experience. We had the whiteboard up, along with sound and video. The video was interesting. There was occasional dropout, and between that and the variation in frames-per-second, the effect was strongly reminiscent of an early MTV music video, though artistically superior. We were able to hear much of the audio portion -- caught Mick's greeting to the MBone participants -- but it was clear from activity on the whiteboard that some people were getting no sound at all. Someone in southern California said it sounded fine to them, but we were experiencing more audio dropout than video. Overall, it was a technically interesting experiment. It might have been wiser for whoever set it up to can the whiteboard -- every little bit of bandwidth helps, and I saw little of interest on the pages I flipped through. I don't know whether that qualifies as an interesting answer, but here's the address where we were sharing? experiencing? the event:
Technology Resources
From: CASNER@isi.edu
Hi Mark. I noticed that Lance was transmitting and may have seen a -- Steve
From: lessem@ibg.colorado.edu
Sorry no press clippings, but several of us did sit around the
One person did make the comment about the Stones show: You could
From: kevinh@eit.com (Kevin Hughes)
I was just webbing around when I noticed:
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