Severe Tire Damage: Internet’s 1st Live Band
1993 – “We were using about have the available bandwidth of the Internet. With just us doing really really bad songs.” Russ Haynes, Digital Equipment Corp. Severe Tire Damage was the first live band on the internet.” Russ Haines, Digital Equipment Corp.
Severe Tire Damage, The Internet’s First Live Band
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Most Successful Guitar Magazine
San Josean Bud Eastman, launched Guitar Player Magazine in 1967 to the heights of the musical world.
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