No-Hit Wonders Get Fresh Shot at Fame

[mjzee]

Mr. Seerman, 36 years old, is on an unusual quest: For years he has been scouring campuses across the country hoping to identify every defunct college band he can, digitizing and mastering their work and shopping it to companies looking to license snippets of cheap, original period music that has never been heard—except, maybe, at frat parties.

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Old College Try: No-Hit Wonders Get Fresh Shot at Fame

[felser]

This sort of thing has already been done with the 60's garage stuff. And sometimes it digs up lost classics, like this, but usually it doesn't

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAPAzbF8-gQ