WHO INITIATES A TAPE TREE?
Anyone can initiate a tape tree. The only prerequisites to seeding a tape tree are seed material (a performance, compilation, or theme tape) and a commitment to efficient and timely completion of the tree. Since the tree seed will be distributing a source tape to a number of people who will receive 1st or 2nd generation copies of the seed tape, it is recommended that the tree seed provide a reasonably high quality sound reproduction for the source tape. The seed should also be familiar with specifics of the source tape, such as the track list, venue, date, etc. It is also a nice touch for the seed to originate some art work for a sleeve. A recent Texasflood compilation tape tree included a nice sleeve with the tape title, setlist, descriptive information about the performances, and credits to the contributors of the source material. A number of computer software packages can be used for this purpose. Other things that a seed may need to consider include; – capability to make high quali
