Bill Graham was a pack rat. I think Bill Graham just put everything down in that storage area and was going to keep it forever. |
I thought there was maybe a half million to a million slides and negatives. As it turned out, there's probably is closer to a million and a half to two million slides and negatives. |
In my opinion it's worth a significant amount more. It certainly is in excess of $50 million. It's probably in excess of $100 million. |
In the audio and video archives, there are 7,000 taped concerts alone. I'm a rock fan who wanted to get into the music business and own intellectual property. |
It was 25 feet high in height, below ground. Part of it was below ground. And there were, I thought, hundreds of thousands of items that were in there. And truly there were millions of items. |
It's tough to do your job because it's so tempting to go down and just listen to audio or go look at video. I could spend all day doing it every day. |
The quality is unbelievable. I give the BGP people a lot of credit. They kept [the tapes] cold and at low humidity. |
We've been told that there exists no other trove of rock-and-roll history that is anywhere near the size of this anywhere else. |