Farmer Max Points, in Dead Hollow, Michigan is of course credited with the discovery of the Audio Tape tree, which emits a pleasing snapping and hissing sound when the tape is peeled from the fruits of this noble plant. Tape trading seems to be a harmless activity, and no home in America is lacking at least a few varieties of the common Scotch varieties. I know I will. Well, maybe that's NOT what we're talking about. First and foremost it is to share with others quality Neil Young music that we have been lucky enough to obtain.
Trees also serve the purpose of helping new tape collectors to get their collections going.
Another of our motivations for running trees is to try to discourage people from feeling the need to partake of the large commerical bootleg market out there. We won't go into a long tirade against commerical bootlegs here. Let's just say that we personally view commercial bootleg producers to be disrespectful of an artists rights by cashing in on the artist's music without any consideration for the artist. The first step in the tree process is finding the seed tape. A seed tape is the tape that will ultimately be used to make everyone's copy.