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Who are you?

My name is Larry Fox.  I'm originally from New  York, and went to college at Brown University and grad school at Cornell  University. As you'll see from this web site, my passion in life is  LIVE MUSIC.  I've been taping and collecting live music recordings since  1976, and the majority of the content of this web site is related to  this "hobby". While I was in grad school, I taught myself how to program personal  computers by attempting to catalog my cassette collection. The database  that I started building back then has been adapted and transformed into  the "Analog Tape" section that you see before you. In fact, several of  the entries in my database go all the way back to the dBase II database  that I built back in 1982!  Over the years from 1982 through 1997, I  worked as a computer software developer for Humana, Seisdata Services,  BFI, Advantage Management Systems, and finally became my own boss from  1997-2002 as President of Rapid Business Solutions, a small  Houston-based custom software & application development company.  Since June 2003, I've been working for SCI Fidelity Records, the record  company for the String Cheese Incident.  I am the executive producer and  project manager of the "On The Road" series of live concert recordings.   I spent 15 months living in Boulder working full-time for  SCI-Fidelity, but now I back home in Houston working for SCI-Fi on an  as-needed basis.  I currently work as a full-time computer programmer  for Boardwalk Pipeline based here in Houston.                                    

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Who are your favorite musicians or groups?

When I was in High School, my favorite bands were  Jethro Tull and Traffic.  From 1977 through 1995, my favorite band was  the Grateful Dead.  I attended approximately 130 Dead concerts between  May 14, 1978, my first show, and May 21, 1995, my last.  Other favorites  included Traffic, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Hot  Tuna, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, David Bromberg, Carlos  Santana, Miles Davis, Allman Brothers, and various bluegrass and jazz  bands.  Since 1998, my main musical passion has been the String Cheese  Incident. In addition to SCI, current favorites include "Railroad  Earth", "New Monsoon", "Yonder Mountain String Band", "Hanuman", "David  Nelson Band", and any band with Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, Edgar Meyer,  Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, or Peter Rowan.                                        

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How many CDs and Cassettes do you have?

I have roughly 4000+ live cassette tapes, 3000+  Store-bought commercial CDs, and approximately 4000+ shows of live CDs.   I actually started collecting live music on 8-track!              

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How did you end up in Houston?

After spending two chilling years in upstate New  York at Cornell Business School, I decided that it was time to head  west, and head south to somewhere that the "climate suits my clothes".    I moved to Houston for an internship with Humana Hospital in Houston,  and ended up living there the past 33 years. I spent 15 months living in  Boulder Colorado 2003-2004, and moved back home to Houston for good  September 2004.  I hope to get back to the Boulder area one of these  days for good!                                    

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Do you have any other hobbies?

Besides my passion for music, I'm an amateur  photographer, computer buff, coin & stamp collector.  I really love  the beach, the pool, and hot tub, and can usually be found with a smile  on my face when sitting by the pool!   Oh, yeah, and we love cats, and  really miss our 5 dearly departed cats, Grover, Stella Blue, Isis,  Trixie, and Nershi!  No cats in the house right now :(                                    

Grateful Dead UMASS Amherst 1979

Of all those concerts you've seen, which ones stand out as the best?

This is tough to answer, because I've seen so many  great concerts.  But here are the ones that stand out  1. Grateful Dead 9/26/81 Buffalo NY ; 2. Grateful Dead 11/3/84 Berkeley  Community Theatre; 3. Grateful Dead 9/6/80 Lewiston Maine; 4. David  Crosby/Graham Nash, Summer 1986 at Rockefeller's - the night that David  Crosby was released from jail; 5. String Cheese Incident 5/5/00 at the  Saenger in New Orleans with Bela Fleck & the Flecktones; 6. String  Cheese Incident 11/17/00 at the Tabenacle in Atlanta; 7. Cryptical  Development NYE Concert 12/31/98 with Ratdog, Planet Drum, Hot Tuna, and  the String Cheese Incident; 8. Hanuman 10/31/01 at Diverse Works, and  9. Hanuman 3/15/02 at the Last Concert Cafe; 10. Traffic 6/94 at the  Woodlands Pavilion.  But honestly, there were many great concerts, these  just were the most memorable.                                     

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If you're stuck on a deserted island, which ONE recording from your collection would you want?

This is a remarkably easy one to answer. Without a  doubt, it would be the Grateful Dead, 2/5/78 from Cedar Falls Iowa.  The  second set Scarlet Begonias/Fire On The Mountain jam is probably the  single best piece of music in my collection.  I searched for 20 years to  find a soundboard copy of this show, after first being exposed to this  recording in the summer of 1978.  In fact, this show was my FIRST "dead  bootleg" in my tape collection, and to this day, I've never heard a  "Scarlet/Fire" that's better.  Finally, after 20 years, the soundboard  saw the light of day, and even better, the Dead eventually released this  show as part of the Dicks' Picks series of live concert releases.  This  show was released as DICKS PICKS #18. If you've never heard this show,  you owe it to yourself to pick this one up, as it doesn't get any better  than this.                                           read more... 

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What's your favorite song(s)?

Uncle John's Band (Grateful Dead), Can't Find My  Way Home (Blind Faith), Scarlet Begonias (Grateful Dead), City of New  Orleans (Steve Goodman - Arlo Guthrie version), Dear Mr. Fantasy  (Traffic), Unbroken Chain (Grateful Dead)              

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What's the best place you've ever seen a concert?

Georgia Frontiere Pavilion (Sedona, Arizona), Red  Rocks (Denver, Colorado), Horning's Hideout (Oregon), Radio City Music  Hall (New York City), Greek Theatre (Berkeley), and the KINDEST venue of  them all, the Last Concert Cafe (Houston)!                                    

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