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SEVERE TIRE DAMAGE IN
INTERACTIVE AGE
"9:30 p.m.: . . . suddenly,
as yet another scoopful of penne with pesto is heaped atop a plastic plate in New Jersey,
a pirate transmission begins making its way over the MBone."In Xerox Parc,
a Palo Alto, Calif., research facility, a grunge-looking band called Severe Tire Damage
--led by dummer Mark Weiser, director of Xerox Corp.'s computer science lab--attempts
to steal the Stones' thunder as an unscheduled opening acton the Net. "They may
not be very good, but they are the first to perform a warm-up set in a different state,
geographically, from the headliner. The spirit of Internet anarchy has met
rock's rebellion and neither has backed down. . . . ". . . 9:50 p.m.: With
10 minutes to go before a canned videotape of backstage Stones interviews and
outtakes are to be transmitted from Jersey City over the MBone, and Severe Tire Damage
about to relinquish its unlawful hold on the MBone, Thinking Pictures and Sun haven't
even received a test pattern from Dallas' Cotton Bowl. . . ."
-- "Stones and the Net", Interactive Age, page 1, November 28, 1994.
STD Editorial: Factual Errors, (1) STD's MCast was from Digital's
Systems Research Center, (2) STD is not led by "dummer Mark Weiser", (3) "unlawful hold"? -not!
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