Matthew Cox
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So that ultimately led to developing relationships with guys who were, you know, sitting on 500, 600 kilos at a time, but they'd come to me for their personals.
So that created like a little bit of a segue.
And so, long story short, the Israeli guy's trying to cultivate a relationship with me,
I'm a little reluctant to do business with the guy.
Well, he knew that I was a music aficionado.
I'd go to concerts all the time.
So one night we're all partying at a nightclub called Bar One.
And he's like, hey, come out to the car with me.
I want to show you something.
So I go out to the vehicle and he brings out this, you know, the old school CD case.
It had like 30 CDs in it.
And he starts handing them to me.
And it's like Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Jane's Addiction, U2.
And I'm just like, and you know, like I had all their albums.
Like what the fuck are these?
And he explains to me there were live recordings, but there were digital copies of original master recordings.
And so the government ended up seizing a whole bunch of these.
This was the one for 1992 Lollapalooza.
So this is like bands that back in the early to mid 1990s, we had all the Guns N' Roses, we had all of Jane's Addictions, we had all of these bands that were enormous commercial success,
Where we're getting digital copies of the original master recordings of their live concerts.