About Ricks Music Archives
About Ricks Music Archives – a curated history of music
Ricks Music Archives brings you a vast quantity of curated live music performances from New York City, London and other exotic International locations – like Cannes France.
Ricks Music Archives brings music history
Ricks Music Archives are live performances that were of top new bands playing contracted clubs in NYC and London as well as special performances at other venues during those times. All the archives come from the OnlineTV.com video broadcasts at MusicTV.com from 1996 to 2003 and were broadcast live on the Internet as well as archived for years at MusicTV.com. Many bands have come and gone, and many artists within those bands are now in other bands, or the bands have changed lineups. What we give you is a historical snapshot of time. Time when the bands and musicians in them were just starting out. We saw the potential and broadcast it to the world. If you know a band we have that should be included, contact us.
Thousands of hours in archive footage
During the years Rick Siegel has made almost 5000 hours of concert footage which was acquired and contracted with each individual band. Of course there is the good, the bad, and the ugly. That was a part of the fun of promoting new bands and new music.
Bands are Personally picked by Rick Siegel for inclusion
Each band I place here is personally picked by me. With over 5000 concerts and artists I remember the greats, and as I go through them I remember them all again. But only the best go on here.
Covid Announcements
I guess it is thanks to the Covid lock downs and the fact that I found out these tapes are now rotting away I have been working to encode as many tapes as I can. So you might have noticed many new titles and the ability to download more rather than get the DVD. It costs everyone less and it is in a most popular format that every device can enjoy.
I still offer DVD concerts
The DVD concerts are double the quality of my downloadable files. I have started to add some DVD’s where there are multiple concerts available to put on them. If I can get over an hour of concerts on a group I will probably offer it as DVD. Like the Gargantua Soul DVD here you can find three concerts on a DVD much cheaper than buying the downloads. You get the hard copy, you get the art, the inserts, the cover, and three concerts. What a deal!
Every Concert Legitimate and Rights Secured
Please be assured each concert has a written contract signed by the band or their warranted agent and we are the only ones authorized to manufacture these units.
We thank you for visiting Rick’s Music Archives and invite you to browse the catalog and watch some of the short versions available here.