Wolfgang’s Vault is the name that entrepreneur Bill Sagan gave Bill Graham’s immense archives of rock memorabilia after he purchased them.  Graham, who died in 1991, was a rock promoter and responsible for the Fillmore auditoriums.

Wolfgang’s Vault has been streaming these shows for quite a while.  (See Larry’s review of the Wolfgang’s Vault iPhone app.)  Now, for the first time, those shows are being made available for download.  In an event being called “Cracking the Vault,” the WV folks are releasing recordings of shows in both high-quality 256k mp3 and lossless CD-quality FLAC format.

Among the wide range of artists whose concert recordings are included in the archives are Aretha Franklin, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Blue Oyster Cult, Bonnie Raitt, Boz Scaggs, Cheap Trick, Dolly Parton, Eddie Money, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Hall & Oates, J. Geils Band, James Taylor, Jefferson Airplane, Linda Ronstadt, Little Feat, Marshall Crenshaw, Meat Loaf, Men At Work, Miles Davis, Santana, The Doobie Brothers, Ramones, and The Tubes.

You can find the Wolfgang’s Vault download page here.