Whos into bootlegs, and whats in your collection

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Just got a copy of Led Zeppelin - A Memory Frozen Forever (1980) It suppose to be John Bonham last show before him death.. havent heard it yet, but its suppose to be really good, in performance and recording.. have to wait and see...

Anybody has anything good that might be worthy of adding to the collection.?
 

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Only bootlegs I have are a couple old Heart ones. The Cal Jam 2 Cd that was stolen from me was of pretty good quality, but I have another live recording that is brutal. Some concert in 1978 and it sounds so bad it is pretty much unlistenable.
 

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I have probably more then a hundred bootleg CDs and at least 30 DVDs.
I have so many I have to dig them all out to list them. Most of it is concert footage or audio from 70's bands and or metal. I have a lot of Rainbow, Deep Purple, Humble Pie, Uriah Heep, Yes etc......
 

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Unfortunately I'm not net savvy enough to acquire these things digitally and I'm not dedicated enough to trade by hand. So I don't have a bootleg collection. I wold love to, though. strictly of Neil Young shows. Instead I just listen to Rust Radio, which plays unadulterated Neil live shows in their entirety back to back all weekend. I have a list of particularly jaw-dropping shows I'd like to get my hands on someday... Maybe some of 'em will even come out on Archives!
 

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Not a huge fan of bootlegs myself, but I have picked up a couple of Pink Floyd boots recently...I am only interested in soundboard quality releases, not shitty microphones in the crowd.

Back in the early 80's a friend of mine was all hopped up about a Tom Petty vinyl bootleg he bought using his connections, and it was the single worst sounding recording I have ever heard. I felt bad he paid $20.00 back then which was a lot of money for a piece of crap.

I will usually prefer a studio album to any live album with very few exceptions, but some of our resident collectors have sparked my interest in at least listening to a few PF shows.
 

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I used to be a (T)Rolling Stones bootleg collector (the total size of the collection reached 10GBs). I do have some rarities of Nazareth and Black Sabbath, but I think that's it really.
 

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Not a huge fan of bootlegs myself, but I have picked up a couple of Pink Floyd boots recently...I am only interested in soundboard quality releases, not shitty microphones in the crowd.

Agreed, ever see some of that crap thats on youtube... WWWWAAAAYYYYY up in the nose bleed section looking like ants and sounding like its coming from a 5 cent transistor radio. PASS! Too bad, Im sure it was a killer show and something for the catalog in the future.

But even then, the board version is going to sound weird... its set for live, which is never the same with studio... and that all depends on the soundman of course..

A local band here, produced a 6 song ep... the performance is them, BUT the studio quality sucks... real bad (Their soundman was running the board and hes pretty good running live), how bad.? IF you have a 1/3 EQ take all the mids and drop them to -12 and the ends +6 (whatever is printed on the eq)..(you know a smiley face) THATS how it sounds to me... If there was a way I take the master tapes to a local studio and remaster them myself.. its really not that hard, if you have a optimus graphic eq (model 31-2025) and have it set to a test CD.. and set everything that one level on the LEDs.. you just improved it 100%.

I really wish that allmusic.com does list certain bootlegs, this Led Zeppelin one counts it was actually produced and sold on vinyl (else where). and when I look on the site.. its not listed.. bootleg (maybe), a cheap European or Canadian (Picwick) copy (maybe).. Well at least you know just what the hell it is..
 

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Just got a copy of Led Zeppelin - A Memory Frozen Forever (1980) It suppose to be John Bonham last show before him death.. havent heard it yet, but its suppose to be really good, in performance and recording.. have to wait and see...

Anybody has anything good that might be worthy of adding to the collection.?

Hi JuddBonus. Was this your 1st boot?
 

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