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LiveR Than You'll Ever Be

Joe Beese — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:59:33 -0800

40 years ago today, The Rolling Stones played two concerts at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. In the darkness of the audience was a man known to history only as "Dub"... [audio auto-plays] His recording of the later show was in stores by Christmas as LiveR Than You'll Ever Be. Reviewing it in Rolling Stone, Greil Marcus wrote: It is the most exciting record I have heard all year, fully the equal, in its own way, of Let It Bleed, and in some ways better. All qualifications aside, it is the ultimate Rolling Stones album. In addition to its unprecedented audio fidelity, LiveR made history by its influence on the Rolling Stones discography. Demand for the title pressured Decca into releasing an official live album from the tour - though some considered the eventual Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! spoiled by excessive overdubbing. Both the early and late shows can be heard in best-available sound here . And an extensive history of rock bootlegging can be found in Clinton Heylin's Bootleg: The Secret History of the Other Recording Industry. ( previously)

Bootlegs ahoy

pompomtom — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:18:22 -0800

I don't know how these people got their fairly decent recording devices into a bunch of gigs... but I can guess why. ...and I'm pretty sure I was at that Church gig...

The Year of Led Zeppelin

Joe Beese — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:56:45 -0800

The Year of Led Zeppelin: A (completed) quest to listen to every Led Zeppelin concert in a year

God Save The Thief -- Sex Pistols vs. Wolfmother

jason's_planet — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:50:01 -0800

God Save The Thief (automatic download) is a mashup of The Sex Pistols' "God Save The Queen" and Wolfmother's "Joker and The Thief" mixed by The Illuminoids.

Lennon and McCartney Reunite

New Frontier — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:19:15 -0800

Lennon and McCartney's Studio Reunion. On March 28, 1974, John Lennon was in a Burbank studio producing Harry Nilsson's "Pussy Cats" album when Paul McCartney dropped in. The room froze and remained silent until John said, "Valiant Paul McCartney, I presume?" Paul responded: "Sir Jasper Lennon, I presume?" The tension broken, a jam session [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] ensued featuring Lennon on guitar and vocals, McCartney on drums and vocals, Stevie Wonder on electric piano and vocals, Harry Nilsson on vocals, Jesse Ed Davis on guitar and Bobby Keys on saxophone. A bootleg of the session has circulated under the title "A Toot and a Snore in '74".

Bootleg Woody Guthrie concert restored

dylanjames — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:40:53 -0800

... a small, heavy package wrapped in brown paper arrived in the mail at the Woody Guthrie Archives in New York City. Inside was a mess of wires. It wasn't a bomb - it turned out to be the only live recording of Woody Guthrie known to exist. The wire was fragile, bent, stretched and twisted. Jamie Howarth applied some algorithms he had developed to restore old recordings, and the result has been nominated for a Grammy.

Meant to be seen and heard, I say

flatluigi — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:00:30 -0800

You've listened, but have you watched? (note for the feedbeat sites: right-click anywhere for the menu.)

Santastic III

Mwongozi — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:33:03 -0800

Santastic I, II, and now III, holiday mash-ups, alternate treatments and bootleg remixes.
Previously

I bet you fall in bed too easily with the beautiful girls who are shyly brave and you sell yourself as a man to save but all the money in the world is not enough

Weebot — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:49:30 -0800

Liz Phair has gone from indie rock's princess to indie rock's bête noire over the last few years. But way, way before she was any of those, she was a just another post-collegiate twentysomething who had moved back into her parent's house and who recorded odes to Speed Racer and parodies of "Wild Thing" into her 4 track tape recorder to pass the time. I'd be stupid to suggest that Liz Phair is a name that carries a lot of currency these days (though if pressed, I'd defend her catalog up to and including her self-titled album,) but I'd imagine that this relic from early-90s zine culture would still be of interest to people. Legend has it that these recordings, which make up the three Girly Sound tapes, were recorded on a dare and given to only two people. They found their way to the head of Matador, and eventually Phair would rework many of these tracks into what would become Exile in Guyville. Phair has never formally released these demos, with the exception of a tossed-off EP in the mid-90s that included a couple of tracks. She revisits these songs occasionally, though less now than early in her career. There is certainly a noticeable difference between this and any of her properly recorded material. These demos include many rambling, Dylan-esque songs that top 7 minutes, many songs which sound like they were recorded as a lark, and some radically different early versions of songs she would later include on her studio albums. Personally, I like the one about White Baby Dealers. And the Batmobile one.

The Ramones, live in 1979.

monju_bosatsu — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:43:16 -0800

Gabba gabba hey.

The Grateful Dead live at the Knick - first set

persona non grata — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:11:29 -0800

Live Dead - First Set

Get Your Bootleg On

turbodog — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:02:00 -0800

Get Your Bootleg On has lotsa bootlegs. This kind, not this kind. Inspired by this.

Dark Fuckin' Poet

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 26 Dec 2003 23:09:12 -0800

The Bill Hicks Bootleg Archive. [via del.icio.us]

creeky — Tue, 29 Jan 2002 04:13:18 -0800

Aguilera vs the Strokes! George Michael meets Missy Elliot! Nirvana and Destiny's Child get it together! Mutant spliced mp3s: the new rock'n'roll, surely.

waxpancake — Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:15:30 -0800

Bootleg Toys: The Undiscovered Playthings documents the sale of misfit toys in Southern California. For boys, there's Robert Cop 3, the Mighty Morphin-esque Powerful Supper Raiders, and Space Wars: Episode I action figures. For girls, Sale Moon, Hallo Betty and the Spicy Girls. But the most controversial toy isn't a trademark violation: the Laden vs USA handheld video game.

logovisual — Sat, 30 Jun 2001 10:47:36 -0800

Oh me oh my: Video bootleggers have flooded the underground market with thousands of copies of a film labeled Pearl Harbor that contains only five minutes of the actual movie. The rest of the video contains hard porn material featuring Caucasian and Asian actors. All together now: At Least It's More Interesting Than The Actual Movie. (link only good until the morning of July 2nd)

prolific — Thu, 31 Aug 2000 07:40:44 -0800

If you can't beat em... Pearl Jam join the bootleggers. Makes me wish I was into them. Hope other bands will follow suit.

peterme — Fri, 02 Jun 2000 16:41:39 -0800

HA! How could I have found out about this through something other than Metafilter? You people are slacking!

Anyway, The Offspring are selling bootleg Napster merchandise.

mathowie — Sun, 29 Aug 1999 15:20:08 -0800

You say you enjoy the comedy stylings of Mr. Show and Tenacious D? Well then, get your ass on over to FugitiveAlien's site for all your bootleg audio and video needs.