I'm not just asking about Springsteen bootlegs. Myself, I've only listened to a Bruce boot a handful of times since 2016 and I've whittled my once room-filling collection down to less than thirty essentials (including studio boots) in digital format. Between the Archive Series and the 2016/17 shows, I have more than enough live Bruce in great sound quality to keep me busy. Even the High Hopes shows, though I don't listen to them often, sound better than most boots. I do still listen to boots of other artists though.
This morning, a much-needed day off, I'm having a long wake and bake with Beaver Brown live at JC's, 1983. Good east coast rock and roll.
One more and maybe I'll move on to someone else. Petty is one of those that I can get stuck into pretty easily.
I know that the Live Anthology, while not a bootleg, is one of my all time favourite live sets. Up there with Live '75 - '85... Possibly even better (gasp!)
Still having a Pettyfest.
My favorite Tom Petty bootleg.
It's like a full-force gale...
Two, maybe three times a year I go on a hardcore Seger jag. I'm always glad when I do.
Just got this today. Tremendous set. Three FM broadcast shows from 74, 80 and 83. Vintage Seger. I had the 74 show, but the other two are first listens tonight.
These studio quality, full-band demos play really well as an album; a lost Steinman album better than either Bat Out Of Hell III or Braver Than We Are.
Just looking at that set list, 11 tracks??
One of them the piped intro?
I'm sure it must've been longer than that, though I defo recall "Gimme Shelter" as the finisher.
Ah,that's the fella.
I wish I'd kept all my old gig tickets (and match tickets as well).
The thing about gigs at The Capitol, it was owned by The (famously parsimonious) Donald family, erstwhile owners of the Dons also.
Tickets for gigs there were the same size and texture as corporation bus tickets, not really collectable.
@MagicRatAFC I think this must have been your show.
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/meat-loaf/1983/capitol-theatre-aberdeen-scotland-3d90557.html
and this was mine
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/meat-loaf/1982/edinburgh-playhouse-edinburgh-scotland-3bdb40b4.html
I haven't listened to these Meat Loaf 77/78 shows in a while. I forgot how intense they were.
I think I'll stick with these guys all day long. They're so damned good.
One of those bands that if you only know the radio hits, you don't know much. As always with LRB, I speak only of the 1975-88 line-up, not the American posers currently known as Little River Bland).
Tonight's campfire music.
Superb sound on this but that cover caption. Glasgow is in SCOTLAND.
https://www.discogs.com/Bob-Dylan-Hold-The-Fort-For-What-Its-Worth/release/10444786
It is indeed. All of Cohen's official live stuff is worth listening to also. Some more than others.
This is a fantastic sounding boot.
Dylan with Petty & the Heartbreakers at the Hartford Civic Center in 1986, a show I attended and loved. An underrated tour.
To be honest, the most recent Bootleg's I've listened to are all my own creations... Some of my favourite SA musos have been keeping afloat the last few months by doing live streams. They are not on YT or FB, but on an SA ticket website, Webtickets, cost about the same as an album, and are available for 48 or 72 hours. I'm not fussed with the video but I figured out a way to snag the audio from these to enjoy permanently and I'm kind of loving having some unique recordings in my collection.
If I gave it some thought, maybe I could come up with a bootleg I love more, but it doesn't seem likely:
The first Genesis tour after Peter Gabriel left and Phil Collins moved from the drums to the front of the stage. Founding Yes drummer/later King Crimson drummer Bill Bruford played on this tour. They're by far my two favorite drummers, so hearing them play together is...well, it's a dream come true, and shows that dreams which come true aren't always quite the way you'd imagined. As in, these two fabulous drummers who've played with other drummers quite successfully do not mesh well at all. Which is itself kinda interesting if a bit of a letdown. But when just Bruford's playing, it's a fascinating study in contrasts. And I love this (brief) period of Genesis as a quartet.
I haven't listened to many bootlegs of late, I have a couple of Jason Isbell's on the go, but with Jason, and with many artists these days, there's so many kosher live releases on the go you do't need to hunt down boots.
Mind you, still love my triple album vinyl boot of Wembley 4th July 1985, even though the sound ain't all that.
In replaying these for the blog reviews I'm starting to appreciate them a lot more. The Johannesburg and Perth recordings are the two latest I've played, and they sound really good based on how bad we all make these appear to be audio-wise 😂
I just wanted to say that, I'm not currently listening to a bootleg, sorry!