The "Scary" music thread; What's your live/outtake bootleg collection like?

[Piotr Rasputin]

I'm a fan of live music recordings. They are great background music for working on one's car, working around one's house, taking a long drive when on assignment, and sometimes for getting through a desk shift. I prefer quality bootlegs to official live releases because they aren't overdubbed with extra parts to make them sound better.

Some people like to create or download artwork for these things and individually put them in CD cases. Others are less organized.

A friend has a plastic crate of Bob Dylan. Another friend has a crate full of Dave Matthews.

I have made my wife scoff mockingly with multiple CD wallets full, probably about 85 Metallica shows, most of two discs, about five or so triple-CD sets. Only six shows on DVD.

Also have 12 Rush boots, five Led Zeppelin ones, and a Zep set that is 11 CDs of outtakes, which have to be heard to be believed.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

About 100 Grateful Dead shows (including all the ones I attended)
About 30 DMB and/or Dave & Tim Reynolds shows (including half the shows I've attended)
About 20 Phish, String Cheese Incident and YMSB shows (including some a fellow SJer sent me)

Those are just my taper shows. I've got a couple hundred other "authorized" concert recordings from everybody from Elvis to Sinatra. I got to where I wouldn't buy studio albums, and would only get concert albums.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Got some good old Dylans, including the old Great White Wonder that had part of The Basement Tapes. But my fave is a Stones bootleg called "Nasty Songs" that's roughly Exile-era and has a stratospheric "Rip This Joint.

 

[funky_mountain]

i was quite obsessed at one point; not as much any more. though i still enjoy downloading live music, i no longer burn shows to CD. just keep them on my computer and put them on itunes then ipod, if desired.

my collections is mostly bluegrass (del mccoury, ralph stanley, bill monroe, seldom scene) jamgrass (old and in the way, yonder mountain string band, sam bush, leftover salmon), the grateful dead, jerry garcia and other jambands (widespread panic).

however, i have a fine 1983 talking heads show with a beautiful version of 'must be the place.' i have a few bob marley shows ... peter tosh, john prine, ben harper, alison krauss, bela fleck, dylan, bruce hornsby, david grisman, greyboy all-stars, karl denson's tiny universe, dirty dozen brass band, wilco, jayhawks, drive by truckers, ryan adams, phish, leo kottke, little feat, neil young, two miles davis shows from '69 and '71, van morrison from '70, willie nelson from '93, ani difranco, a beatles recording from the rooftop of apple records ... the list goes on forever, the party never ends.

 

[tyler durden 71351]

Not much...a Pearl Jam bootleg from some European shows in '93 and a Radiohead bootleg of them playing acoustic stuff (including a ****-take on "Wonderwall"). I've got friends with tons of Ween and Medeski Martin & Wood bootlegs.

 

[EStreetJoe]

between shows I've got on cassette (and haven't upgraded to CD), shows I have on both CD and cassette, and shows I've got purely on CD, I've got a couple of hundred Bruce shows (including the majority of the ones I was at). Plus I've got countless studio outtakes and radio broadcasts.
The rest of my boot CD collection includes a handful of Southside Johnny & the Jukes shows, a couple of Elvis Presley shows, a Beatles show (from Italy), a George Harrison show, a Band show, an Old 97s show, a CD of outtakes with Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash, a couple of Tift Merritt shows, a few Rod Picott shows, a few Slaid Cleaves shows, and a few Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers shows.

 

[Cadet]

Back when Napster was free, I got quite a few individual songs. The prized posessions are Eddie Vedder doing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and Tori Amos doing "Hurt".

 

[Bob Slydell]

I have about 5 wilco shows, two or three Jeff Tweedy acoustic shows
One Pearl jams concert from Atlanta, and countless other live recordings, just not always full shows
The My Morning Jacket prom concerts, plus lots of one-off live songs
A few REM concerts
Couple of Dylan shows, including the infamous Newport Folk Festival show

And: Old 97s, Breeders, Sleater-Kinney, Jesus and Mary Chain, Jayhawks, Replacements, U2, Foo Fighters, Husker Du, Jesse Malin, the Kinks, Lucinda Williams, Neko Case, Neil Young.

Plus, lots fo outtakes and radio concerts.

 

[Songbird]

Dozen and a half or so old Dead bootleg tapes, though they're deep in a box in a basement of a marble building in Bennington. The best one is from a show in Portland, Oregon, in in 1974. Couple hippies gave it to a buddy and me in the parking lot of a Motel 6 in Anderson, Indiana, a few hours before a show at Deer Creek.

 

[Huggy]

Got some Pearl Jam, Metallica (including the show I was at on the Summer Sanitarium tour), Springsteen, Stones, Who and the only Dead show I was at, in Toronto in 1987, among others.

Always on the lookout for quality boots online. Point me in the right direction....

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Always on the lookout for quality boots online. Point me in the right direction....

Don't look on Sportsjournalists.com for quality boots online.

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

 

[Huggy]

Always on the lookout for quality boots online. Point me in the right direction....

Don't look on Sportsjournalists.com for quality boots online.

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Ha, well played....

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Got some Pearl Jam, Metallica (including the show I was at on the Summer Sanitarium tour), Springsteen, Stones, Who and the only Dead show I was at, in Toronto in 1987, among others.

Always on the lookout for quality boots online. Point me in the right direction....

It's tough to beat www.dimeadozen.org...

But I just found this blog tonight, with a series of fantastic bootlegs on it:

http://thattruncheonthing.blogspot.com/search/label/Bootlegs

I highly recommend the Uncle Tupelo and Neko Case boots, but there are plenty of great ones here.


And in keeping with the thread, I probably have two dozen Crowded House/Neil Finn boots, and nearly as many Elvis Costello... plus a wide assortment of other stuff...

 

[MartinEnigmatica]

It hasn't really been updated much recently, but there's a fairly decent collection of concerts at www.nugs.net - mostly Phish, but also Dead, String Cheese, Widespread Panic, and obscure random ones from the likes of Oysterhead and Vida Blue.
They can be streamed, and many can be downloaded, as well.

 

[zeke12]

I have more than 30 Pearl Jam albums, including releases, boots and authorized boots.

 

[Rambler]

I'm sitting on around 100 Stones bootlegs.

 

[Lone_Star_Speed]

I only have a few bootlegs and they're all on vinyl. A couple of Ramones shows, some assorted Buzzcocks live and demos from when Howard Devoto was still in the band. My most prized vinyl boot is a Mott the Hoople show on double vinyl. I can't recall what year it's from off the top of my head. I do know that it's a different show than the one available on CD as "From Stockholm to Memphis" or "Two Miles to Live Heaven." The one bootleg I've always searched for is an alternate take of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" with vocals by Dave Grohl.

 

[Huggy]

Got some Pearl Jam, Metallica (including the show I was at on the Summer Sanitarium tour), Springsteen, Stones, Who and the only Dead show I was at, in Toronto in 1987, among others.

Always on the lookout for quality boots online. Point me in the right direction....

It's tough to beat www.dimeadozen.org...

But I just found this blog tonight, with a series of fantastic bootlegs on it:

http://thattruncheonthing.blogspot.com/search/label/Bootlegs

I highly recommend the Uncle Tupelo and Neko Case boots, but there are plenty of great ones here.


And in keeping with the thread, I probably have two dozen Crowded House/Neil Finn boots, and nearly as many Elvis Costello... plus a wide assortment of other stuff...

I was on dimeadozen for a while but I think my account has lapsed. That Truncheon Thing (great name, too) is a major find. Thanks for sharing that.

 

[Bob Slydell]

Got some Pearl Jam, Metallica (including the show I was at on the Summer Sanitarium tour), Springsteen, Stones, Who and the only Dead show I was at, in Toronto in 1987, among others.

Always on the lookout for quality boots online. Point me in the right direction....

It's tough to beat www.dimeadozen.org...

But I just found this blog tonight, with a series of fantastic bootlegs on it:

http://thattruncheonthing.blogspot.com/search/label/Bootlegs

I highly recommend the Uncle Tupelo and Neko Case boots, but there are plenty of great ones here.


And in keeping with the thread, I probably have two dozen Crowded House/Neil Finn boots, and nearly as many Elvis Costello... plus a wide assortment of other stuff...

I was on dimeadozen for a while but I think my account has lapsed. That Truncheon Thing (great name, too) is a major find. Thanks for sharing that.

Man, what an awesome site. I'll be downloading stuff from that for a while.

 

[Huggy]

Another major source for live stuff. Streaming is free, downloads $9.98. I've listened to loads of great shows on here.

http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/