What was your first bootleg, and which is your favourite?
Apr 20, 2019 16:04:51 GMT -5
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Post by keith on Apr 20, 2019 16:04:51 GMT -5
No idea when I bought it (best guess is mid 70s) but my first bootleg was "Live at Shea". It comprised of 2 * 7 inch discs that played at 331/3 rpm (see attached photo). Turned out it was actually recorded at the Hollywood Bowl on 23rd August 1964. Not that I cared
Strangely, it was another decade before I bought my next Beatles bootleg - the appalling "Wonderful Picture Of You". I think it was the sheer hassle of buying them in the UK. Which might have been down to my inability to look for them! Although I did manage a couple of Bowie boots and a few tapes: Lennon Telecasts, Pink Floyd at the BBC and John Sebastian at the IOW 1970.
Anyway, thanks to the internet, a kind Californian member of rec.music.beatles taped a couple of Ultra Rare Trax for me. He did offer to tape more, he'd buy the tapes and I would reimburse him, but my finances were in a bad way so I made up a lame excuse as to why that wouldn't be possible. Since then, the availability of bootlegs on the web means I have a few now. All in MP3, partly from when one needed to save space and players couldn't cope with ogg or flac files. Have to say, my ears are so shot that I don't notice any loss of quality. Sorry, I have wandered off topic. Something I have a propensity for.
As for my favourite, it has to be "Strawberry Lane". I have loved SFF since 1967 so an album containing its development is a joy. And time for another off topic wander. In 1967 I lived in Clapham, South London and bought the vast majority of my records (not that I bought that many as I was a poor schoolboy from a poor working class family) from one particular record shop. As usual I had placed my order for the next Beatles single well in advance. Looking at the net, the single was due for release here in the UK on Friday 17th Feb (3 weeks before my 15th birthday). However, earlier that week I was late going to school and walked past the record shop. The owner saw me go by and came out to tell me that he had the disc in stock! Luckily I had the 6s 8p (34p) that it cost and took it into school. The music teacher allowed us to listen to it during break on the school record player. I was totally knocked out the first time I heard it. One of my mates must have heard it before as he knew about the coda. Still have the single, but the picture cover (a rarity in the UK) suffered not too long after. I was at my mate James Oxley's house one day and there was a girl there (her identity is lost in the mist of time). The single was paying and James annoyed her. So she grabbed the picture sleeve and screwed it up to annoy him. Luckily I was a man of peace, or maybe just a coward, so I didn't actually hit her. But I was sorely tempted ...
The cover was "rescued" with some clear sticky backed plastic.
Strangely, it was another decade before I bought my next Beatles bootleg - the appalling "Wonderful Picture Of You". I think it was the sheer hassle of buying them in the UK. Which might have been down to my inability to look for them! Although I did manage a couple of Bowie boots and a few tapes: Lennon Telecasts, Pink Floyd at the BBC and John Sebastian at the IOW 1970.
Anyway, thanks to the internet, a kind Californian member of rec.music.beatles taped a couple of Ultra Rare Trax for me. He did offer to tape more, he'd buy the tapes and I would reimburse him, but my finances were in a bad way so I made up a lame excuse as to why that wouldn't be possible. Since then, the availability of bootlegs on the web means I have a few now. All in MP3, partly from when one needed to save space and players couldn't cope with ogg or flac files. Have to say, my ears are so shot that I don't notice any loss of quality. Sorry, I have wandered off topic. Something I have a propensity for.
As for my favourite, it has to be "Strawberry Lane". I have loved SFF since 1967 so an album containing its development is a joy. And time for another off topic wander. In 1967 I lived in Clapham, South London and bought the vast majority of my records (not that I bought that many as I was a poor schoolboy from a poor working class family) from one particular record shop. As usual I had placed my order for the next Beatles single well in advance. Looking at the net, the single was due for release here in the UK on Friday 17th Feb (3 weeks before my 15th birthday). However, earlier that week I was late going to school and walked past the record shop. The owner saw me go by and came out to tell me that he had the disc in stock! Luckily I had the 6s 8p (34p) that it cost and took it into school. The music teacher allowed us to listen to it during break on the school record player. I was totally knocked out the first time I heard it. One of my mates must have heard it before as he knew about the coda. Still have the single, but the picture cover (a rarity in the UK) suffered not too long after. I was at my mate James Oxley's house one day and there was a girl there (her identity is lost in the mist of time). The single was paying and James annoyed her. So she grabbed the picture sleeve and screwed it up to annoy him. Luckily I was a man of peace, or maybe just a coward, so I didn't actually hit her. But I was sorely tempted ...
The cover was "rescued" with some clear sticky backed plastic.