Top 5 Favorite Bootlegs....

[Phlakaton]

Zappa - 1979-04-01 - Zurich
Pink Floyd - 1970 1971 BBC Archives 1970 1971, Paris Theatre, London
Gong - 1976-03-00 Oxford, UK
The Muffins - 1979-11-12 - Boston
National Health - 1976-02-14 - London School of Economics

[ronmac]

Wow. That has to be the mother of all bootlegs

It really is. But, there are others out there from other bands of similar or greater scope.

Like this one:

Pink Floyd: A Treeful Of Secrets

[llanwydd]

I have heard very few bootlegs. I rate them in this order:

1. Something to Hide - Beatles
2. Roosevelt Stadium 1976 - Yes

[GuitarGeek]

KISS - VHS of a mid 70s show from Houston. Been years since I last saw this and also long since packed away

There's three such shows, one from the Destroyer tour, and two from the Love Gun tour. Circa 1995, I got one of the Love Gun tour ones, and at the time, this stuff was impossible to find. This was a year or two before the reunion tour, so I was just over the moon to finally see some concert footage (and not chopped to ribbons like it usually was on TV) of the real Kiss in concert.

BTW, speaking of Prince, my favorite from him would be The Undertaker, a never released album of him jamming in the studio with a drummer and bassist, circa 92-ish. If I remember correctly, this ended up being shown on Japanese TV (with this ridiculous preamble starring future General Hospital vixen Vanessa Marcil), and that ended up being bootlegged. Some seriously happening music and required viewing for anyone who believes Prince to be without musical talent.

[happytheman]

It really is. But, there are others out there from other bands of similar or greater scope.

Like this one:

Pink Floyd: A Treeful Of Secrets

That one is a gem..

[Paul1803]

ELP

Swing Auditorium San Bernadino 09/02/1974
Des Moines 12-06-1977
Philadelphia Rehearsals 21-07-1992 Video
Radio City 4-2-1993 Radio City 4-2-1993 Video
Wiltern 16/3/1993 Video

Hendrix
25/4/70 LA Forum

[ronmac]

ELP

Hendrix
25/4/70 LA Forum

Good, but I don't consider it anywhere near one of his better performances.

[Score2112]

Floyd -- Oakland 77
Rush -- Tuscon 78
Genesis -- MSG 1980
Zeppelin -- MSG 1977
Rush -- Radio City 1983 (Countdown DE)

[GuitarGeek]

Speaking of Hendrix, my favorites from him are still the six shows (two a night, for three nights) at Winterland in October 1968. The late 80's Live At Winterland release was drawn from the material from these shows, but in my opinion a lot of the best material (including a 12 minute Are You Experienced with flautist Virgil Gonzalez sitting in) was left on the cutting room floor. A few years ago, there was an official boxset that purported to have all six shows on it, but as I recall, that was still missing some songs and some of the ones that were included were edited (including around four minutes being cut from the above cited rendition of Are You Experienced?). So for me, the bootlegs are the only way to go.

[WytchCrypt]

Speaking of Hendrix, my favorites from him are still the six shows (two a night, for three nights) at Winterland in October 1968. The late 80's Live At Winterland release was drawn from the material from these shows, but in my opinion a lot of the best material (including a 12 minute Are You Experienced with flautist Virgil Gonzalez sitting in) was left on the cutting room floor. A few years ago, there was an official boxset that purported to have all six shows on it, but as I recall, that was still missing some songs and some of the ones that were included were edited (including around four minutes being cut from the above cited rendition of Are You Experienced?). So for me, the bootlegs are the only way to go.

That official "Live at Winterland" release has my fave version of Red House...Jimi is just perfect on that one and the guitar solo is my fave blues solo of all time. Speaking of Jimi boots, have you ever heard of "Red House: Variations on a Theme"? It wasn't technically a boot but had multiple performances of Red House and included guitar tab for 3 or 4 of them. Sound quality was kinda spotty on a couple of the versions but I bought mine in the late 80's and love it.

http://rockonvinyl.blogspot.com/2010...ations-on.html

[ronmac]

I still consider the Albert Hall 2/24/69 show the top of the list. Definitive versions of several songs, IMO. Aside from some out-of-tune playing on Wild Thing.

But there are too many to choose from. The Berkley Shows from May 1970 stand out. I do like the Winterland '68 shows, but, IMO, some of the performances aren't great.

[GuitarGeek]

That official "Live at Winterland" release has my fave version of Red House...Jimi is just perfect on that one and the guitar solo is my fave blues solo of all time. Speaking of Jimi boots, have you ever heard of "Red House: Variations on a Theme"? It wasn't technically a boot but had multiple performances of Red House and included guitar tab for 3 or 4 of them. Sound quality was kinda spotty on a couple of the versions but I bought mine in the late 80's and love it.

http://rockonvinyl.blogspot.com/2010...ations-on.html

I've got the Red House: Variations On A Theme thing on cassette. Bought it back in the mid 90's at a guitar store I hung out as, several years after it came out. As I recall, it was part of a series of releases that Alan Douglas produced near the end of his regime as curator or whatever the frell he was of the Hendrix catalog. Anyway, they were meant to be educational things, to demonstrate all the dren Jimi with the guitar. I think they only put out two or three, though I think a couple more were planned, but I think a certain court decision prevented Douglas from going further than he did.

Anyhow, the other releases had excerpts from songs and jams, I guess to demonstrate how Jimi used this or that pedal or how he used the whammy bar or feedback or even fingerboard tapping, etc. The Red House release was the only one that had full songs, I think to demonstrate how Jimi treated the song on different nights, playing different things in the solos and so forth.

As I recall, there's also a version by John Lee Hooker, to demonstrate the song's blues roots, and I remember the liner notes pointing how Hooker changed chords when he felt like it, pointing to instances where he'd change on the "and" of "four" or whatever, instead of waiting to where you were "supposed" to change chords.

[WytchCrypt]

^ Ya, next to the Winterland version my fave is on that Variations CD...the Electric Church one with Mitch & Buddy Miles on drums, Billy Cox on bass, & Lee Michaels on organ. Not that Jimi ever needed a keyboardist to help him fill the space but hearing that powerful Hammond on Red House makes it a real special version

[Shadow]

This is probably #1:

[ronmac]

This is probably #1:

Too bad she couldn't sing for shit.