Originally Posted by
JeffCarney
It's not that I don't enjoy some of them.
It's more that I just think a listener has to have a certain understanding of what he is hearing when listening to one.
But as huge as those Florida shows were when they surfaced, I far prefer something like Providence if I want to hear what the band actually sounded like at that time.
A soundboard is a different experience. It's clinical. Interesting and certainly collectible, but not necessarily a very good measuring stick of a given concert experience.
I suspect that one can look to almost any "classic" period band and it would be rare that a soundboard would be hailed as one of their top bootlegs. There's a reason for that. They often don't sound like a live concert actually sounds.
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