February is The ABC's of Bootlegs Month!

Being that February only has 28 days and the alphabet is has 26 letters it was almost a natural fit to post the ABC's of my favorite bootlegs this month. For some letters it will obviously be slim pickings and for others it will be hard to pick my favorites but in the latter situation I will try to post some bands that I have not yet posted to this blog. Enjoy!

Robyn Hitchcock and the New Egyptians - Cabaret Metro - Chicago, IL - April 9, 1988 - Soundboard

Setlist:

I Often Dream of Trains
Bass
Acid Bird
Unsettled
Airscape
Tropical Flesh Mandala
I'm Only You
Sleeping with Your Devil Mask
Birdshead
Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis) /More Than This
Balloon Man
Chinese Bones
If You Were a Priest
Heaven

Link (320 kbps CBR MP3)

Jimi Hendrix - The Complete Winterland Reels - Disc 5 of 6

DISC 5: 1ST SHOW (October 12)

1. Intro (2:29)
2. Fire (3:47)
3. Lover Man (5:37)
4. Like A Rolling Stone (12:14)
5. Foxy Lady (6:53)
6. Drum & Bass Jam (Noel Redding & Mitch Mitchell) (8:58)
7. Tax Free (8:14)
8. Hey Joe (6:50)
9. Purple Haze (3:39)
10. Wild Thing (3:28)

Link (320 kbps CBR MP3)

Jimi Hendrix - The Complete Winterland Reels - Disc 4 of 6

DISC 4: 2ND SHOW (October 11)

1. Intro (0:29)
2. Tax Free (Drum & Bass) (20:32)
3. Spanish Castle Magic (11:05)
4. Like A Rolling Stone (with Herbie Rich on organ) (11:32)
5. Lover Man (with Herbie Rich on organ) (5:39)
6. Hey Joe (with Herbie Rich on organ) (5:13)
7. Fire (with Herbie Rich on organ) (4:44)
8. Foxy Lady (with Herbie Rich on organ) (5:13)
9. Purple Haze (5:53)

Link (320 kbps CBR MP3)

Jimi Hendrix - The Complete Winterland Reels - Disc 3 of 6

DISC 3: 1ST SHOW (October 11)

1. Intro (2:02)
2. Are You Experienced (with Virgil Gonsales on flute) (17:05)
3. Voodoo Child (slight return) (8:14)
4. Red House (11:50)
5. Foxy Lady (5:44)
6. (This Is America) Star Spangled Banner (6:32)
7. Purple Haze (5:59)

Link (320 kbps CBR MP3)

Jimi Hendrix - The Complete Winterland Reels - Disc 2 of 6

DISC 2: 2ND SHOW (October 10)

1. Intro/Tune-up (2:28)
2. Tax Free (13:33)
3. Lover Man (4:27)
4. Sunshine Of Your Love (9:09)
5. Hear My Train A Comin' (12:57)
6. Killing Floor (with Jack Casady on bass) (9:19)
7. Hey Joe (with Jack Casady on bass) (5:31)
8. (This Is America) Star Spangled Banner (6:32)
9. Purple Haze (5:59)

Link (320 kbps CBR MP3)

Jimi Hendrix - The Complete Winterland Reels - Disc 1 of 6

DISC 1: 1ST SHOW (October 10)

1. Intro/Tune-up (0:24)
2. Are You Experienced (7:36)
3. Voodoo Child (slight return) (7:38)
4. Red House (14:51)
5. Foxy Lady (6:12)
6. Like A Rolling Stone (9:44)
7. (This Is America) Star Spangled Banner (5:27)
8. Purple Haze / Outside Woman Blues (6:01)

Link (320 kbps CBR MP3)

The Hives - Emo's - Austin, TX - March 20, 2004 - (Great Audience Recording)

This sounds almost soundboard but it is, in fact, an audience recording.

Lineage: DSM-6S>PA-6LC3>M1>7pin>coax>cool edit pro 2.0>PC

Setlist:

01. Abra Cadaver->Walk Idiot Walk
02. No Pun Intened
03. Main Offender
04.
05. B Is For Brutus
06. Die, All Right!
07. Dead Quote Olympics
08. Diabolic Scheme
09. Hate To Say I Told You So
10. Two-Timing Touch and Broken Bones

Link (320 kbps CBR MP3)

Guided By Voices - Lounge Axe - Chicago, IL - April 5, 1995 (audience)

Setlist:

1. Closer you Are
2. King and Caroline
3. Motor Away
4. Don't Stop Now
5. Tractor Rape Chain
6. My son Cool
7. Striped White Jets
8. Break Even
9. Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory
10. Shocker in Gloomtown
11. Why Did you Land
12. My Valuable Hunting Knife
13. Gold Star for Robot Boy
14. Deaf Ears
15. Postal Blowfish
16. Game of Pricks
17. I am a Scientist
18. Evil Speakers
19. Watch Me Jumpstart
20. Red Men and Their Wives
21. Smothered in Hugs
22. Echoes Myron
23. Blimps go 90
24. My Impression Now
25. Pimplezoo
26. Non Absorbing
27. Hot Freaks
28. Big Boring Wedding
29. A Salty Salute
30. Exit Flagger
31. Weed King
32. Buzzards and Dreadful Crows
33. Key Losers
34. Sheetkicker
35. Matter Eater Lad

- nice audience recording from the masters of short indie pop jingles. A lot of sources incorrectly note this as a soundboard recording but the crowd noise leads me to believe that it is a digital audience recording.

Link (320 kbps CBR MP3)

PJ Harvey - Lowlands Festival - Dronton, Netherlands - August 28, 1998 (soundboard)

Setlist:

01 I Think I'm A Mother
02 Joy
03 Joe
04 Civil War Correspondent
05 Taut
06 Electric Light
07 A Perfect Day Elise
08 The Wind
09 Hook
10 The Sky Lit Up
11 Working For The Man
12 The Garden
13 Missed
14 Snake
15 Heela
16 To Bring You My Love

- from an FM broadcast.

Link (320 kbps CBR MP3)

Grandaddy - Hultsfredsfestivalen - Hultsfred, Sweden - June 14, 2003 (soundboard)

Setlist:

Hewlett's Daughter
The Go In The Go-For-It
Levitz
Chartsengrafs
Yeah Is What We Had
Summer Here Kids
I'm On Standby
Laughing Stock
The Crystal Lake
A.M. 180
He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot
Now It's On
Lost On Yer Merry Way

- From an FM broadcast.

If you have never heard this band and you are an indie rock band I highly recommend you
take a listen!

Link (320 kbps CBR MP3)

The Postal Service - 7th Street Eatery - Minneapolis, MN - April 25, 2003 (Soundboard)

Setlist:

The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
We Will Become Silhouettes
Sleeping In
Nothing Better
Recycled Air
Clark Gable
This Place is a Prison
There's Never Enough Time
Brand New Colony
Such Great Heights
Natural Anthem
Against All Odds *

Link (320kbps CBR MP3)

The Police - Tokyodome - Tokyo, Japan - February 14, 2008 (Good Audience)

This is just about the best recording from their last tour. It is also a matrixed recording combining a decent digital audience recording with an in-ear mic feed.

Setlist:

Message In A Bottle
Synchronicity II
Walking On The Moon
Voices Inside My Head/ When The World Is Running Down
Don't Stand So Close To Me
Driven To Tears
Hole In My Life
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Wrapped Around Your Finger
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
Invisible Sun
Walking In Your Footsteps
Can't Stand Losing You/ Reggatta de Blanc
Roxanne
King Of Pain
So Lonely
Every Breath You Take
Next To You

Link (320kbps CBR MP3)

Polyphonic Spree - Morning Becomes Eclectic - KCRW Studios - July 22, 2004 (Soundboard)

Setlist:

We Sound Amazed
It's The Sun
Hold Me Now
2000 Places
One Man Show

Link (320kbps CBR MP3)

Pearl Jam - Melkwag - Amsterdam, Holland - February 12, 1992 (Soundboard)

Great early soundboard show from this band (that was WAY better when they were younger!). I still like Pearl Jam for their live shows but their studio albums have grown rather stale.

Setlist:

Wash
Once
Even Flow
State of Love and Trust
Alive
Black
Deep
Jeremy
Why Go
(Bad Mouth)/Porch
Set II
I've Got A Feeling


Link (320kbps CBR MP3)

Elvis Presley - Elvis' Greatest Shit

Even though it has perhaps teh most tasteless album cover known to mankind it's actually a decent listening experience.

01. Introduced (:31)
02. Old Mac Donald (2:05) Double Trouble '67
03. Ito Eats (1:22) Blue Hawaii '61
04. There's No Room to Rhumba in a Sports Car (1:52) Fun in Acapulco '63
05. Confidence (2:33) Clambake '67
06. Yoga Is As Yoga Does (2:09) Easy Come Easy Go '67
07. Song of the Shrimp (2:20) Girls Girls Girls '62
08. US Male (2:42) 45 '68
09. The Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce (1:32) Girl Happy '65
10. Signs of the Zodiac (2:18) The Trouble with Girls '69
11. The Bullfighter Was A Lady (2:03) Fun in Acapulco '63
12. Wolf Call (1:27) Girl Happy '65
13. Can't Help Falling In Love (1:30) Blue Hawaii '61
14. He's Your Uncle, Not Your Dad (2:28) Speedway '68
15. Scratch My Back (2:15) Paradise Hawaiian Style '66
16. The Walls Have Ears (2:31) Girls Girls Girls '62
17. Poison Ivy League (2:03) Roustabout '64
18. Beach Boy Blues (2:02) Blue Hawaii '61
19. Dominic the Impotent Bull (1:43) Stay Away, Joe '68
20. Queenie Wahine's Papaya (1:34) Paradise Hawaiian Style '66
21. Do the Clambake - Medley (2:46) Girl Happy '65/Clambake '67
22. Datin' (1:36) Paradise Hawaiian Style '66
23. Are You Lonesome Tonight? (2:47) Live '77

Link (320kbps CBR MP3)

We're Late For Class - The Act You've Known For All Of These Years

We are going to return to our roots for this post (this blog was originally conceived to highlight music from bands that freely share their music online). I haven't had a chance to listen yet but I always love the stuff that these guys put out. This one is an ALL BEATLES mashup!

Link

Nirvana - U4 - Vienna, Austria - November 22, 1989 - FM Broadcast

School
Scoff
Love Buzz
Floyd The Barber
Dive
About A Girl
Spank Thru
Big Cheese
Sappy
Breed
Been A Son
Negative Creep
Blew
Help Me

320kbps CBR MP3

Nine Inch Nails - Q101 Acoustic Show - Chicago, IL - April 27, 2000 - FM Broadcast

Something I Can Never Have
Day The World Went Away
Hurt (take 1)
Even Deeper
The Big Comedown
The Fragile
Hurt (take 2)

320kbps CBR MP3

New Pornographers - Abbey Pub - Chicago, IL - February 23, 2002 - Soundboard

Slow Descent Into Alcoholism
Electric Version
To Wild Homes
Jackie
The New Face Of Zero & One
talking
The Body Says No
When I Was A Baby [Donner Party cover]
talking
Mystery Hours
Execution Day
From Blown Speakers
Mass Romantic
End Of Medicine
Fake Headlines
Breakin The Law
Letter From An Occupant
Cruel To Be Kind [Nick Lowe cover]
Mary Martin Show
Send Me A Postcard [Shocking Blue cover]
Throw Her Away (And Get A New One) [Sparks cover]
Centre For Holy Wars


320kbps CBR MP3

New Order - Blossom Music Center - Cleveland, OH - July 5, 1989 - Soundboard

Round And Round
Dream Attack
Ceremony
Run
True Faith
Mr Disco
Every Little Counts
1963
Vanishing Point
Temptation
The Perfect Kiss
Bizarre Love Triangle
Blue Monday
Fine Time

320kbps CBR MP3

The Most Serene Republic - La Maroquinerie - Paris, France - December 16, 2005 - Good Digital Audience Recording

(the MP3 files are not tagged, I didn't find this setlist until I was posting)

01. In Places, Empty Spaces
02. Phages
03. Oh God
04. Content Was Always My Favourite Colour
05. Proposition 61

320kbps CBR MP3

Wall of Voodoo - Dooley's, East Lansing, MI - November 17, 1982 - Soundboard

Red Light
Me And My Dad
Call Box (1-2-3)
Animal Day
Lost Weekend
Call Of The West
Factory
On Interstate 15
Can't Make Love
Tomorrow
The Passenger
Longarm
Ring Of Fire
Mexican Radio
Back In Flesh

MP3 (320kbps CBR): 1
FLAC: 1 2

the FLAC trial is over

Being that the FLAC's are remaining virtually untouched I am going to discontinue posting them for a while because it's a major pain in my butt to do this (making up the RAR packages and then uploading).

If there is enough demand in the future I will consider resuming FLAC (lossless audio) posting but for now I will stick with MP3 only. As an added bonus I will try to increase the postings from every other day to every day.

Please let me know if you have any requests. My list can be found here.

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The Velvet Undergound and Nico - The Norman Dolph Acetates

The Velvet Underground And Nico
Unripened - The Norman Dolph Acetate

Label: XTV-CD 122
Audio Source: acetate
Lineage: XTV-CD 144 silver -> ripped and tagged with XLD XLosslessDecoder -> Flac Level 8
Number of Discs: 1
Artwork: included
Total running time: 42m 03s

Notes:
The bulk of the songs that would become The Velvet Underground & Nico were recorded in mid-April, 1966, during a four-day stint at Scepter Studios, a decrepit recording studio in New York City. This recording session was financed by Warhol and Columbia Records' sales executive Norman Dolph, who also acted as an engineer with John Licata. Though exact total cost of the project is unknown, estimates vary from $1500 to $3000

Actual recording at Scepter was done rather quickly in about two business days (roughly 8-10 hours) while the third was spent listening to the material and the fourth was spent mixing. Soon after, Dolph sent an acetate disc of the recordings to Columbia in an attempt to interest them in distributing the album, but they declined, as did Atlantic Records and Elektra Records. Eventually, the MGM Records-owned Verve Records accepted the recordings with the help of Verve staff producer Tom Wilson, who had recently moved from a job at Columbia.


Scepter Studios acetate version

Norman Dolph's original acetate pressing of the Scepter Studios material contains several recordings that would make it onto the final album, though many are different mixes of those recordings and three are different takes entirely.

The acetate was pressed on April 25, 1966, shortly after the recording sessions. It would resurface decades later when it was bought by collector Warren Hill of Montreal, Canada in September 2002 at a flea market in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City for $0.75. Hill put the album up for auction on eBay in November. On December 8, 2006, a winning bid for $155,401 was placed, but not honored. The album was again placed for auction on eBay and was successfully sold on December 16, 2006 for $25,200.

It is important to note that ten songs were recorded during the Scepter sessions and only nine appear on the acetate cut. Dolph recalls "There She Goes Again" being the missing song (and, indeed, the version of "There She Goes Again" that appears on the final LP is attributed to the Scepter Studios session).
Though rumors have circulated concerning an eventual official release of this version of the album, this has yet to be confirmed or announced by any major record label.
However, a ripped version of the acetate began circulating the internet in January 2007. Bootleg versions of the acetate tracks have also become available on vinyl and CD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Velvet_Underground_and_Nico



Info:

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO UNRIPENED
CD, XTVCD-122, ?, 2007

1-9: Scepter Studios, New York City, New York, April 1966.
Cleaned-up version of the Norman Dolph acetate.

http://members.aol.com/olandem/bootcd.html



Tracklisting:

01 - European Son (8:52)
02 - The Black Angel's Death Song (3:14)
03 - All Tomorrow's Parties (5:52)
04 - I'll Be Your Mirror (2:10)
05 - Heroin (6:12)
06 - Femme Fatale (2:36)
07 - Venus In Furs (4:29)
08 - I'm Waiting For The Man (4:10)
09 - Run Run Run (4:23)

MP3 (320kbps CBR): 1
FLAC: 1 2

U2 - Opera House - Cork, Ireland - October 5, 1979 - Soundboard

Stories For Boys, The Speed Of Life, Cartoon World, The King's New Clothes, Inside Out, Another Time Another Place, Boy-Girl, Out Of Control, E:Glad To See You Go

MP3: 1

(this may be a soundboard recording but it has obviously been through so many analog tape generations that it doesn't sound as good as many modern digital audience recordings so I only posted the MP3's for this show)

The Strokes - Tsongas Arena, Lowell, MA - October 31, 2003 - Soundboard

Whatever Happened
Alone Together
Under Control
Hard To Explain
Between Love & Hate
Reptilia
Someday
The End Has No End
The Modern Age
12:51
New York City Cops
Soma
Last Nite
Automatic Stop
I Can't Win
Take It Or Leave It


MP3 (320kbps CBR): 1
FLAC: 1 2 3

Pink Floyd - BBC Archives 1967-69 (rev. b)

Research and Remastering by MOB
Quality Control by EdP
Artwork by RonToon
Produced by Harvested Records

Disc One
1. Pow R Toc H (14May67 "Look Of The Week")
2. Astronomy Domine (14May67 "Look Of The Week")
3. The Gnome (25Sep67 "Top Gear")
4. Scarecrow (25Sep67 "Top Gear")
5. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (25Sep67 "Top Gear")
6. Matilda Mother (25Sep67 "Top Gear")
7. Reaction in G (25Sep67 "Top Gear")
8. Flaming (25Sep67 "Top Gear")
9. Green Onions (12Dec67 "Tomorrow's World")
10. Instrumental (12Dec67 "Tomorrow's World")
11. Vegetable Man (20Dec67 "Top Gear")
12. Scream Thy Last Scream (20Dec67 "Top Gear")
13. Pow R Toc H (20Dec67 "Top Gear")
14. Jugband Blues (20Dec67 "Top Gear")

Disc Two
1. Instrumental (26Mar68 "The Sound Of Change")
2. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (28Mar68 "Omnibus' All My Loving")
3. The Murderotic Woman (25Jun68 "Top Gear")
4. The Massed Gadgets Of Hercules (25Jun68 "Top Gear")
5. Let There Be More Light (25Jun68 "Top Gear")
6. Julia Dream (25Jun68 "Top Gear")
7. Point Me At The Sky (02Dec68 "Top Gear")
8. Baby Blue Shuffle In D Major (02Dec68 "Top Gear")
9. Embryo (02Dec68 "Top Gear")
10. Interstellar Overdrive (02Dec68 "Top Gear")
11. Daybreak (12May69 "Top Gear")
12. Nightmare (12May69 "Top Gear")
13. The Beginning (12May69 "Top Gear")
14. Beset By Creatures Of The Deep (12May69 "Top Gear")
15. The Narrow Way (12May69 "Top Gear")
16. Moonhead (20Jul69 "Omnibus' What If It's Just Green Cheese?")

40 years after the last Pink Floyd studio session for the BBC, Harvested is proud to present this upgraded version of "BBC Archives 1967-1969".
This release required a lot of work and took more than 6 months to complete. The purpose was to present each track in the best possible quality. The process was long because it was performed on a track by track basis. For each song, we had to compare many different sources in order to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each version and then decide which one(s) to work on. The mastering work was done very carefully, trying to repair every flaw that could be corrected... and there were a lot (tape warble, crackles, drop-outs, incorrect speed, etc).
Instead of giving all the details for each single track (we want to avoid sterile debates about lineage and sources), we prefer the results to speak for itself. We think people should judge by their ears; listen to your sonically-preferred versions and compare them to the ones on this new Harvested release. We can confidently say that every track is - sonically speaking - an upgrade compared to the best previously circulating version, including the master transfer of the 25Jun68 session (which offered complete versions but from a damaged mastertape) and the recent Celestial Voices tracks from the 12May69 session.
We made the choice not to include the various DJ intros in order to focus on the music. There are some exceptions such as Reaction In G and Set The Controls from the 25Sep67 session, but for the remainder the DJ comments were considered too distracting and so we edited them out (e.g. the Tomorrow's World tracks). Also, it's important to note that all tracks are presented in true mono, the way they were mixed by the BBC (there's no "fake stereo" nor "sound expanding" effect).
This collection not only includes the sessions for BBC radio, but also studio sessions for BBC TV shows and documentaries making it more complete than the previous releases. The number of tracks is now 30; 14 are covering the 1967 sessions with Syd (on CD 1) and 16 are dedicated to the 1968-1969 era with David (on CD 2).
Cuesheets are included for those who like to burn CDRs with all the required text info.
Enjoy this 40th Anniversary Edition !
MOB (December 2009)
Harvested Records

Link (posted at Quality Bootz)

Broadcast - Glasgow Stereo - Glasgow - December 9, 2009 - Audience

Sony ECM-717 > Sony MZ-NH1 > USB > Sonicstage > Wav > CD Wave Editor > Traders Little Helper > Flac

Nice review and photos here:
http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/98205-broadcast-stereo-9-dec

01 ------------------ 20.10
02 CORPOREAL--------- 4.28 (James plays bass)
03 ------------------ 5.04
04 ------------------ 6.26
05 ------------------ 1.23
06 BLACK CAT--------- 4.49 (James plays guitar)
07 LUNCH HOUR POPS--- 4.28
08 ->ROYAL CHANT----- 2.06
09 ------------------ 2.26
10 ------------------ 7.05 (Trish plays some long-necked-no-body-stringed-thing)

MP3 (320kbps CBR): 1
FLAC: 1 2

Melt Banana - Bottom Lounge - Chicago, IL - November 30. 2009 - Audience

Core Sound Binaurals/Battery Box > Olympus LS-10 > Audacity/Trader's Little Helper (SBE Fix/FLAC8) > Dime

Setlist:

01 MxBx Lite (Phantasmagoria > Slide Down > Cat and the Blood > Dog Song > Lock the Head )[In the Dark with Flashlights]
02 Shield for Your Eyes, A Beast in the Well on Your Head
03
04 ==We are Melt-Banana from Tokyo, Japan==
05 Spider Snipe
06 Heiwaboke Crisis
07 Cat Brain Land
08 Plasma Gate Quest
09 Leeching > Jack and Ared Dog
10 >
11 == Merch, Guest list for tomorrow==
12 The Call of the Vague
13 Lost Parts Stinging Me So Cold
14 A Dreamer Who is Too Weak to Face Up To
15 Blank Page of the Blind
16 ==encore break==
17 "Pokemon song"
18 Chain-Shot to Have Some Fun

MP3 (320kbps CBR): 1
FLAC: 1 2