Bootlegs

[chequita guevara]

I'd like to get my hands on some bootlegs of early punk bands, like Blondie or Talking Heads before they went into the studio and had their sounds changed. I've looked on eBay and google, but the former doesn't seem to have bootlegs and the later doesn't show where you can buy them.

So how do you find bootlegs and other rare music (Neon Boys anyone)?

[SlowwHand]

To buy? Probably only on a street corner.

[Nubclear]

Re: Bootlegs

Have you tried...ahem....search engines?

[SlowwHand]

That's not buying.
But that would be my way, too.

[Dinner]

Hmmm, where would I *KAZAA* find copies of *KAZAA* music? I don't *KAZAA* know...

[Buck Birdseed]

My reissue copy of Blondie's first album contains some basically self-recorded early demos. They don't sound substatially different from the studio stuff, not sure what you're getting at there.

The Heads I can see being quite a different band in 1975 before the addition of Jerry Harrison, but since I'm not a bootleg man I can't help you there.

[Hueij]

Have you tried Usenet?

[Buck Birdseed]

Here is an extensive list of 'Heads bootlegs and how to get them. None of them seem to be recorded before '77 though.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Hueij
Have you tried Usenet?

This looks interesting.

[monkspider]

Try IRC groups, I got a bunch of rare Beatles bootlegs off of there. Great stuff.

[Hueij]

Originally posted by monkspider
Try IRC groups, I got a bunch of rare Beatles bootlegs off of there. Great stuff.

How do I get there? All my Beatle stuff came from newsgroups.

[monkspider]

Hmm, look for a group on IRC dalnet called mp3 beatles or mp3beatles or something like that. I got lots of really great stuff. It's been about a year since I did any IRCing, which news group did you go to for your beatles stuff? This topic may inspire me to go back to the exotic world of beatlegs.

[molly bloom]

Now if I still lived in London I'd be able to help you chegitz- I have Electrically, Emitting Diode, Art School, and a couple of others on vinyl. Alas, they're out of reach.

I do however have the Eno/Byrne first version of 'My Life in The Bush of Ghosts'on c.d. with me in Australia, so if you'd like a copy of that just let me know.

Other than the internet, I used to find that the best way of getting your hands on bootlegs is by going to local record fairs- of course London tended to be blessed with big international record fairs, at Victoria and Wembley and Earls Court, and traders at local markets like Camden Lock would also sell them. You might find record fairs in the States either advertised in Record Collector (available at all good drug stores and newsagents) or on the internet.

You can of course find a previously unrealeased early track on the live album 'The Name of This Band', and there's two previously unreleased ones on the best of compilation 'Sand in the Vaseline'.

There's also an excellent acoustic version of 'Psycho Killer' with strings on a 12" of 'Psycho Killer' issued by disques du crepuscule, if I recall correctly.

Italy used to be a great place to buy bootlegs (due to anomalies in local copyright laws, but I suspect the E.U. has put the mockers on that) but Australia also for some reason allows the (semi) legal sale of 'unauthorized' live shows.

There was an excellent Siouxsie & the Banshees bootleg called 'Love in a Void' featuring tracks from the John Peel show before their first album came out- I seem to remember it had the original unpleasant line 'too many Jews for my liking' in the song 'Love in a Void'- this was when Brit Punk flirted with Nazi swastikas and German WWII uniforms and Nazi chic, not out of ideological alignment but more to upset the parents and the 'establishment'.

[Hueij]

... which news group did you go to for your beatles stuff?

alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.beatles