I bought bootleg CDs of nirvana when I was at uni in the 1990s. Always disappointed. At their most wasted.
Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive
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#192I desperately miss PureDJ online radio, pretty much exclusively streamed EDM DJ sets. Would do anything to see the archive restored in some fashion.
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I don’t think the Grateful Dead would be referred to as a “live electronic dance band.” Assuming it’s a band most have heard of I was leaning toward Daft Punk, but maybe the Prodigy?
Thats what came to mind. Daft Punk, the Alive 2007 recording
Alive 2007 is a bit late to be the 90s though
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#195I have a friend that used to record a lot of concerts... a surprising number of bands would even let him plug into the panel to do so. IIRC, mostly using a digital tape recorder later transferred to computer over firewire in the late 90s and 00s.
A friend (who has unfortunately passed away) owned, together with his father, just about every opera CD ever made (his father worked in RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana) and was also an opera fanatic). So, in order to get more opera he used to go to opera performances and record them. When the season opened he would go regularly to e.g. La Scala in Milan, and record the performances. That wasn't actually allowed, but the people there knew him and they knew why he did it (for personal use only), and let him in. To be at the best recording place he would have to get a seat in a section which required that he wore a suit, so he would often wear a smoking - which he actually hated, but he could put a microphone on each collar and get a stereo recording. In the nineties he used a DAT recorder.
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#196I am an active and enthusiastic recordist and have decades of stuff I've accumulated over the years. One of the concerts I captured in the 90's, lives on as a bootleg which I often see around the scene of this one particularly great live electronic dance band, whose punters have created true value out of the hour and a half of live concert input I managed to record, standing right there front stage and center, with t…
I talked to a big Grateful Dead fan the other day and he told me that they had special areas setup for anybody who wanted to record. They were happy to let people share.
Yup, same as Phish.
I used to buy VHS tapes of live Phish recordings from the person at the show. VHS because of the fidelity I guess.
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That's exactly the one I have! No surprise that it was mislabeled. Same vocalist, so that tended to happen before broadband was widely available. I even downloaded a song (Nebula) from Incubus's SCIENCE that was misattributed to Mr Bungle. To be fair, the singer plausibly could have been said to be doing a Mike Patton imitation. Now that I think more about it, I must have got the track from a P2P service / network. B…
Glad I could help! Your post gave me a walk down memory lane. I'd forgotten all about the trips I used to do to this local music store that carried bootlegs. The Nirvana section was substantial. I remember having a number of them with the mislabeled tracks, including the one you mentioned. I also picked up a few live show recordings that were unlistenable, though luckily the store accepted returns. I found an archive…
What a great link. FNM was the first band I loved that wasn't inherited from my older brothers. Patton remained my favorite artist for many years (still my favorite vocalist and I have tickets for one of his collaborations later this year). My music library is a little bit better because of this. Many thanks!
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Mike Patton loves pop music. Those covers were most likely not mocking anything. I love me some Faith No More but haven't heard them cover Nothing Compares 2 U (which is actually a Prince tune). I'll have to check it out. EDIT: You weren't kidding. I can't find a cover of it. Please! Share it!
FNM’s cover of the Commodore’s Easy is both ridiculous and sublime. Man they can play. There was a good bbc show of theirs floating around on YouTube. The music is so intense that I feel these quieter pieces give one a chance to catch one’s breath.
The EP's title was "Songs To Make Love To." My older brother had just taken me to my first concert when I spotted it in a music shop the next day. Patton would later go on to participate in a collaboration (Nathaniel Merriweather) titled "Lovage: Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By." Absolute awesome.
Midnight Cowboy was on both StMLt and Angel Dust (which I wasn't allowed to own because of the Explicit Lyrics sticker at first. My father and mother argued about that. Thanks Dad!) What a great track for slowing down. The band wasn't just about heavy and dark tones, they also appreciated and could produce beautiful music. The fulness of the song really overwhelms me when the whole band kicks in.
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#199This is one of the best things I've read about in a bit. It wasn't uncommon to buy marked-up (overpriced) bootlegs of live performances on CDs in the 90s. You never knew in advance if it'd be a quality recording or total garbage. We've lost that. I still love when one of my live bootlegs of Faith No More comes on with them doing (sometimes mocking) parodies of popular music (their rendition of Nothing Compares to You…
I remember this too. Those bootlegs were $30 each and my friend group was really into Pearl Jam. If I remember correctly a lot of these were made out of Italy. In college (maybe late 90s) I somehow managed to come up with $500 to buy a CD burner. I would make copies of these bootlegs and sell to friends for $10. I couldn't keep up and made my money back to pay for the burner relatively quickly. I think I was even abl…
> $30 each
Same in my town. For a 14 yo kid, that was a lot.
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#200I'm heartened that so much tape is still around. The lot of digital is often binary - it exists or it doesn't, but even a shred of flaking analog media can retain complete information.
I was a member of a few tape sharing communities at the turn of the millennium and spent those years digitizing scores of board and bootleg live recordings (APE or FLAC... the great debate). We'd trade our strategies for getting gear into shows, who was working door and board and was cool with what, stories of getting caught. When recorders got small enough, we started sneaking MiniDisc players into venues with microphones down our sleeves for stereo. I've still got a few stacks of those.
Leading up to that, at the dawn of LAME, I was doing the same over on IRC. Everyone with an fserve had a few tracks or albums of their favorite bands, tons local with no other distribution, and you could always message them for more info. There was a lot of love, and I found a lot of great people across the world that way.
When the RIAA crackdowns started, I archived as much as I could but lost everything in the mid-2000s when a Windows upgrade overwrote my external storage. The irony that hundreds of gigs (of both kids) would have survived if I'd put them on tape hasn't eluded me.