I think it’s also worth mentioning how we valued recordings back then. We read about bootlegs in NME etc but the writer always entered a caveat that ‘we do not know where you can buy these records’! This was because of the pressure the record companies put on the press to stifle that info. As a result, it became a challenge to track down bootlegs and the thrill of getting Bright Lights Big City,
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No,Georgie, you are not an exception, it was Not Fade Away that started it for me all those years ago. Not so many of us left these days…
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No, ‘precious few’ is grammatically correct. I’m also from the generation who got on board in 1964. I saw the band with Brian 4 times and it was as described, pandemonium of screaming girls and impossible to hear the music but incredible as an ‘experience’. I was at the ‘Leeds lungs’ concert with the Groundhogs and Noir also on the bill and tickets cost less than a cup of coffee today.
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Perhaps Matt Lee could throw some light on the matter. He may know what exists and what doesn’t and, without betraying confidences, if any of these holy grails are likely to be heard by the rest of us. Some may be in private hands and, in a way, you can understand the reluctance to make them public because they will be bootlegged and on every rarities issue for ever more, just like the Little
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QuoteDoxa Quotepaulywaul QuoteDoxa Gomelsky's film of them performing in Richmond. - Doxa Does such a thing exist ? At least it did, according to Gomelsky himself (by the courtesy of our one and only Rockman): By the way, if Holy Grail supposed to be Holy Grail then it should be one, something extraordinary, and not just another gig that is not that much circulated yet. Tha
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When I first joined this community I asked about some bootlegs which were mentioned in Roy’s book but had never seen mentioned elsewhere and was told that he may have ‘invented’ some of them, for whatever reason. He’s not here to ask about it, of course, but some of his contemporaries are and maybe they could throw some light on Roy’s sense of humour and if he would have invented these items out
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QuoteGasLightStreet Oasis were - and are - a cultural phenomenon in the U.K. it doesn’t matter if some American dislikes them; they’ve got many fans stateside. It's unfortunate that people in the UK gleefully bought in to their garbage. In the US... I have never met anyone that likes them. That doesn't really mean anything, though, does it. There are people in the US as
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QuoteSoulSurvivor1990 Has a comprehensive list of the most essential Rolling Stones bootlegs ever been made? I've been on a collector for years and have listened to pretty much all the best shows from each tour, and would love to help create a comprehensive beginners' guide with the help of other hardcore fans. The criteria would be as follows: - sound quality - circulation - no
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'There is also a show from the Marquee filmed by German T "WDR": 7th December 1970, London, The Marquee - Devotion - You’re My Girl - Flying - Too Much Woman - Maybe I’m Amazed - Gasoline Alley - Around The Plynth' Here is a YT tape of a concert of that date showing the German WDR logo, but with a slightly different song list. The sound and pictures are out of sync
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‘Jeff Lynne, Richard Tandy, Bev Bevan, Hugh McDowell, Mik Kiminiski, Kelly Groucutt, with maybe Melvyn Gale and Louis Clark would be the classic lineup I'd really want to see. It was always Jeff's vision but they were a huge part in making that a reality.‘ You may have to wait a while and be in another place to see this line up, Kelly died in 2009. As a ‘massive fan’, I thought you m
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In the meantime, this is a great BBC session
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Mark talking about it here:
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Dire Straits star Mark Knopfler to auction Brothers In Arms guitars
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These items are for sale at reasonable prices. I'm UK based so postage is extra depending upon destination. PM me for photos. Rolling Stones - An Illustrated Discography by Barry Miles Omnibus Press 1980. ISBN 0 86001 762 1 Includes 30 pages of bootleg info. Very good condition. £10 Hot Wacks Book XII Good condition. £10 Record Collector magazine issues 1-46 inclusive, A5 size,
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Back in 1968, I took a box full of early concert programmes, books, Stones Monthlies, etc to my office to try and impress a girl I worked with. When I left the job, I left those gems behind. I regret losing them more than I regret not getting off with the girl. For me, it has always been about the music so I was content to just have a tenth generation cassette of a great concert recording beca
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NME was essential reading in UK for those of us who were teenagers in the 60s and 70s. I haven’t read it for many years and shan’t be buying the new editions. I can’t get on with modern music and who needs yet another retrospective on the Stones or Led Zep or the Who. The journalists who wrote for NME and elsewhere back in the day have already published their memories and I hope that the like
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Doxa, I couldn’t agree more. This stuff is so exciting and original and I enjoy it today just as much as I did when I first bought the bootlegs way back. It’s such a pity that there’s no more to come, I think we have everything from this era that was in the vault. If only we could find the Gomelsky tapes and the missing BBC recordings…..
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It’s ‘premium content’ on the newspaper’s website. Just enter your email address, there’s no fee to pay and I doubt you will go to this website again!
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Sad news. I still have my original vinyl copies of Split and Thank Christ for the Bomb. I saw the Groundhogs at the ‘Leeds Lungs’ gig way back. I met Tony once at a club gig, in fact we stood next to each other in the toilets and chatted about Eccentric Man, which was an early single and which I still play today. Tony and his band backed many visiting blues musicians back in the day, John Lee
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Quote24FPS QuoteSpud Some folks best remember the faults, and others the virtues. And some of us remember both. Yes, and those of us who lived through these events would appreciate a few new things in this documentary but otherwise it’s just a rehash and not a very good one. Otherwise it will be an insight into the early years for the few who are interested. From looking at other thread
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Quotepaulywaul Very talented obviously, but not the most "user-friendly" of personalities (apparently) It goes to show. You should like/love your heroes for the talent they possess and that you don't. If you think that by default, they're necessarily also "nice" people ... well you'll all too often stand to be disappointed I would guess. Never really got t
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“The Stones can get by very well cranking out the same old stuff over and over. They have no interest in catering for a significant portion of longtime fans. Only for a newer, younger audience of those who get their music from classic rock stations and attend concerts because its something they think is kinda cool. Also, there are some longtime fans for whom the band can do no wrong. Fans who
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QuoteCaptainCorella QuoteKingbeebuzz I live in the UK. All through the 1960s I bought each Stones album at the time of release (all UK versions) from my local record shop and none of them were ever "factory sealed". The LPs were in racks so that you could look through them and read the covers but when you bought one it came from fresh stock held behind the counter on racks and was m
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There’s a saying in UK - ‘ there’s one born every minute…’
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‘Thank heavens there's the conundrum of getting less for more from the aged performers. It's makes the decision to pay these outrageous prices a no brainer. I got just as much out of seeing Mick sing Out Of Time on YouTube as I would have seeing it live, and it was a hell of a lot cheaper. I've seen all these bands in better days, with better setlists, at extremely better prices.’
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