First bootleg you heard
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What is interesting to me is that I didn't really get into boots until the internet had exploded. I was born in 1977, so while I'm not exactly a kid - I missed out on the early days of having to really search for bootlegs. Yes, in the very final days before you could grab whatever you wanted on the internet I would scour the local indie music shop for bootlegs - usually cruddy sounding cassettes - but they were not easy to come by.
The internet opened so many doors for me and when I really started to look - I had the benefit of being able to go online and ask my fellow fans what were the best boots to go after. In the case of The Clash, I was pointed towards Japp Edenhall, but it was never hard to track down. I just had to do a little searching and eventually came across a kind soul who sent me the files across the world wide web.
We really are blessed to have such ready access to so many recordings these days. There are hundreds of Clash recordings available at the click of a mouse and that is great, but I'd also think a bit sad because the awe of discovery is gone - chancing on some rare recording in the racks and snatching it out in triumph like you'd just found some long lost treasure.
The internet opened so many doors for me and when I really started to look - I had the benefit of being able to go online and ask my fellow fans what were the best boots to go after. In the case of The Clash, I was pointed towards Japp Edenhall, but it was never hard to track down. I just had to do a little searching and eventually came across a kind soul who sent me the files across the world wide web.
We really are blessed to have such ready access to so many recordings these days. There are hundreds of Clash recordings available at the click of a mouse and that is great, but I'd also think a bit sad because the awe of discovery is gone - chancing on some rare recording in the racks and snatching it out in triumph like you'd just found some long lost treasure.
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I think the net is great that these things are easier to come by. However I think it's also important to respect the fact that although that cool bootleg is just a click of a mouse away the person who uploaded originally spent a lot of time/effort (and probably money) tracking it down and converting it etc. It's why I spend so much time cleaning these things up in order keep them in the best form possible and to give a little back. I've spent thousands of pounds on music through the years and I share everyhing I have across the net freely so others can benefit and to stop them listening to fucking Justin Bieber records.WestwayKid wrote: ↑27 Sep 2017, 10:57amWhat is interesting to me is that I didn't really get into boots until the internet had exploded. I was born in 1977, so while I'm not exactly a kid - I missed out on the early days of having to really search for bootlegs. Yes, in the very final days before you could grab whatever you wanted on the internet I would scour the local indie music shop for bootlegs - usually cruddy sounding cassettes - but they were not easy to come by.
The internet opened so many doors for me and when I really started to look - I had the benefit of being able to go online and ask my fellow fans what were the best boots to go after. In the case of The Clash, I was pointed towards Japp Edenhall, but it was never hard to track down. I just had to do a little searching and eventually came across a kind soul who sent me the files across the world wide web.
We really are blessed to have such ready access to so many recordings these days. There are hundreds of Clash recordings available at the click of a mouse and that is great, but I'd also think a bit sad because the awe of discovery is gone - chancing on some rare recording in the racks and snatching it out in triumph like you'd just found some long lost treasure.
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Yes shame on me for slight thread driftwhite man wrote: ↑27 Sep 2017, 7:02amThought this was just Clash related . In that case Spunk was my first then NY 1979 first live Clash.101Walterton wrote: ↑27 Sep 2017, 6:06amThe first I heard was Spunk which I then bought off the guy who had it.
I think the first Clash boot I heard was GEED.
I only posted that because Spunk is probably the most reknown boot out there (well certainly was at the time) and because I didn't hear a Clash boot until years later.
Re: First bootleg you heard
Hello,
I'm not quite sure (Che?) but I'm pretty sure I got it from someone on the old Jeff Dove site.
I'm not quite sure (Che?) but I'm pretty sure I got it from someone on the old Jeff Dove site.
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This one : Recorded live at the Lochem Festival, 10/5/1982 ...sounded like shit.Marky Dread wrote: ↑27 Sep 2017, 1:30amUsed to buy a shit ton of live tapes from two guys in Kensington Market. My first Clash tape was probably the Polydor demos which also had some GEER demos and those two versions of Heartbreak Hotel which were really just Joe and guitar recorded back in his 101ers days in Orsett Terrace '75. The next tape was the Palladium '79. My first vinyl Clash bootleg was the one with a drawing of Mick Jones holding a dead guy in his hand.
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Double post.
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Terry Chimes on drums!
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I remember buying that and the Sex Pistols bootleg "Anarchy in the USA" album on Happy Porpak records. I couldn't wait to get home from the record fair feeling chuffed as little meatballs with my purchase only to have my dreams shattered. The Clash boot was just about listenable while the Pistols one was so poor it was unreal. At least I had a nice record cover to stare at.
Record fair bloody record unfair I reckon. Did I learn from my purchase...nope did I fuck I bought so many crap boots it beggars belief.
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Definitely a good record cover. Have you got a decent version of the recording now?
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Yeah I've got all the Pistols stuff in as good a version as possible. I sold off the majority of my Pistols boots last year.
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The Snotty Snail label bootleg cd set called ‘This Is Radio Clash’, which contains the Bonds ‘81 fm stereo radio broadcast as well as some other miscellaneous stuff.
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Was that the soundboard? Or audience? I’ve only ever heard the crystal clear soundboard.Marky Dread wrote: ↑01 Oct 2017, 3:09amThis one : Recorded live at the Lochem Festival, 10/5/1982 ...sounded like shit.Marky Dread wrote: ↑27 Sep 2017, 1:30amUsed to buy a shit ton of live tapes from two guys in Kensington Market. My first Clash tape was probably the Polydor demos which also had some GEER demos and those two versions of Heartbreak Hotel which were really just Joe and guitar recorded back in his 101ers days in Orsett Terrace '75. The next tape was the Palladium '79. My first vinyl Clash bootleg was the one with a drawing of Mick Jones holding a dead guy in his hand.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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Are you refering to Lochem? If so I've no idea other than it was one of the worst sounding boots I had bought other than the awful Pistols one I previously mentioned.matedog wrote: ↑30 Oct 2017, 12:21amWas that the soundboard? Or audience? I’ve only ever heard the crystal clear soundboard.Marky Dread wrote: ↑01 Oct 2017, 3:09amThis one : Recorded live at the Lochem Festival, 10/5/1982 ...sounded like shit.Marky Dread wrote: ↑27 Sep 2017, 1:30amUsed to buy a shit ton of live tapes from two guys in Kensington Market. My first Clash tape was probably the Polydor demos which also had some GEER demos and those two versions of Heartbreak Hotel which were really just Joe and guitar recorded back in his 101ers days in Orsett Terrace '75. The next tape was the Palladium '79. My first vinyl Clash bootleg was the one with a drawing of Mick Jones holding a dead guy in his hand.
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I bought a cd-r of Lochem back in the 90s and my recollection was that it was a very nice soundboard.matedog wrote: ↑30 Oct 2017, 12:21amWas that the soundboard? Or audience? I’ve only ever heard the crystal clear soundboard.Marky Dread wrote: ↑01 Oct 2017, 3:09amThis one : Recorded live at the Lochem Festival, 10/5/1982 ...sounded like shit.Marky Dread wrote: ↑27 Sep 2017, 1:30amUsed to buy a shit ton of live tapes from two guys in Kensington Market. My first Clash tape was probably the Polydor demos which also had some GEER demos and those two versions of Heartbreak Hotel which were really just Joe and guitar recorded back in his 101ers days in Orsett Terrace '75. The next tape was the Palladium '79. My first vinyl Clash bootleg was the one with a drawing of Mick Jones holding a dead guy in his hand.
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Oh yes mate I know the Lochem gig exist in very nice sound on CD (R) I have it also. But when I bought that vinyl boot it was 1982 and to my knowledge it wasn't available then on CD and I'm not even sure CD-R's were available then. Anyhow great sound on the CD-R but a shit performance as the band are in dissaray stoned out their nuggets.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑30 Oct 2017, 9:07amI bought a cd-r of Lochem back in the 90s and my recollection was that it was a very nice soundboard.matedog wrote: ↑30 Oct 2017, 12:21amWas that the soundboard? Or audience? I’ve only ever heard the crystal clear soundboard.Marky Dread wrote: ↑01 Oct 2017, 3:09amThis one : Recorded live at the Lochem Festival, 10/5/1982 ...sounded like shit.Marky Dread wrote: ↑27 Sep 2017, 1:30amUsed to buy a shit ton of live tapes from two guys in Kensington Market. My first Clash tape was probably the Polydor demos which also had some GEER demos and those two versions of Heartbreak Hotel which were really just Joe and guitar recorded back in his 101ers days in Orsett Terrace '75. The next tape was the Palladium '79. My first vinyl Clash bootleg was the one with a drawing of Mick Jones holding a dead guy in his hand.
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