Best Bootleg Blogs

My thanks to all of you who have been visiting this blog! We've had over 30,000 visitors from 99 countries since we launched back in November. Of course, my blog is small stuff, a post or two, every other day or so. That's nothing compared to a few of my web friends, who run some of the best music blogs on the web:

D&P's Bootleg Tunz World: Only soundboards and FM broadcasts. Only the best music! And they even broadcast bootlegs on Bootleg Tunz World Radio! Dino and Janice run an incredible site!

T.U.B.E: Also known as THE ULTIMATE BOOTLEG EXPERIENCE. One of the largest and best bootleg sites on the net! Features soundboards and high quality audience recordings. If you can't find it here, it probably doesn't exist!

Nathan's Rock Moat: Another site with an endless supply of shows. Often posts every show from an entire tour for a band. In addition, if you can't find what you want on the main site, there's a host of sub sites, such as Chelsea's Female Rockers and Nathan's Country Ranch, to explore. By the way, this is the site which helped me get started in launching my own blog!

The folks above have been kind enough to allow me to post music from their sites on my blog. Visit all 3 and tell them Speedy sent you!

Chuck Berry - 1974-03-18 - Los Angeles, CA (FM)

Chuck Berry

1974-03-18

Aquarium Theater

Los Angeles, CA

FM Broadcast

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. No Particular Place To Go

02. Sweet Little Sixteen 

03. audience question period 

04. My Ding A Ling 

05. Memphis, Tennessee 

06. Roll Over Beethoven 

07. Johnny B. Goode 

08. Reelin And Rockin 

09. Jam 

Chuck Berry - 1974-03-18 - Los Angeles, CA (FM)

Chuck Berry was part of the inaugural class of the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 1986, inducted alongside Buddy Holly, Elvis Presely, The Everly Brothers, Fats Domino, James Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Ray Charles, and Sam Cooke. Talk about star power. Durng that ceremony, Chuck showed why, in the words of Neil Young, "rock & roll will never die", as he led an all star jam on such classics as Roll Over Beethoven and Reelin' & Rockin'. This FM broadcast captures Berry a dozen years before his induction, on March 18, 1974, 3 dozen years ago today, in Los Angeles. The concert was taped for ABC In Concert, and broadcast about a month later, on April 12.

Bob Weir - 1978-03-08 - New York, NY (late) (Ex Aud)

Bob Weir Band
1978-03-08
Late Show
The Palladium
New York, Ny
HQ Audience Recording
320 kbps
Artwork Included

CD 1:
01. tuning
02. Poison Ivy
03. CC Rider
04. Easy To Slip
05. Salt Lake City
06. Bombs Away
07. I Found Love
08. It's All Over Now

CD 2:
01. This Time Forever >
02. Shade of Gray
03. Lazy Lightning > Supplication
04. Heaven Help The Fool
05. Around and Around

Encore:
06. I'll Be Doggone >
07. Wrong Way Feeling

Bob Weir - 1978-03-08 - New York, NY (late) (Ex Aud)

1978:  The winter of 1978, Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead were both on the road, performing solo shows in support of their latest solo albums.  Weir released Heaven Help The Foll in January 1978, a disc he recorded during the summer of 1977 when the Dead were on a hiatus from touring due to an injury to drummer Mickey Hart.  Weir used a host of guest musicians on the disc, some of whom were highly unexpected, such as Nigel Olsen and Dee Murray from the Elton John Band, David Paich and Mike Porcaro from Toto, and Waddy Watchel, who played for everyone from Linda Ronstadt to James Taylor to Warren Zezon to Stevie Nicks. Even more interesting, when Weir hit the road in support of the disc, not one of the session musicians for the album were in his touring band.  That backing ensemble did include, however, one Brett Mydland, who a year later would replace Keith Godchaux as the keyboardist for the Grateful Dead.  This high quality audience recording captures Weir at the Palladium in New York on march 8, 1978, 32 years go today.

Linda Ronstadt - 1974-02-13 - Detroit, MI (HQ Aud)

Linda Ronstadt

1974-02-13

Michigan Palace

Detroit, MI

HQ Audience Recording

192 kbps

Artwork Included

01. Colorado

02. California Blues

03. Love Has No Pride

04. Willin'

05. I Fall To Pieces

06. Lovesick Blues

07. The Dark End Of The Street

08. Break My Mind

09. Silver Threads And Golden Needles

10. The Fast One

Linda Ronstadt - 1974-02-13 - Detroit, MI (HQ Aud)

On February 13, 1974, 3 dozen years ago today, Linda Ronstadt played the Michigan Palace in Detroit, as captured in this high quality audience recording. At the time she was serving as the lead-in for Jackson Browne for many shows, but the Jackson Browne website lists him playing at Cobo Hall in Detroit that night and does not say Linda lead in. Kind of strange that they would be on tour together, be in the same city, yet play different venues! In any event, Ronstadt was on tour in support of her album Don't Cry Now, which had been released in September 1973. Don't Cry Now became Ronstadt's second gold album and would be followed in late 1974 by her masterpiece, Heart Like a Wheel.

Little Steven - 1983-02-10 - Toronto, Canada (SBD)

Little Steven 
& the Disciples Of Soul
1983-02-10
El Mocambo
Toronto, Canada
Soundboard Recording
320 kbps
Artwork Included

01. Liyin' In A Bed Of Fire
02. Save Me
03. Inside of Me
04. Forever
05. Take It Inside
06. Men Without Women
07. Under the Gun
08. Caravan
09. Until the Good Is Gone
10. Angel Eyes
11. I Played the Fool
12. I Don't Want to Go Home

Little Steven - 1983-02-10 - Toronto, Canada (SBD)

In 1982, while Bruce Springsteen was recording the solo acoustic album Nebraska, E Street band guitarist, Miami Steve Van Zandt began recording his debut solo disc, Men Without Women. Billing himself as Little Steven, to distance himself from any Springsteen comparison, Van Zandt also recruited his own backing band, which he christened the Disciples of Soul. The album was not, unfortunately, a commercial success, failing to crack the Billboard 100. The single from the disc, Forever, climbed to only #63 on the charts, despite having a video for the song in heavy rotation on MTv. The lack of chart success did not stop the band from touring. On July 18, 1982 Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul made their live debut at the Peppermint Lounge. This soundboard recording captures them 8 months later, live in Toronto on February 10, 1983, 27 years ago today.  

John Hiatt - 1994-01-25 - New Britain, CT (FM)

John Hiatt
with the Guilty Dogs
1994-01-25

The Sting

New Britain, CT

FM Broadcast

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. Introduction

02. Drive South

03. Cross My Fingers (I'll Be True to You)

04. Real Fine Love

05. Read All About It (Paper Thin)

06. Wreck Of The Barbie Ferrarri

07. Loving a Hurricane

08. Hold Me Tight

09. Georgia Raye

10. crowd & tuning & banter

11. Straight Out of Time

12. Just Like Daddy Did

13. Something Wild

14. crowd & banter

15. Have A Little Faith In Me

16. Memphis In The Meantime

17. Angel

18. Blue Telescope

19. banter & crowd

20. Thing Called Love

21. Thank You Girl

22. Lipstick Sunset

23. banter

24. Slow Turning

25. Perfectly Good Guitar

26. band intros

27. Tennessee Plates

28. Buffalo River Home  

John Hiatt - 1994-01-25 - New Britain, CT (FM)

This FM broadcast captures John Hiatt on January 25, 1994, 16 years ago today, on tour behind my favorite Hiatt disc, Perfectly Good Guitar. Almost every one of the album's 12 tracks is worth playing again and again, with the title tune, Cross My Fingers, Straight Outta Time, Loving A Hurricane, and Buffalo River Home being true standouts. In fact, that last tune, with its catchy tune playing counterpoint to its saddening lyrics, just may be Hiatt's best.

 

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