Floyd 67-74 Japanese and bootleg collecting

Abra Cadabra anacondaconan at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jan 30 08:12:48 EST 2015


I remember going to NYC while an art student in NJ, and my "loser"
friend Steve Hummell who i always went to score grass with at The
Square in NY bought the Sisters of Mercy "Holocaust 1985" CD which i
taped off him. Still have the cassette but no tape deck. Excellent SB
recording too. My first HW boot i think was "Space Rock From London"
at a Prog fest in Oslo 95 or 96... the guy who i bought it from after
i paid an ok price, i was like "so ya just sold me a bootleg CD for
the price of a regular CD, are you aware of this?"... and he was like
"well, i don't care ". The bands i remember at the prog fest were
Arena and Anekdoten both which i did not enjoy.

2015-01-30 13:43 GMT+01:00 Steve Freight <stevefreight at gmail.com>:
> First CD boot was a Beatles one - live in Japan - cost £25 in those days
> and I think it was the first silver boot CD released anywhere (along with a
> Dylan one). Sadly it disintegrated and became unplayable after a few years.
>
> On 30 January 2015 at 12:37, Abra Cadabra <anacondaconan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> my very first boots were The Doors "Matrix" show (Back Trax CD) and
>> some Italian Doors CDs i got at Wild Mind in Oslo. Also Monster Magnet
>> live 1992 i got in East Village, some Nirvana demos in early 1991 on a
>> cassette before Nevermind blew the head off the rock public. Also some
>> silver HW CDs, mid 90s and my first request on BOC-L was a tape of the
>> Limelight 95 show i was at and i hooked up with Scott H. in 1996.
>>
>> 2015-01-30 13:29 GMT+01:00 mary sullivan <maryann.sullivan1 at verizon.net>:
>> > My first boots were from The Dead, and Floyd, terrible sound quality,
>> great
>> > music I don't remember what shows they were.
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List [mailto:BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET]
>> On
>> > Behalf Of Abra Cadabra
>> > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 7:08 AM
>> > To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
>> > Subject: Re: Floyd 67-74 Japanese and bootleg collecting
>> >
>> > Lol. In 85-86 my cassette collection was Queen, Genesis (80s) and Duran
>> > Duran, A-Ha and Madonna. Then came CDs and i delved into Floyd, Doors,
>> > Marillion, old Genesis, Sisters Of Mercy and Ramones and Zep and Bowie
>> and
>> > Pistols all came around 88-89. By the time Nirvana and Pearl Jam
>> exploded in
>> > the early 90s i felt it was "ok" and "hip" to dig Hawkwind.. rock was ok
>> > with "teh people" not all that pop 80s krap.
>> >
>> > 2015-01-30 12:52 GMT+01:00 mary sullivan <maryann.sullivan1 at verizon.net
>> >:
>> >> Christian, I may have a few years on you, but I do know how you felt,
>> >> it was like that for me, in '78, when I first heard Echoes I though
>> >> Floyd were Gods, then I heard Space Ritual a few years later and life
>> >> hasn't been the same since.
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List
>> >> [mailto:BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET] On Behalf Of Abra Cadabra
>> >> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 5:28 AM
>> >> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
>> >> Subject: Re: Floyd 67-74 Japanese and bootleg collecting
>> >>
>> >> Agree on the HW issue as family vs massive hordes of Floyd fans.
>> >> Though it didnt answer my question hehe. I must have between 3-400
>> >> traded and downloaded HW boots and all the Silver CDs and a few Vinyl
>> >> boots too  I heard DSOTM (my stepdad had the CD and a few LPs like
>> >> Obscured and Relics) in 1986 or so and HW 2 years later. HW was like
>> >> the band no one had heard apart from "Lemmy's old band before MH"! and
>> >> it made me feel so much more underground hardcore freak with my CoTBS
>> >> and Flicknife era discoveries as a stoned 16 year old into Moorcock,
>> >> than any luxury cocaine addicted Floyd fan with a 5 grand stereo LOL!
>> >> I have met Tim, Lemmy, Alan at gigs and they were all very friendly.
>> >>
>> >> 2015-01-30 11:16 GMT+01:00 John Rennie <hawkfan at ratsauce.co.uk>:
>> >>> Pink Floyd were my first love, and if I have to go to the proverbial
>> >> desert island with only one band's back catalogue that band would be
>> >> Pink Floyd (sorry guys :-).
>> >>>
>> >>> But being a Pink Floyd fan feels a bit like being part of a giant
>> >> multinational. They are just so big and have so many fans. I would
>> >> never try and host a Pink Floyd live recordings site because there are
>> >> already so many of them, but I would and do host a Hawkwind recordings
>> >> site (though the Bootleg Emporium has kind of made me redundant :-).
>> >>>
>> >>> The Hawkwind universe is just so much more personal. I don't know any
>> >>> of
>> >> the band members personally (though Dave Brock once grinned at me -
>> >> does that count? :-) but I can exchange Facebook posts with guys who
>> >> write album sleeve notes. OK, as claims to fame go it isn't very
>> >> exciting, but the point is it feels so much more like an extended family
>> > than a corporation.
>> >>>
>> >>> So while I have a few Floyd bootlegs, live recordings, etc collecting
>> >> Floyd stuff just isn't as interesting as collecting Hawkwind stuff.
>> >>>
>> >>> John Rennie
>> >>>
>> >>> -----Original Message-----
>> >>> From: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List
>> >>> [mailto:BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET] On Behalf Of Abra Cadabra
>> >>> Sent: 30 January 2015 09:44
>> >>> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
>> >>> Subject: Floyd 67-74 Japanese and bootleg collecting
>> >>>
>> >>> So far my only Floyd collecting "mania" has been very small compared
>> >>> to Hawkwind etc. And i am not looking for mp3/FLAC but those dandy
>> >>> Japanese Peel Sessions and Live and also the odd bootleg, as long as
>> >>> they are not CDR or d/l. The other day i purchased 3 PF BBC 67,  BBC
>> >>> 68-69 and a London 70 Japanese CDs. Super looking forward to them. I
>> >>> have the top list being PF stuff i already have and the bottom i have
>> >>> picked out 67-74 era PF CDs i have seen on eBay. I assume there is a
>> >>> lot of chaos and overlapping with the bootlegs, so it seems the
>> >>> Japanese CDs are the way to go for a Floyd novice like myself ... I
>> >>> wish i had the bootleg with "Point Me At The Sky" single !!! I only
>> >>> have an mp3 of that one atm.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Pink Floyd - London '66-'67 (live CD EP) Pink Floyd - 1967: The First
>> >>> 3 Singles (CD EP) Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (remaster)
>> >>> Pink Floyd - BBC Sessions 1967 (Japanese CD) Pink Floyd - A Saucerful
>> >>> Of Secrets (remaster) Pink Floyd - Ummagumma (2CD, remaster) Pink
>> >>> Floyd - BBC Sessions 1968-69 (presented by John Peel) [Japanese CD]
>> >>> Pink Floyd - Soundtrack From The Film "More" (remaster) Pink Floyd -
>> >>> Relics (remaster) Pink Floyd - Live In London 1970 (Playhouse
>> >>> Theatre,
>> >>> 16/09/70) [Japanese CD] Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother (remaster)
>> >>> Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds [2011 remaster in mini LP-sleeve CD]
>> >>> Pink Floyd - Meddle (remaster) Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
>> >>> (remaster) Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (remaster) Pink Floyd -
>> >>> Animals (remaster) Pink Floyd - The Wall (remaster 2CD) Pink Floyd -
>> >>> The Final Cut (remaster CD w/bonus track) Pink Floyd - A Momentary
>> >>> Lapse Of Reason Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder (live) (2CD)
>> >>> Pink Floyd - The Division Bell Pink Floyd - Pulse (live) (2CD) Pink
>> >>> Floyd - The Endless River (new 2014 CD) Pink Floyd (V.A.) - A
>> >>> Saucerful Of Pink [Cleopatra label tribute feat.
>> >>> Melting Euphoria, Spiral Realms, PTV, Nik Turner, Helios Creed, Ron
>> >>> Geesin, Spahn Ranch +++] Pink Floyd - Maximum Pink Floyd [spoken
>> >>> biography CD]
>> >>>
>> >>> Yet to purchase (not including the 12 disc Complete Japan Tour 70-71):
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Pink Floyd - BBC Sessions 1970 (Japanese CD) Pink Floyd - Nuremburg
>> >>> 1970 (2CD) Pink Floyd - French Radio Sessions 1970-71 (Japanese CD)
>> >>> Pink Floyd - Live At Free Concert 26/06/71 (bootleg) Pink Floyd - BBC
>> >>> Sessions 1971 (Japanese CD) (30/08/71, Paris Cinema, London) Pink
>> >>> Floyd - First Time In Japan (3CD) (bootleg) Pink Floyd - Live Lyon
>> >>> 1971 & Tokyo 1972 (bootleg) Pink Floyd - Live In Tokyo 1972 (2CD)
>> >>> (Japanese CD) Pink Floyd - BBC Sessions 1974 DSOTM Sessions (Japanese
>> >>> CD)
>>
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