Queens of Deliria & Bootlegs

[Chris Warburton]

Firstly, Bryan wrote:
>One thing in particular, though:  They listed in their catalogue
>the SF book _Queens of Deliria_ but the price seemed too high.  I've
>got the first in the series _Time of the Hawklords_ (which is not
>that good, really), and I do want to get the next one anyways.

Foget it, it's utter drivel - did MM actually write a word of this (does
anybody know), or has it just got his name on the front.  I have just about
every book he's written, & the two "Hawklords" books make Club Ninja seem like
Secret treaties (to micx metaphors & list sections) - Bryan: if you are really
desperate & in the UK, I'll mail you mine (if I can find it - I move dhouse
last summer) contact me off-list.

Secondly, the bootleg thing:
There's a very cautionary tale in the notes to King Crimson's "B'Boom" about
the way that the professional bootleggers over in Italy sent a team over to
Argentina specifically to bootleg Crimso & someone else.  I lived in Belgium
for two years, & even in big chain record/cd stores you see these
semi-legitimate Italian live albums (very dodgy copyright laws in Italy, &
sod-all enforcement in Belgium).  After the Nirvana European tour, I must have
seen 50 different bootlegs - I reckon every date on the tour was done by
somebody - this is really big business now.  You can easily buy a lot of famous
old boots of varying quality that have now been transferred to CD.  I 'fess up
to having bought two Zeppelin ones "Blueberry Hill" (prezzy for a friend) -
which falls into the caregory of history - they really should have released an
official live album from the period; and "Ballroom Blitz" which I reckon is the
old "Live At The Lyceum" and a major argument against bootlegs - the sound is
worse than crap...   Someone also talked about putting out cheapo live albums
to suppress the demand - this sort of thing used to happen years ago e.g. KC's
"Earthbound", Man's "Live At The Padget Rooms" & "Christmas At The Patti",
ELP's "Pictures At An Exhibition", and a lot of other stuff like "The Faust
Tapes" (50p at the time, but the re-release on CD is full-price!!).  But I
think the record companies are more worried about recovering the costs of the
ludicrous advances they make to sign megastars & the costs of all the stupid
wanky "epic" videos that are more expensive to make than the product they are
promoting (just imagine if VW spent more on a TV advert for the Golf than they
did on designing & manufacturing the car in the first place)..

I reckon that's more than 2p worth, let's call it a quid & be done with it.

ChrisW

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