Floyd 67-74 Japanese and bootleg collecting

[Steve Freight]

My first boot on vinyl was Led Zep at Knebworth. If you think HW
Glastonbury was bad, well disc one was OK but disc 2 the tape used must
have had a recording or playback fault as it sounded like the spool was
slipping all the time and the music wow and fluttering all over the place.

My best buy(s) must have been Hawkwind's Bottom Line and the live one
produced from the Weird tapes. Why - 'cos I got them in a Charity shop for
£1.50 each along with a load of other HW collectables for the same price -
Remeber I bought around 20 HW albums for £30 and sold on the duplicates for
over £100 in one of the 2nd hand shops near Tottenham Court Road. Paid for
a new fence!

On 30 January 2015 at 12:29, mary sullivan <maryann.sullivan1 at verizon.net>
wrote:

> 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-----
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> >> [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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