Floyd 67-74 Japanese and bootleg collecting

[Steve Freight]

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-----
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> > Behalf Of Abra Cadabra
> > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 7:08 AM
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> > 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-----
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> >> [mailto:BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET] On Behalf Of Abra Cadabra
> >> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 5:28 AM
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> >> 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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