Floyd 67-74 Japanese and bootleg collecting

Fri Jan 30 09:26:44 EST 2015

" silver boot?"

Mary

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Subject: Re: Floyd 67-74 Japanese and bootleg collecting

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.
> >
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> >
> > 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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> >> 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
> >>>
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> >>> Sent: 30 January 2015 09:44
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> >>> 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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