I blogged about my dalliance with bootleg records a couple of years ago. Yesterday, as I was cleaning out an area of the house that has been unattended for some time, I came across three bootleg records I've been having since 1976 or so. The find yielded two Deep Purples and a Led Zeppelin that I've been looking for. I bought them at Lenny's record store in New Orleans. He used to charge $1 above the normal album price for bootlegs. As soon as I can clear off my desk and get my USB Turntable plugged in again, I plan to record a few tidbits and post them. I'll warn you now. The recordings are fairly awful. If memory serves, the only one I liked at all was Led Zeppelin's What Is And What Should Never Be. Can't trust my memory on this, though. Haven't heard any of these in over 30 years and I only listened to them two or three times each, anyway. It will be like hearing them again for the first time.
The Led Zeppelin album contains
The Immigrant Song
Stairway To Heaven
What Is And Never Should Be <<< --- Their wording on the album
Whole Lotta Love
Minnasota Blues <<< --- Their spelling, not mine
The Lemon Song
I offer two on this CrabAppleLane Sunday morning. I couldn't fit the whole cover on either of the two Deep Purple albums on to my scanner. They were both cut off. The Led Zeppelin fit, though. I just posted the better of the two DPs.
Led Zeppelin Bootleg - Circa 1976
Deep Purple Bootleg Album - Circa 1976
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Quote of the Day
So if you wake up with the sunrise
And all your dreams are still as new
And happiness is what you need so bad
Girl, the answer lies with you, yeah
Led Zeppelin, What Is And What Should Never Be
Blog of the day here.
Quote from said blog: "It Might Get Loud tells the personal stories, in their own words, of three generations of electric guitar virtuosos - The Edge (U2), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), and Jack White (The White Stripes)."
Thank God for bootlegs. If it wasn't for them we'd have never even Brian Wilson release his version of "SMiLE" back in 2006. And I've got a few boots of The Beatles' "Get Back" sessions that makes one realize that, "The Long And Winding Road" excluded, Phil Spector actually dis a pretty decent job with those tapes.
Don't know about yours, GWS, but most of mine sound like they were recorded by one of those old portable reel-to-reel tape recorders. Some of them have some interesting stuff on them that you just couldn't get at the time, though. I think the LZ is from the Whisky a Go Go.