For me...

R.E.M. - Down South
Bootleg recording of the band in Athens, pre-Chronic Town. Some pretty great stuff.

The Parliments (Funkadelic) - Early Singles: 1965-67
I think I may have mentioned this one in a thread recently. But they sound like a freaking Motown act on one song, a Stax band on the next, and just plain rock on the next. Sound quality is shite, but when the music is this good, who cares? It's on the (certainly made-up) "F-Punk" "label". If any of y'all have this one on CD, I would sure appresh a YSI.

My turntable has been down for a couple of years now and neither has ever been available on CD, as far as I know. But that's boots for ya. Boy do I miss these.


So, what are your favorite bootlegs... live or otherwise?

Smashing Pumpkins - Drown

Drown
(Kiss The Stone KTS 208)
1) Rocket
2) Cherub Rock
3) Today
4) Mayonaise
5) Hummer
6) I Am One
7) Disarm
8) Geek USA
9) Drown
10) I am One
11) Cherub Rock
12) Silverfuck
13) Today
14) Spaceboy
15) Dancing in the Moonlight

Tracks 1-5: Tower Records; Chicago, USA; 26 luglio 1993;
Tracks 6-13: Lowlands Paradise Festival; Olanda; 28 agosto 1993
Track 14-15: VPRO studios; Hilversum, Olanda; 30 giugno 1993

I have some great bootlegs which I may YSI now that I know how to use the damn thing...and if I find the boots.

great Yo La Tengo one that a friend recorded in '99 at the cotton club in atlanta. You hear some guy yell out "Motel 6" just as the show starts and whaddya know...they played it. did I mention that I am that guy?

I also have decent some boots from:
Belle & Sebastian
Flaming Lips
My Bloody Valentine (horrendous quality but those who have heard it say that this is what they sound like live)
Olivia Tremor Control
Elliot Smith
Stereolab
Sonic Youth
Sloan

Hell, you sparked my memory of a boot that I DO have on CD:
Big Star - Pick Some Posies and Let's Play
A 1994 show at Metro in Chicago that I was at. As they begin "The Ballad Of el Goodo", you can hear some guy yell WHOOOO very clearly. And it is most definitely me. I remember doing that, and I remember being right near the mic.

one time i yelled 'yeh!' at a show and then i whistled. i dont think it was recorded.

well, my "yeah" must have been better than yours

-Bob Marley and the Wailers, KSAN radio, July '77
-Bingo Hand Job - R.E.M. at the Borderline

i havent quite got the punchiness to the 'yuh' sound mixed with the decay of the 'ehhhhh' just right yet. it's like i'm opening not quite as strongly as i can, but then there's this rise in intensity like halfway through that sort of clipped vowel sound.
i guess i just need practice.

Patience, Padwan...

I don't have many (that aren't matchbox twenty when I was buying everything I could find off ebay in my teenybopper fan days), but two of my favorites are Damein Rice shows. 12.08.03 from NYC and 12.04.04 from LA.

Whitesnake - Nassau Coliseum, Long Island NY 1-22-88 (my first show ever)

Afghan Whigs - Bowery Ball Room, NYC 2/18/98 (the first of the last three ever Whigs NYC shows...)

holy jeez, i remember seeing shows at the coliseum. only saw a couple, U2 on the fall leg of the 'joshua tree' tour and inxs on the 'kick' tour. but i remember those particular days well.
spent most of my time there either watching hockey [i hated the islanders, but hockey is hockey] or indoor soccer [ny arrows].

nirvana - roma

I used to have a really good portable cassette recorder. Somewhere I've got pretty decent sounding recordings of Midnight Oil (Diesel and Dust tour), Echo & The Bunnymen (circa '87) and Peter Murphy (Love Hysteria tour), and a slew of Robyn Hitchcock shows from the late 80's.

The Peter Murphy is my favorite, because his bass player starts the bass line to "Bela Lugosi" and then the drums and guitar come in--goes on for about 45 seconds and the crowd is going nuts. Petey then cuts in, "No, no, no, no, no. Nope, if you think I'm ever playing that song again, you're daft".

any sublime bootleg...especially stuff from right before his death.

you can taste the genius flowing out the guitar.

One of my happiest finds back in the early '80s was "Dark Side of the Moo," wherein some thoughtful bootlegger compiled all the legitimately-released but impossible-to-find Pink Floyd singles and soundtrack cuts.

Astronomy Domine (the then-out-of-print Piper at the Gates of Dawn version)
Candy and a Currant Bun
Apples and Oranges
It Would Be So Nice
Interstellar Overdrive (short version)
Scream Thy Last Scream
Heart Beat, Pig Meat
Crumbling Land
Embryo
Point Me At The Sky
Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up
Mademoiselle Knobs

That fucking band really needs to put together a legitimate rarities collection--there's gotta be at least 30 tracks out there that were legitimately released at one point--most of which are now unavailable except for individual tracks scattered on various Floyd comps to force the fans to buy them.

Sonic Youth-Live St. Mark's
Splitting the Atom
Jeff Buckley-Son of A Starsailor


and I remember at one point coveting my copy of "Y Kant Tory Reed?"

Pretty good but not my fave of my bootlegs is this 1 Portishead bootleg from 1995, "Welcome to Portishead". It repeats some of the same tracks since it's recorded from 2 different shows & at the time they only had 1 album. They do Glory Box in Paris & right as it starts this girl in the audience just screams. I mean SCREAMS (all caps) like you ain't ever heard a girl SCREAM before. And then all these other girls start screaming. But that one chick, that was one happy French chick.

My favorite bootlegs

Sonic Youth -Take Out The Trash
Schizophrenia
100%
Kool Thing
Teenage Riot
Sugar Kane
Druken Butterfly
Candle
Self Obsessed And Sexxee
Stereo Sanctity
Starfield Rd
Druken Butterfly
Theresa's Soundworld
Total Trash

recorded from at least 2 shows in 93 & 94 including Rokslide in 94

I have a bunch of Orb bootlegs

DIPPING INTO THE CYBERWORLD -- 1994
Outlands
Mudslickers
Valley
Towers of Dub
UF. Orb
Little Fluffy Clouds
Blue Room
Earth (Gaia)
Close Encounters
A Huge Ever Growing Brain In The Centre of The Earth Loving You

VISITOR -- 1993
Alex vs The KLF
Brooklyn New York
Alex & Steve - Music 2 Funk 2
Reefer Spin In The Galaxy
Towers of Dub (Solaris Mix)
OOBE (Pool Mix)
Blue Room (Ambient Demo At Mark Angelos)
Orb vs Coldcut- Kiss FM (Extract)

ULTRA RARE TRAX -- 1993
Kiss Your Love
A Huge Ever Growing Remix (Orbital Dance Mix)
Little Fluffy Clouds (Inner Master Mix)
Towers of Dub Remix (Ambient Mix)
Perpetual Dawn (Ultrabass II Mix)
Star 6 & 7, 8, 9 (Phase II)
Peace In The Middle East (Sea of Tranquility Mix)
Little Fluffy Clouds (Heavyweight Dub)
A Huge Evergrowing Pulsating Brain that Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld (Loving You)

And I have 1 from 96 at Organic which I was at & Orbital's set from that night too & Underworld at the Mayan 2 years later. But the sound on those aren't great

I got a couple Massive Attack live bootlegs that are kinda dissapointing. I once bought a Ministry boot that was horrible

I don't own a single bootleg and I'm kind of proud about that.

man...if you could ysi that.....

I only have some Radiohead concert bootlegs. My favorite is the one from South Park in Oxford, July 7, 2001