In the pre-internet era, obtaining a bootleg was a ritual. It meant having a connection to a network of like-minded collectors who traded concert cassettes and later CDs by mail. Some of these unauthorized releases were commercial products pressed on vinyl and sold discreetly in record stores. In the early 1970s, a bootleg vinyl LP like A Spawn of the Dublin Pubs might have appeared in a store for the first time. By the 1990s, bootleg CD labels like "Scorpio" and "Yellow Cat Records" were producing polished, if illegal, packages that are now prized collector's items.
: Ranked by Uncut as one of the 50 greatest bootlegs ever.
Touring in support of his comeback album Wavelength , Morrison took the stage at New York's famous Bottom Line club. High-energy, rock-and-soul showmanship.
In the pre-internet era, obtaining a bootleg was a ritual. It meant having a connection to a network of like-minded collectors who traded concert cassettes and later CDs by mail. Some of these unauthorized releases were commercial products pressed on vinyl and sold discreetly in record stores. In the early 1970s, a bootleg vinyl LP like A Spawn of the Dublin Pubs might have appeared in a store for the first time. By the 1990s, bootleg CD labels like "Scorpio" and "Yellow Cat Records" were producing polished, if illegal, packages that are now prized collector's items.
: Ranked by Uncut as one of the 50 greatest bootlegs ever.
Touring in support of his comeback album Wavelength , Morrison took the stage at New York's famous Bottom Line club. High-energy, rock-and-soul showmanship.
