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     Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 220 Registered: 11-2004 |
Hey everyone, I'm long time poster, first time thread starter in this off-topic section here.  I didn't know this part existed as I've always come onto the board from a bookmark to the Go-Betweens chat part. [I know, I'm an idiot - but I've enjoyed reading all the threads I've missed out on. I was wondering why some of you had 800+ posts!] Enough background info, let me get to the topic at hand. I was wondering, do any of you folk procure bootlegs as a part of your LP/CD/mp3 collection? I've always thought that if you buy a dodgy or unreleased recording by a band, then it's a true yardstick in which to measure one's fandom. And if you do buy/swap them - what do get, what's been woeful and what should really get a proper release? I'm just curious - I get this way at lunchtime. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1110 Registered: 03-2006 |
I'm a sucker for them, myself. At least, now that I'm into downloading, the cost is much more agreeable a lot of the time (free), so if they suck, or the sound is abominable, it doesn't hurt as bad... | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 15 Registered: 10-2006 |
So the obvious question for us new(ish) arrivals on the GoBs scene who have just Amazoned everything available by them - they are making me wait a savagely long time for Danger in the past, the swine - is, Are there any GoBs bootlegs that we absolutely must have?? | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1113 Registered: 03-2006 |
Don't know that much about GoBs bootlegs, but I gotta say, that last batch of reissues is pretty essential. Some of the extra discs, I thought, were nearly equal in quality to the bona fide studio release... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 93 Registered: 08-2006 |
I used to be a big bootleg buyer in college, but now not so much, I think because I rarely hear recordings of live shows that blow me away. One exception: a live New Order show I downloaded for a friend using bittorrent or whatever you call it and have played the hell out of. They're off key, crazy, totally sprung. It's a great document. Never heard any GBs bootlegs. And LK, what reissues would you recommend for someone who has all the single-disc releases. Are there one or two that have particularly prime bonus material? I'm on the record on this board as someone who doesn't buy reissues, but for the GBs I might pry open the wallet... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1116 Registered: 03-2006 |
Yeah: there's probably a bit of a halo effect in operation, since they are my favorite GBs releases to begin with, but I really like the extra discs that come with 16 LL, Tallulah, and Liberty Belle the best. They feature a ton of great songs you've probably already heard, like "Rock N Roll Friend", "Don't Call Me Gone", etc., but it's great to hear them in their chronological context. And, each of the discs is beautifully programmed to really flow like an album. | ||
| Cichli Suite Member Username: Cichli_suite Post Number: 195 Registered: 08-2004 |
Stuart, the Munich BR2 radio sessions are really fine. It features Grant and Robert on acoustic guitars on the 27/05/1999, having a whale of a time. A friend of a friend of a friend lent me a copy and it was excellent. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 156 Registered: 04-2005 |
Can't say that I would consider any of the G-Bs live recordings essential: as I have said elsewhere their strength in live performances was not really a musical one as such...but the radio recording of the Berlin gig in 2005 I have listened to more than any others: the band sound great and much less 'rigid' than 'Live in London'. Years ago with friends we used to buy dodgy tapes from the 'Barras' in Glasgow and the worst was a recording that was supposed to be the Banshees first ever gig, but in fact sounded like somebody vacuuming their living room! | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 856 Registered: 04-2005 |
Well, there was that 1983 Maxwell's gig bootleg that was under discussion a few months back; I don't know how it rates in the pantheon of GoBs boots, but the sound is mediocre at best and the band sloppy as hell. If I remember correctly, Mr. Vickers chimed in, saying that the band was drunk out of their minds by the time they came onstage. Personally, I rarely enjoy live bootlegs because they're almost always too poorly recorded to listen to for more than curiosity's sake. | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 222 Registered: 11-2004 |
One of my favourite Go-Betweens bootlegs is Fools In Love - recorded at the Cabaret Metro, Chicago 1/4/89. The band are a little hyped up (no, the tape's at the right speed) and features the absolute best version of 'Twin Layers Of Lightning' you'll ever hear. Amanda's oboe part is simply gorgeous. Features all the key 16LL songs without the Mark Wallis 80s sheen on them. It's a desk recording, but it's a couple down from the master - still brilliant. And as a bonus, there's a cracking version of 'Cut It Out' in the set - Willsteed goes to town on bass for that one. This is what Grant says leading up to the song: "This next song is a London song - all the way from London, England - we spent five years there before we realised we made a mistake. Then we moved back to the country of our birth, which was Equador. This is an old Equadorian folk song that we pinched, made it sound like T-Rex. Amanda plays guitar on it, it's called Cut It Out." |