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V.S.O.P Classic Rock Bootlegs
Rock & Roll Bootlegs didn't really exist until the late 1960's and early 1970's. Jazz had a few fanatics as far back as the 1940's that would follow Charlie Parker around, recording whatever Bird played, savoring every lick that poured from his horn like manna from heaven. You can still hear those recordings. And for that, we should be grateful. The kind of jazz that Parker played wasn't really lucrative, though, so no one much really cared. Rock & Roll was different. It was a financial goldmine from the very beginning. This meant that bootlegs cut into a record labels profits, to say nothing of the band's cash-flow, so if you wanted to record a band or artist, you'd better do it under cover. There were bands like the Grateful Dead who actually encouraged bootleg recording. Led Zeppelin also accepted this as a reality, or at least the band members did. Probably not their manager, Peter Grant, a 350 LB former wrestler who was known to drop the hammer on anyone who treated his boys badly or even indifferently. But, those who thirst for a version of the music that is live and burning and free from studio restraints, will not be denied.
My fist bootleg was Led Zeppelin's "Live at Blueberry Hill" a real classic ass-kicker of a record that I purchased back about 1971 from an underground head-shop on Ft. Lauderdale Beach. A few years later, a fellow band member borrowed it and has held it hostage ever since. But, the internet has given me back my long lost baby, and a few others, as well. So, dig these bootlegs my children. I just knew that you would.
The Board of Directors
My fist bootleg was Led Zeppelin's "Live at Blueberry Hill" a real classic ass-kicker of a record that I purchased back about 1971 from an underground head-shop on Ft. Lauderdale Beach. A few years later, a fellow band member borrowed it and has held it hostage ever since. But, the internet has given me back my long lost baby, and a few others, as well. So, dig these bootlegs my children. I just knew that you would.
The Board of Directors