Re: Dylans opinion on bootlegs

"a.percy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> Not quite true DG,
> Compare the current tally within "Isis" Galileo's Boots section for Dylan,
> versus "The Ultimate Guide" by Felix Aeppli for The Stones. I think you'll
> find that Mr. D dances over the Stones.

That could be, I'm going by what people way more into that scene than I am
tell me.  ;-)

> Bootleg recordings have been around since the invention of portable
cylinder
> recorders, used mostly at Jazz concerts since the 1930's, despite the
common
> perception that Great White Wonder was the formative article.

Ah, but GWW was offered to the public in a somewhat different legal and
commercial climate, it was "the first" in that sense.

> Have you read
> "The Great White Wonders" A History Of Rock Bootlegs by Clinton Heylin? If
> not, I can recommend it.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew

I have his book "Bootleg: The Secret History of the Other Recording
Industry" and it is outstanding, highly recommended, among other things it
explodes many of the arguments of the labels and their RIAA thug-squad.