Posted on 10/22/2004 6:17:38 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
QUEEN - THE TOP 100 BOOTLEGS Queen are one of the most widely pirated bands in the world. A large number of their live performances (over 700 in all) exist in unauthorised recordings - from the earliest college gigs in 1971, to the final open air spectacular at Knebworth Park in 1986. In response to public demand, large numbers of ‘bootleg’ LPs, tapes, CDs, videos and now DVDs, proliferated.
There is a HUGE mass of bootlegs to choose from – an overwhelming volume. Only a tiny fraction of these are worth seeking out, as most are poor-quality, shoddily conceived packages designed only to part Queen fans from their hard-earned cash. Perhaps 1 in 25 bootlegs are truly worth having. So unless you know precisely where to go and whom to ask, venturing into the murky and spurious world of illegal recordings is not recommended.
Luckily, and this is a world-wide first, Queen have decided to save you the trouble and the risk, by Bootlegging the Bootleggers!
Queen Online.com proposes to offer the VERY BEST of the bootlegs, in terms of sound quality and variation of material, at a sensible price. We have effectively ‘cut to the chase’, offering serious Queen fans the best of the bunch – ‘the crème de la crème’, as Freddie might say!
With expert advice from three acknowledged experts on Queen bootlegs; Frank Hazenberg, Andreas Voigts, Frank Palstra, we offer only the most interesting and significant material. Now you can download the very best of QUEEN IN CONCERT at your leisure, and know that each recording is the best around. Each month we will offer further concerts, so please keep this site bookmarked and keep coming back to check out which gigs have been posted.
Awesome! I'm going to order some! Thanks for the info!
Freddie ttt
You don't need bootlegs. Start at the beginning circa 1971 if you have difficulty FR mail me.
When the members of Big Audio Dynamite had a club in England, they played weekly and reportedly offered cassettes of every show for sale.
The Doors recorded quite a few of their shows and are now releasing some of them to CD through Rhino Handmade (they aren't cheap though).
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