I have the Pink Floyd one, it's farking great. As for the Led Zeppelin one, I probably would have put "A Cellarful of Noise" (live bootleg from Japan) on the list instead, just for the creepy rendition of Tangerine on it.
Also, I don't think any recording of The Greatful Dead belongs on a list of bootlegs, seeing that The Dead allowed people to record their concerts.

No Queen at the Hammersmith in 1975? Although I guess that doesn't qualify as a bootleg because it was aired on BBC radio but it's still the best Queen live album hands down.

3/23/87 is remarkable only for it's mediocrity. 8/23/87 on the other hand features a one-of-a-kind first-set Watchtower with Very Special Guest Carlos Santana.

There's a nice soundboard at Archive.org (pops)

The Dave Matthews performances from 8/19/08 and 8/20/08 after the original sax player died are absolutely amazing.

That list is useless without the Dream Theater Official Bootlegs. Sure the band releases them themselves, they're still amazing, every on of them. Live covers of whole albums that include Master of Puppets, Number of the Beast, Dark Side of the Moon, and Live at Budokan.

What? No Dylan from 'Royal Albert Hall'?

No Springsteen's 'Piece de Resistance' from a live FM broadcast?

NO 'LIVEr THAN YOU'LL EVER BE' by the STONES??????

No David Bowie doing 'Ziggy Stardust' with Jeff Beck on guitar?

The writer has no depth in his choices.

first thing i asked myself was "how many Grateful Dead in there?"

Wasn't surprised to see them in there at ALL. Still, some other pleasant surprises in there.

Dog Man: the Dream Theater Official Bootlegs. Live covers of whole albums that include Master of Puppets, Number of the Beast, Dark Side of the Moon, and Live at Budokan.

this.

Live Shiat: Binge & Purge - Metallica

You can't go wrong with a crowd of drunken Mexicans.

That list is chock full of fail.

Take a whiff of my pant leg baby:

Man, You got that right - - -8/23/87 cooks!

DeathByGeekSquad: Live Shiat: Binge & Purge - Metallica

yeah, but thats not a bootleg.

I refuse to read any more of these stupid "all time" lists. They are never correct, and they never go back far enough.

But I'll complain about them.

This thread is chock full of fail.

/"My musical taste is not represented on this list"
//"Thus, this list is feces."

Beatles in Stockholm 10/24/63, the Swedish Radio tapes. Better performances and far better sound quality than the Hollywood Bowl shows they actually released.

If you're going to make a list of best bootleg recordings and fail to mention Bob Dylan, you're doing it wrong.

Nothing to do with taste really, just history.

The Replacements- "The Shiat Hits the Fans"

/Thread over

I have that Sabbath boot and I listen to it way too much

What? They've got the wrong Jimi Hendrix! Should've been Woke Up This Morning And Found Myself Dead. Specifically for Jim Morrison's drunken boasts about what guys should do to their sweet little girlfriends.

/hint: buttsecks

It would be usefull if people posted links to download these great boolegs.

Neil Young Live at the Royal Festival Hall London 1973. There will never be another.

Great White Wonder
Liver Than You'll Ever Be
Bruce at Winterland '78
Lie (by Chuck Manson)

5/8/77 (new window)

No Zappa?

chickyraptor: No Zappa?

Sydney '73
Sweden '73 (video)
KCET TV show (audio & video)
'Kreega Bondola' boot ~ 1982 SPAC show

~ just to start

List fails due to no Daft Punk.

Their Coachella performance from a few years back was quite possible the greatest work I've ever witnessed (I got to see them perform it live about 6 months after the Coachella festival).

Don't know if it counts as a true bootleg, since they took most of it and put into a live album about a year later.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
The Roxy Theater, Los Angeles, CA - July 7, 1978 [FM Broadcast]

Good. Better. Bruce Springsteen - Piece De Resistance

LED ZEPPELIN
O2 Arena, London, England - December 10, 2007 [Audience Recording]

Literally dozens of better Zep boots out there, like Listen to This Eddie and Texas International Pop Festival 1969.

THE DOORS
Dinner Key Auditorium, Miami, FL - March 1, 1969 [Audience Recording]

Stupid.

Doors - Live In Stockholm 20 Sep 1968

I could go on and on. I do enjoy a boot fight.

Manic_RRepression
I have the Pink Floyd one, it's farking great.

I have the Oakland one from 1977. Double cd. Audience recording, but a pretty damn good one!
the only way you'd know that it wasn't a soundboard was that
a) the occasional close audience chatter
b) some of the sound effects sound far away [their quad-sound system?] and the keyboards are sometimes a bit louder than the rest of the instruments.]

The performance is pretty damn great. All of the Animals album [including a rockin' 17 minute version of "pigs three different ones" great Gilmour solo... and the extended version of "pigs on the wing".] and all of the "Wish you were here" album [including "have a cigar" with Roger and Dave cracking up/laughing in the first verse]
Great version of "SOYCD".

/ no King Crimson Central Park 1974 in list? hmmm.

barneyfifesbullet:

LED ZEPPELIN
O2 Arena, London, England - December 10, 2007 [Audience Recording]

Literally dozens of better Zep boots out there, like Listen to This Eddie and Texas International Pop Festival 1969.



Try hundreds. Boston 1/23 and 1/26 - 1969, Montreux '70, Live on Blueberry Hill (LA Forum - 9/4/70), every show ever played in Japan, Euro Spring of '73 tour, Earl's Court '75, LA Forum run in '77...

Third_Uncle_Eno: I have the Oakland one from 1977. Double cd. Audience recording, but a pretty damn good one!
the only way you'd know that it wasn't a soundboard was that

Wow, I used to have that exact show on 3-album vinyl. It was really fantastic. I kind of like the 74 tour bootlegs better just because it's neat to hear the songs from Animals in an earlier version.

My favorite is probably Two Gallants at the Independent, 2/25/05.

I didn't expect any Zappa or King Crimson just because there's so much out there - official and unofficial - that there's really not that much that shines new light.

The shiat Hits The Fans.

There are no Pink Floyd soundboard boots from 1977, despite what this guy says. There are some very good audience recordings (like several of the MSG shows), but no soundboard.

As a guy who possesses recordings of every show from the tour, some with multiple sources, trust me on this.

rocinante721: 5/8/77 (new window)

I always thought the single Dead show I would go to if I could go back in time would be 8/27/72, personally. Or Rotterdam earlier in the year.

XTC Black Sea Tour
XTC "The Rhythm" (Drums and Wires Tour)
Genesis "Coiled and Spent" (The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway US Tour)

Neil Young at the Bottom Line, 1974.

Brand new material played for the 1st time, and a great story about doing honey slides in a motel room.

Hendrix at Cafe Au Go Go??? WTF?

Best Hendrix bootleg - COPENHAGEN 9/3/70. Hands down.

And if you're going for GOOD MUSIC instead of an interesting historical record, there's much better Doors boots - one in Houston '68 has Jim spouting poetry left and right.