LosslessBob Bootleg CD
A lot of collecting and trading has
involved bootlegs and copies of them because they were available. Many are
incomplete and most are inferior sound quality to what other traders have
circulated.
This bootleg section is intended to
serve two purposes.
First, many bootlegs are
collections, and the assignment of a date for the collection is arbitrary.
Sometimes the date assigned to a bootleg is imprecise. It may be assigned based
on the first performance in the collection. This can make a particular bootleg
hard to find on the LB site since listings are by date. So listing bootlegs
here by title may allow a web page search on the title to find the associated
LB number and link to its web page for additional information.
Second, back in the late 1990s, the
information from many common bootlegs and their tracks and references were
entered into a database. Based on the references available at the time, a best
guess was made as to when those tracks were recorded. A lot of the dates assigned
are approximate. The information in the database is incomplete, probably has
errors, is out of date, has not been maintained, and is not intended to be
maintained. However, it may still be helpful to some as it can offer different
views into the songs on those bootleg cds. The database also attempts to best
guess match up songs to the section numbers in the 1994 edition of Tangled up
in Tapes by Glen Dundas. That numbering scheme was dropped in the later edition
of the book as some recordings were reassigned. Some official releases are also
included in the database for reference and song tracking purposes. The
inspiration for starting this database was EDLIS. Some of the information in
the following links and sub-links was extracted from that database.
By Tangled Up In Tapes 1994 Number