How do Bri, Rog, John (And even Freddie in his time) feel about Bootlegs?

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anyway, i would personally think that any band would appreciate the fact that fans would take the time to record their performance because it shows how much they are loved. but then again, that is basically stealing from them and they obviously wouldnt appreciate that...hmmm, you know, if you are lucky enough to go to a gig that wouldnt be videotaped(which would obviously mean that it's not meant to be) you should feel special that you are witnessing a once in a lifetime gig that only you out of 200 (or so) other people get to see and that a million others fans would die to see only they couldn't. the memory itself should be enough to satisfy you.

Stealing what exactly? They choose to perform music in a public environment. Live performances have been bootlegged since the turn of the last century, and nothing is going to stop it. Most record companies have little interest in releasing full live concerts, and when they do they usually surpass any existing audience recording... bootlegs take nothing away from the artist.

There is one particular band, called Metallica which should thank bootleggers for their popularity in the beginning of their career.

Actuallly, they openly supported bootleging, because that was the best way for them to get known.

Today, I suppose the storry is much different.

I would not say it like that, but 'yes' Brian is indeed a 'collector' of bootlegs himself.
He was very happy with some stuff I gave him a couple of years ago. (and he in fact DID give something in return! :-)

(Remember Groningen 1998 btw? His words when he played 'Sleeping On Thse Sidewalk': "I hope you guys are bootlegging this".)

I dunno about John and Roger.
But it is true that Freddie after a show sometimes took home some tapes that where confiscated from bootleggers by security that night.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]jeroen wrote: [/QUOTENAME]But it is true that Freddie after a show sometimes took home some tapes that where confiscated from bootleggers by security that night. [/QUOTE]

I know that's true about the NY 2-5-77 video. The same bootlegger filmed the Uniondale show the next night with the little film he had left.

I had read that Led Zeppelin hated bootleggers, and that their manager Peter Grant would find bootlegs in record shops and destroy them on the spot. Perhaps Jimmy Page has softened on that over the years. The Grateful Dead, on the other hand, would reserve a taping section at each show, specifically so fans could capture each performance. The understanding, though, was that the tapes would not be sold, just traded and shared.
I guess then, that artists who hate bootleggers hate them for two reasons: There might be a recording of a sub-par performance (or just a bad recording of a good performance) out there, which reflects badly on the artist; or the bootleggers who sell the product are leeches who are making money off the artist's work without paying any royalties.
In defense of bootleg collectors, I would suspect that they are mostly fans who have already purchased every official release, but are always hungry for more.
I confess to collecting a number of bootlegs in the 1970's and '80's. (Vinyl bootlegs! You know, the ones with a blank label and cover, with a cheap Xerox inserted in the shrink wrap to indicate the contents. Ah, the good old days! But I digress....) I don't really collect them much anymore, but it's always tempting to get a recording of a show I actually attended, so I can re-live it. I think that's why there will always be a demand for them.

I think it was just Peter Grant who hated bootlegs, not any of the LZ members. Or at best, they or some of them disliked it, but not nearly as much as Grant.

The reason most artists who dislike bootlegging feel that way is because they think the bootleggers are doing it for profit, which the majority of the time is NOT true. Fans make recordings for other fans and trade them freely. In fact, many bootlegs these days come with a disclaimer on the cover art which reads "not for sale". Metallica, U2, and so many others need to get with the program and realize that their most hardcore fans just want to hear more of their music, not "steal money" from them, even though they already are multi-multi-millionaires, but we won't get into that!

OK, I think we need to make a distinction here:

I think most musicians don't mind their shows being RECORDED. It's when they're being sold for 50 bucks a pop in a record store, that it becomes an issue. I think most artists would be against their fans being ripped off (which one can very easily be, if one doesn't know which shows they should be collecting, in terms of the best performances, best sound quality, etc).

Given the comments that's being made here, I suspect Brian takes it as a complement that there are fans who collect whatever recordings they can find of the band. I know a lot of people who don't mind the stuff being traded, just so long as they can get a copy too (I remember seeing Frank Marino And Mahogany Rush once, and he actually said onstage "I don't mind you taping the shows, just please send me a copy too").


As for Zep, I think it was mainly Peter Grant who hated the bootleggers, mainly because he wasn't getting his ten percent from the bootleggers.