The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #166031 Message #4121048
Posted By: Tony Rees
26-Sep-21 - 04:00 PM
Thread Name: Making folk club recordings available
Subject: RE: Making folk club recordings available
Meanwhile an interesting dilemma... as sometimes happens, a touring act plays more than one show in one's home town and I happened to tape or video more than one of them (in this case, two on consecutive nights). What to do? Put up both (probably overkill); try to select the overall better of the 2 as a historical document; or fillet the best numbers/performances out of each and join them together in a form that no longer represents an intact concert? Hmm...
Graham Nash did the third of these options for the 40-date tour of Crosby/Stills/Nash/Young in 1974, for a live compilation released many years later. However there are still those (myself included) who also enjoy watching a complete show at a single venue, only possible because a bootleg exists in this case (the dreaded "b" word again...)