Bootlegs aren't official releases, therefore making the legality of them questionable. Granted some artists have since released these bootlegs as official, Bob Dylan's bootleg series for example.
I want to know the difference between an official bootleg and an unofficial one besides someone from the company or the band deciding to release it.
There is no such thing as an "unofficial bootleg", it's just called a bootleg. An audience member brings a recording device to a concert, records it, then distributes it, that's a fucking bootleg. It probably sounds terrible, unless he managed to smuggle in some high quality equipment, or managed to record directly from the soundboard. An "official bootleg" is a concert recording directly released by the artist or label, either through the form of a live album, or a concert recording. A concert recording is a more modern practice, of a band taping their shows themselves, them releasing them online. This practice has been done by bands such as Phish, Pearl Jam, Wilco, Weezer, Fugazi, and others.
JMan wrote:
For a while I thought any vinyl releases meant it was an official bootleg, but someone told me that's not true.
No, of course that's not true, just because someone presses something on vinyl, doesn't mean that the artist magically said it was okay. For instance, Kanye chose not to press his newest album on vinyl, but so some other company decided that they would create their own bootleg pressing, to satisfy the demand for it on vinyl. Also, since bootleg pressings aren't from the artist or label, 99% of the time they're just sourced from the CD master of the album, and not mastered specifically for vinyl, so they generally sound like garbage.
JMan wrote:
I'd still like to know for future reference because I'll likely listen to more Zeppelin Bootlegs.
Unless Led Zeppelin released them as live albums, I'm pretty sure that brakes site rules of adding unofficial releases, plus it just floods the database with crap.
Unless Led Zeppelin released them as live albums, I'm pretty sure that breaks site rules of adding unofficial releases, plus it just floods the database with crap.
There is no such thing as an "unofficial bootleg", it's just called a bootleg.
That's not what the people at Ledzeppelin.com told me. 😠 OK, I'm not going to bother asking anyone anymore. Let's just get back to listing our favorite bootlegs because all these answers from so many people are giving me a headache. The three Zep albums are unofficial, and I can still rate them on RYM.
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