RE: The _Night on the Sun_ Japanese Tour EP
At 06:11 PM 3/30/00 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>This, combined with other tidbits that I had heard about the EP, led
>>me to the understandable conclusion that it was more of a bootleg than an
>>official release.
>
>*the definition of a bootleg, or to bootleg is to produce, reproduce or
>distribute illicitly or without authorization*
Right.
>ok, so i got a few questions along the bootleg deal... why would a bootleg
be
>so well done... maybe it is just me, and my naieve perception of bootlegged
>items, but i seriously doubt that a bootlegged would be so well put
>together...
Agreed - the EP has great audio quality, but the definition of a
bootleg does not take into account the quality of a recording. When most
of us (including me) think "bootleg," we think "live show recorded with a
Fisher Price microphone" and other things of that nature.
But that's not always true. To go back to your definition of bootleg,
all it really means is "unauthorized." Because I had originally thought
the _Night on the Sun_ EP was not authorized by the band, regardless of
whether or not it was on Rebel Beat Factory Records, calling it a "bootleg"
would be accurate.
>and i don't know when you joined this list, so that could answer my
>question, but if you were on the list at the time it came out, you would
have
>understood that it was an official release...
I subscribed in September of 1999. My first post was a few weeks
later. I recall some discussion about the EP, but I see that there was
much more discussion before I had joined after perusing the mailing list
archive on the WWW. Most of it happened during the summer, apparently.
- Matt
