Lossless bootlegs for direct downloading

[Lou]

http://www.diamonddavidleeroth.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=14

Mr White has taken it upon himself to post some lossless bootlegs over there (meaning no mp3) and Vaughn has permitted it...for now. Take advantage of it while it's there...Complete Zero and Paris 5/10/78.

[Dave's PA Rental]

Im not even going to say a thing...

[Lou]

Well for those who want to take baby steps, there's no bit torrenting involved unlike Sharing The Groove. So you can download them directly as you would mp3. The file sizes are much bigger of course, about halfway between an mp3 and a .wav. If you have a high-speed internet connection there should be no issue.

[Alex Mogilny]

Re: Lossless bootlegs for direct downloading

Originally posted by Lou
http://www.diamonddavidleeroth.com/f...splay.php?f=14

Mr White has taken it upon himself to post some lossless bootlegs Paris 5/10/78.

Yikes!

It may be lossless, but it still sounds like shit.

We need some boot leggers to rob Alex Van Halen's basement like someone did to Jimmy Page.

[Lou]

I don't know what you expect. For bootleg standards it's really good quality. If you're expecting RHRN forget it, and that goes for pretty much all shows 25+ years old.

[Big Troubles]

I tried downloading it already. I have cable high speed and I waited at least 20 min for two songs. They are large files. Very large. (.flac I believe) I dunno. For some ppl this is cool. I will keep downloading from the Army. Mp3 for me.

[Alex Mogilny]

Originally posted by Lou
I don't know what you expect. For bootleg standards it's really good quality. If you're expecting RHRN forget it, and that goes for pretty much all shows 25+ years old.

I disagree:

Cream, Oakland 10/4/68
Rolling Stones, Leeds,1971
Pretty much any Clapton from 1973 on
Tons of Zep shows

I could go on....

The unfortunate thing is that Van Halen shows sound like shit.
The only VH shows that are worth a damn are:

12/20/77
6/17/78
3/25/79

The rest are putrid shit and you know it.

[Lou]

Yeah I "know it" I enjoy VH bootlegs very much (listening to Amsterdam 6/15/79 right now). You...well why don't you pop in Right Here Right Now and you'll get great quality, OK?

[Alex Mogilny]

I don't own RHRN, and I don't intend on buying it.
Besides, RHRN is Van HAGAR, not Van HALEN.

Come on Lou, Gimme a break.

[Lou]

I know it's Van Hagar, that's the point, if you want Van HALEN you'll have to deal with non-stuido CD quality.

But give ME a break, what a dumb-ass statement "All the VH bootlegs are putrid shit and you know it." Have you listened to all of them? Otherwise that's a dumb-ass, misinformed statement. Listening to mp3's doesn't count either because mp3's are shit and ruin the quality. There are wonderful audience recordings out there--Charlotte 7/17/82 Master, San Fran 9/14/82 & 9/15/82 Masters, US Fest 5/29/83 liberated video source, Houston 7/11/79, all three Japan 1979 shows circulating London 6/23/80 and 6/24/80, LA 6/19/81, Philly 7/21/81, OK City 8/6/78 "Bottoms Up" boot, I could go on and on. These are all audiences except for US Fest (very few VH boards circulating) but I think they sound great and can hold their own with almost any audience Zep boots.

So when you listen to non-mp3 VH boots, all of those that I mentioned, come back with an informed opinion.

[Alex Mogilny]

Originally posted by Lou
I know it's Van Hagar, that's the point, if you want Van HALEN you'll have to deal with non-stuido CD quality.

But give ME a break, what a dumb-ass statement "All the VH bootlegs are putrid shit and you know it." Have you listened to all of them? Otherwise that's a dumb-ass, misinformed statement. Listening to mp3's doesn't count either because mp3's are shit and ruin the quality. There are wonderful audience recordings out there--Charlotte 7/17/82 Master, San Fran 9/14/82 & 9/15/82 Masters, US Fest 5/29/83 liberated video source, Houston 7/11/79, all three Japan 1979 shows circulating London 6/23/80 and 6/24/80, LA 6/19/81, Philly 7/21/81, OK City 8/6/78 "Bottoms Up" boot, I could go on and on. These are all audiences except for US Fest (very few VH boards circulating) but I think they sound great and can hold their own with almost any audience Zep boots.

So when you listen to non-mp3 VH boots, all of those that I mentioned, come back with an informed opinion.

The Led Zep audience recordings are much better than the VH ones...I saw your list and suggest you actually build a collection of the two bands before making a comparison between the two.

I have over 200 Van HALEN bootlegs, many on DAT, including the San Fran shows from 1982.

I don't have nor will ever have any MP3 sourced crap....you don't know me, so don't link me with the retards over at vhtrading.com for christ's sake.

I got my first bootlegs while you were still shittin' in your diapers.

XOXO,
AlMo

[Lou]

Well if you saw my list, I think I have about 10-15 more Zep shows to go before I've got them all. And as far as VH goes, you should know it's one HELL of a lot harder to find VH than Zep. I'm in trades right now and I'm getting what I can.

I like what I have of VH for the most part so again, to say they're "all putrid shit" is ridiculous.

[Alex Mogilny]

I'm not the only one who thinks VH shows sound bad.

Good luck in your conquest of getting "all of the Zep shows".

As for VH, I'm sure you probably know, stay away from vhtrading.com....it's all watered down with mp3s.

XOXO,
AlMo

[Lou]

And by the way you did post a thread at vhtrading.com awhile back saying how you had 20 boots or so and none of them had seamless track transitions, unless that was someone else posting as alex-mogilny who also happens to be in New York.

http://www.vhtrading.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=13;t=000072

[Lou]

Originally posted by Alex Mogilny
I'm not the only one who thinks VH shows sound bad.

Good luck in your conquest of getting "all of the Zep shows".

Yeah I mentioned that because I don't know what you consider as a legit collection. I think that having all the available shows save 10-15 is a pretty damn good collection of a band.