• For a short while longer, a shameless link to the web site for The Poppies, the successor to The Echoes of Tyme, my favorite 60s vocal pop and garage/psychedelic revivial group, respectively. I especially like the keyboard player. The EoT folded in April 2005 in the wake of the guitarist's death from natural causes; The Poppies began in June 2005 and ended in late summer 2006 amidst scandal of the worst kind. Great music, though.
• The mighty Trouser Press, bible of alternative rock since 1983, is back with a vengenace. Be sure to check out the review of Pink Floyd, penned by yours truly. And new for 2004: my Todd Rundgren overview.
• Moody Blues Set Lists - fairly comprehensive listing of shows from the beginning to present-day.
• The Moody Boots - bootleg track listings, info and artwork for many Moody Blues shows.
• Elvis Costello Bootleg Discography - nice layout, great information. Aims to be comprehensive.
• Sweet Floral Albion - "a switched-on mag for switched-on people" ~ it's the world's only e-zine devoted to all the day-glo aspects and technicolored manifestations & machinations of BRITISH PSYCHEDELIA ~ music, literature, fashion, art, & other groovy scenes. Issued monthly, it is totally FREE, baby! (Link added 01/04)
• The Garage and Punk Rock Lyric Database: for when you want to sing along with the best. My band (see above) uses this resource. Enjoy! (Link added 12/03)
• Click HERE for the best concise description of the whole bootl...um, discussion scene. Written by an individual with whom I have had the pleasure of...discussion. (Link added 12/03)
• Check out this Ed Sullivan Show Episode Guide. Somebody went to a lot of effort here; page takes a bit of time to load but is worth it for the wealth of information. As George Carlin once said, "Thanks, Ed." (Link added 12/03)
• Show and Tell Music - Gosh...this is so bizarre, and only related to this site in the most obscure and tangential way, but it's a must-see for aficionados of...of...the incredibly strange. It's SO odd, in fact, that I put this link near the top, even though it's completely irrelevant. Go see it anyway. (Link added 11/03)
• The Trade - This is where to go if you are looking for someone with similar tastes who might be amenable to trading (information, of course). Who knows...you might have found me this way.
• The Beatleg Project - a FREE site with lots of info on Beatles recordings, and a growing base of info on other bands including Badfinger, The Who and others. Downloadable, high quality artwork scans available for many titles, and the ability to read (and write!) reviews about recordings. When seeking info on unreleased Beatles recordings, this should be your first stop.
• Noted Beatles scholar Chip Madinger's (relatively) new book "Eight Arms to Hold You: The Solo Beatles Compendium" is a worthwhile investment. Info on ordering is at his site. Please tell him I sent ya.
• The Pink Floyd ROIO Project - I used to call this "an exhaustive database of (virtually) all extant unreleased Pink Floyd recordings." Well, it's still pretty well exhaustive, but there are a number of recordings I know of that are simply not listed there. This site has been online for nearly seven years, and offline for years prior to that, even. From what I can tell, the site itself hasn't had an update in ages (like, since July 2000), but it's still VERY highly recommended. Lots of detailed info here. Visit often. Sadly, the high quality scans once on the site are no longer available.
• Vernon Fitch's Pink Floyd Archives - THIS is the real deal. I won't waste space going into detail; suffice to say this is where to get info on the Floyd.
• Fingal~s Cave - For many years, the definitive Pink Floyd bootleg information resource.
• Pink Floyd Concert Database - The current definitive Pink Floyd bootleg information resource.
• A. Rogers' Todd/Utopia List - Listed here mainly because it has detailed tracklists and reviews of many, many Todd Rundgren (and Utopia) boots. He announced in mid-2003 that he was ceasing trading and maintaining the list, but now it's back.
• King Crimson Live! - This replaces an older, less-comprehensive link. Very useful. By the way...in case you don't know, Fripp detests bootlegs. In a BIG way.
• The Frank Zappa Shows Overview is HERE.
• There once was a great site called Son of the alt.fan.frank-zappa Bootleg FAQ, and it was just what you'd expect from Zappa fanatics. Richly detailed and irreverent. For unknown reasons, it went away. Now it's back. To paraphrase Varese, The Son of the alt.fan.frank-zappa Bootleg FAQ refuses to die! ...well, as of November 2005 it's dead again!
• Unofficial Crowded House Bootleg Discography. - As opposed the the official bootleg discography, one supposes. No frills, but good info. Well, as good as can be for a site that hasn't seen an update in more than seven years...!
• The U-SPACES (that's..."Ultimate Strawberry Prune Alarm Clock Electric Spinach") Discussion Group sponsors a set of CDs that really pick up where the "Nuggets" series leaves off. Check it out. I'm a subscriber and occasional contributor to the series, as well as a "leaf." Collect 'em all!
• The Complete The WHO Concert Guide is a great resource on the 'oo, and is part of the larger "hypertext WHO" site. It does seem to encompass (or at least link to) the dreadfully haphazard "Baby O'Riley's Bootleg List." I do NOT recommend trying to find anything of value there. But the link as shown here...well, it's great. Long Live Rock indeed.
• The George Harrison Bootleg Discography from the "Hari's on the Web" site. If you can get past the Japanese mangling of the English language (hey, many Americans are no better) it's chockfulla info. Does look like it hasn't seen an update in over a year, but the dripping spigot of Beatles-related boots seems to have been tightened (sorry for the labored metaphor...it's early)
• On of my former bandmates turned me on to this site. It's a fan/collector's compendium of info on VigOtone and associasted bootleg labels. A fine resource.
• Also useful (not a day goes by wherein I don't consult it) is the All Music Guide. Certainly not complete, and occasionally the reviews seems as if they were written by the artists' publicists (see the Joey Molland entry for texbook hyperbole). Any guide that can give a David Hasselhoff recording four stars must immediately be judged highly suspect. That said, the site is worthwhile anyway. Their related site, the All Movie Guide, seems to hold itself to a higher standard. Go figure.
• You MUST visit this site. Robot Rock Critic. Every album ever made is reviewed here, even ones not yet recorded. Check it out.
• And you know what? The Rolling Stone CD Review Archive is not a bad thing at all. In one sense, it's a reminder of how relevant RS once was. It's quite interesting to see a (one assumes) non-revisionist approach to album reviews. For example: what did RS have to say about Big Star's "Radio City" LP upon its release (as opposed to years later when everyone finally recognized its brilliance)?

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