WellI agree ... But..... This is a rerelease of one of the first Queen cd bootlegs ever. A release from 1991/1992 remember those were the days before the internet ! It was quite hard to determine a previous queen concert date.
Here some details if the original release. http://queenonstage.com/mywebpage/adayatthestadium.htm
Ghostwithasmile is BACK! wrote:
WellI agree ... But..... This is a rerelease of one of the first Queen cd bootlegs ever. A release from 1991/1992 remember those were the days before the internet ! It was quite hard to determine a previous queen concert date.
Here some details if the original release.
http://queenonstage.com/mywebpage/adayatthestadium.htm
Thanks for the Link.
True what you say about the original 92'release. But this one is a Re-release from 2001. If people decide to make a living out of Bootlegs, then they should put more efforts in their projects imo.
It's not stupidity. It's taking a well known recording, labelling it as another date, and hoping to get sales from unsuspecting customers hoping they're getting something new. They get home, put the record or CD on, and they're disappointed.
It's a worn out trick that goes back to the 70s.
No need to worry folks.I've noticed that flaw before I click "Buy"
It was on sale on Ebay by a German Seller, for the suspicious low price of Five bucks. No one bought it ! The auction ends without a bid.
As a typical side note, this bootleg is from an Italian Company. Italy refused to sign EU-Contracts about copyright issues for a long time. Not sure about the recent status of Italy about that matter.
The Real Wizard wrote:
It's not stupidity. It's taking a well known recording, labelling it as another date, and hoping to get sales from unsuspecting customers hoping they're getting something new. They get home, put the record or CD on, and they're disappointed.
It's a worn out trick that goes back to the 70s.
Yep. I can think of a few early 70's Queen tapes that are faked from other concerts with in-between song banter cut out and purposely degraded to hide anything that "sticks out" which could be matched to another gig.
It's only a few years ago I found a bootleg CD at a record fair from a non-existant concert in Germany in 1974 that was 2 hours long....
How I laughed before putting it back.
It's also fair to say that giving bootlegs an inaccurate date was an old trick if the law did catch up with them - they simply say Queen never did that date. Same with the spate of early 90s bootlegs entitled 'live in Europe' - same vague get out clause when some laws or other changed.
Interesting theory.
But how is the date relevant? Copyright infringement is copyright infringement regardless of when the offense was committed, no? The bootleggers still don't own the publishing rights to those songs.
Dunno! But I remember it was a 'thing'
Like any claim technically wouldn't even get that far as the recording would be proven to be of an unspecific date / venue.
Pretty sure I read about it in that book Great White Wonder about bootlegs. Recommended.
I've been meaning to pick up Clinton Heylin's book. He's actually got an updated version now called "The Rise And Fall Of..." which is a lot more accurate.