LIVE! BOOTLEG
Live! Bootleg is a double live album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1978. The design of the album is intended to ape the poor production values offered by contemporary bootleg records, even going so far as to give an incorrect track listing: The song “Draw the Line” is included on the record but does not appear listed; the track is a secret track after “Mother Popcorn”. The album also features a secret live instrumental cover of “Strangers in the Night” following their cover of “Train Kept A-Rollin’”. The back of the album cover includes two coffee stains over the picture of Joe Perry playing before a live audience. (More from Wikipedia)
Other widely bootlegged rock artists have similarly acknowledged the bootlegging world; Aerosmith even called their first official live album (in 1978) Live! Bootleg. The cheap-looking printing on the cover perfectly mimicked bootleg albums, and the back cover featured a couple of faux coffee stains. There were even deliberate errors in the song listing. The cover of the Who’s first live album, Live at Leeds (1970) also looks like a bootleg album; ironically, the recording quality on Live at Leeds is the best of any live album that I had previously heard.
(August 2012)
