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music please....

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Permalink Reply by TeeBubbaDee on February 23, 2014 at 7:32pm

Sorry, I don't have an actual recording of this, but thought this might get some attention on this thread. I have a small collection of picture discs. (actual vinyl albums with "usually" the image of the album embedded in the plastic. This is not an album but a recording of a performance in a night club. The picture disc features a pic of Jimi Hendrix. Around the edge of the disc is printed with "Jimi Hendrix, Woke Up This Morning And Found Myself Dead, Featuring Jim Morrison, Johnny Winters, Buddy Miles, Recorded Live At The Scene Club NYC, 1986." The recording quality of picture discs are usually sub standard from a normal vinyl disc. It is the only one of 28 picture discs I own that I have ever been played. I bought them more for the display element than the ability to play them. Don't ask me how it sounded because I was pretty drunk and the only reason I played it was because my brother harassed me into it. BUT since this this is the only pic disc I own that I can't actually listen to on a regular recording, to temptation is highto play this at least one more time.

Permalink Reply by TeeBubbaDee on February 23, 2014 at 7:39pm

PS. This is a regular size 12 inch disc, the white dot is a thumb tack where it is displayed on a wall. I have Googled this multiple times trying to find a recording or a video, but have found nothing.

Permalink Reply by flippr 2.0 on February 23, 2014 at 7:59pm

I remember those,i also remember the colored record albums,you probably know about the sometimes crazy stuff the record co.puts around the inside of the recorded part of the record,like little pics or words or phrases,etc.

Permalink Reply by Snagg on February 24, 2014 at 4:23am

I've heard that album - It's clearly one of those late-night, all-these-talented-people-just-happened-to-be-in-the-same-room-and-jammed kinda things.

It HAD to be released as a bootleg, because the label lawyers never would've let the thing see the light of day; Both because the greedy bastards would never agree to the royalty distributions, and because, frankly, it's sort of embarrassing - Morrison is so drunk that he's almost completely incoherent, there are no moments of blazing, inspired musicianship serendipitously captured, it's badly recorded - Basically, it's every professional label's argument against bootlegs, all wrapped up in one messy bundle.

I remember, in fact, that there was a rumor that chased that album for several years:That Brian Jones was actually a third guitarist that night, but for his own reasons somehow reached the original bootlegger and talked him out of mentioning his involvement - Which, when you consider the way bootlegs themselves are copied and re-bootlegged, sounds pretty dumb; Maybe the original bootlegger would've accommodated Jones, but there's no way the other ones would have left a selling point like that off of the cover art. More likely Jones was never there, and the rumor was started out of some cynical/creepy plan to work a "TWO legendary DEAD rock stars for the price of one" angle, taking advantage of bootlegs' infamous unreliability for accurate record-(sic)-keeping...

Permalink Reply by TeeBubbaDee on February 24, 2014 at 5:55am

Like I said, I only played it once years ago, and was pretty buzzed up myself, but I do remember the recording as being poor.

Permalink Reply by imaginethat on March 8, 2014 at 5:21pm

I have never seen one of those. I think having them is cool TBD...Bootleg albums...I had forgotten how much people coveted finding them back then. Thanks to you Snagg for enlightening us again as to how these things sometimes transpired.

Permalink Reply by flippr 2.0 on February 23, 2014 at 7:35pm