The Omaha boot being released in 100 different incarnations is pretty funny.
There was a similar phenomenon with a 1984 Dead Kennedys concert . . . . I used to have about 12 differently packaged versions of exactly the same show. Sometimes they’d mess up the song titles or other distinguishing details like date and location. I’d think, “Oh, wait! This is something different! Awesome!” only to bring it home to find out it was the same thing.
This was 20 years back . . . I can only imagine how many more bastardized manifestations that show has now seen.
There was a similar phenomenon with a 1984 Dead Kennedys concert . . . . I used to have about 12 differently packaged versions of exactly the same show. Sometimes they’d mess up the song titles or other distinguishing details like date and location. I’d think, “Oh, wait! This is something different! Awesome!” only to bring it home to find out it was the same thing.
I believe you’re refering to the “skateboard party” bootleg or the dirk dirksons’s bootleg that’s has a vhs release also. (Called off broadway or something like that)
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grmpysmrf
No, not “Skateboard Party” – that was actually a legit German release on Starving Missile Records.
The Dirk Dirksen show (also released as a VHS through Alternative Tentacles back in the day) was ripped off a million times. And another show, very similar from around the same time (recorded at “The Farm”, as I remember) was also replicated countless times.
But . . . . the Dirksen show (Live at Mabuhay Gardens) is definitely the worst offender. I sold all my CD boots about 12 years ago, but of the 20 - 30 shows I had, I bet at least 6 of them were that exact same show.
i actually lucked out and got that Blackouts 7 inch in Seattle this weekend. I had a question about that one, mine came with a disclaimer that the sleeve had been “uk’d” [drawn on], but it was totally white. Was there a special record sleeve it came in apart from the actual record cover?
Finally am able to listen tothe acoustic bootleg, its wonderful. Gunnar i’ll try to mail yours out soon.
there a few boots up on ebay right now but they are too expensive to post.
kill for kicks
angel vinyl
power department
and a few others.
I’d skip 'em
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grmpysmrf