seems to me pearl jam were one of the first to do this and now i see metallica selling their shows on http://www.livemetallica.com, flac and mp3 and same price as pearl jam.... metallica's vault shows are free! how cool is that?

just wondering does anyone know of any other bands that do this....

as i would be interested in picking up stuff from my favourite bands....

is this for other bands forum or here????

it does mention pearl jam.... anyway i'm posting here for maximun exposure...

guess i just sold out.

I believe Phish does it for selective shows, The Who did it for a tour. The Pixies also did it for their first reunion tour a few years ago where the boot would be available for pickup at the venus right after the show.

Phish blows

thanks for that most helpful contribution.

"The Who" will be doing it on their forthcoming tour, including a nice gig at Leeds University, where they recorded the Live At Leeds album: a true gem of a live project.

you're welcome, just had to point that out in case you didn't already know

The Black Crowes did it last summer. Would be cool if they do it again this summer since the DBTs are opening and it would be awesome if they did some collaborations during the Crowes set.

they did? are these still available

I'm not sure. The company Instant Live was doing them, but I think they were only doing CDs instead of web downloads.
I got one or two of them on Oink as well as a compilation of some of the shows. Good stuff.

EDIT!
http://www.instantlive.com/home.html
Looks like they'll be doing the summer tour as well. They've added a bunch of artists since the last time I looked at the page.

i haven't really heard of many people doing it like PJ...just basic stuff like bob dylan with more of an extravgant bootleg vault series ish

Primus
Govt Mule

Im pretty sure Ratdog and Phil & Friends do too

Ovbiously the G Dead are releasing their vault also

all available in Lossless Flac files or MP3s

Personaly I think Govt Mules site "mule tracks" is the best of any I have actualy used

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fishbone has a site .. fishbonelive but thats a BT site with mostly aud tapes .. but its an official site

I think Incubus does it for at least some shows.

they do, but theirs are TB2K style. for example, the 'live in sweden' is a collection of songs from a bunch of shows there.

at least thats what i think.

live recordings are starting to become a viable source of revenue for lots of bands since record sales have started to plummet in the last several years. if a band wasn't into the whole bootleg sales thing before, i imagine they will be soon.

[quote] if a band wasn't into the whole bootleg sales thing before, i imagine they will be soon.


I wish more folks would do this. I personally love live stuff. While I enjoy some AUD recordings, I'll take a multi-track recording any day of the week.

as far as metallica goes, i love them. they're #2 probably at this point behind PJ though they've both held that #1 spot for a while.

my problem with livemetallica.com is that i hate the recordings and the mixing. sounds very primitive and there is ZERO crowd noise. it doesn't sound live. it sounds lame and since metallica don't really change how they play a song too much...and don't change their setlists even remotely as much as PJ (they used to never change them on a tour, that blew)....so their boots are sort of weak. but i have a few from the st. anger tour if anyone wants a song or two to see how the quality is.

Man, that Metallica live web site blows!

Isn't there enough money for them to hire a professional to do it?

Depeche Mode and Echo & The Bunnymen are doing it for their current tours.

Gov't Mule does muletracks
a bunch of other bands (Allmans, Collective Soul, Kiss) have or are using Instant Live

it'll also reward bands that put on a good live show, and hopefully encourage others to do the same.