Miles Davis On The Crest of the Airwaves

[David Ayers]

Miles Davis 'On The Crest Of The Airwaves' box set from Rock Melon. Available from Amazon, where one reviewer says 'The concerts are actually Fillmore West San Francisco on 15 October 1970, Berkshire Music Centre Tanglewood (not England duh!) on 18 August 1970 and Melbourne. All the concerts are worth listening to and the Melbourne concert is over 150 minutes long.'

Just a bunch more boots already in circulation?

Edited January 10, 2012 by David Ayers

[JohnS]

The Amazon reviews disagree about the sound quality. My discography (Lohmann) lists the Filmore and Melbourne concerts as, respectively, unissued Columbia and Warners recordings. Wolfgangs's Vault has the Filmore.

[jazzbo]

If the reviewer is correct and the second concert is Tanglewood, then the Tanglewood show has been officially released by Columbia and is also available on Wolfgang's Vault. I don't collect the 'eighties shows, but I bet that the Melbourne is well circulated, almost all FM broadcasts are.

[David Ayers]

Thanks Guys - I'll investigate further.

[Larry Kart]

Afetr all this time, do we not know the forum rules about linking to bootlegs? In a short while, this thread goes bye-bye.

[Guy Berger]

  On 1/10/2012 at 2:02 PM, Larry Kart said:

Afetr all this time, do we not know the forum rules about linking to bootlegs? In a short while, this thread goes bye-bye.

Why not just delete the link? Seems like this thread is generating fruitful discussion.

For what it's worth, the policy of no links to bootlegs on amazon needs to be dumped - it's absurd.

[David Ayers]

I deleted the link.

[J.A.W.]

  On 1/10/2012 at 2:17 PM, Guy said:

For what it's worth, the policy of no links to bootlegs on amazon needs to be dumped - it's absurd.

No, it isn't. Bootlegs are releases of unauthorized and therefore illegal recordings and if linking to sites where they can be purchased causes problems it'll be Jim as the owner of the board who will be held responsible, not anyone else.

[mjzee]

Though it's strange that Amazon, the actual seller of the recordings, doesn't get into trouble. They've been doing so for many years.

[Guy Berger]

  On 1/10/2012 at 2:29 PM, J.A.W. said:

  On 1/10/2012 at 2:17 PM, Guy said:

For what it's worth, the policy of no links to bootlegs on amazon needs to be dumped - it's absurd.

No, it isn't. Bootlegs are releases of unauthorized and therefore illegal recordings and if linking to sites where they can be purchased causes problems it'll be Jim as the owner of the board who will be held responsible, not anyone else.

It strains credulity to argue that someone will get into trouble for linking to amazon.

[Rooster_Ties]

FWIW, video for Tanglewood '70 circulates (I had it on VHS 20 years ago), and I think is even streamable from Wolfgang's vault (and probably on Youtube). Pro-shot, two or maybe three camera set-up, iirc. Good stuff. Doubt it's ever been issued legit, though, anybody know?

[J.A.W.]

  On 1/10/2012 at 4:12 PM, Guy said:

  On 1/10/2012 at 2:29 PM, J.A.W. said:

  On 1/10/2012 at 2:17 PM, Guy said:

For what it's worth, the policy of no links to bootlegs on amazon needs to be dumped - it's absurd.

No, it isn't. Bootlegs are releases of unauthorized and therefore illegal recordings and if linking to sites where they can be purchased causes problems it'll be Jim as the owner of the board who will be held responsible, not anyone else.

It strains credulity to argue that someone will get into trouble for linking to amazon.

Whatever. Look, if you don't agree with one or more forum rules, why don't you take it up with Jim instead of moaning about it in a thread? I'm sure he can explain them much better than I can and he's the only one who can change them.

Edited January 10, 2012 by J.A.W.