MP3 Boot Camp: Getting Started

Al Gore’s Internets are experiencing a diarrhetic explosion in the number of blogs and websites publishing quality mp3 bootlegs. We had been posting links to the best boots in our Hors d’Oeuvres, Intermezzo and Leftovers link dumps, but instead we’ve decided to construct a special column compiling our favorite mp3 bootlegs. So without any further ado, welcome to MP3 Boot Camp:

• It doesn’t get better than Stevie Vai shredding it up with Frank Zappa 
• Aretha Franklin sings for a Swedish crowd in 1968 
• This week’s edition of the Grateful Dead’s Taper’s Section includes a killer track from a 1974 soundcheck
• A 1973 radio show from Bob Marley and the Wailers
• Eric Clapton plays his greatest hits for a Minnesota crowd in 1987
• A Deeper Shade of Soul kicks down a vintage Prince bootleg
• Joan Jett rocks Tokyo during her heyday in 1982
• If you haven’t heard Jason Isbell’s new band, now is your chance
• Download all of Phish’s Summer Tour ’97, thanks to our boy Bizarro Jerry and the good people at sharefreemusic
• Check out this George Thorogood and the Destroyers’ radio broadcast
• Licorice Pizza is back with The Clash’s Vanilla Tapes
• R.E.M. was at their finest in 1983

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