Beautifully written. The King Gizz Bootlegger program is one of the more genuinely radical things any major band has done for fan culture -- it flips the usual ownership model entirely. What's interesting about live recordings you attended is they function differently from regular bootlegs; they're less about documenting the artist and more about exteranlizing your own memory, so the crowd noize becomes almost more impotant than the music. I had a similar feeling revisiting a recording of a show I attended years back -- more disorienting than nostalgic.
Beautifully written. The King Gizz Bootlegger program is one of the more genuinely radical things any major band has done for fan culture -- it flips the usual ownership model entirely. What's interesting about live recordings you attended is they function differently from regular bootlegs; they're less about documenting the artist and more about exteranlizing your own memory, so the crowd noize becomes almost more impotant than the music. I had a similar feeling revisiting a recording of a show I attended years back -- more disorienting than nostalgic.