1st bootleg cd you bought/got!?.

[iamhekev]

JUST PRETEND - FORT BAXTER.

What a kick when this cd started to play...the sound was just A1.

Happy day"s.

[Brad M]

I remember the first boot cd i got was from ebay about 2 years ago..titled "Eternal Flame'' from 26.10.1976..the guy said it was original so i paid for it and it was like 40 us dollars and it wound up the cd was a cdr with printed artwork..i was very dissapointed but still mangaged to enjoy the show!

[Axeman]

I go back to before CD's...I got cassette recordings of Burbank Sessions 1 & 2, The Legend Lives On and Hillbilly Cat Live LPs. I loved Burbank and Legend, but something special about this fairly poor audience recording really drew me to it...it felt like a secret, hearing unofficially recorded Elvis for the first time...and it was a killer show to boot (no pun intended)!

Axe

[Ricky]

CD? I was in Memphis 1997, I bought Animal Instinct and Bicentennnial Experience. First LP, Got a lotta livin to do.

[iamhekev]

I go back to the lp"s as well AXE,but i thought cd may get more folks to give there views.

TAPES...good god.

Any one remember KING CREOLE PROMOTIONS?

Them were days lad.

[E-Cat]

Sweeties from the King...(Kev label) ..
no really the first one was: My Baby's Gone / Baby Let's Play House

[Keith F]

The first bootleg I heard was "Behind Closed Doors". I was 9 or 10 and was given cassettes of this LP box set - I literally could not believe my ears!

From then on I was hooked!

[ekenee]

The Hollywood sessions.
ALL outtakes. I think it was on the flashback label, and it was the first ever boot cd!

[scottngeorgia]

lp elvis- that's the way it is the amiga label
cd chicago beat
Scottngeorgia

[Juan Luis]

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS...sealed! Early 90s or late 80s....

[Matthew]

An original pressing of the Fort Baxter release "Walk A Mile In My Shoes" from the UK fanclub. As the time I had never heard of a soundboard and had only heard pro-recorded Elvis material. Needless to say I was very disappointed at the time with the sound quality and had it returned. Only later did I come to appreciate soundboard material.

[Swithin StCleeve]

Leicester Fan Club convention, May 1981. I was 14. A white van pulled up outside while we were waiting to go in, and there were such vinyl delights in there! I bagged this for £9. Just after I handed my cash over, the van sped away.
To this day it's one of my favourite albums, and I've even bought another, still sealed, for my collection.

[JEFF d]

...and blow my mind it did! I went searching the internet for more of the same, and thats how I found this very website!

JEFF d
EP fan

[Dan_T]

Wild In The Country Sessions CD in the Mid 80's.

[Vince]

Hi,

this was the first repressing of "Adios". Later i found the original one with the complete booklet.

See You

Vince

[Big Boss Man]

Rocking With Elvis April Fools Day lp........didn't know (when I picked it up) that it was an audience recording, but enjoyed it regardless.

Was so different hearing a show un-edited and from a fans vantage point (aud).....

[KingOfTheJungle]

My first boot was the Ultimate...
American Crown Jewels.

[drjohncarpenter]

... there were such vinyl delights in there! I bagged this for £9.

This LP was never a bootleg CD.

My first "import" CD was Flashback's Hot And Tight in 1989:



Not a bad way to enter the "import" digital world, eh?

[nigel]

The sublime There's Always Me Vol. 1. Bring back Bilko & Baxter & Ernie!

[Johanesson]

I've bought it in late 2005. Not counting the impugnable sound quality,it's a great release and this is my favorite show from that may/june '75 tour.

[kuenzer]

First cassette: Burbank sit down shows. First CD: From Sunset Blvd To Paradise Rd.

[Spellbinder]

First bootleg I bought was the I Wanna Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star LP.

I can't remember the first bootleg CD I bought.

[memphisflash]

The first bootleg CD's I got were also the first available, Flashback's excellent 'Holywood Sessions' and 'Hot and Tight' and on the Bulldog label, 'The Ed Sullivan Shows' (not a real bootleg) and, taped from LP, 'In My Way' Wild In The Country sessions .... ahhh, those were the (CD) days ...

[londonflash]

Cool post.

My first boot CD was "From Sunset Blvd To Paradise Road". I remember reading up about these intruiging import CDs on the net when I was at school and wondering where on earth one could find them...it was like a treasure hunt!

Anyway, with a supplier duly located, I went there with a friend when we broke up early for the Christmas holidays, paid for the disc (respected dealer and all that, wasn't going anywhere etc) and it arrived a few days later. BTW, that same day I bought the gold and silver boxsets for about thirty squid each at the big HMV in Oxford Street.

It wasn't until a few years later that I realised the bugger had screwed me and what I proudly considered to be my first bootleg was, in actual fact, a good looking CDr copy. When you compare it with an original, the difference is obvious but, hey, I was only 17 at the time!

[Maurice Carver]

My first import CD that I bought was 'In My way" (1988), and that was sold in a real record shop
1 week later I got myself the Hollywood Sessions, and now I have too many

My 1st boot record was "Hillybilly cat Live" & "Good Rockin' Tonight".