Red Mosquito

Not talking about the Pearl Jam official bootlegs, but the ones from the nineties. My first was The 5 Musketeers, then Ultra Rare Trax Vol 1 and New Songs. I also bought the Live In Atlanta- Dissident Singles Collection for the import price.



The goat in this picture always made me laugh. Especially when stoned.







Bootlegs are making a resurgence on Amazon and at the retail shops over the last year. I've seen some of the JWB Remasters for sale in FYE and Hastings, with different artwork. The Self Pollution Mix had nearly the same cover. Some alterations were made. I bought what I'm positive is the Soldier Field Matrix mix from wegotshit at FYE for $20. It had Dave A on the front of it. I use a site called mp3va.com and found the Australasian 2014 Big Nights Out mix 2 years ago. They're a cheap site with 20 cent tracks and 10 cent tracks when on sale, but a great collection of music and the site allows you to archive your music on site.

Just wondering if anyone else bought these or any of the others that were out back in the day.

I ride hard for the No Fuckin' Messiah combo:





Must have listened to the Dock of the Bay cover 87 million times.

Also - Already in Love!!!

I had (have) New Songs and Secret Gig, those are the first two that come to mind.

Man this takes me back to flipping through the racks at Tower or Silver Platters or whatever other music stores there were at the time, and scouring the $35 import Pearl Jam CD's just to find ONE more song that I didn't already have. It was like my drug.

Not that I bought them all, but I'd make mental notes of which had this song, which had that song, etc., then hunt for a CD that had 3 or 4.

No Fuckin' Messiah!

Bammer wrote:I had (have) New Songs and Secret Gig, those are the first two that come to mind.

Man this takes me back to flipping through the racks at Tower or Silver Platters or whatever other music stores there were at the time, and scouring the $35 import Pearl Jam CD's just to find ONE more song that I didn't already have. It was like my drug.

Not that I bought them all, but I'd make mental notes of which had this song, which had that song, etc., then hunt for a CD that had 3 or 4.

Right?!?

evenslow wrote:I ride hard for the No Fuckin' Messiah combo:





Also - Already in Love!!!

Those songs were on the New Songs release too! I saw the NFM combo again a few years in a used cd/record store.

Yes, the two No Fuckin' Messiahs were gold!
Also, these three:

bodysnatcher wrote:Yes, the two No Fuckin' Messiahs were gold!
Also, these three:

The Mack Daddy Box Sets! I love the Down Under show. Magic happens when this band hits Australia! I grabbed that from gremmie.net a few years ago. Even printed off the artwork. Then JWB done the Remasters.

I had a few of these. NFM 1 and 2. And I remember paying like 35 bucks for Brixton 93. But I also got into tape trading pretty soon after getting into Pearl Jam so buying these never got out of hand for me.

cutuphalfdead wrote:I had a few of these. NFM 1 and 2. And I remember paying like 35 bucks for Brixton 93. But I also got into tape trading pretty soon after getting into Pearl Jam so buying these never got out of hand for me.

I traded the orange Alive single for Soldier Field '95, Randall's Island '96, Seattle '98 and a couple of Bridge School shows back in the early 2000's. That thing pops up on Ebay from time to time.

One for the Aussies:



This label's boots were everywhere when I was in high school, I had a bunch of their Pearl Jam and Nirvana releases (all lost in the mists of time).

Birds in Hell wrote:One for the Aussies:



This label's boots were everywhere when I was in high school, I had a bunch of their Pearl Jam and Nirvana releases (all lost in the mists of time).

Yep. Maybe 4 or 5 of those.

I had 10-15 boots so I'll dig em out tomorrow and take a shot.

Had that bridges boxset. Still might somewhere. That was a life changer.


Also that Melboune 95 show. Mine was called "NW" i believe. Can't find a picture of it.


Pearl jam "Nonsense" was a compilation of rarities from their 95 tour that was a thing of beauty. My favorite version of their cover of I Got You was on it.

And Finally "Chapters"

Man, I used to be obsessed with No Fuckin Messiah. I let an ex's sister borrow it and she let her then bf borrow and I never saw it again. I remember playing the hell out of Dock Of the Bay and loving "Already In Love".

I had The 5 Musketeers too. I remember not liking it as much as NFM b/c of the quality. I wanted to hear Eddie with the Doors, but it sucked. I ended up finding another bootleg with much better quality of that Doors performance. It also had some hodge podge stuff like Jeremy from MTV VMA, like 3 songs from the Euro tour, and another few from Unplugged.

Hallucinogenic Recipe. Amazing.

Good topic. I just found a bunch of my old bootlegs the other day. I'll go through them tonight.

darth_vedder wrote:I had The 5 Musketeers too. I remember not liking it as much as NFM b/c of the quality. I wanted to hear Eddie with the Doors, but it sucked. I ended up finding another bootleg with much better quality of that Doors performance. It also had some hodge podge stuff like Jeremy from MTV VMA, like 3 songs from the Euro tour, and another few from Unplugged.

Yeah, the Doors songs sucked on 5 Musketeers. Luckily, Ultra Rare Trax had the soundboard recordings. I was BIG into the Doors around this time as well.

I had the doors rehearsal bootleg once as well. Had all the rehearsals with Ed though I remember it wasn't that exciting for me at the time.

I love the NW part before Porch on that Down Under Bootleg. I bought a couple of RHCP Bootlegs from a Japanese company and they sell the movie. They've got some decent bootlegs there by a lot of bands.