Thanks for that....much to ponder....I know what you mean about the 'listening experience' ie, I hate those Beatles bootlegs that have the same song eight times in a row with infinitesimal differences between them. Of course, the other point, I guess, is that Tree With Roots isn't too hard to find....the Silent Seas, on the other hand.....

Well, Silent Sea are one of the new crop of "Desktop Publishers" in the bootleg world, so *all* their releases are CD-Rs. However, the originals are NICE packages, with some vivid Wyeth paintings appropriated as the artwork, whereas there are also clones circulating with slightly lesser production values. I got mine in New York, too, with BEST OF THE BASEMENT TAPES being an "original" and my REST OF THE BASEMENT TAPES being the knock-off.




I'm moving to NYC next month. I can't wait to be in the midst of so dang many bootlegs! I won't name specific shops or dealers on this board, but, boy, they sure ain't hard to find in Manhatten!

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Thanks for that....much to ponder....I know what you mean about the 'listening experience' ie, I hate those Beatles bootlegs that have the same song eight times in a row with infinitesimal differences between them. Of course, the other point, I guess, is that Tree With Roots isn't too hard to find....the Silent Seas, on the other hand.....