Is nobody else tired of endless re-boots of re-boots? The original release of the End Cole Ave material was made using digital copies of the original tapes.....why keep on reissuing it!
Bring on some new material - the complete Freeman tape or some of Jamie Klimek's tapes or the long-rumoured but never heard Seattle Trolly Club 1969 soundboard.......
lurid wrote: ↑21 Jan 2026 11:23
Is nobody else tired of endless re-boots of re-boots? The original release of the End Cole Ave material was made using digital copies of the original tapes.....why keep on reissuing it!
Bring on some new material - the complete Freeman tape or some of Jamie Klimek's tapes or the long-rumoured but never heard Seattle Trolly Club 1969 soundboard.......
Definitely. Any new live VU is great but I'm always guiltily disappointed when it's from 1969. Nothing's ever really going to top Live 1969 and we've had that for 52 years! Every other era of the band is woefully misrepresented by comparison. Some 1968 Cale would be a game changer.
Mark wrote: ↑21 Jan 2026 22:04
Definitely. Any new live VU is great but I'm always guiltily disappointed when it's from 1969. Nothing's ever really going to top Live 1969 and we've had that for 52 years! Every other era of the band is woefully misrepresented by comparison. Some 1968 Cale would be a game changer.
Complete Matrix Tapes definitely tops Live 1969 in my book. (Yes I know there's a fair overlap of material there.)
The Dec 68 Cleveland show is wonderful. I really hope whoever struck a deal for the Klimek tapes actually does it right and puts oit the full shows [tapes]. But I fear it could be botched.
Though I agree re bootlegging is foolish I do always commend the bootleggers who actually get things done