on 6/28/02 4:01 PM, Zachary Steiner at zsteiner@butler.edu wrote:
So I can't really tell whether this same phenomenon works for them, making 250 seemingly the same bootlegs 'worth' getting (as with Monk, Dylan, Grateful Dead, Hendrix, Coltrane, Dolphy, Zappa or Phish).
I never did understand this phenomenon. I can see the relevance for a scholar to compare the nuisances of any of these said musicians, but for most listeners (including many musicians and more than "casual" listeners in the bunch) the bootlegs are pretty much the same. Hearing different covers is one thing, but 100s of versions of the same tune!?! It could be something that I will never understand.
Zach
Good point, but not universal. It relies on stuff like personnel -- is it the same guys coming fr the same approach etc -- and other agencies of musical change. In the case of the above-listed artists, I generally agree (except about Monk, but that's my fetish). But, with Charlie Parker, of whom there are thousands of tapes with nearly as many different combinations of players, there's a million really different Bb blues or rhythm changes variations, and it's pretty much worth hearing as a rule, and, because of the instability of personnel, pretty different throughout. skip h NP: Gene Ammons greatest hits