Judas Priest Bootleg Download Fixed
Thomas Reed
I mean, 1984 Albuquerque and 1988 New Haven are both amazing and easily accessible on Youtube with high quality sound, but it seems like most of the other Priest bootlegs on YT are either really muffled, or on not-so-ideal nights for Rob's voice.
What are some great Priest bootlegs - especially from the Killing Machine, Screaming or Defenders tours - and how can you get your hands on them? Is there a community that trades this sort of thing?
JUDAS PRIEST - "BREAKING THE LAW" KONDUIT DNB BOOTLEG.Woke up from a dream one morning hearing this classic song by Judas Priest which was stuck in my head. Inspired by this, I jumped onto Ableton 10 the next day, threw down some ideas on the beats & bass-lines and worked out the arrangement for a DnB bootleg! Thanks to Crvtch for the assistance on the sound design! Also the D.R.A. MASTER.????
So, if you have all that material already, why is this album required at all? Cover art aside, of course. That cover (a pre-existing painting) is brilliant. There is also a Kiss bootleg called Barbarize with the same cover.
This bootleg was made for the old-style thick double CD jewelcases. So a bootleg with all paperwork should have two back inlays with spines, and a single page two-sided insert, which has the same cover and tracklisting art as the inlays. The specific month/day is not listed on the bootleg.
Great show (probably at the height of their popularity in the U.S.) with an excellent setlist. I think this is the only complete version of this show on CD format. Also note, to my ear, the sound quality here actually sounds a tiny bit worse/distorted than the "Metal Gods" bootleg below, although if there really is a difference, it's hardly noticeable.
The Long Beach tracks are part of an ABC radio broadcast which was also bootlegged as the "California Burning" and "Jawbreaker" 2CDs. This California set is also known as "ABC Defenders."Tracks 8-9 are also on the "Heavy Metal Faggot" bootleg. The St. Louis show was a King Biscuit broadcast, which is probably what some of the bootlegs of the gig are sourced from. Track 9 is the same version that appears on the official remastered "Priest...Live!" 2CD.
Note that there is definitely another silver bootleg-CD of Priest titled "Genocide" that contains totally different live material. Don't confuse the bootlegs with the commercially-available "Genocide," which is just a 2-CD with the band's first two albums.
Although only the date and city are given for them, tracks 6-8 are from the same gig as the first four tracks on the "Heavy Metal Faggot" bootleg. These Cleveland tracks have some light crackling and popping in the background, so they were probably sourced from vinyl. Possible cut between tracks 6/7.
This bootleg was originally released in 1991 on the Post Script label. This Live Storm '94 press is a reissue. The covers and general layout are pretty much the same, but there are differences in the back insert spines and the CD press information on the back insert. The on-disc printing is totally different between the two.
This show was also a live broadcast on KNAC, and it's probable many bootlegs from this gig were sourced from the broadcast. Note that two songs from this gig were later officially released on the remastered Judas Priest CDs--"Better By You, Better Than Me" is on the "Stained Class" remaster, and "Leather Rebel" is on the "Painkiller" remaster.
While here the Los Angeles show is incomplete and tracks have been edited out (you can notice a few edits here and there between tracks), the songs seem to be in the original playing order. These same tracks are also on the "California Burning" 2CD. Longer versions of this gig are also available on the "L.A. Nights," "Priests of Pain," and "The Complete Painkiller Tour" 2CD bootlegs.
If you're not interested in the Bruce Dickinson stuff, this is a rather poor bootleg, as all of the Priest stuff here is available on other bootlegs that either have more songs from the gig or have other Priest live material. Even the artwork is generic, and there are no photos or Priest related-graphics aside from their modified logo.
The specific date and location are not given on the bootleg. An LP version of this bootleg with the same cover and a smaller number of tracks was also released. This same show is also available on the "Diamonds and Rust" 2CD bootleg above, which has an additional two tracks. This Memphis show is also on a couple of boot LPs like "Live in U.S.A. 83," "Memphis Rockabilly Band," and the "Voice of the Priest" split-LP with Iron Maiden.
As mentioned above, two songs are missing from the set, and compared to the tracklistings of videos and other bootlegs I've seen, there was probably some song order rearrangement, but the edits were so subtle I didn't notice any of the breakpoints.
One of the more recent Halford-era bootlegs. The insert printing and layout, despite some mistakes, is among the nicest I've seen on a bootleg (the bootlegger tried to mimic the packaging of the Priest remasters). Excellent set as well.
Does anyone know about a bootleg called "Invading the Heart of Country," supposedly Memphis 1983? They of course played a show in 1982 that was already bootlegged, so is that date a mistake? This release is probably a CD-R, but I'm not sure.
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