HEAVY NEW BOOTLEG BY THE HUNTA "BLUDCLART" D

Why would make you think that FORUM FASSES like us would even care?

why don't all you bootleg freaks set up an 'i love bootlegs' forum?

Only for heavy bootlegs, though.

why don't all you bootleg freaks set up an 'i love bootlegs' forum?

One reason I think we shouldn't. There's a sliding scale rather than a hard dichotomy of course - but I'd say Bootlegging is closer to the fan / listener / audience side of things than the musician / producer side of things.

Bootlegging is a *response* to the music you listen to, just as writing a review in an online 'zine or a comment on ILMis.

I'd like to see more ILMers making bootlegs, informed by their musical erudition. They can be used to make arguments that demonstrate the similarity or influence of one band on another; highlight contrasts; play speculative games; etc. Bootlegging is just another medium for expressing much of what ILM is for.

Well put.

Even more simply: more ILXers should be making music and, if they can, linking to it - me included. ILX is not just a writers/critics training school.

depends how you define bootleg - if you simply mean sticking a vocal on top of another track, well i think that takes about as much creative ability as wiping yr arse. if you mean reworking an existing song, well that's something else and in which case, i've made over a hundred bootlegs but i still wouldn't dream of inflicting them on anyone here.

Stirmonster : do show us yer bootlegs.

My point is bootlegs are a form of discourse about music. They may be other things as well (eg. something great to dance to) just as some rock-writing might also be belle-lettrism.

I say, as long as it's discourse about music, it has a place on ILM.

The quality / creativity issue is neither here nor there. Plenty of posts to ILM are just "[BAND X] C/D" but they can trigger further more interesting discourse. Your bootlegs might do no more than raise the possibility BAND X + BAND Y .... but if they let us hear one version of that formula, they inspire thinking. Someone else may decide they can do it better. Or that they can sample you and combine with BAND C, or think that you should have used BAND D and can give an impassioned argument why. It's all grist to the ILM mill.

In particular, don't get hung up on quality. The quality of ILM is in the group discourse, not the individual contributions.

yeah I'm ready for an infliction. link to it from this thread. i'll try to link friend's "ray of light/baba o'riley" thing soon.