dbboots

 Bootlegs recordings have been around for decades. According to Miles (see source references), for the Rolling Stones it started just before Christmas of 1969 with the famous "LIVER THAN YOU'LL EVER BE" acetate, released on Lurch Records. Read more about this story here LIVER ...
Lurch Records label would later become the well known bootleg label "Trade Mark of Quality" (TMoQ).
"Rolling Stone" magazine reviewed this bootleg release on February 7, 1970 (by Greil Marcus): review...

 With the rapidly development in digital audio and video technology, most people attending a venue today is also able to recording it. There are a very few numbers of venues after 1969 that are not circulating among fans right now, making the number of circulating audience tapes and recordings endless.

 This site contains only bootlegs albums and cds that have been examined and are circulating among collectors.
The list is undoubtedly incomplete as far for listing every available bootleg for every venue, emphasis is more on trying to listing available sources for each venue.

 Below is the famous cover picture from the original Bedspring Symphony bootleg with The Rolling Stones in a fish and chip shop on the King's Road, Chelsea.

 Special thanks to Fredéric D. in France for his help.

 Thanks to all Stones fans that has been contributing to this site in may different ways. Providing nice comments and information about bootlegs. If you have bootleg information that can not be found here. Don't hesitate to drop an e-mail !

 There are many sources to the information used on this site in order to list the bootleg recordings, the main references used are:

Felix Aeppli: The Ultimate Guide to The Rolling Stones

Dieter Hoffmann: Schwarzbuch Blackbook, Basement News Distribution, Rodgau, Germany, 1997 - 2010 (Part 1-7)

Barry Miles: Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Discography. (C) 1980 Omnibuss Press ISBN 0.86001.762.1

HOT WACKS BOOK XI: (C) 1985 Blue Flake Productions, Inc. Ontario, Canada

Chris M. Revelations On The Rolling Stones

IORR: It's Only Rock'n Roll - The Rolling Stones Fan Club

ROCKS OFF: Rocks Off - Gazza setlist 1962 - 2006

Nico Zentgraf: THE COMPLETE WORKS WEBSITE

Martin Elliott: COMPLETE RECORDING SESSIONS 1962 - 2002

Mats Jarl: No Expectations. (No.1 - No.9) Swedish publication (June 1988 - January 1992)

Clinton Heylin: BOOTLEG! THE RISE & FALL OF THE SECRET RECORDING INDUSTRY. Omnibus Press 2003 ISBN 1.84449.151.X

Updated Bootleg list in Alphabetic order with artwork thumbnails and one page per letter.

Previous site upgrades:
New menu "List Tours" added, It helps you to easily looks into played songs on tours and search for released bootlegs.
You are now able to search Bootleg titles by song and venue. Just look at List Songs
List Alphabetic selection sorts Bootleg Titles based on second word if it starts with articles "The", "An" or "A" .
It's now possible to list only Bootlegs by selected media format [LP , CD or CDr].
Database navigation has been improved. While displaying setlists, next and prev venue is just a link away !
Enjoy !

Please notice that the Bootlegs database (dbboots) is just for informative purpose. We don't promote nor sell any bootlegs. You can't acquire these recordings from this site in any form.

If you want to contribute to this site by providing information about bootlegs or have notice some incorrect information on this site, please feel free to send an email to the site administrator.