Bootleg Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

What the hell is wrong with Eric Clapton? He just sued a widow over an $11 bootleg. [UPDATED with new information.]

A 55-year-old German widow was cleaning the house and stumbled upon an Eric Clapton CD from thirty years ago that

Long before Van Halen was signed to a record deal–Gene Simmons of KISS is the guy who discovered them, by

Here’s another assignment, dear reader. It comes from Dave who sent me this email. Hi Alan, I was wondering if

On February 14, 1993, Nirvana moved into Steve Albini’s Pachyderm Studios in Canon Falls, Minnesota, to begin sessions for that

Here you go: Nirvana, live at the Satyricon in Portland, Oregon, on January 12, 1990, exactly twenty-five years ago yesterday.

I have a bunch of U2 boots and yet this recording is not among them. That’s why we have YouTube.