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I'm astounded that Mark Hagen found the Clash performance from the Roundhouse in 1976 that I referred to on 'Famous People I sat next to' thread. (Thanks for the link once again).

I know from friends who are members of various on-line 'communities'(Dead , Roy Harper, Rush, John Martyn as examples) that there are a lot of soundboards of well-known bands and singers out there, but something obscure from 33 years ago?(scary) - makes me wonder what other gigs that I went to in the 70s have been recorded for posterity.

I grew up in and lived in London at the time, it was the era of pub-rock and the West Coast artists were (arguably) at their zenith, so there were a lot of concerts to go to and gigs around town. A lot of the pub-rock bands didn't translate to record too well, but It would be interesting to know what's around.

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You could do worse than

sign up to The Traders Den and/or Dimeadozen. They're the two leading unofficial bootleg sites. Tens of thousands of boots for your downloading pleasure. TTD, especially, are anal about quality so you'll usually find the best recordings there.

Just looked on TTD and, as an example, there's almost 30 Clash shows currently seeded there.

It's also worth looking at www.archive.org for a more 'official' view of things. Before they host shows, they get the ok from the bands so it's about as official as you can get. Currently almost 70,000 shows there (including - as a random selection - 51 Robyn Hitchcock, 26 Hayseed Dixie, 66 Alejandro Escovedo and 6739 Grateful Dead)

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stimpy | 1 June 2009 - 8:52am

Thanks

I'll give it a go. The Clash just happened to be a show I went to out of curiosity - I'm not obsessive about them.

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Badlands | 2 June 2009 - 12:11am
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