''Live! Bootleg'' is a double live album by American
hard rock band
Aerosmith, released in October 1978. While most of the performances were drawn from concerts in 1977 and 1978, "I Ain't Got You" and "
Mother Popcorn
"Mother Popcorn (You Got to Have a Mother for Me)" is a song recorded by James Brown and released as a two-part single in 1969. A #1 R&B and #11 Pop hit, it was the highest-charting of a series of recordings inspired by the popular dance the Pop ...
" were taken from a radio broadcast of a Boston performance on March 20, 1973.
Background
The design of the album is intended to ape the poor production values offered by contemporary
bootleg records, even going so far as to give an incorrect track listing: the song "Draw the Line" is included on the record but does not appear listed; the track is a secret track after "Mother Popcorn". The album also features a secret live instrumental cover of "
Strangers in the Night
"Strangers in the Night" is a song composed by Bert Kaempfert with English lyrics by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder. Kaempfert originally used it under the title "Beddy Bye" as part of the instrumental score for the movie ''A Man Could Get ...
" inserted into their cover of "
Train Kept A-Rollin'
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", which was probably a nod to a similar quote by
Jimi Hendrix during "
Wild Thing" at the
Monterey Pop Festival
The Monterey International Pop Festival was a three-day music festival held June 16 to 18, 1967, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by the Jimi Hendrix ...
. The back of the CD cover includes two coffee stains over the picture of
Joe Perry playing before a live audience. The original LP cover had the coffee stains, but not the picture of Perry, which was part of the gatefold artwork. The record also features one of Aerosmith's first live versions of
The Beatles
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"
Come Together
"Come Together" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The song is the opening track on their 1969 album ''Abbey Road'' and was also released as a single coupled with " Somethi ...
", which they performed in the 1978 movie ''
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'', and the first record appearance of
Richie Supa's "
Chip Away the Stone" (the studio version of this song would later be released on 1988's ''
Gems
Gems, or gemstones, are polished, cut stones or minerals.
Gems or GEMS may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
* ''Gems'' (Aerosmith album), 1988
* ''Gems'' (Patti LaBelle album), 1994
* ''Gems'' (Michael Bolton album), 2011
* Gems TV, ...
'' compilation).
In the band memoir ''
Walk this Way
"Walk This Way" is a song by the American rock band Aerosmith. Written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, the song was originally released as the second single from the album '' Toys in the Attic'' (1975). It peaked at number 10 on the ''Billboa ...
'', Perry recalls, "I didn't want to do a live album at the time because there were so many perfect live albums coming out, all doctored and fixed and overdubbed. Big deal. Double live album - 'standard of the industry'. I felt like we had to avoid that and do a real live album like ''
Live at Leeds
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'' or ''
Get Yer Ya Ya's Out'' or that old
Kinks
The Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, north London, in 1963 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies. They are regarded as one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s. The band emerged during the height of British rhythm ...
album
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." In his own 2014 memoir ''Rocks'', Perry confessed that the idea behind the LP confounded their label Columbia:
Track listing
"
Draw the Line" is featured as a
hidden track at the end of "Mother Popcorn"
Personnel
;Aerosmith
*
Steven Tylerlead vocals, harmonica
*
Joe Perryguitar
*
Brad Whitford
Bradley Ernest Whitford (born February 23, 1952)Putterford, Mark (1991) ''The Fall and Rise of Aerosmith'', Omnibus Press, Strong, Martin C. (2001) ''The Great Metal Discography'' (2nd edn.), MOJO Books, , p. 11-13 is an American musician who i ...
guitar
*
Tom Hamiltonbass guitar
*
Joey Kramerdrums, percussion
;Additional musicians
*
Mark Radice
Mark Radice is an American singer, musician, songwriter, and producer. Since the early 1970s he has worked with a variety of different artists while also achieving success with his own material. He is a multi-instrumentalist and is credited with ...
– keyboards, backing vocals
*David Woodford – saxophone on "Mother Popcorn"
;Production
*
Jack Douglas – producer, engineer
*David Krebs, Steve Leber – executive producers, management
*Jay Messina, Lee DeCarlo – engineers
*Julie Last, Rod O'Brien, Sam Ginsburg – assistant engineers
*David Hewitt – Record Plant Mobile operator (New York)
*Chris Stone – Record Plant Mobile operator (Los Angeles)
*
George Marino
George Marino (April 15, 1947 – June 4, 2012) was an American mastering engineer known for working on albums by rock bands starting in the late 1960s.
Biography
Marino was born on April 15, 1947, in the New York City borough The Bronx. He at ...
– mastering at
Sterling Sound, New York
*
John Kosh
John Kosh, known simply as Kosh, is an English art director, album cover designer, graphic artist, and documentary producer/director. He was born in London, England and rose to prominence in the mid-1960s while designing for the Royal Ballet a ...
– art direction, design
*
Jimmy Ienner Jr., Barry Levine, Ron Pownall,
Aaron Rapoport
Aaron Rapoport (born May 22, 1954) is an American photographer, best known for his photographs of musicians.
Biography
In a career that spans over three decades, Rapoport has photographed in a wide variety of areas including commercial photogr ...
, Steve Smith – photography
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
Bibliography
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1978 live albums
Aerosmith live albums
Albums produced by Jack Douglas (record producer)
Columbia Records live albums