Neil Young walks into a record shop ( back in the 70's)

cool link.  Thanks

I was able to view it with no FB acc't. Thanks for the Link !!

Thats pretty cool. I wonder if the whole thing was a staged event. Its also an interesting look into artists that do allow taping and free trade of their music and ones that do not from that era. Not like selling bootlegs is related, but why did ome bands pioneer audience bootlegging and others did not? Were these concern of artists or record companies? 

Nuclear,

It was different in the late 70's -> early 80's compared to today. You could go in to various record stores in lower Manhattan and find all sorts of interesting bootleg LP's. There were GD boots, Neil Young, Allman Bros, and many Frank Zappa pressings.

I was in "Second Coming" record store in the Village one afternoon when the dude w/ unmarked blue van arrived with the latest shipment of FZ boots. The cashier put the sample down on the turntable and did a few needle drops to ensure High-Quality pressing.  Then the new unlicensed album was on the shelf !!

Zappa in his lifetime did a "Beat The Boots" series where he released them upon CD and sold them. I am unsure if he took the actual high-quality boots and reprocessed them, or dug up old tapes for the remaster.

Second Coming Records!!  Right next to Googies!  Bought many bootlegs there, one of my favorite record stores.

Neil is such a badass

I think it would be a surprise if he didn't find a bootleg of his in a record store back then.

I bought a couple myself.

>>>>>>> Its also an interesting look into artists that do allow taping and free trade of their music and ones that do not from that era.

Um, pretty much NO artist allowed taping prior to the GD official taping section in 1985 (from the late '70's on they merely "tolerated" it, w/occasional crackdowns).  From what I remember hearing the record co's would often bring it up when negotiating record deals w/artists ie "you tolerate taping @ your live shows & perform new material live before it's been recorded, so we're concerned about how much $$$ we're willing to invest in studio time/ cash advances to support your records if the market is already saturated w/bootlegs".  From a purely business perspective this does make sense.  An interesting perspective is the extended conversation Bill Graham has w/Santana's manager in the "Last Days of the Fillmore" movie because Santana refused to participate in the festivities as they were being FM broadcast & Santana's manager didn't want it to appear on bootlegs.

>>>>>>> i do remember a lot of nerdy/geek types having jobs in stores near me

When I worked at a mom & pop record store in the Phila suburbs @ Age 15 in late 1976, we didn't carry any bootlegs.  I was actually hired to bring in "young blood" to the store, & was tasked w/ordering "modern" music.  I used to take the SEPTA train from Abington high school to Hatboro every afternoon, & my Mom would pick me up @ 8 pm.  The storefront is still there today (altho vacant), right around the corner from the 1880's train station that housed a coffee shop that sold real espresso to all the local Guido's who hung out there smoking cigars all day.  Wow what a Hipster I was.  Take that Ateix!  Of course the store was owned by an "elderly" (prob in their 40's) couple & their primary business was '50's hit singles & sheet music.  They were pretty straight laced so I doubt they'd ever have sold bootlegs.  I will say our "modern" album selection was larger than in this video.  Hell our Bob Dylan section was over a foot thick, this store it was only a few lp's.  I knew about bootlegs from seeing them advertised in the back of Rolling Stone, & they were also sold @ head shops in the suburbs.  I already had a cassette recorder (altho only mono) by that time & was pretty diligent about recording FM broadcasts of various live shows & of course the King Biscuit Flower Hour (WMMR was a HUGE treasure trove in those days, & did their own broadcasts from a club in Bryn Mawr I can't remember the name of - new up & coming artists such as Billy Joel, Dire Straits, Warren Zevon, George Thorogood, etc), so for me the bootleg lp's were pretty pricey for not much better (and often worse) quality than the recordings I had off the radio.  WMMR used to do "live marathons" on holiday weekends (Thanksgiving in particular) with 3 or 4 days of nothing but live recordings.  Oh the days!

What Sideshow mentions regarding conventional LP stores is accurate. Late 70's -> early 80's every suburban NJ or PA mall had at least 2-3 record stores that also sold either teenage music gear, or posters & headshop stuff. They never had actual 'Bootleg' LP's, although they might have been selling Taiwanese fake pressings of Peter Frampton and Fleetwood Mac which looked exactly like the real item, but had low-quality vinyl. Who knows how much the actual record companies were involved?

To get actual Bootleg LP's, NYC was the place, not Sam Goody's but small shoppes in lower Manhattan. Second Coming had the best selection and prices, Bleeker Bob had a few things, and there were another 3-4 in the area.

that dolt works in a record store and he "doesn't listen to records".......yeah right.

Classic

Boy I sure miss old record stores.

New Haven had some good record stores, with all the college kids around.

I remember going to NYC and checking out the record stores and seeing all the boots!

I remember Bleecker Bob's too.

Johnny's Records in Darien CT used to make a killin selling Dead boots to all the CT custies..

>>>>>>> that dolt works in a record store and he "doesn't listen to records".......yeah right.

I think he was just taking his Jr Mafia training a little too literally/seriouslee:  "Records?  I don't sell no records, I gots Nuthin to do w/that, I don't even have a record player"

>>>>>>> Johnny's Records in Darien CT used to make a killin selling Dead boots to all the CT custies..

The Trading Post in Canton CT used to make a Killing selling bootleg Tapes to Custie Deadheads, their "twist" to get away w/selling boots was:  "Hey Wow Cool, we'll make tape copies for you, you just have to buy the blanks from us, TDK-D's for $5.00 a pop, & the boots are made on our hi speed double dubber boom boxes"

>>>>>>> sometimes WYSP too!

YSP was more of a "pop" station, they played more hit singles (altho they'd @ least play the full unhacked versions), they never did live broadcasts or play real "deep cuts".  MMR was a treasure trove of bootlegging - they played whole albums every night @ midnight ("The Midnight Bong") for years & years, plus all the live stuff.  I remember MMR was 93.something, YSP 94.something, & Phila's 1st top 40 FM station was @ 92.something.  Towards the end of my radio listening time (1977), a station around 102.something changed format to compete w/MMR & used to get a few FM broadcasts, in fact I think the Cap Th 11/23/78 show was broadcast on that station, a major coup @ the time . . .

The Trading Post in Canton is still there.

Also remember record conventions?

I got lots of boot tapes, CDs and DVDs from record conventions.

Sideshows's basement, LOL!!!

A lot of great music down there.