Open season on bootlegs!

[tenlittlebullets]

Now that I am home with a lot of time on my hands and a fast internet connection, I declare open season on my bootleg collection!

GIANT LIST OF BOOTLEGS

Pick an audio off my list. Hell, pick a few audios (keep it reasonable though). If they haven't disappeared into the foggy mists of "where the hell did I put that again?", I will upload them for you. The links will be public, so anyone can trawl through the comments and download everything.

This is partly for fun, partly because I realized the trading world has changed a lot. Most of the people who racked up absurdly huge collections around 2006 are now on permanent hiatus--myself included--due to bootleg saturation, boredom, or disgust with the commercial turn the trading world has taken. But their lists are still around to tantalize newbie traders, their rare and interesting recordings are moldering on archive discs and external hard drives, etc. So when I say open season, I mean ask for anything you want, even if it's rare. Especially if it's rare. This is also why the links will be public; this post isn't to give some people trading leverage by ensuring they are The One And Only active trader in possession of that 1987 Basque Les Mis soundboard, it's to get recordings back in circulation.

I will, at some arbitrary point, decide I'm sick of having a billion Megaupload tabs open and close the offer, but you've got a few days at least to pick out whatever you want.

To kick things off:
Les Misérables - 1980 Palais des Sports soundboard
Maurice Barrier, Jean Vallée, Rose Laurens, Gilles Bulhmann, Fabienne Guyon, Marianne Mille, Yvan Dautin, Marie-France Roussel, Christian Rattelin, René-Louis Baron

Because I know it was going to be the first thing everyone asked for anyway. And because I am 100% srs bsns about uploading rarities.

Edit: mmejavert has given me a list of all her active Megaupload links with instructions to share them, which means a giant collection of free audios can be found here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks! Yeah, I tend to share A LOT of my masters and any old bootlegs from 5+ years ago... I'm tired of the sellers and hoarders.

I'd be logged in for this except this is a public entry. :)

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

*stalks IP address* Oh, hi you!

I don't even look at the bootleg world much anymore, it just makes me depressed. It was such a nice little barter economy we had going, and now all anyone cares about is DVDs because that's where the $$$ is.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm so tired of the crappy attitude from so many people (and the bootleg world in general really IS depressing, as you mentioned). I share stuff so the hoarders have less to brag about, but I'm only one person! *shakes fist*

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Bah, hoarding. Barter-economy liquidity crisis?

It started getting obnoxious when recorders got really possessive of their masters and setting ridiculous restrictions and going after YouTube uploaders in pitchfork-wielding mobs, but this selling-for-real-money business is just beyond the pale (and far likelier to bring the authorities down on our heads than YouTube idiots). I wish everyone would take a few deep breaths, relax, and remember that it's a hobby and not a contest. Or a way of earning a living.

[ulkis.livejournal.com]

I might as well ask it here - marianne (is it weird that I call you that on non-abaisse places? Do you have a favorite online handle?), so is it basically okay to share your stuff unless you specifically ask not to?

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, share away! I barely ever trade nowadays, so it's not like it'd even do me any good to hoard them.

Used to be that if you got a bootleg off someone, the default assumption was that you could do whatever you liked with it unless they asked you otherwise. Maybe if someone had just released an audio and you were feeling nice, you held off trading it for a couple weeks so as not to undercut their trades on their own recording. Alas, it would appear that those days are past.

And yeah, Marianne is fine pretty much anywhere. :)

[theplushiegirl.livejournal.com]

Metric fuckton of OMG SHINY WANT feelings, I'll try to keep it below 4 (that's reasonable, right?)

Les Miserables
2003
Olegg Vynnyk, Uwe Kröger, Ann-Christin Elvernum, Vera Bolten, Lucius Wolter, Valerie Link, Martin Pasching, Ulrich Wiggers, Betty Vermeulen
Soundboard

Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, 7 July 2009
Fred Inkley, Robert Cuccioli, Jacquelyn Piro Donovan, Kevin Earley, Ashley Spencer, Matthew Scott, Kate Loprest, Tim Hartman, Sally Wilfert, Joseph Serafini, Rachel Mracna

Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame, Berlin, March 9, 2000
Drew Sarich (Quasimodo), Vera Bolten (Esmeralda u/s), Frank Logemann (Frollo u/s), Jens Janke (Clopin), Fredrik Lycke (Phoebus)

Company, Seattle, 3 November 2006
Hugh Panaro (Bobby), Shelly Burch (Joanne), Laurence Ballard (Larry), Kendra Kassebaum (Amy), Daniel C. Levine (Paul), David Quicksall (Harry), Bobbi Kotulla (Sarah), Anne Allgood (Jenny), David Drummond (David), Susannah Mars (Susan), Timothy Piggee (Peter), Billie Wildrick (April), Lisa Estridge (Marta), Anna Lauris (Kathy)

This is seriously awesome of you, thank you! I traded for a little while, but I couldn't compete with the people who'd been doing it for years :\

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, apparently my internet is faster than I thought, so feel free to ask for more.

Glöckner: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LXNF4HP9
Company: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CIYFWMTN

Other two coming as soon as I can get them zipped and uploaded.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Les Mis Pittsburgh: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=10STY043
Berlin: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W8PLE9C5

[theplushiegirl.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! >.> I may be back later for some more, but for now I'm gonna download these and enjoy them- it's been years (and several German classes) since I listened to Les Mis auf Deutsch :D Maybe this time I'll understand what they're singing!

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

For the sake of your brain, I hope you don't. ;) Approximately half the German lyrics are so awful I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

There are some Berlin cast members who make their lyrics sound almost okay (Lucius Wolter as Marius! ♥), and some who just send me into fits of hysterical laughter (Uwe Kröger and Martin Pasching).

[ulkis.livejournal.com]

Is that recording from Gdynia complete? Or is it missing a bunch of songs from act II? Because if it is, I already have that recording, but if it isn't, then I'm requesting that one. :)

And the Paris, spring 1992 recording, unless it's more or less the same quality as the 1991 October recording. I admit I am just on the prowl for better quality Jerome Pradon.

Are you still not trading DVDs as well?

Thanks! And thanks in general for being so generous on a daily basis.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

As far as I can tell it's only missing One Day More, and there's a "bonus CD" that includes it.

Gdynia: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ERD6EEV0
Paris: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MA00QABV

I'm able to trade DVDs now, but the free-bootlegs offer doesn't include them--I'd have to pay materials and postage, so I can't make an unlimited offer of free DVDs. Let me know if you want to trade though.

[ulkis.livejournal.com]

Thanks for uploading!

Yeah, I would like to trade for the Paris LM DVD. Is your want list up-to-date on the page?

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

More-or-less, yeah, although let me see your full list since I might be interested in something else too.

[sophiedegrouchy.livejournal.com]

You are a goddess. I've never heard the 1980 soundboard, am currently listening to it, and might be in love. LOVE. A couple of questions, though: Are piste 4 and piste 5 supposed to be empty? And what's with the screaming/thunder in the epilogue finale? I was all, "Now here comes the pretty twinklAAAARRRGG WHAT IS IT!!!???" Now that my heart's started again, I'm sitting here and scratching my head.

Could I pretty-please beg your favorite/best revival recording with Aaron and your favorite/best in Spanish? Thanks!

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

I think 4 and 5 are, like, Valjean panting as he tries to lift the cart? IDK. And the finale thing might be related to the uber-melodramatic Valjean death scene in the 1982 movie, which shared a lot of artistic staff with the 1980 production of the musical and there's a lot of crossover between the two.

I don't know if I have a favorite! I'll try to go through and find the one with the best sound quality, if not I'll just upload his final performance.

As far as Spanish recordings go, have two: the Mexican production had the best lyrics (from what I've been told, they were based directly off the Paris revival lyrics) and the Buenos Aires production had the best cast.

Mexico City: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2BTLQYJG
Buenos Aires: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=R0DNPBHX

[alligatorandme.livejournal.com]

I was so confused by that, too!

What's so dramatic about the Valjean death scene in the 1982 movie? That's one of the handful I haven't seen.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Thunderstorm*! Suffering! Dramatic music! Chain gang flashback to Javert going "Valjean, NOW you are free!" Valjean keels over dramatically two seconds before Marius and Cosette arrive!

* okay that doesn't count because it's always raining in this version, but still

[collectingbees.livejournal.com]

If you would be so kind (and I would love you forever..)

Frances Ruffelle's final performance in 1997 <3

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Here you go: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P3YFXKDT

[collectingbees.livejournal.com]

you're a freakin' Goddess. Seriously.

[icicaille.livejournal.com]

I applaud you for your offer! Seriously, it's really kind of you to do this since what you said - that trading has gone sour - is absolutely true.

If I may:

6 February 2010
Jonathan Williams (u/s), Hans Peter Janssens, Natalie Day (u/s), Nancy Sullivan, Alistair Brammer, Emily Bull, David Thaxton, Martin Ball, Lorraine Bruce, Jeff Nicholson (u/s Grantaire)
MASTER. A+ quality!

Thanks so much!

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Act 1: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EEL96BVS
Act 2: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=01KFRINT

[icicaille.livejournal.com]

Thank you again!

[mmejavert.livejournal.com]

so if I make a list of all the things that are still active in my MegaUpload file manager, you can post the list on here? :D Because I've got, uh, many. Many many.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! Do you want it in the post or the comments?

[mmejavert.livejournal.com]

Probably in the post.

(also. lol, it's too bad you don't follow the yahoo groups any more, because I posted a tl;dr rant aimed right at the people selling masters for profit -- have gotten several e-pats on the back for it and am contemplating a trade-only group since there's clearly interest.)

What a great offer!

[lesmislover.livejournal.com]

I'm not much into LM bootlegs anymore but I do want
Budapest, 1987
Gyula Vikidal, Pal Makrai, Kriszta Kovats, Sandor Sasvari, Aniko Nagy, Zsuzsa Csarnoy, Attila Kaszas, Lajos Csuha, Annamaria Prokai, Dora Szinetar (little Cosette)
Soundboard
I'll definitely be downloading all the other ones too!
Who knows, maybe I'll get back into les miz!

Re: What a great offer!

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Here you go: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2YN2BQR2

Re: What a great offer!

[lesmislover.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!
I also wanted to know if I could have act2 of the Hungary video?
You shared it before, but I only got act1!
Thanks!

Re: What a great offer!

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Audios only, sorry.

Re: What a great offer!

[lesmislover.livejournal.com]

Oh ok. I kinda figured that!

Re: What a great offer!

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Then why did you ask?

Oh wait, I know, because you only ever show up here when you want bootlegs off me, and think getting an inch makes you entitled to receive a mile. The incessant begging and leeching was obnoxious in 2007, and I see things aren't any better now.

Re: What a great offer!

[lesmislover.livejournal.com]

No comment.

[smartamy15.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!! You have quite the list. I'm downloading the Paris 1980 soundboard, and I'll be quite content with that. I've noticed in the past year that the people with the most extensive collections have gone on hiatus, so I'm very grateful that you're sharing! :)

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, you don't know me, so feel more than free not to respond. This page just showed up in a google search.

Would there be any chance of the demos and the World Aids Day concert of The Secret Garden?

Thanks.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Concert: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GCPO7HC6
Demos: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4IXV36HU

[allurbass.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this - as a newbie to the world of these bootlegs, it's very difficult to break into this. It's a very generous offer. And I love the 1980 Soundboard.

Can I request this recording?
"21 December 2009
Jonathan Williams (u/s), Hans Peter Janssens, Rebecca Seale, Helen Owen (u/s), Antony Hansen (u/s), Emily Bull, Mark Dugdale (u/s), Martin Ball, Lorraine Bruce
MASTER
A fun show. Half the orchestra and a decent number of cast members got snowed in, so you can hear the orchestra gradually getting fuller as people show up."

Again, thanks!

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

Here you go: http://www.sendspace.com/file/4emcsy

Oh, just a word of warning... this was a silly show, so it got silly track titles.

[allurbass.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

The track titles have made my night. Seriously.

If it's not too much trouble, could I get this recording as well?
15 October 2005
John Owen-Jones, Cornell John, Kerry Ellis, Shonagh Daly, Hayden Tee, Amy Ellen Richardson (u/s), David Thaxton (u/s), Barry James, Claire Moore, Paul Westhead (u/s Grantaire/Bamatabois)

[hazellwood.livejournal.com]

I'm not entirely sure if you are still doing this (and I totally get it if you aren't), but, um I'd like to make a request:

15 October 2005
John Owen-Jones, Cornell John, Kerry Ellis, Shonagh Daly, Hayden Tee, Amy Ellen Richardson (u/s), David Thaxton (u/s), Barry James, Claire Moore, Paul Westhead (u/s Grantaire/Bamatabois)

Thanks for your time. :)