Audience recordings sounded better with the old Radio Shack PZM mics. As most shows are amplified mono what was the point of the spread? Stereo crowd noise?
Bootleg albums. Favs and stories
Back in the day a buddy named Roddy and his overweight wife would sneak in a Nakamichi tape deck (under her dress). People were very cool to each other back then, so he'd pass the extra long mic cables under the backs of their seats as far
apart as possible. Everyone around us knew what was going on.
I only joined them on one occasion, a Jackson Brown concert. I've lost my
copy over the years, but as I recall, when the mics were still in his hands, I asked
him something. He hushed me up. So my voice is on it to this day.
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Went to England around 1988? or so. There's a big Saturday market which had quite a few music vendors. I located the Bootleg seller. Picked up some Joni Mitchel, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, and Blondie. Good times...