dbboots

 Bootlegs recordings have been around for decades. According to Miles (see source references), for the Rolling Stones it started just before Christmas of 1969 with the famous "LIVER THAN YOU'LL EVER BE" acetate, released on Lurch Records. Read more about this story here LIVER ...
Lurch Records label would later become the well known bootleg label "Trade Mark of Quality" (TMoQ).
"Rolling Stone" magazine reviewed this bootleg release on February 7, 1970 (by Greil Marcus): review...

 With the rapidly development in digital audio and video technology, most people attending a venue today is also able to recording it. There are a very few numbers of venues after 1969 that are not circulating among fans right now, making the number of circulating audience tapes and recordings endless.

 This site contains only bootlegs albums and cds that have been examined and are circulating among collectors.
The list is undoubtedly incomplete as far for listing every available bootleg for every venue, emphasis is more on trying to listing available sources for each venue.

 Below is the famous cover picture from the original Bedspring Symphony bootleg with The Rolling Stones in a fish and chip shop on the King's Road, Chelsea.

 There are many sources to the information used on this site in order to list the bootleg recordings, the main references used are:

Felix Aeppli: The Ultimate Guide to The Rolling Stones

Dieter Hoffmann: Schwarzbuch Blackbook, Basement News Distribution, Rodgau, Germany, 1997 - 2010 (Part 1-7)

Bjornulf Vik: It's Only Rock'n Roll Fan Club

Nico Zentgraf: THE COMPLETE WORKS WEBSITE

Martin Elliott: COMPLETE RECORDING SESSIONS 1962 - 2002

Barry Miles: Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Discography. Omnibuss Press 1980 ISBN 0.86001.762.1

Mats Jarl: No Expectations. (No.1 - No.9) Swedish publication (June 1988 - January 1992)

You are now able to search Bootleg titles by song and venue. Just look at List Songs

Previous upgrades:
List Alphabetic selection sorts Bootleg Titles based on second word if it starts with articles "The", "An" or "A" .
It's now possible to list only Bootlegs by selected media format [LP , CD or CDr].
Database navigation has been improved. While displaying setlists, next and prev venue is just a link away !
Enjoy !