Because both shows were festival gigs with short setlists, and because there was little overlap, I'm pretty sure both shows would've been included in full on the same DVD.
And you're correct about all the other releases being on CD only. Typically, each batch of official bootlegs included only one DVD; the rest were CD only.
Thought that might be the case; didn't want to say without being certain, though. Thanks for clarifying.
These above two shows would've been AMAZING to own, as a piece of history for the band on their short BC&SL tour(s). Between the two, we would've gotten four BC&SL songs, plus the one SC song they hadn't played on the SC Tour, as well as a KILLER version of "Hollow Years" (a video of which exists on YouTube, I believe, with some interesting fans in the crowd...). A 2-DVD set of these two together would've been an instant purchase from me.
Agreed. Would've been damn awesome.
I always thought it was a big shame there's no official live release documenting the BCSL tour, and this would've done the job very nicely. Not quite to the degree of perfection that Bucharest managed this for the 6DoiT tour, but it'd be really nice.
Oh yes, the Poughkeepsie show, most interesting for all of the covers and medleys, and performances of four of the five FII B-Sides ("Raise The Knife" being the absent song). This would have been great to own officially, though according to the MP Setlist page, it says it has a release, which I assume to be a circulated bootleg. I don't think I ever downloaded that one back when I was huge into DIME and downloading live boots from bands like DT, Rush, Genesis, Yes, etc. Given the amount of Sherinian-era live shows already released (Tokyo 95, New Jersey 96, LA 98, and the official OIALT release), I bet there was some reluctance to release another show with him on it, though given his short run with DT, as a fan, I would not mind hearing more of his time with the band, especially in the intimate live setting this show was done in.
-Marc.
That show does indeed have a bootleg, but it's not very well-circulated outside of a certain circle of bootleg traders; it's a "Grateful Dreams" bootleg, which... Well... Strap yourself in, you've just unwittingly opened a personal can of worms of mine. Apologies in advance, you're about to read a ulyssesian ramble...
Okay, so, controversial opinion time: I think the Grateful Dreams rules are outdated and have become somewhat draconian with time... Basically, you're not allowed to share Grateful Dreams shows digitally over the internet, you are only permitted to trade them physically, usually by the post, which involves buying a set of CD-Rs, setting up your burner to burn bit-accurately(Presuming you have a functional burner), burning the bootleg to the CD-Rs(Unless your CD-Rs are duds), posting them to the intended recipient, and presumably they download the artwork from the Grateful Dreams site(And maybe they'll keep the discs around as souvenirs of the trade?). Originally, this was established back in the late '90s or so, back when internet trading was the wild west; everything was lossy, and no one respected the wishes of the tapers of the bootlegs, and the rules have kind of stuck around as a tradition. Wasteland once described it to me as a mark of professionalism, like wearing white at Wimbledon.
Anyway, basically what this means is you have to find someone to physically post you burned CDs(Or meet up with them in person) to actually get any Grateful Dreams stuff... People like Weymolith and Wasteland who have this stuff are friendly folks who I'd never say a word against, but in my view, giving someone my real actual address is quite a big deal(Aside from the typical reservations you'd expect, I do have to be very careful these days; long story short, there are some toxic members of the Dragon Ball fandom who've doxxed a few of my friends, sharing their physical addresses and full names, and if given the chance, those people would definitely do the same to me, so I'm very cautious. Additionally, I've had some bad experiences in the past few months with people I thought I could trust publicly sharing private messages I'd sent in confidence), and to be brutally honest, this all sounds like a really decadant way of sending files to each-other, so...
Ultimately, while I don't know about you, from where I'm standing, this isn't really an option for me.
In my view, it is rather frustrating that if this last batch of official bootlegs had gone through, I could own a copy of this show, but as it stands, my only option would be to give my home address to some guy on the internet I've only had a handful of conversations with... Not sure I want it
that badly...
On top of this, a few of these circulate online as MP3s(One guy sent me a link to this very bootleg we're talking about a while back, along with a few others I think. No idea where they got it, and admittedly I never listened to the files myself, so they could be fake. I doubt it, though), and one guy even uploaded Cover My Eyes from this bootleg to YouTube... So... This whole situation kind of confuses me, if I'm honest...
Anyway... That's why you never saw this show on Dimeadozen, that's why this show isn't as widely-circulated as you'd think, and that's a bunch of things about me that are probably all massively boring to everyone else in the world. On the plus side, I have the bootlegs of the 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th shows from December '98, and will gladly send them to you if you wish, but on the minus side, they're mostly rather poor-quality recordings, and probably pale in comparison to the Grateful Dreams release, which as I understand had some top-notch audio mastering done on it.
Apologies to any Grateful Dreams staff I may have offended over the course of this over-long drivel I've written here. I'm not out to offend or hurt anyone, and I am deeply sorry if I have done so.