Soundboard Early Shows/Classic Shows

[serenity_painted_death27]

Having been drilling Opeth's back catalogue with some pretty savage ferocity lately, especially getting into the old school progressive "warm" feeling of the first 2 albums (you know what I mean), I have fallen in love with the idea of obtaining a soundboard recording of an early show, most likely in an intimate pub or something, and I imagine the setlist would be something along the lines of:

Advent
Nectar
Under the Weeping Moon
In Mist She Was Standing
Black Rose Immortal

While it is highly unlikely that such a recording is in wide circulation, or even probably exists, I was hoping your kindness, coupled with your empathy towards a fellow Opeth fan and my polite, somewhat formal register in this post would direct me towards obtaining such a recording, if anything remotely like what I have described exists.

If no-one knows of anything like this, are there any commonly circulating shows from perhaps a little later (i.e. 1996-99?) that are of decent quality? I found a load of Opeth sets on a certain P2P network, but they're all festival shows (and therefore ridiculously short) from later dates (with a bit too much of BP-directed setlist for my liking) and/or of practically unlistenable quality.

Thanks for any help, and on a completely unrelated note, thank fucking Christ that the special edition of Watershed is being released on the same day as the normal edition!!

Peace and all that

 

[in_my_time_of_disease]

Youtube has videos of some of those tracks played live. There is a torrent on mininova called Opeth Bootlegs. It hardy ever has any seeders, but check it because its a little over 5gb of bootlegs. It is by far the biggest collection Ive seen; It has full concerts (up to an hour) random songs/live bootlegs etc with a variety of different quality, although last I looked alot of them are on youtube. It took me about 4 days to get the whole thing as the few seeders had pretty slow connections. Even if it doesn't have any seeders, check it, cause I remember waiting a fair while before utorrent would connect. Hopefully at some point Opeth will do what Pink Floyd did an release some bootlegs like with Pulse "bootlegging the bootleggers" which on the 2nd disc it has heaps of floyd bootlegs. Also a shop here in Melbourne had a bootleg of the 03 and the 06 Opeth concerts. I went there the other week after not having been there for over a year and the bootleg shelf had gone; apparently the cops raided them. haha serves them right though, bootlegs should be traded not sold for your own profit. I remember seeing a group of people filming it at the 06 concert on the 2nd night. They were on the top balcony and in between each song when people were more likely to see them they hid behind the barrier. I remember looking up at them hoping they either did a good job filming it and didn't shake the camera like an idiot or that Mike would see them haha. They did a crappy job of filming it, missed the 2nd half of NATSW and all of Credence. But they did manage to capture some of the brilliance that was that night.

 

[Slynt]

yes the 5gb collection is a slo-o-o-o-ow download, but it is seeded 100%, lots of good stuff in this coll. thanks to whoever put it together.

 

[serenity_painted_death27]

Cool thanks a lot for the suggestion.

I've just looked at this torrent and it doesn;t give much info. I'm a bit wary of downloading such a massive torrent (as I hate torrents generally) if it's really slow unless I know a little more about what exactly it is.

If anyone who has this could give a rough idea of which shows, setlist, sound quality etc is included in this torrent I'd be infinitely grateful.

 

[affinityband]

theres that show that everyones seen at the wychwood show.

in the mist she was standing
advent
forest of october

 

[Slynt]

Lucky for you I still have the file on my laptop [and lucky for you I have it with me on vacation] but unlucky for you that I have deleted some of its contents for various reasons. But here is an overview of what's in there that I still have:

 

[Slynt]

allright that screenie shows the audio, here's the video folder:

 

[serenity_painted_death27]

Hmmm...interesting, seems like a lot of stuff though, and I'm only really after 1 or 2 really decent quality sets. Plus, with my hatred of torrents I think I might not bother downloading the whole thing.

Thanks for the info anyway, and if anyone has any good quality shows with interesting setlists that they wouldn;t mind sharing/trading (although I'm not sure what the fuck I'd trade it for) please let me know.

Thanks again for all your help/suggestions.

 

[in_my_time_of_disease]

You hate torrents? Torrents are awesome, faster speeds, secure connections, organized, safer, plus clients like utorrent allows you to dl anything you want within the torrent. Even though its big, its well worth it. But its all pretty much on youtube so you might not need to bother downloading it. When I got it, most of the clips were harder to find.

 

[serenity_painted_death27]

Well, I'm not really after videos, that's the thing. Like you say, much of it I imagine I could find on youtube. I also don't have a massive amount of hard drive space so I think that torrent might just be a bit too big.

 

[Jackehh]

Hmmm...interesting, seems like a lot of stuff though, and I'm only really after 1 or 2 really decent quality sets. Plus, with my hatred of torrents I think I might not bother downloading the whole thing.

Thanks for the info anyway, and if anyone has any good quality shows with interesting setlists that they wouldn;t mind sharing/trading (although I'm not sure what the fuck I'd trade it for) please let me know.

Thanks again for all your help/suggestions.

not to be an asshat or anything but to me, you seem a bit old fashioned. If you say you hate torrents you obviously havent realized what internet is all about nowadays. Torrents and downloads. Downloads and Torrents.

Imo just set aside all your valuations for now and just download the damned thing. I'm sure you'll find what you are looking for in there. You could also just extract the audio from the video files and then delete the video files if you are doubting whether you have space for the files or not. Also, with any decent torrent program you should be able to just download selected parts within the torrent which makes it even more easier for you.

You have what you want right in front of you, just a little patience and you'll have your bootleggs.

 

[Scourge of Malice]

You can select which files you want to download, you don't have to download the whole thing. Another reason torrents are awesome. Get with the times =p

 

[flebbie]

True, but that torrent doenst contain any soundboard shows. So I deleted most of it as well. Are there any good sounding bootlegs around anyway?

 

[NicholasDWolfwood]

I've heard plenty of great sound bootlegs, however most of them were from the GR tours. There's also the amazing boot of the Providence show from the Damnation tour.

 

[FRUGiHOYi]

I want to get these videos from Ft. Lauderdale because I was there.