And it lives with me for a long time. Bootlegs can also be really interesting, where sometimes when you match up vocal from another and instrument from another, somehow
Interesting. And then what about "Mandatory Fun" tour? Bootlegged. Listened to it over and over.
irrelevant whether the song was from after that I just had this three years of just buying Bruce Springsteen bootlegs and every time there was one with thunder rolled on it I'd fast forward to hear that the diversion because the version changed so much sothat taught me also that the song didn't just arrive there was a process so it's where he got c1 the finished album so
And this is me when my grandfather took me to see the bootlegger. And bootleggers, for British people, people who make illegal moonshine. And that's those two fellows or guys who ran a still that my grandfather used to get his liquor from.
We're with the American Medical Association, by the way. I got a bootleg of it, and Bruce's people liked the magazine, and said they'd let us publish an excerpt of it.
are literally looking at this idea that value comes from sharing and it's not in a corporate kind of context. I know I'm saying this here at Google so I'm sorry about that but bootleg Google, it's already free, right? So the fun part about thinking about the South Pacific was the idea of values here and I had read several books, one was Aldous Huxley's "The Island. It's a great, it's his last novel and it was his antidote to "Brave New World" and I'm sure most of
And so I was burning CDs, and I would sell the CDs. I was bootlegging the CDs-- Hustling. --in school. And then my friend-- the same guy who was getting all the CDs-- told me, he's like, hey, listen.
But the last time we saw, it was about 340,000 pounds. NASCAR in the US originated out of bootleggers, people smuggling alcohol with souped-up kind of Model T cars that were trying to outrun the police.
But the last time we saw, it was about 340,000 pounds. And they forgot about the bootlegging bit and just carried on racing these massively over-powerful road cars.
Yeah. Well, it is interesting. And I especially like listening to bootlegs from places like Arlene's Grocery and places like that.
So let me just give you a couple examples of that. The invention of the telephone greatly aided bootleggers in the 1920s. And they started actually using the telephone to basically plan their operations, coordinated drops, and so on.
Yet wiretapping became a bread and butter basic law enforcement tool, technique, that was first developed with the invention of the telephone and with bootleggers adopting it as a favored method of doing business. At the time, it was considered so radical, so new, so revolutionary as a law enforcement tool that the first bootlegger to be busted with it, a guy named Olmstead
a very beautiful place. So island to island, Manhattan to Tanna; I'm thinking a lot more that's what ended up happening is people have a bootleg economy already where they're passing around mixes and there's all sorts of stuff going on that people trade, you know, without
So after the financial crisis there, the state decided to legalize the production of moonshine, and so now there are all these companies that are emerging that are actually working with old school bootleggers. So people that have been doing this, and it's been passed on as a sort of artisanal craft for generations.
I've done the thing, and now the music game has changed. And it's almost as safe-- We went from sort of the bootleg infrastructure in Nigeria, went towards streaming. There's a whole generation of artists that are being erased, and all the work that they've done.
Yeah. Did you ever sell one of your songs? JIMMY O. YANG: I sold maybe a couple bootleg CDs in school. Like, we would just burn CDs.
Well, actually, not the real Vomit Comet. We actually set up what I think now was in an illegal bootleg Vomit Comet. All I know is that on the manifest when we took off, it was an Air Mexicali cargo plane.
And it was available on the internet as a rip. And before that-- Oh, there were plenty of bootleg versions of it. Can you speak into the mic?
And it lives with me for a long time. And I heard the "You Got to Go" and Believe in Me" bootleg for the first time.
So they went from being the most successful brewery to the most successful bootleg warehouse, bootleg operation,
First of all, I think bootlegged sound is fine.
This is me as a little boy with my sister and her doggie. And this is me when my grandfather took me to see the bootlegger. And bootleggers, for British people, people who make illegal moonshine.
former Seattle Police Lieutenant decided that he wanted to get into the uh to the bootlegging business
because he felt that you know the only crime he did was bootlegging which people wanted it so it wasn't a bad
We call this one "The Smoker." This is one of the most bootlegged photos of the Grateful Dead out there.
Now the young people of the Soviet Union wanted to hear this music so badly that they figured out they could actually bootleg American records
independent music. We try to use things a little bit sideways and kind of bend and bootleg things to make them work for us.
by IBM management. It was developed in one of our laboratories as a bootleg project over the stern warning from management that the project had to be dropped
And ice cream production plummets, so much so that you started having bootleg ice cream makers.
they're aware -- they actually want this stuff out there so that, that others won't bootleg it and that and that sort of thing.
papers and lo and behold uh these letters that were supposed to be under seal this was a bootleg copy of it so we
But the last time we saw, it was about 340,000 pounds. Because actually it was quite important that they were fast and reliable because they had to keep bootlegging.
systems. And inside Iran, the movie's been bootlegged, and everyone in Iran has seen it.
This was pre-computers. And that photo's been bootlegged everywhere in the world.
It's not uncommon for a chemistry lab in a high school to blow up, or alcohol bootleg to produce methanol.
Her gigs were speakeasies run by gangsters, who specialized in this transport and sale of illegal, bootleg substances.
And what people don't realize is during the Roaring '20s when you're reading about bathtub gin, actually more ice cream was sold than bootleg liquor.
So over the weekend, I had the fortune of being at D School, attending the Bootleg Boot camp.
And now it's become a viral video classic, with millions and millions of views-- hard to count because of so many bootleg copies, actually.
deejay technique to digital media, being able to mix, layer, loop, and transform a song is something that's part of the basic vocabulary of electronic music right now. And globally speaking if you go to Brazil, China, Russia, India, most of the developing economies are based on bootleg economies right now. People are literally looking at this idea that value comes from sharing and it's not in a corporate kind of context. I know I'm saying this here at Google so I'm
But then being able to record, like a World Cup football game, or like get bootlegged videotapes and watch movies,
Thank you. - Oh, you know, there's these guys that are going to move here and open up a record store-- bootlegged Bowie?
We have a place that people can buy it, we know how to make records because they were making bootlegs at that time, so yeah.
1,000 copies, cool. Some Xerox machines, some bootlegs , whatever.
Back in Berns's day, this included everything for bullying performers back into studios, dismantling local record bootlegging operations with a sledgehammer,
So people that have been doing this, and it's been passed on as a sort of artisanal craft for generations. And so the founder of Sugarlands, for example, is working with all these old bootleggers, and he told me at their first meeting he met with a guy who was drinking moonshine out of a bear claw.
the invention of the telephone and with bootleggers adopting it as a favored method of doing business. At the time, it was considered so radical, so new, so revolutionary as a law enforcement tool that the first bootlegger to be busted with it, a guy named Olmstead in Seattle, the case went all the way to the Supreme Court.
I remember for me, because I'm a jazz fan, I was immediately after rare and unreleased jazz bootlegs .
talking to his friend and trying to get him in on the experience, which that's fine. That's not really bootlegging. We don't have a problem with that. But I
cool I was. And if any of you guys watch "Seinfeld", it's like when George tries to be a bootlegger and like he's this really bad dude.