Why do people bootleg and watch bootlegged videos?…I still don’t really
understand.
I still don’t really understand why people create and watch bootlegged
videos. I certainly can understand why people bootleg as part of the concert
experience to keep as a souvenir and share with their friends. I have watched
many great bootlegged videos. I don’t understand why people are so interested
in concerts they never attended.
Thanks to the reader who logged onto my site and read this post from
long ago titled “@lyndahere Music
Marketing, Bootlegging and Hypocrisy (revised) published on 9 October 2012,
over two years ago there are some reasons.
The post describes the reason why @lyndahere bootlegs and that is to "whet the appetite of fans" despite the fact there are multiple copies of the same song already on her site.
I still don’t get it, in particular, when there are better quality professionally
made concert videos and better videos made by other fans.
Recently Scott Grimes retweeted a link provided to a fan to new music
and song he co-wrote with Alan Doyle called Stay by @lyndahere. It is
unfortunate she seems to have the monopoly on bootlegged videos and people
don’t really go elsewhere. I have found there are many people who bootleg concerts
better than she does and as part of the concert experience with no ulterior
motive than to share.
I actually found a better bootlegged version of the beautiful Alan Doyle and Scott
Grimes song Stay bootlegged by another fan. I have provided the link here
because her recording sounds great. I hope you enjoy Alan and Stickman as much as I did. Even
though I believe the musicians should decide when and how it is released.
After listening to a digital version of the beautiful sounds from the
acoustic version of the Crowe/Doyle Songbook 3 I find it extremely difficult to
listen to some bootlegged recordings from The Indoor Garden Party concerts. I
certainly would enjoy a professionally recorded live version of the concert. But
that is just me. I imagine others feel the same.
“@lyndahere Music Marketing,
Bootlegging and Hypocrisy (revised) published on 9 October 2012.
Indoor Garden Party St John’s
Newfoundland 2011
Russell Crowe and Alan Doyle have
become my heroes in the fight against bootlegged material. In August of 2011
@lyndahere bootlegged Russell Crowe’s entire Indoor Garden Party show in St
Johns with his co starts from the film Robin Hood Alan Doyle, Scott Grimes and
Kevin Durand plus his gorgeous and talented wife Danielle Spencer and Irish duo
Size2shoes. @lyndahere put them on Youtube and as consequence had thousands of
hits. She seemed to have the monopoly of bootlegged videos as no one else who
attended the event put any up. I don’t care how much money Russell Crowe makes
in the movies. If he writes a song or makes a video then those involved are
entitled to the proceeds of it.
Over the past six months Russell Crowe has released
his own recordings from the Indoor Garden Party on his South Sydney Media
Youtube site in competition with @lyndahere. Better late than never. Scott
Grimes and Russell Crowe have remained firm friends since they made the film
Mystery Alaska together. He has high praise for his friend’s music abilities.
Russell Crowe has tweeted on two occasions that he has not been impressed by
the quality of videos being offered by @lyndahere of the event. He wrote on his
Twitter page “Even with shit fanvid sound,you just can't deny @scottgrimes From Here Clear To The Ocean Garden Par...: http://youtu.be/i_liG8Aa0YA via @youtube “ 13 September 2012.
And @lyndahere was quick to respond to Russell
Crowe’s criticism with the following tweets. @russellcrowe @ScottGrimes And if fanvid sound were not shit, people would
simply grab the audio& not bother buying the song. Not the goal. 14
September 2012
@russellcrowe @ScottGrimes The videos are supposed to whet the appetite, not
saturate it. 14 September 2012.
@lyndahere wrote they were only meant to whet the
appetite and if they had quality sound no one would buy the song. Whet means to
stimulate. @lyndahere put up not only one copy of each song performed in its
entirety but there are TWO copies of nearly each song performed by all the
artists in its entirety. It certainly would not make for a pleasant experience
watching someone perform through the view finder of a camera. Concert after
concert after concert watching musicians perform so brilliantly according to
her through a camera view finder. I wonder when she last watched a concert for
music. The purpose of buying a ticket to a concert is to enjoy it and
appreciate the music. The function of a ticket is that you pay for that event
only not a life time of bootlegged videos. Actions and words @lyndahere.
So for what purpose was this filmed I wonder.
Actions and words @lyndahere. To ‘whet the appetite’ more like flood and
monopolise the market for fan videos on this event. Filming entire concerts and
putting them up on Youtube is an interesting marketing strategy I find
difficult to comprehend. That shit quality music videos will sell songs
according to @lyndahere. I am wondering which marketing firm would promote that
kind of philosophy and why if it were true is it is unique to only to music.
There is no product and company in the world that would use inferior products
to advertise a better product in the store. And no reasonable person would buy
something based on an inferior product. If it doesn’t make sense then it isn’t
true. There are now quality official videos of the Indoor Garden Party and Alan
Doyle songs from his Boy on Bridge album including the song Testify and I Have
Seen a Little but she has yet to bring down her bootlegged videos on Youtube.
It does however make a
quality product more difficult to find in amongst all the rubbish. A bit like
looking for a needle in a hay stack unless you know where to look (Alan Doyle
official Great Big Sea official or South Sydney Media official Youtube
sites and a range of other sites). The videos on Between the Rock occupy priority place in some Google
searches and makes it difficult to find official videos. Whetting the appetite
of potential song buyers should be done through official videos where viewers
can buy songs directly via links to itunes or other music purchasing sites.
@lyndahere provides no links to itunes where viewers can buy the goods.
Testify
Testify is the latest song that Alan Doyle wrote
with Russell Crowe. They have produced a video together filmed in Iceland. An
excellent video with spectacular scenery and high quality sound and an Academy
award winning actor producing and starring in it. The video has had over 17 000
hits in just a couple of weeks. @lyndahere has approximately 10 videos of the
song Testify that she filmed on Alan Doyle’s tour, promotion events and the
Garden Party. Yet she has not brought down the bootlegged copies of the song
Testify of Youtube to support her claims they are there to whet the appetite of
potential song buyers.
I have watched some videos by people who attend
Alan Doyle and Great Big Sea events who are what not I term professional
bootleggers. They are excellent. They are often little watched videos way down
the list on Youtube searches with only a couple of hundred hits. They highlight
the brilliance of the musicians performing at live venues with just a guitar.
Its Friday by Dean Brody and Great Big Sea
It’s Friday by Dean Brody and Great Big Sea is
another song that has been bootlegged by @lyndahere on more than one occasion.
On Twitter @lyndahere wrote @alanthomasdoyle
@bobhallet join @deanbrody on a downtown St. John’s rooftop to film the “Its
Friday” music video. 1 Sept 2012. She put up a video way before the
official one was released. She does tweet links to the official version but
does not bring down her own versions that continue to remain on Youtube
accumulating hits and in opposition to the official videos.
Charity events
Another example of @lyndahere’s problem with
actions and words was the benefit concert for Newfoundland musician Ron Hynes
who is fighting cancer and the opening of Ronald McDonald house in Newfoundland
for sick children with Great Big Sea. @lyndahere always the opportunist filmed
both events and peddled them on her Twitter site showing little respect for
causes they were helping. I did not watch her videos because I found them
totally offensive that she would film at such events and without the permission
for those who held the event and then peddle them to the artists involved. What
got lost to her was that the concerts were for very sick people.
Not one of the artists responded to her about the
videos.
