Blue Room:
Thanks for the info on the different recordings.
But HOW can a fan record from the ear piece? Ok, you don't have to go into details technically but for me it sounds impossible. You have to be in the building at least, right?
I can see where you're coming from with trade rare stuff for other rare stuff but I can't really get the whole thing where you (the traders) pretty much say that ordinary U2 fans are not to trust (which I guess we aren't because most of us share widely to spread the U2 love
).
Logically for me it minimizes the risk to get caught the more a cd is spread. If everyone has it, then who did the original? If just a few has it, then it's just a few to check.
And if you have been trusted by the crew with a recording, does it matter if you share it one, ten or 1000? You have still broken your promise and taken the risk to get caught. And even if you just shared it with one, that person will probably share it with just one because he can get something he really wants and then it's three who has it. Ok, it might take longer but sooner or later it will arrive in the hands of thousands of fans and you have no longer control anyway.
To do like John with the Stockholm vid (that I would die to get of course since it's from my country and I love the boot
) is perfectly ok and understandable but then you should do as he has, not share with anyone if that's what you promised.
Personally though, I don't care. I'm not that picky with sound which I guess is the only real major difference between these recordings and a regular audience recording, as long as the audience isn't too bad ie screams and out of tune song right in to the mic, generally too loud can be fixed with a computer. So "normal" bootlegs is perfectly enough for me. If they don't want to trade, then I do it with someone who wants.
I don't know, I just don't get this whole thing, but that's me.
If they don't want to "lower" themselves to ordinary fans that just wants to share great music, then that's fine with me. I won't be a begger.