Tape Trading
Are you sick of your CD??
Well - there is nothing quite like a live performance tape of your favorite artist.
(It's just like being at the show baby - except you're in your car!)

 
Rules:
1. I will definetly do newbie trades. (2:1)
2. Use Maxell II 90 minute tapes.
(They come in the gold wrapper, and should not be hard to find - usually about $1.50 a peice.)
3. Tell me if there is a cut in the song. (Where the song cuts off)
4. E-mail me so we can set up a trade before you send any tapes.
5. I will only send my tapes after I recieve yours. it sucks to be ripped off...
6. I will include all the info I know about the tape (set list, venue, date, and city)
I expect the same from other traders.
7. I will keep you updated on how your trade is going -
example: if I just taped your tape , just sent it, or recieved your tapes -
you will be able to check this form Take A Sip of matchbox 20.
8. Other than that - look around and enjoy your tapes! (that's a RULE!)

Grading:
A - this tape hardly leaves my tape deck!
Very clear quality - no static - no audience noise
B - I've heard better...
maybe Rob is hard to hear in-between songs, some audience noise,
"is that the beginning of Busted - or is that Static??"
C - you have to be a hard-core fan....
you feel like you're at the show - with the screaming fans,
and sweaty people and bad acoustics
D and F - I don't own any :)

Warning!
BPRichard1@aol.com Is a BAD trader!  He has  A LOT of really good matchbox20 shows - but he is RIPPING EVERYONE OFF!!  PLEASE DO NOT TRADE WITH HIM - you will waste your time, money and then never get your tapes.  Please trade with another bootlegger rather than Scott Krukenberg. Thanks:)

My Tape List:
| A | May 5 . 1997 |  Atlanta, GA | "Live X" APC Studios | 60 mins.
This show is acoustic! (it was a radio show...)
-Busted   -3am   -Long Day   -Hang   -Kody   -You & I & I   -Push
Rob is kinda' hard to hear in-between songs -
(just blast your stereo and it's fine...)
Including what Rob calls "The *new* acoustic 'fun' version of Push"
my fave thing about the tape: You & I & I is awesome acoustic
 
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| A | June 30. 1997 | L.A., CA | Y 107 Radio Show |30 mins.
This show is acoustic! (it was a radio show...)
Rob, Kyle and Paul interview along with 4 songs they played for the radio show:
-Push (Atlanta Remix - Rob calls it) -3AM  - Long Day (album version)  - Time After Time
The interview is great!  Good quality - good Q & A's - the guys are hilarious!
Here are some quotes from the interview:
Paul: "Kyle likes to beat up lesbians" (laugh)
Rob: "We like girls because they're soft and pretty"
my fave thing about the tape:  Aweome acoustic version of Time After Time! (you can really hear Kyle!)
 
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| A- | December 5. 1997 | KROQ Almost Acoustic Radio show | universal ampitheater  L.A. CA |
-Busted  -Argue  -Girl Like That  -3AM   -Push  -Long Day
short interview with Rob and Paul after the show
 
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| A | March 21. 1998 | Boston, MA |Orpheum Theater | 90 min. |
(if you are new to mb20 tape trading - i would suggest requesting this one!)
Busted  |  Argue  |  Girl Like That   |  Kody  Real World  Shame  |  Damn  | Tired  3am
Mercy Mercy Me (Marvin Gaye cover)  | You & I & I  |  Push  Rest Stop  |  Hang  Heavy (1st time ever played to an audience)
Long Day (Rob talks a lot)
 This show is amazing - it was one day after the New York show that was taped for MTV'S 10 Spot - so if you enjoyed that show - I definetly suggest this tape!  It is my favorite! :)
 
| B- May 22. 1998 | Poughkeepsie, NY  | Mid-Hudson Civic Center  |
warning: cut on Long Day RIGHT before Rob starts to talk to the audience
 
-Busted   -Argue   -Girl Like That   -Kody   -Real World   -Shame   -Damn   -Tired   -3am
-Never Going Back Again (Fleetwood Mac cover)  -Back 2 Good   -Happy Birthday   -You & I & I   -Push
-Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper cover - one of the last times Rob plays it.)   -Hang   -You Can't Always Get What You Want (Rolling Stones cover)   -Heavy   -Long Day **CUT**
 
*This tape was recorded from the audience - so it includes a lot of interesting quotes from the audience throughout the tape. Example:
"We love you - we want to have sex with you!"
"No - I don't wanna Do it - I want Kyle.."
"We're all going off to college next year..."
NOTICE: This tape also includes Rob doing an impression of ELvis!
my fave thing about the tape:
you can hear the WHOLE crowd singing along with PUSh - it is truly amazing.
 
  go to the matchbox20 Salad Bar!

| A |  September 15. 1997  |  Amsterdam, Netherlands |  Paradiso  |
(this show was played to only 150 people - none the less - it has VERY good sound quality:)
-Losing a Whole Year   -Narcolepsy   -Jumper   -Semi-Charmed Life   -How's it Gonna Be   -Motorcycle Drive By
-Good For You   -Graduate   -London  -I Want You    -Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want **CUT**
-God of Wine

 
  | A | 1991 |Flying Demos | The First Counting Crows Demo Tape | 52 mins.
-Rain King   -Omaha   -Anna Begins   -Einstein on the Beach   -Shallow Days   -Love and Addiction
-Mr. Jones   -Round Here   -40 Years   -Margery   -Bulldog   -Lightning   -We're Only Love
Fillers:  *4 White Stallions   *SNL Rain King   *SNL Mr. Jones   *Interview and Rain King
*Chelsea   *Suffocate

bootlegs!
 
| A | July 22, 1998 |Virgina Beach, Virgina | GTE Ampitheater | *A 2 tape show* |
Tape1: *Two Step  *Pantala Naga Pampa---->*Rapunzel    *#41    *Crush    *Best Of What's Around
*The Last Stop    *Satellite   *Don't Drink The Water   Tape2:  *The Dreaming Tree    *Too Much    *Dancing Nancies
* One Sweet World   *Tripping Billies   *Crash Into Me   *All Along the Watchtower
 
Ummm...What to say??  ALL DMB shows are amazing.  This tape is no different!!  You can't go wrong here.  The songs are just ONE BIG JAM session...amazing    This tape is "Bassy" - so if ya love Stefan on the bass - this is the tape for you!
If doesn't have any rare songs or anything -- but "Make the Best of What's Around!!"  :)

 
Ani DiFranco
|B- / C | April 11, 1998 | New Haven, CT | The Palace Theater | 110 minutes
* Little Plastic Castle   *Fuel   *Every State Line   *Two Little Girls   *As Is   *Letter To A John   *Pulse   *Jukebox
*Up Up Up   *Anticipate   *Come Away   *Everest   *Coming Up   *Do Re Mi   *Cradle and All   *Loom
*Shameless   *Gravel   *When Doves Cry
and for you listening pleasure:
Ani when she was 15 years old on an answering machine!

The Smashing Pumpkins
 | A+ | Various Dates | Australia and Italy | Triple J Studios etc. | 90 minutes
             1. Landslide                   6. Take Me Down                           11. An Ode To No One               16. Mayonaise
             2. Tonite, Tonite             7. Bullet With Butterfly Wings          12. To Forgive                           17. Bodies
             3. 1979                          8. To Forgive                                  13. By Starlight                         18. Dreaming
             4. Cupid de Locke           9. Tonite, Tonite                             14. Muzzle                               19. The Last Song
             5. 33                             10. Zero                                          15. Cherub Rock                       20. The Aeroplane Flies
*tracks 1-8 Recorded @ Triple J Studios in Sydney , Australia on march.13.1996
*tracks 9-17 Recorded in Milano, Italy on april 24.1996
*track 18 is  'Bullet With butterfly Wings' B side
*tracks 19 and 20 are '33's B side
This tape has really good quality.
 i don't even own the Mellon Collie and the Infinite Saddness album,
I just listen to this tape.

 Photos
Super Deluxe
I know most of you guys haven't heard of these guys, but somewhere out there in America they are on the radio right now, and if you listen to the weird before hours or after hours and you'll hear them.  The first song I ever heard by them is called "Love Liquid Wraparound" which a beautiful love song.  They are pretty big on the West Caost, so if you live around WA, OR, alaska, or even in Chicago you will have heard of them (and if you haven't um....turn off your matchbox20 album for a second and open your ears) seeing as they are from one of the coolest cities ever, Seattle.  I describe their kind of music as Beatle/Pop/Rock-Alterna.  its' really cool. And they rock live.  (i saw them in a little club with only like 50 people there. it was sooo awesome!) Anyways, here is my little collection of their performances.  Thanks for listenin'...
 
* Seattle. Moe's. 8.23.1996
*Seattle. Redmond YMCA. 12.6.1996
(this is my favorite one!! The guys are wrapped up in
Christmas Lights on stage playing thier little hearts out!)
*Chicago. Cabaret Metro. 8.18.1996
*Chicago. 7-11. 8.18.1996
*Seattle. Occidental Park. 2.18.1996
*Various. Music Stores. July 1998
 
Here are some of my favorite songs:
 "Farrah Fawcett"
i'll get most everything i wanted except for farrah
fawcett i never see her anymore i left you while my
voice was still changing while writing and arranging
my life's pathetic little score i don't know if i'll ever
get over her you were the closest thing almost
identical as far as i could tell like one of charlie's
angels making out with you there in the closet you
reminded me of farah fawcett i was still a virgin
when i lost it everything seemed like it really was
promise you'll never make a promise you put me on
your hit-list (at least you were never a bore) i'll take
any thoughts you don't use i give away what i lose
everything that i adore medals from my
tournaments d'amour have left me kind of sour
maybe i should get a whore and charge her after for
the hour
"What's Up With Me"
what's up with me would you believe i'm not exactly
 what i'm supposed to be and grand cliche on holiday
from what i've read i guess a dead giveaway a
reluctant dilettante with no favorite work of art or
beloved poem that i wrote in rome or somewhere i
get every lesson a la carte and a purple heart
starved for air je parle francias while i'm away
though i never have a thing to say what's up with me
and blatancy far too obvious for you to agree an idiot
 savant wondering if i'm dumb or smart struck by
cupid's arrow or a poison dart filled with fear and
how everything might fall apart ending at the start
insincere what's up with me born a scorpio my
deviations on display well i feel all wrong though i'm
a-okay (so they say...) i know better than to act his
way hell i put you on touch
 
this really cool moving image was stolen directly from  Super Deluxe Central
it's a really rad site, so ya better go check it out!

Natalie Merchant
* I taped this show!!  It was the first show i have taped, and the quality actually turned out all right!  (i'm so proud of myself!)
I was actually like 5 people away from the speakers, i blew my ear drums out;) - but Natalie was awesome!
| A-/B | March 28.1999 | Anchorage, AK | Egan Center | 140 minutes
 

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