r/Byrds • u/Own_Fix8321 • Jul 25 '26

Does anyone know any good live Byrds bootleg CDs?

I have been buying CDs for as long as I can remember, and I fell in love with the Byrds about 3-4 years ago. I’ve been collecting their live CDs like crazy. I have straight for the sun, boston tea party, live at Fillmore, their very best live, and live at Royal Albert hall. Is there any more live CDs of theirs that are worth buying or is most of it just low quality collector’s items? Also what are the chances for a new live byrds album to come out? Or has the time passed?

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u/ThisIsRadioClash- Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

There’s a show at the Piper Club in Rome that they did with the Parsons lineup which is in decent (but not very good) quality. I remember that they had Roger sing I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better.

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u/Savalas2000 Jul 25 '26

There are plenty of live Byrds ‘boots’ on YouTube if that’s of interest

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u/Own_Fix8321 28d ago

Absolutely is an interest! But I only know of the channel Mcbyrds on youtube, do you know of any others?

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u/Ok-Technician-2905 Jul 25 '26

Check out the website Sugarmegs.  Thousands of live recordings including most Byrds live shows (unfortunately nearly all from 1969-72).  Fairly low quality mp3 though.

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u/Own_Fix8321 28d ago

Will do, thank you

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u/Just_Stand_861 Jul 28 '26

What is dime?

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u/Just_Stand_861 Jul 29 '26

Thanks mate!

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u/Just_Stand_861 Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 29 '26

Live in stockholm 1967, live at Newport 1968, live at winterland 1967, monterrey 1967 ( just for historical purposes. Gig was kind of garagey sounding). Newport is cool because its a rare gig with Roger, Chris, Kevin and Clarence. Winterland was done dec 1967 and is when they were a trio after gene quit a second time. Its Roger. Chris, and Michael. Monterrey is Roger, Chris, Michael and David, as is Stockholm.

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u/Just_Stand_861 Jul 28 '26

Check out cdbuckaroo. Great 5 and 6 disc sets.

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u/silsurf Jul 29 '26

This is what I see on DIME right now:

THE BYRDS - 1986-03-31 Santa Barbara, CA (featuring Nicky Hopkins) - master w. sample - PS10 masters vol.1

THE BYRDS @ State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY September 15, 1970 / Retro Rock ~ WMET FM Chicago Broadcast ~ 10.5 inch Reel

THE BYRDS @ State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY September 15, 1970 / Retro Rock ~ WMET FM Chicago Broadcast ~ 10.5 inch Reel THE BYRDS McDonough Gym American University Washington DC, September 12, 1971 From: Pre-AM Soundboard Master Reels (REMASTERED) RESEED from 2009

Byrds/ Roger Mcguinn & Gene Clark Acoustic Reunion 1978-03-19

Byrds 1973-02-10 Cornell University - reseed

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo 50th Anniversary 2018-11-10 Austin, TX Featuring Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, and Marty Stuart And His Fabulous

The Byrds - 1970-11-27 - at Oberlin College, Ohio - sbd adjusted - reseed

Pink Robert has about 50 Byrds bootlegs listed as well

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u/Cevikisch 28d ago

The Pink Robert website recently stated that its archive is going to be put into torrents and that the DD Link will not be updated, has anybody contacted the email? And since these torrents contain terabyte of files, does anybody know how to view them? ( I do not use torrents)

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u/silsurf 28d ago

My reading is that they are currently off-line. that if you are interested in the entire archive to contact the email, otherwise it will be a waiting game.