I can see both sides of this. I've never been a fan of audience video recordings generally due to the poor quality. I'd make exception on really rare stuff, eg the 88 video. Audio boots is sightly different to me as I grew up in the pre internet era where compact cassettes of concerts were the only way of sharing. And they captured the moment - too many official 'live' things these days have more studio time on them than actual live performance
The only things I ever upload to youtube were video recordings from TV broadcasts most of which I recorded myself at the time. Many on this board and in other forums are Meat fans from the Bat 2 era and will have seen or heard little of his live stuff pre that era. That's what I wanted to share. For me that was his best period 78- 96 say. That's not dismissing entirely what he's done since but that era is the one I lived through so it means more to me. I enjoyed sharing them and had some great contacts and discussions in the process. To me those are more important than the sharing now, hence why I've removed them. I could match some of Warioloafs comments. I've had 5 members of the NLE give similar comments - they were really delighted to see their old performances
I guess what I was trying to do from airing that stuff was to encourage Meat to open the vaults and get some of this stuff out on official release. The 78 tour was a start - I'd really like to see a 'ramones style' alive dvd set covering the 80s and 90s
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