Subject:      Re: Questions ...
From:         rcj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Craig Jamieson)
Date:         1995/05/12
Newsgroups:   rec.music.dylan

Graham Gales (Graham.Gales@LECITY.APANA.ORG.AU) wrote:
: please help me with information regarding the 30th
: Anniversary Concert ?  
: From recent mail, I gather that not all the songs nor all the
: artists made it onto the CD.   Which ones were missed out?
: Any known reasons?

The long and short of it is that DAT tape trading is much more
sensible for the Tribute than any combination of CDs. The 
bootleggers handled this one so incompetently you have to wonder
if they didn't get together and pretend to have a Sony board meeting. 
This level of stupidity usually requires an MBA bare minimum!

If you bought all 29 CDs of the Tribute you would still be missing
15% of the event and oh what repetition you would have!

(Yes 29 CDs, no joke, I only wish I was joking... :-() 

If you bought When Friends Are Coming (3 CDs, Various Artists, VA005, 
VA006, VA007, [?1992], Matrix: VA 005 18042 <03>, VA 006 18043 <01>,
VA 007 18044 01, T-255) or The Tribute (3 CDs, Rockdreams, 92030, 
[?1992], T-254) you would have all the main tracks as broadcast 
-- omitting the pre-concert tracks -- except for Girl Of The North 
Country [39] which is available on the legitimately released The 
30th Anniversary Concert Celebration (474 000-2) or on With A Little 
Help From My Friends [T-256]. 

So by buying 5 CDs you would have about 85% of the concert. DAT
tape traders had the whole concert, 100%, a few days after the 
broadcasts. Does this tell you anything? :-)

How much does Yellow Cat's Bobfest Rehearsals change this situation,
or is it rehearsals only?