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Luke -

I have here what I believe is an old Goodwin-made copy of your "Live At Leeds" remaster marked "Luke At Leeds". It's a freakin' perfect copy. What is the source of this? A bootleg CD? Is the generation known? It must be something that leaked out of Pete's personal archive, like his demotapes, and it sounds like a 2nd Gen copy at the most.

I was wondering if you ever considered doing a complete remaster with the reel changes patched in from the audience tape? Has anybody ever done this?

I really love this bootleg, though...and I tell people about it all the time...and I was wondering if you would mind if I torrented it on a Nirvana-based torrent site? The only problem is that I do not know the exact generation of my copy. Did Goodwin get his copy from Luke?

Everybody needs a copy of this boot.

I've done so many versions over the years I have no idea which one you have.

AFAIK there have been 3 "official" bootleg releases of the material:

- original 1996 (?) "Live At Leeds Complete" 2 CD set on Midas Touch. Dropouts in I Can't Explain and Magic Bus, plus fade up on Do You Think It's Alright.

- "Live Tommy At The Leeds", 1 CD on Midas Touch. Tommy only. No fade up on DYTIA, but *really* poor EQ.

- "remastered" LALC, maybe 1998/99? No dropout in ICE, and IIRC the dropout in Magic Bus is simply edited out. EQ better than LTATL, but IMO not as good as the original LALC.

I know the original LALC set starts being too slow when Tommy starts, and the balance is off from Overture to I'm Free. I'm pretty sure the other two sources are slow as well, but I don't recall what the deal is with the balance.

The 1996 set is my main source. Thankfully I was able to get an honest to goodness aluminum pressing. I drop in the ICE bit from the "remastered" version (EQ'd to match) and the start of Do You Think It's Alright from LTATL, also EQ'd (although it's still easy to tell it's from a different source). I've also spliced on the intros to the show itself and Tommy from the official CDs on recent versions.

Don't care if you torrent it - there are already tons of people who seem to have a version of mine even if I didn't send it to them.

I've floated the idea of using the audience tape for the missing bits, but my copy is about 10th generation or more, and is fairly useless beyond an academic standpoint.

No idea on what the source is for LALC. There seems to be at least a generation or two of analog hiss there beyond what's on the multitracks. There's also some reverb (check out how some of the crackling noises echo) which isn't on any other version. One theory was that it was done around the time of the 1995 CD, but that doesn't explain the added hiss or mixing style. I really have no clue when it was done, or how it leaked out.

Still my favorite live Who document.