WHAT THIS WEBSITE IS ABOUT

I’m a big fan of classic rock, mostly from the 1960s and 1970s. I like listening to music in album format. I’ve collected a lot of music over the years that either never has been officially released or hasn’t found its way onto any mainstream albums. So I’ve frequently organized my music into albums I’ve created for my own listening enjoyment.

For instance, some prolific artists, such as Bob Dylan, Neil Young, or Beck, have lots of great songs that have fallen into the cracks, appearing on B-sides, bonus tracks, soundtracks, and so on, or sometimes never released in any form at all. When I can, if there’s enough similar quality material from a certain time period, I like to gather the stray tracks together and make an album out of them. Sometimes, these might be “lost albums” that were planned to be released by the artist at some point, but more often they’ve never really been conceived in the forms I put them in.

In addition to that, I have many albums in my collection that are bootlegs/ROIOs, extremely rare, out of print, and the like, including lots of live performances. I plan to post lots of those too. I'm a guitarist and I have a particular love of songs stripped down to raw acoustic versions, so look forward to a lot of that type of music.

My purpose has been to make albums that I enjoy listening to. I’m not the kind of an that enjoys listening to 8 versions of the same song in a row with only minor differences. So sometimes I cut out weak material rather than being a stickler for completeness. I also sometimes edit songs in Audacity to enhance the listening experience. For instance, on a live ROIO there might be five minutes of audience cheering for an encore. I wouldn’t want to listen to five minutes of cheering, so I’d cut that part out. I also have tried as best I can to balance sound levels from song to song.

I’ve been making these albums entirely for my own enjoyment. I’m experimenting with putting some of these on the Internet. If you enjoy them great, if not, oh well. I’m including mp3s of each one, all at 320 kbps, using the best quality versions I can find. (However, with so many different masterings of albums over the years, it could be in some cases that I didn’t use the best versions.) More details of where the songs came from are often found in the mp3 data.

Note that details on where the songs came from appear in the mp3 tags for each song. In some cases, they're included in the album title field, and in other cases they're in the comments field. (As I write this, I'm in the middle of converting to the second style, but it's a time-consuming process.)

Any feedback is appreciated, especially on how I can make these albums better (for instance with song selection, song order, sound quality, etc).

If you're having trouble downloading things from my blog, I have a few recommendations.

1) Use an ad blocker add on or extension for your browser. It's a good thing that helps you avoid ads when browsing on the Internet in general. There's a bunch to choose from, and they're generally free.
3) Use a VPN. That stands for Virtual Private Network. It's also a good (and perfectly legal) thing to do when browsing the Internet in general.
4) Use the Tor browser. This is a modified Firefox browser with extra privacy features.
5) If all else fails, I also share everything I post on my blog through the music file-sharing program SoulseekQT. It's free, no strings attached, and super easy to use. Just search for the artist and album title, plus "atse" (which stands for "Albums That Should Exist").