Many times collecting appears to be strongly linked to a need for knowledge, for a deepening of a particular group, other times instead it is limited to being a sterile "possessing", setting aside without ever listening, without comparing, buying maybe the same product several times. This blog has a different purpose instead. Not so much to inform the reader about all the outputs of the Oil Well label (you can use Discogs for this) but to know through researches, more sources and official publications the material published by it. In fact many times listening, as well as reading something, if released from its context, appears completely meaningless or at least less interesting.
Surely what unites the great collectors of the old generation is the prevailing will of a cultural end, “certainly characterized by personal ambitions, but not by directly economic interests. Some might define this work as anthropological and perhaps it would not be wrong. But the goal is only , to share the fruit of years of passion and research with the rest of the users.
More than six years have passed since I decided to really collect and reconstruct the history of this label: looking for information, mp3s, different sources, photographs and scans. After all, behind this work there is a great passion but also something purely affective. Cream's Stepping Out was my first album, one of the first works that I listened to as a child. Already at the time I was fantasizing about reading the titles of the other releases of the label. Years later I continue to listen to that record struck by the beauty of those performances and the charm of that music - with the same intensity of the first days. Now the work is complete and I am very proud of it.
Good surfing and good listening!
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The bootleg CDs have appeared on the market since the end of the 80s, produced especially in Italy and Germany, whose legislation allowed to freely print live recordings making hypothetical payments of royalties to favor of the artists. This situation has contributed to the birth of dozens of labels operating in this sector, with sometimes amazing results: rare etchings of excellent quality, combined with very rich booklets, more accurate than many official editions. But the market has also ended up with bad quality CDs, lacking the minimum accompanying note.
In the mid-1990s, as a result of pressure from other nations such as the United States and Great Britain, copyright laws were amended to block these "legal" bootlegs. The production of actual bootlegs began, especially in Italy and Japan, very expensive and difficult to find. The proliferation of burned CDs has created a great deal of confusion and has often been misled and it is no longer so easy to recognize one another. In recent years, the production of bootlegs with new recordings seems to be falling while always very strong is the piracy itself that makes illegal copies of regular CDs, almost always recordable CDs.
Oil Well was an italian unofficial record label that published between 1993 and 1995 a series of audience and broadcast recordings. Some of its publications are clones, copies of other bootlegs of the period. Bob Dylan's The Genuine Basement Tapes; The Doors' Complete Matrix Club Tapes; The Rolling Stones' Philadelphia Special I and II are just some examples.
In some cases, the quality of the selected recordings is very high often as regards the audio quality to witness a careful selection by the label. These bootlegs often offer an excellent image of the various bands - in some cases better than the official material of the time. It is not a case that many of its bootlegs have been released officially in different moments: Ladies And Gentlemen The Grateful Dead, Cream’s BBC Sessions; Pink Floyd’s The Early Years 1965-1972, Led Zeppelin’s BBC Sessions and Jimi Hendrix’s Experience’s – Electric Ladyland 50th Edition.
In the mid-1990s, as a result of pressure from other nations such as the United States and Great Britain, copyright laws were amended to block these "legal" bootlegs. The production of actual bootlegs began, especially in Italy and Japan, very expensive and difficult to find. The proliferation of burned CDs has created a great deal of confusion and has often been misled and it is no longer so easy to recognize one another. In recent years, the production of bootlegs with new recordings seems to be falling while always very strong is the piracy itself that makes illegal copies of regular CDs, almost always recordable CDs.
Oil Well was an italian unofficial record label that published between 1993 and 1995 a series of audience and broadcast recordings. Some of its publications are clones, copies of other bootlegs of the period. Bob Dylan's The Genuine Basement Tapes; The Doors' Complete Matrix Club Tapes; The Rolling Stones' Philadelphia Special I and II are just some examples.
In some cases, the quality of the selected recordings is very high often as regards the audio quality to witness a careful selection by the label. These bootlegs often offer an excellent image of the various bands - in some cases better than the official material of the time. It is not a case that many of its bootlegs have been released officially in different moments: Ladies And Gentlemen The Grateful Dead, Cream’s BBC Sessions; Pink Floyd’s The Early Years 1965-1972, Led Zeppelin’s BBC Sessions and Jimi Hendrix’s Experience’s – Electric Ladyland 50th Edition.
Very often, as with unofficial publications, the associated dates are incorrect. Here we tried to report the correct recording date and the correct location for each bootleg-concert all inserted in the information file attached to each album with, where possibile, a different and complete audio source – official or not. Using only Google drive links you will be free to select and decide what to download: if only the bootleg or also the different source we have shared.
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As said there are numerous publications in common with The Swingin 'Pig Label. "Oil Well" company bought out "Swingin' Pig Records". In particular some Pink Floyd's bootlegs appeared under the "Oil Well" label but some of them were in fact digital copies of old "Swingin' Pig". Some examples: "Echoes" is a reissue of "One Of These Days", "Green Is The Colour" is a reissue of "Amsterdam 69", "Black Wizard" and "White Witch" are a reissue of "Live In Montreux". Other albums are in common with Oh Boy label and with Fabbri Editori’s series "I Miti del Rock Live" (another interesting project released in Italy and Spain simultaneously) here published with a different name and different artwork.Some bootlegs are very rare and have been published with an alternate coloured cover (The Doors Touch Me; Pink Floyd - Green is the colour; The Beatles - Get Back; Jethro Tull - Back to the family; Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile; Lou Reed - Streets of Berlin; Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness; Pink Floyd – Echoes; Rod Stewart & The Faces – Maggie Mae; The Who – Pinball Wizard) and some (1 to 15, 17 to 20, 30, 35 to 39, 42, 43, 46, 47) have been published with an OBI - a piece of paper wrapped around the spine of Japanese CDs.
Many publications of the label appear to be unknown. In any case, our project starts with Rolling Stones’s As Tears Go By (RSC CD 001) and ends with Eagles & Little Feat – Sailin’ Shoes (RSC CD 149).
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We don't promote nor sell any bootlegs.
If you want to contribute to this site by providing informations about bootlegs or have notice some incorrect informations on this site (or if you have HQ scans of the albums and pictures of the silver Cds) please feel free to send an email to the site administrator.
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