Proposal:Live Bootleg Style

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Status: This page describes an active style guideline proposal and is not official.

Proposal number: RFC-290 Champion: BrianFreud Current status: RFC

Contents 1 Guidelines 1.1 Notes 2 Additional Notes 3 Rationale 4 Examples 4.1 Live bootlegs without a title 4.2 Live bootlegs with a well-known title 5 History of this Guideline 6 Resources 6.1 State Abbreviations

Note: This guideline applies to the titling of a bootleg release. For titling a live track, reference Live Track Style.

[edit] Guidelines

The following rules apply when titling a live bootleg release:

1. Live bootlegs without a title must be named by concatenating its date and location information.
   • Syntax: "YYYY-MM-DD: Location".
2. Live bootlegs with a title may be extended with date and location information. If there is alternative dividing punctuation mark at the end of the title such as the question mark (?) or exclamation point (!), use that mark instead of the colon.
   • Syntax: "[YYYY-MM-DD: ]Title[: Location]".
3. The location must be formatted using the city and country, and may optionally include an event or venue. Including the state is optional for most countries, but is mandatory for Australia, Canada, and the United States of America.

• Syntax: "[Event, ][Venue, ]City, [State, ]Country"

[edit] Notes

1. The parts in square brackets are optional.
2. YYYY-MM-DD is the date of the recording including the year (YYYY), month (MM) and day of month (DD).
3. Venue is the name of the location where the concert took place (name of the hotel, stadium, hall, etc.).
4. City can be the city, town or village.
5. State is to further distinguish cities with identical names (such as Pasadena, TX vs Pasadena, CA).
   1. "State" should be interpreted to mean whatever is the appropriate term for the specific location, e.g. 'state', 'territory', 'province', etc. which indicates the largest official geopolitical subdivision just below the country used in the location.
   2. States in the United States of America, Canada, and Australia should be abbreviated. A reference list of these abbreviations can be found at the bottom of this page.
6. Country is the country.
   1. The United Kingdom should be abbreviated to "UK".
   2. The United States of America should be abbreviated to "USA".
   3. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics should be abbreviated to "USSR".
   4. The Netherlands should be named only as "Netherlands".

[edit] Additional Notes

This guideline must not be used for live bootleg compilations, which are releases that collect tracks from different live sessions, e.g. A Highway of Diamonds, Volume 1: The Never Ending Tour

This guideline can be applied to releases which feature a complete live session and additional bonus tracks (those can be live tracks from other concerts or studio recordings), e.g. 2002-05-02: Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands (disc 2)

[edit] Rationale

In a lot of cases the most important information for live bootlegs is the date when the concert took place. Hiding this information for bootlegs where the person who compiled the release added a title means that it is harder to find a special recording of a live session, because live bootlegs often don't have a release date.

Adding the venue is useful for finding all concerts an artist performed in one city over the years or all concerts that took place in a special location by using the search interface. Besides that this kind of information would be lost or nearly lost when it was added to the annotation.

On the other hand, there are bootleg releases of special concerts that have a well known title. In those cases its normally appropriate to list them under their title only.

[edit] Examples

[edit] Live bootlegs without a title

2002-05-02: Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands (disc 1)

[edit] Live bootlegs with a well-known title

Gaslight Tapes

(may be replaced with a better one, as this is quasi-legitimate).

Elvis Has Just Left the Building

(A collection of live Elvis covers by Led Zeppelin spanning multiple dates. Should not be extended.)

1980-07-07: Eternal Magic: Eissporthalle, Berlin, Germany

A complete show, or at least all tracks from the same show, released under multiple titles [Eternal Magic, Heineken] can be extended with date/venue information, using the first or most common "title" of the bootleg.

1980-12-21: Before the Exile! Rainbow Theatre, London, UK

This shows how punctuation marks replace the colon.

1993-02-12 to 1993-02-26: Pachyderm Studios, Cannon Falls, MN, USA

A studio session bootleg spanning several consecutive dates.

[edit] History of this Guideline

This guideline was first proposed in January of 2006. On March 3, 2010, proposal RFC-22 passed, and this guideline replaced Untitled Bootleg Style.

[edit] Resources

[edit] State Abbreviations

Australia[1]	Canada[2]	USA[3][4]
Australian Capital Territory ACT New South Wales NSW Northern Territory NT Queensland QLD South Australia SA Tasmania TAS Victoria VIC Western Australia WA	Alberta AB British Columbia BC Manitoba MB New Brunswick NB Newfoundland (before 1992) NL Newfoundland (after 1992) NF Northwest Territories NT Nova Scotia NS Nunavut NU Ontario ON Prince Edward Island PE Quebec (before 1992) PQ Quebec (after 1992) QC Saskatchewan SK Yukon Territory YT	Alabama AL Montana MT Alaska AK Nebraska NE American Samoa AS Nevada NV Arizona AZ New Hampshire NH Arkansas AR New Jersey NJ California CA New Mexico NM Colorado CO New York NY Connecticut CT North Carolina NC Delaware DE North Dakota ND District of Columbia DC Northern Mariana Islands MP Federated States of Micronesia FM Ohio OH Florida FL Oklahoma OK Georgia GA Oregon OR Guam GU Palau PW Hawaii HI Pennsylvania PA Idaho ID Puerto Rico PR Illinois IL Rhode Island RI Indiana IN South Carolina SC Iowa IA South Dakota SD Kansas KS Tennessee TN Kentucky KY Texas TX Louisiana LA Utah UT Maine ME Vermont VT Marshall Islands MH Virginia VA Maryland MD Virgin Islands VI Massachusetts MA Washington WA Michigan MI West Virginia WV Minnesota MN Wisconsin WI Mississippi MS Wyoming WY Missouri MO

1. ↑ Christmas Island and other locations not included in this table should not be abbreviated.
2. ↑ Sourced from Canada Post: Table 5: Canadian Provinces and Territories Names and Abbreviations.
3. ↑ Sourced from United States Postal Service: Official USPS Abbreviations.
4. ↑ Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Islands, Navassa Island, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island should not be abbreviated. They would each abbreviate to "UM", which is not useful.

Category: Proposed Style