Style/Specific types of releases/Live bootlegs
Style Guideline for Live Bootlegs
Status: This is a ProposedStyleGuideline trying to incorporate UntitledBootlegStyle and a new style for titled live bootlegs.
There are two kinds of live bootlegs: those that have a title and those that have none.
Live bootlegs without a title:
- An untitled bootleg of a live concert must be named by concatenating its date and location information as follows:
- YYYY-MM-DD: Location
Live bootlegs with a title:
- The title of live bootleg that already has a distinct name can be extended with date and location information as follows:
- [YYYY-MM-DD: ]Title[: Location]
The Location must be formatted as
- [Place, ]City, [State, ]Country
where:
- the parts in square brackets are optional
- YYYY-MM-DD is the date of the recording including the year (YYYY), month (MM) and day of month (DD)
- Place is the name of the location where the concert took place (name of the hotel, stadium, hall, etc.)
- City is the city, town or village
- State is interesting to distinguish cities with identical names from each other (like Houston, TX for Houston in Texas)
- Country the country.
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 place 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.
Examples
Live bootlegs without a title:
Live bootlegs with a well-known title:
- Tapes (may be replaced with a better one, as this is quasi-legitimate)
Please add examples for every described case here.
