Word: bootlegs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...track it down for him. Those bright-eyed bounty hunters of smut are efficient, finding between five and 10 places a day that meet Duvall's single criterion: sexual explicitness. On a typical day last week, his free-lancers brought him the Internet addresses of computers that proffered bootleg images from Playboy, erotic bedtime stories and stag party-style X-rated video snippets. All of them went into a kind of address book that has well in excess of 1,000 entries...
...Jerky Boys when they passed through Boston to hype their new film, jerky. Johnny Brennan and Kamal, a couple of wage laborers from New York City, started calling and harassing businesses for fun in 1986. Since then, these guys have put out two top-40 albums preceded by numerous bootleg tapes, rubberneck...
...those bootleg tapes made it into my eleventh-grade hands several years ago. Through the tape, I made the acquaintance of such colorful personas as Frank Rizzo, Al Justice, Tarbash the Egyptian Magician and the now-notorious `auto mechanic.' The Jerky Boys, posing as a variety of abrasive or downright bizarre characters, have made almost 100 calls to businesses in the northeast United States and beyond...
None of the sexually-charged or "blue," as Kamal calls it, material that appeared on the early bootleg tapes has made it onto the albums or into the film. An independent distributor did approach them, but Brennan says "they wanted lots of cream, heavy stoop and sexual stuff," that The Jerky Boys were not interested in providing, tough...
...report sightings of plenty of Americans who apparently didn't want to wait. Russians, Poles and Western Europeans also crowded among the Brits. "Live at the BBC," contains 56 songs recorded between 1962 and 1965, most before the Beatles' early stint in Hamburg, all available previously, but on scattered bootleg LPs. An extra: some Fab Four banter with BBC deejays.Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...