I’m trying to track down, and willing to buy*, a copy of Frizzi 2 Fulci – The Barbican Bootleg on Beat Records Company.
I was at the Frizzi 2 Fulci show at London’s Barbican for Halloween in 2014 and it was a great night. I’ve been to a few film music performances and for the diversity of music and the musicians performing this was certainly one of the best, so I’d recommend it if you like this kind of thing and have the chance.
Why am I trying to track down a copy of this specific release and posting it on here I hear you ask?
Well the short answer is because a photo I took on the night was used on the back cover of this release (without my knowledge)
I only found out about it when a friend sent me a link to a copy that had just sold on eBay. It would seems a few sold on there but I guess, perhaps as the music isn’t fully licensed or something, they only seem to sell this CD at live shows.
I first saw they’d used the photo, which was taken from a social media post, on the posters for the following years London show.
It was quite funny to come across it randomly the first few times but it now seems a favorite, still gets used on their current promotional materials on the socials and on printed posters and flyers, two years on.
I know there is a long tradition of Italian ‘bootleg’ releases and its interesting to be a very small part of that, I guess. At the same time, as someone who sometimes gets paid to take photos and also to illustrate and design album art, I do find it slightly disappointing to see this out there. More so as, had I been asked, I would’ve likely been happy to give them the go ahead on the proviso that they sent me a hard copy of anything printed or sold and a credit where appropriate. And yes, I have tried to contact them but no joy with that unfortunately.
So I figured I’d post it here in case someone finds this post in the future and wants to help me add a copy to my shelves.
*At a reasonable price!
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