Red Rocks and Uncasville are great. I haven't heard Newark yet but I've heard great things.

Grab the Bill Graham Civic San Francisco boot, sounds great, i got it from dime.

@MAREEDE and @LENNART

Thanks for the suggestions! I grabbed all of them, but have only had a chance to listen to Newark and it sounds great. Very low crowd noise and the mix is excellent. I'll check the rest out soon.

Btw, there's a recording of the soundcheck from Toronto on 7/1 on Dime and it sounds great too. The first couple of tracks of Ben and Matt jamming are a little muffled, but the rest is excellent.

The sound quality of Newark is Excellent.

4th of July.....Amazing!!!

Beyond the Wheel at Red Rocks was amazing....epic. We flew from south Florida just to see that show and it was worth every penny. Can anyone tell me who to speak with to download/listen to a recording of that show? 

Make an account at www.dimeadozen.org and you can search for torrents of high quality bootlegs from pretty much every artist out there... There's tons of boots from the summer tour online. You'll need a bittorrent client like uTorrent or Transmission to download them though.

Cool...thanks

The Newark boot is just... wow.... Chris is on fucking fire, he rapes Jesus Christ Pose and Slaves, and Like Suicide, and....

EDIT 

Wtf, at the end of Room  A Thousand Years Wide, you can hear a guy saying, that's horrible! That sucks ! wtf

I went to mansfield so I am not being biased :

Atlantic city nj is the best quality boot.

New jersey is second followed closely by Toronto IMO .

I wanted to like gorge and red rocks but there was too much echo ( no surprise given the outdoor settings) in those recordings ..

Damn people, no one has bagged the ever elusive soundboards from this tour?

Hoped one would be leaked by now!

Don't miss the San Francisco recording by hail_ozzy on dimeadozen. Thanks LENNART.

Beyond the Wheel at Newark is a highlight for me so far.

I don't think we're done seeing recordings pop up. In fact, I know that there are uncirculated recordings. I have two.

I taped the Vancouver show on three different machines. I've only posted the worst one. Mono. Auto limited. Not that bad, but still, kinda harsh. I posted it as lossless FLAC files. I wanted to keep them that way, and asked that downloaders feel free to share the original fileset (FLAC's, and my info text file), but some people feel entitled to impress their buddies. Some idiot re-posted mp3's with no info...

So, I've decided to NOT put out my awesome stereo versions. One bad apple has spoiled the whole bunch....

So, there's some unreleased versions that are really REALLY good, that probably (sadly) won't be seeing the light of day.........

Now, if ghostface came to his senses, I might change my mind. He taunted me when I asked him to change his ways. Insulting, rude, obnoxious comments hurled at me. Just wrong....

Why do people choose to be assholes?

I taped the Atlantic City 7/14/11 show which someone was kind enough to compliment as the best-sounding recording of the tour. I used to feel exactly how you feel but I've just stopped caring about what other people do.

First I've stopped caring about keeping stuff uncirculated because I really don't see the need to old-school trade anymore except for bands that are banned from torrenting such as Porcupine Tree. Otherwise, I just seed shows and download them. I'm not going to worry about, "Well if I circulate this then I have less ammunition to get other stuff." This is 2011, not 1981. There's a tiny minority of old-schoolers (like Freezer) who still play that game and I don't have the energy or the requisite bitterness to play along. Whatever.

Second, and to your point, I've stopped caring about mp3 lovers. There is one site called guitars101.com (lots of Van Halen fans there) which literally would take every single Van Halen show I torrented and put up mp3's within a couple of days despite repeated requests not to. I went to war with them, but I gave up and got over it. I don't pay attention to them or any other mp3 site. Out of sight, out of mind. Once you share something people are going to do what they're going to do, much in the same way when the band requests that we not tape and we tape anyway. 

Speaking for myself, I don't trade with anyone who's not serious. I don't bother with some random Joe Blow and his 20-show list on etree. I think the likelihood of a serious taper/trader having an mp3 sourced show is very low in this day and age. No serious trader acquires lossless FLAC files and doesn't preserve the FLAC files for trading. No serious trader downloads mp3s. So the mp3 lovers might have been relevant in 2003 when people weren't aware of this issue, but in 2011 are irrelevant in my opinion.

So anyway, I completely understand where you are coming from because I used to be the same way. But this hobby when all is said and done isn't important enough to raise one's blood pressure or go to battle over. I've downloaded so much off Dime and The Traders' Den that I can't look myself in the eye and justify not sharing something back. In the days when I got pissed off and held stuff back, in the end, I didn't feel very good about myself. Instead of focusing on mp3 lovers, why not focus on the serious traders and aficionados who really appreciate your work (such as that Van Halen Vancouver 12/5/07 show you taped). I find it way more gratifying to share with serious traders than to punish mp3 lovers. I hope you'll reconsider.

I only bother with mp3 when there's no other version out there, which only seems to happen when a band has a much younger fanbase. There are a number of Arcade Fire shows that only exist in mp3, for example.

There are lots of sources still out there from this tour. I'm sitting on a really nice recording of Chicago that one of my best friends, a taper, recorded. I'll put it out there (and update my website) when I get some more free time. My friend who went with me to the Gorge also recorded and got a really nice tape.

Shoot, before you guys complain about getting more shows from this tour, why don't you all work harder to surface old recordings? Maybe 1/4 of the shows they played from 1984 - 1997 have surfaced. I'm responsible for a bunch of them. I'd love some help getting more out.

Thanks, man - just the kind of pep talk I was really looking for. I made a thread at Trader's Den in the private taper's forum, comparing how I'm feeling to being the "NEW Freezer"! haha. You should read that, and comment in there, too! I know you're right. I've felt great before when I've gotten some recordings posted before. My Soundgarden 1996 December 7 Vancouver show was fun to finally get around to doing last year! I've shared about maybe 20% of my taper's output so far (taping for 22 years, about 200 shows) so there's a lot to go...

Yeah Guitars101 - ghostface. Nice guy. haha. Entitled asshole. Pisses in the pool until it overflows. Has a blog to post his same mp3 links as he does on G101. I think he's also known as frilkiepalo on Dime, apparently. I see on G101 that ghostface does this all the time, has been called out before, and doesn't care. Comes up with the lamest bullshit excuses to justify what he does, then in the next sentence destroys his reasons with another lie. Doesn't he realize that is a real sign of having small and insignificant genitalia???

As hard drives become bigger and cheaper, and with super high speed interwebbs going full tilt today, there's no good reason for still downloading dreadful eMPty3's!!! Even iPods are (mostly) capable of playing FLAC's. Why settle for underwater jingle bells? Listen to a cymbal crash that actually SOUNDS like a cymbal crash! Wow. What a concept, hey? hahaha

I'm actually starting to think of setting up my own blog or a forum or something semi-private that I can control who's downloading my stuff a little. To weed out the guys that ride the taper's coattails for their own glory. I've been bouncing the idea around with a couple of taper buddies of mine in the area. Will it be "The B.C. Tapers' Forum"? Something you have to sign up for, that I could boot off the people that re-up without lineage in lossy...

I guess that's true that anyone serious enough will get / have / find the lossless files. And true again that a serious trader will not bother with a n00b collector for fear he has a bunch of bloated mp3 > CDR > FLAC trades waiting for you! It just looks like there sooo many people grabbing lossy loser's files - it kind of scares me! Its amazing how naive some of the people that follow him actually are.

Anyway, I'm kind of having a little fun calling the idiot out. Real friends don't let friends listen lossy!

Cheers!

After trading Zeppelin shows extensively via tape in the 80's and 90's, I now get most of my shows from DIME.  I've been able to really expand my bands and I can trust the generations.  I also like reading about how the taper got the show recorded.  Audioarchivist, I have your "bad" version of the Vancouver show and would love to hear the other two!

I didn't do a lot of taping before and don't tape at all when I go to shows now.  A couple of my buds were prolific tapers in the Boston area (hell, throughout the whole Northeast!) in the 90's and 2000's  (RIP Matty)

I admit, I convert everything to MP3 using Format Factory.  HOWEVER, I ALWAYS leave the FLAC files in the torrent folder for sharing.  I NEVER put the MP3 files in.  I keep them in a separate folder on a different drive for use in iTunes.  

It is too bad that some feel the need to convert to MP3 and then re-upload somewhere, especially when they don't respect the taper's wishes. 

I try to keep my lineage pure and I ONLY share what I have been given permission to share.  (MARDEE, I'd love to hear some of your stuff too . . . I probably already have a show or two that you did!)

Thank you to ALL who have taped and have been willing to share; especially the Mansfield show as I was there . . .

Ghastly

While lossless is the ideal format, I think it's unjustified to even complain about it.

It's the internet FFS. It's an elusive zone, where your considerations are not taken into effect. In the end, why care? Your pride and credit are not worth that much... and if you're sharing it for that reason, then that's just pathetic.

A lot of people don't even know what FLAC is, so it's arbitrary to even complain about. The simple truth is that mp3 is still on top. Therefore, more .mp3 recordings equates to more band exposure. And that's a great thing for a band like Soundgarden who is back on the rise. 

For the record, I always rip in FLAC and mp3(for my stereo).

As the one who crowned your boot king, how about a kick back of some hidden 2011 SG boots?

And you taped van halen?
Here I am thinking the charlotte 2007 boot was the best one on the block?
Does your recording sound as great as that?
I'd love to check it out!

Scotty in boston

I don't have any hidden SG shows and I wouldn't know where to turn to find them. As far as VH goes I torrented all those back when the 2007-08 tour was going on.

ya i just read that thread on the guitars 101 forum, I like how you specifically posted in there not to convert it to mp3's then the guy goes and does it and wonders why you're pissed off.  Would really love to checkout that  hi quality version you had as i was at that show on the floor and it sounded absolutely incredible, sg sounded unreal that night.  Sadly i'm not a taper or trader so i can't offer any show in return, just listen to these for personal use.  anyways, awesome show it was and can't wait to see the boys come back when the new record is out.

Need help i downloaded a few shows off of dime and now when i go to download the arrow on the left is red and pointing down and it does not download anything does any body know what that means I am new to downloading torrents.

Yeah IMO spreading high quality bootlegs is what it's all about...
The days of "he who dies with the most HQ uncirculated boots" is, well dead!

Never understood the hoarding mentality but heck, I'm not a taper so what do I know?
I'm just grateful someone there went to the trouble.
Just think, if not for tapers some of the greatest led Zeppelin shows would have went unrecorded!

if you change your mind and end up putting your other hq version online let us know lol

every one i've heard is pretty enjoyable (except the Philly one)...    favs: Uncasville, Newark, Chicago, Red Rocks, San Francisco 

Audioarchivist: thanks for doin what you do! hope to hear the nicer versions of Vancouver in the by and by...

You will (one day, and not that far off) hear some better Vancouver recording( - my 2 other versions on halfway good gear are on hold for now still - hard drive problems. Nothing's lost, but there's problems. I recently was given another recording that's been captured from a much closer position, which gives THAT recording an up-front proximity feeling that my versions don't have being recorded from the back. Sadly, though, this full frontal assault recording was encoded as a 28 kbps mp3 master. It's lossy right from the get go! D'oh! I've been trying to work these files, and I've almost got them sounding as right as I can get them (even undoing some of the eMPty3 damage). So, there's now 3 other unreleased Vancouver recordings that will be coming one day...

"Far off" enough for ya yet???

I second that ... I'd love some great bootlegs. I went to the Gorge show and they totally rocked and I'd love to hear some of the other shows on this tour.

it was taped from Ben's side actually.

Has anyone noticed that immediately after the tour ended, the flow of Soundgarden torrents has stopped? I thought maybe there would be a trickle of some of the uncirculated shows like Fairfax, VA, Calgary and Las Vegas but I guess not.

I have to be in Dallas for a wedding first weekend of November. Had the wedding been a week earlier, I absolutely would have used that as an excuse to get down there a couple days early and hit the Dallas show on the 26th.

It's just sad that people ate crowning the Chicago and red rocks recordings as "best" ???
Has no one listened to the atlantic city nj boot?
And with many of these dates having multiple tapers , no one will bother to make matrix recordings?
I guess I'm spoiled by all the generous collaborative pj and DMV tapers put forth!
I would love someone to remaster the early 2010 boots and maybe double up some of the 2011 show sources...
Spread the garden of sound baby!!!

It's a little sad that there aren't any soundboard recordings for this tour. Just listening to 'Live on I-5' makes the difference in quality starkly clear. Based on the Gorge show, I think the band sounds as good as they did in 1996, from which the album is culled, but the bootlegs don't always reflect it.

Did anyone tape Dallas or New Orleans?

^^^^^^

This

the way i see it, you should take your tape, shine it up real nice....turn that sumbich sideways n stick it straight up your candy ass.....................jabroni

As much as I generally like Tapeworm's stuff, I like the source mareede refers to a little better, and I like the other source that's out there (AT's I think?) the best of the 3. Tapeworm's is distant, the uncirculating one is super-close (and a little distorted, especially when they crank up the PA volume part way through), and the other source is about midway back.

So why is this source uncirculating? What is the point of holding back any show, especially a recent one, and one that's already out there? This goes for any band, not just Soundgarden. I don't get it. This isn't the pre-internet, pre-digital times where you needed to keep stuff in close circles to get new shows.

I can understand if someone says, "I recorded this show, but I have a hefty backlog of shows I need to get transferred, so I don't know when I'll get to this one." But obviously whoever recorded this show got it transferred and gave it to a couple of people already. If the guy isn't internet savvy, surely if he wanted it circulating, he could find someone to put it on Dime.

I'm very, very far from a socialist in real life. But for something as insignificant as this is (when you look at what's going on in the world) wouldn't it just be better if everyone torrented every show? Yeah there will always be non-contributors that just download the shows and that's it. But as I said before I really believe that the joy of sharing the shows is far greater than the "joy" of punishing people. Plus you end up inspiring people to share what they have and to start taping themselves. I can tell you for sure I never would have started taping if not for Dime and the generosity of people that I've witnessed on there.

there is a new Gorge recording now circulating, i think it sounds pretty good, but thats just my ten cents....

Lou, if you really want it I'll upload it soon. It's not being hoarded because Chris and I want to hoard it, it's just sitting on our hard drives because we're both busy and don't have much time to upload recordings anymore. 

Cool, thank you. I'm glad to hear it's not a hoarding for the sake of hoarding issue. Whenever you have the time, yes I'd appreciate the upload. I just snatched the tapeworm 7/30/11 recording which is a nice one, has more punch than the Sonic Studios > Sony M10 source.

A very well worded response....Much nicer than what I wanted to say... I just think its plain mean to flaunt to a bunch of die hard SG fans that you have some awesome recording of a show, and that you were going to post it, but now your not.  

I like your response even better!

I have been taping shows since 1998. A LOT of my recordings are uncirculated. A lot of them ARE circulated, too. You, NickTheGreek, with your pathetic comments to Audioarchivist, are one of the reasons that some tapers choose not to share their shows. I'm gonna tape Soundgarden in Paris. I might pick some cool people to give it to, and make it a strictly NOT FOR TRADE/CIRCULATION item. At least some trustworthy diehards who'll respect my (the tapers) wishes will have it, and fuckwits like you won't.

When did you last tape a show yourself? Or do you just rely on the taping community to GIVE you their recordings they work so hard to record, make sound good, and distribute.

I don't see the issue with folks having mp3 versions of the shows. JUST DON'T SHARE THEM or CIRCULATE THEM THAT WAY. Download your show in FLAC, keep it in FLAC, save it in FLAC and TRADE IT IN FLAC. Maybe convert the FLACS to mp3's just for your own personal use; CDR in the car, iPod etc. I have no problem with that at all. I'm not arguing. I have a wife and friends. I've got too much living to be down away from a computer to argue with someone who's so incredibly ignorant. Your parents must be so proud.

^^ Talking about drama queens... You go to a show, hit record button, go home, upload it to the internet. Even with my limited work experience I wouldn't exactly call that hard work

It'd be great if you could share it on Dime then, or if you don't have the bandwidth for that I'd be happy to receive it in the mail and upload it myself.

Id rather not do the torrent thing, I dont know anything about it and dont want to chance it on the work internet. I would be happy to upload it if you know of anywhere to do so. I got it from a megaupload link before the feds killed it. They are in mp3 format.

pathetic comments like mine? ......gimme a break......dont come over here talking about your awsome tapes n how theyre never gonna see the light of day like you hold some type of treasure n are waving it in someones nose.....take your treasure, shine it up real nice n you know the rest.....

theyre enough people that enjoy spreading this stuff around to those who would be appreciative that  most of that stuff luckily gets around without having to worry about those who dont......n if youre gonna keep your recordings under wraps, thats cool....suit yourself....but why the need to talk about "awsome recordings that are never gonna see the light of day" to people that would wanna hear them?? ......

n the only reason i can see to do that is to try n give yourself a sense of importance.....now thats pathetic......you aint that important ....screw your recordings......n good lookin out to those that share em...its definitely appreciated

EDIT: listen to you.... "i might pick some cool people to give it to" ...LOL.....who cares what you do.....this guys gonna bless "a few cool people" ......like he's gonna skip me up n im gonna be upset?? you gotta be kiddin me.....you should be ashamed of yourself ....a grown man with a wife n kids talkin about how you "might" be kinda enough to give it to a select few......pull your pants up n man up

I don't know too much about the tech side of boots, but I have a shit load of SG boots, many I bought on cds back in the 90s, many are on FLAC flies, and yes I do convert them to mp3 for my own use in my truck. from the 2011 tour, I have Voodoo, Newark, Chicago, AC, San Fran, Ottwa, and a soundcheck.  The newark boot is really good, AC is good, and Chicago is very good as well.