# bootleg (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover bootleg. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Beatles Official Releases in the USSR](https://sovietrock.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1964-01_smena_4_big-2-739x1024.webp) _2025-10-02 · Artur Netsvetaev · Soviet Rock_ People in the USSR first learned about The Beatles in the early 1960s, at the peak of beatlemania. At that time, newspapers wrote sarcastic articles criticizing pop music. Soviet articles usually criticized The Beatles appearance and the “primitive” nature of the music. But then the situation slowly started to change. Soviet Press on The Beatles \[…\] ## [The Beatles — Past Masters](https://sovietrock.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1964-01_smena_4_big-2-739x1024.webp) _2025-09-25 · Artur Netsvetaev · Soviet Rock_ A very small run of 3,000 copies. Santa’s Past Masters mirrors the original CD Past Masters Vol. 1. Tracks from Vol. 2 had already appeared (mostly) on the label’s Hey Jude compilation. The sleeve and label don’t name a manufacturer, but the pressing was done at the Riga plant. Cover Art Comparison The Beatles’ logo \[…\] ## [The Beatles — Hey Jude](https://sovietrock.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1964-01_smena_4_big-2-739x1024.webp) _2025-09-24 · Artur Netsvetaev · Soviet Rock_ Don McCullin’s photograph was replaced with a compositionally similar image. On different print runs, the initials of Nikolai Kibalchich appear either on the right or on the left, but the cover designer is Yuri Trifonov. ## [The Beatles — Let It Be](https://sovietrock.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1964-01_smena_4_big-2-739x1024.webp) _2025-09-17 · Artur Netsvetaev · Soviet Rock_ It looks like the cover was taken from the CD booklet, enlarged, and left unchanged—the white frame around the photos is gone. The font of the title was swapped out for something more "fancy". ## [The Beatles — Abbey Road](https://sovietrock.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1964-01_smena_4_big-2-739x1024.webp) _2025-09-15 · Artur Netsvetaev · Soviet Rock_ It’s interesting that Abbey Road, the band’s final album, was actually the last Antrop bootleg released with Tropillo’s involvement in 1993. Since the album was such a hit, a bunch of companies produced it in Russia in the 1990s, but only Antrop’s cover is different from the original. Cover art comparison The ideas were ambitious: \[…\] ## [The Sound of Misunderstanding: Misheard Lyrics, Beatles Homophones & Memes in Soviet Russia](https://sovietrock.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1964-01_smena_4_big-2-739x1024.webp) _2025-09-13 · Artur Netsvetaev · Soviet Rock_ Things like homophonic translation, soramimi and Soviet mondegreens is very interesting. Especially Soviet mishearings of English songs. This article aims to tell the history and evolution of mishearings (mondegreens) in the Soviet Union as reflected in Beatles lyrics and titles, based on every documented source I could locate. ## [Aquarium — The Triangle (1981)](https://sovietrock.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1964-01_smena_4_big-2-739x1024.webp) _2025-09-12 · Artur Netsvetaev · Soviet Rock_ When you want something—not consciously, but with your whole being—it comes true. In the spring and summer of 1981, in a studio that quite literally fell from the sky into our laps, we recorded what I had always loved most: an album of pure, irresponsible absurdity. ## [Aquarium: A Brief Report on Sixteen Years of Recording](https://sovietrock.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1964-01_smena_4_big-2-739x1024.webp) _2025-09-11 · Artur Netsvetaev · Soviet Rock_ This text is meant as extracurricular reading for those who listen to Aquarium and—for whatever reason—want to know how what they’re hearing was recorded. It is by no means “memoirs,” “recollections,” or even a “literary work.” At best, it’s entertainment for specialists; at worst, it’s just our own self-indulgence—and, strictly speaking, it makes no sense \[…\] ## [Jimi Hendrix’s Cherry Garden: The First Soviet Psychedelic Rock Album (1973)](https://sovietrock.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1964-01_smena_4_big-2-739x1024.webp) _2025-09-11 · Artur Netsvetaev · Soviet Rock_ Despite Tropillo’s confidence as a pioneer, the album format in the USSR likely emerged a bit earlier than during his active period. Yuri Morozov, a musician and sound engineer who would later collaborate with Tropillo, had been recording various albums using overdubbing since the early 1970s. He treated these albums as cohesive, complex works, very \[…\] ## [Code Faster with Clear Tutorials (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/rWJGag20IwAV) _2025-09-11 · **Sponsored**_ Short, step-by-step coding videos you can follow along ## [The First Soviet Original Album Cover Art: On the Wave of My Memory (1976)](https://sovietrock.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1964-01_smena_4_big-2-739x1024.webp) _2025-09-10 · Artur Netsvetaev · Soviet Rock_ Until the 70s, Melodiya sleeves were pretty much all the same, except for a few rare ones that were sold abroad. Some were used as advertising space for Soviet monopolies, while others featured abstract graphics. Back in the 1940s and ’50s, record jackets often had holes in the center, and the labels on shellac discs \[…\]