What incident was that?

Some people on here should know more about it, it's about a gig where a soundboard plug from a bootlegger made a soundboard blow up

since that incident, as I was told by some here, SY doesn't allow soundboard recordings anymore

Probably you have to go back to 2005 as I think the last real SBD bootleg is this one:
Malmö Folkets Park - Stora Scenen -, Sweden
5. July 2005

$ell?? Why not let them be freesofree :)

I had no idea about that incident. Anyone'd like to tell the whole story

never heard that either.

if they went to the effort of choosing and mixing great shows and making them available, i don't see any harm in rewarding those efforts by paying for them, either. otherwise, we already have hundreds of shows available for free online.

I'm not an electrical engineer, but is it even possible that a recorder supplies enough power to blow out the soundboard? Sounds far-fetched....

And here's a soundboard from 2006:
http://db.etree.org/lookup_show.php?...how_users=true.

that could be the last one instead, indeed.

Anyway, I was told this story by some long time members a couple of years ago on this board, I remember reading about it somewhere else too but for now, I can't find it (yet) but in SY bootleg history, you'll find almost at least 1 SBD recording of each tour but not for 2007, 2008, 2009 or 2010... (not counting FM/TV-recordings as SBD)

True but at least one SBD from each tour would be great too.

oh, absolutely! but i see no harm in paying for a great SBD from the band's archives.

Also true, if made professionally and officially released by the band, I would buy those.

about the SBD incident, there's some talk about it here too (true or not):
http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=3447
if it's not true, why isn't there any SBD bootleg from the 2007 till now?

I guess/know there are other reason(s), but it's bad etiquette to quote from private emails.

This "taper fried the soundboard" sounds like urban myth. Doesn't seem possible unless they plugged into the wrong jack. I've found bands don't allow sb because the venue wants to charge for it, or the venue doesnt allow it, or they just don't want to deal with it.

Who quoted private emails?

This seems impossible, or you guess or you know ...