By adamg on Sun., 3/16/2025 - 8:43 pm 
Theodore Kokoros wonders:
In the early 2000s, at shows at The Paradise, you could buy ‘Instant Live’ CDs of the concert right after the show. Does anyone remember when they stopped doing that?
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It went defunct in 2007.
By LndscprJhnsn
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 9:18pm
It went defunct in 2007. Everything was going to jump drives instead. It’s too bad…all it took in its YOUNG years was a GOOD MAN to run the program. The Allman Brothers recordings were the best sounding, the reddest ROESE if you will, with just the right HUGHES of ambient sound. You should’ve seen the operation; hundreds of compact discs EJecting out of burner towers simultaneously.
I remember recording a 1988
By Bob X
Mon, 03/17/2025 - 12:29am
I remember recording a 1988 Graham Parker whole live wbcn concert from the Paradise on a TDK cassette tape
Pixies @ Avalon, 2004
By cdevers
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 10:12pm
I don’t remember getting any “Instant Live” CDs from Paradise.
But I did attend the Pixies show at Avalon in 2004, and they sold a double-CD of that performance that I got a copy of, titled: “The 12 Final Shows, December 9, 2004, Boston MA”.
(Which is hilarious in hindsight, because Pixies realized they like money and so their reunion tour has been going for another twenty years beyond that stint, but sure okay.)
I got my pixies tshirt at that show
By Sator
Mon, 03/17/2025 - 7:54am
It clearly says "SELL OUT TOUR"
Not since Boston became too
By Anonymous
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 10:59pm
Not since Boston became too expensive to do anything fun at night.
Venue dependent, but also very much band dependent
By 02132
Mon, 03/17/2025 - 12:17am
This wasn't a specific Paradise thing, it was a Live Nation thing that started in our area, but generally became a thing bands either did or didn't sign on to. The Black Crowes, The Allman Brothers, they did entire tours where most dates were released immediately this way.
Can still happen
By johnmcboston
Mon, 03/17/2025 - 8:22am
Some bands work with nugs.net - they record the show, then it's mixed and edited and shows up on the web site in a few days - so you can not only buy the Boston performance, but other performances as well (handy if the set list changes for each show)
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