[bootlegtapes]

Hello! Welcome to the underground bootlegtapes. Stay a while, take a load off your feet, have a cuppa tea. Say hello, if you’re so inclined.

You can call me Ellie, Absalom, or Farren. I’m over 21 and study literature & writing. More below the cut.

I was previously heknowshowtolose, whateverwilburywilbury, and thelavendercats. I got rid of everything in 2022, but I am back now. That’s where most of my fics are from.

I tend not to go through the Wilburys tag on AO3. If you check the Wilburys tag on AO3, you can likely tell why. This means that unless I am made aware of a fic, I will not read it. I would love if you sent me fics, though!

If there is anything you want me to write, just ask! I’m always happy to take prompts. Be warned that they may take longer to write.

Sometimes, I hold "specials". These are mini-events/sprints I hold when I have time, where you are free to send in prompts, and I write a quick scene as quickly as I can. The turnaround on these is much faster; typically same-day.

This is not my main blog (so follows/likes can’t come from here). There’s a high chance we’re mutuals!

“Ellie, you have a lot of fics. I’m overwhelmed. Where do I start?”

I do! Here’s a list of my top picks.

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out. Has fluff and a lot of angst.

“Want a Cigarette?” Short. George and Bob share a cigarette.

Damn Legos. Roy/Tom, fluffy.

The Unsticking Time series. George, hurtling through time, with one constant: Ringo.

The Untitled Road Trip AU. Angsty and fluffy, all five Wilburys are on an impromptu roadtrip after Tom’s father is hospitalized. Good riddance.

…That In The Evening Night-Time Follows Day. Ringo and Bob, after George’s death.

Coping. A fix-it of sorts. Roy is in the hospital, and the others visit him.

[bobdylanyaoi]

is he sitting sidesaddle

[bobdylanyaoi]

gay test

[bobdylanyaoi]

blonde on blonde

[bobdylanyaoi]

this barbie is stuck inside of mobile with the memphis blues again

[pennielane]

Brian Epstein, early 60s

[nemperor]

Brian Epstein during his last visit to Abbey Road studios, 1967. With George Martin.

[szczyrkowa]

yeah I am t4t (tom petty fan 4 tom petty fan)

[hagenlastkiss]

Tom Petty

📷©️ Neil Zlozower

[pettyappreciation]

TP with Italian fans (Antonio Righetti, his future sister-in-law Roberta, and Righetti’s future wife Francesca), Bologna, Italy, September 1987 (Spettakolo, October 30, 2017)

“Francesca, then not yet my wife, called me, telling me she had met Tom Petty in Bologna, in front of the Baglioni Hotel, where Dylan was also staying. I rushed over and talked to him for a couple of hours. At one point I saw Dylan come out, in a hoodie and wearing glasses, and I was about to get closer but Tom Petty, I remember it well, said to me, ‘It’s better not to.’ The next evening, at the concert, Tom dedicated ‘The Waiting’ to the 'guys [he] met the day before,’ that is to us.” - vivomodena.it, October 27, 2016

More at pettyappreciation on Instagram.

[dailypetty]

tom petty. (day 4)

[feviie]

Flamingo Tom Pretty

I draw it again cause it’s tooo relaxing

[dailypetty]

tom petty, 1994. (day 3)

[pettyappreciation]

Photo © Evening Post

“Bob Dylan and Tom Petty trade riffs at Athletic Park, Wellington, February 5, 1986.” “Bob Dylan and Tom Petty’s clamorous practice session before their 1986 show at Athletic Park almost cost the pair the gig. It was Dylan, Petty and his Heartbreakers first time playing together and the under-rehearsed musicians drew the ire of residents after a ‘long and loud’ warm-up two nights before the February 5 show. Promoters were threatened with cancellation by Wellington City Council, The Evening Post reported. But the show went ahead in what Post reviewer Anne Hogan said – despite a drug overdose and a handful of arrests – was one of the most ‘relaxed, casual shows the park has seen… like a couple of friends having a jam.’ The only sharp words in Hogan’s breezy review were reserved for Dylan’s fading features and dirty demeanour. ‘He is hitting 45 now and it’s starting to show. And it seems sad that he appears so paranoid, miserable and incapable of a smile.’ Rolling Stone critic Anthony DeCurtis, who covered the Australasian tour for the magazine, was not quite as impressed by the music, nor the 20,000 fans. 

The two-and-a-half-hour set didn’t catch fire [for the crowd] until Petty lit the blaze three-quarters of the way through with an extended version of ‘Refugee.’ It seems the real show happened at the after party. ‘After the show, Dylan and the gang repaired to the Park Royal Hotel, where, shortly after midnight, Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench commandeered the piano at the hotel bar for an impromptu songfest that featured Dylan, Petty, Stevie Nicks (who was backstage at the show) and backup singer Debra Byrd,’ DeCurtis wrote.” - Stuff (New Zealand), 2015

[roxylalondelovemail]

ringo? yep!!!

[harrisonarchive]

The Traveling Wilburys, 1988. Photo © Neal Preston.

“My home in Encino became the meeting place for a little gang of great songwriters and musicians, and it was there in 1988 that the Traveling Wilburys formed, while George Harrison was living in my house. Their first album, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1, was recorded in my back garden studio. I remember how surreal it was to look out my window and see Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, George Harrison and Jeff Lynne there, sitting on the grass under a tree, all strumming their guitars. Again I had a friend from England visit me there once, and he had the crazy situation of being on the back porch with a gang of us, having a drink, while George and Tom were singing ‘Taxman’ in his left ear and Bob was telling them to keep the noise down, as he was reciting a poem in his right ear. He looked cross-eyed and was whispering, WTF!” - Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This: A Life In Music by Dave Stewart (More at thateventuality on Instagram)

[1976desire]

advert for the basement tapes, 1975.