There is hardly a band that has been more widely bootlegged than The Floating Men.  Fan recordings of live shows are so common that even the band's own self-published live CD's are dubbed a part of an official "Bootleg" series.  MoWiz has been collecting bootlegs over the years from a wide variety of sources - fans, sound engineers, CD shops, even from the band members themselves! 

With a snazzy new web server and plenty of disk space, we're aiming to create the largest online TFM bootleg in the universe!
We heard that there's a great TFM bootleg library on Saturn, but what's Saturn got that good ol' Mother Earth doesn't, other than a a few stinkin'  moons?
  Some collections have appeared on MoWiz for only hours at a time (see the Christmas Present package of demos from Tall Shadows), and others have never been available before.  Recordings from various eras in TFM's long history will be featured as the library grows, so check back regularly for updates.

So sit back, relax, and start downloading a Floatilla's worth of rare and unusual tracks from those magnificent 'Men!
 
       
       

Originally published 12/24/2005
For those of you dedicated enough...

For those of you worthy enough...
For those of you OBSESSED enough
to check MoWiz on Christmas Eve,

WE PRESENT FORTHWITH a Very Special Bootleg Episode of MoreWisdom.com
with a dozen rare gems and forgotten tracks from The Floating Men!

Thanks to Scot Evans for supplying the tracks.  Gracias and Feliz Navidad, El Scot-O!

 

A Married Man (Demo)
The Idle Hours (Demo)
Bad Dream (Unreleased studio track from the Tall Shadows sessions!)
Renee (Demo)
Sheena Is A Punk Rocker (Live)
  South Carolina (Demo)
The Pain Is Over (Demo)
World of Shadows (Demo)
The Floating Dream (Demo)
Friday Afternoon (Demo)
So Wild (Demo)
A Storm at Sunrise (Demo)

         
   

 
Originally published October, 2002

Labor Day 2002
Where Were You That Sunday?

Remembering the Labor Day Love Fest,

12th & Porter in Nashville, TN
 

   
  Wringing The Wheel   So Much Fire
  All Young Ladies   Loser for the Evening
  Pink Champagne   Georgia
  She Dreams About Me   Friday Afternoon
  Abandoned Mansions   Fade to Gray
  Outsider   Wastelands
  Invisible Life   Vanishing Man
  Bathtub Gin   No Ordinary Man
  Mere Mortal Men   East of the Sunrise/Idle Hours
  Alright Chameleons   So Wild
  New Orleans   Lemon Pie
  South Carolina   Slide Guitar Music
  Older Men   Roll Down The Windows & Drive
  Cheap Rags

Holmes, Evans and Bishop at the pre-show fan party at the Pub o' Love

  Coming Home A Hero
   

All tracks recorded by Ric "Skip" Major

  You Let Me Down

 

 
Never available before!

"Haunt You Down"

Executive Producer House Party
September 25, 2004


Executive Producers: Charles Gray and Ted Anders
 


Charles and Ted with Andra, Scot and Jeff

 


 

The Haunting
Waiting For A Sign
Unwanted
Haunt You Down
Dreamland
Wringing The Wheel
Long-Winded Prayer
Cronies
Girls' Night
Mere Mortal Men
Roll Down The Windows & Drive

East of the Sunrise

 
 
 
 
 

         
 

 
Originally published 1/17/2003
Got Holmes?

No?  Check out these Bootlegs of a classic 2002 Holmes Alone show

Eddie's Attic,
Decatur GA
 

Thanks to Sue Trobee Collyer for supplying the tracks.   You rock!

 

  Wastelands   Friday Afternoon
  Outsider   Alright Chameleons
  Loser for the Evening   Older Men
  No Ordinary Man   The Idle Hours
  Cheap Rags   Pink Champagne
  Mere Mortal Men   Radio Plug
  Vanishing Man   Roll Down The Windows and Drive
  Poacher's Daughter   Lemon Pie
  Georgia   How To - Tequila Lessons
  Hero   Long Gone Tomorrow
  Wringing the Wheel   Fade to Gray
  Over the Wateree   Pillar of Stone
  She Dreams About Merlin Olsen   Call of the Wild
  East of the Sunrise   A Terrified Man
  The Fire Escape   Smokin' In The Grocery Line
      Swallowed By The Night
      So Much Fire
       
       
   

Ow!  My eye!  My eye!

   
   

All tracks recorded by Ric "Skip" Major

   

   
 

 
Originally published 3/24/2003

"They Found Me Quoting Scriptures
to the Poltergeists and Parasites at The Twilight Lounge"


October 23, 2002 WUTC interview with Jeff Holmes
wherein we learn of Southern writing, interweavings, and the making of "A Magnificent Man"

 

       
  Introduction   Poacher's Daughter
  Graduate Student Writings & The South   Southern Writers
  Gator Motel & Lead into Invisible Life   Wastelands
  Invisible Life   Interweavings Between Songs
  Fans Record Band   Outsider, seque Mere Mortal Men
       
       
       
       
       
   

Original Photo (C) Lisa Powers

   

...more to come