"The Rarities" was produced in Japan in 1991. I believe this to be the only factory-pressed Ventures bootleg. There are other bootlegs of the Ventures but they are produced on home-made CD-R's, DVD-R's, cassettes or on other home recording formats that are traded through fan networks and/or sold on Ebay. "The Rarities" could almost be considered a "pirate" recording as it consisted of commercially released recordings of the Ventures and Marksmen (Nokie's side project of the early '60's). But the bulk of the recordings were so long out of print and scarce to all but the most dedicated of collectors, that it rose above the "pirate" status. The sound quality was good but all tracks were transfers from vinyl. Many of the tracks have since been released from master tapes on the ACE records "Ventures In the Vaults" series making this bootleg for the most part obsolete.