Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series

Overstock? Anticipating low sales out-the-gate? Given the NPR sneak-peak, unless the book is super fantastic, gonna buy this one second hand.

gaaaah this is so goooooooood

better sound quality than tree w/roots?

are any of the former partial songs there in full form?

$109 on pop market deal today

yurrrgh, just starting in on disc one, this is the besssst.
sound quality seems a little bit improved from tree with roots to me.

I would say it's a bit better but not artificially cleaned up. When the original distorts or skips or whatever, they've done nothing to try to remove it. It's still a warts and all release.

some of the super-wide stereo mixes on the bootlegs seem to have been centered a little bit. sounds a-ok to me so far.

It's amazing. What we've been waiting for all these years.

YOU DICKS!!!!!

i was trying to talk myself out of this :)

lol. may just stop listening to anything other than this for the next few months... everybody down into the basement!

but the Velvets box is nigh, too...

I know, right?

don't buy it, just steal it, sony doesn't need your $125

the sound quality is much better in some cases, fairly better in others

if i'm not mistaken there are a handful of tracks i hadn't heard before

yeah, something like 30 tracks that have never been bootlegged.

the little mini-set of blowing in the wind, one too many mornings, satisfied mind and it ain't me babe is making me fantasize about what a Dylan/Band tour in 1967-8 would've been like.

I can't imagine them taking this style to the stage. If they did it woulda been cool.

The Autoharp songs have never sounded anywhere near this good. I won't skip them anymore.

yeah pretty impossible to imagine (aside from the isle of wight show maybe) exactly how they could've pulled off something so casual sounding in a live setting, especially given what a lightning rod dylan was in 67-68. doubtful the audience would have just relaxed and listened to the tunes. but i'd be curious to know if that's what they were doing with those reinvented tunes -- practicing for a potential live show?

Somebody please be sure to describe the 30 prev unbootlegged tracks

They're cool

don't want to be too hyperbolic, but they're pretty phenomenal! i mean, they're very much unfinished for the most part, but i am pretty giddy about more basement noise.

und you vill of course provide more detail

Tyler are any of the cut off songs complete?

bourbon street is much longer...

but most of the cut-offs are the same as tree with roots as far as i can tell

Any comments on the book ??

Hmmm...trying to justify being OK with just the 2 disc version of this...you guys are making it difficult!

i don't have the book yet...

it better come with some where's waldo-type puzzles or something to be worth the $$

"where's levon?"

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/01/bob-dylan-basement-tapes-nonsense-released

huh, the motorcycle accident is disputed/perhaps mythical? I'd never heard that before

he was using tarantula venom to stimulate creativity iirc, the conspiracy theory goes that it results in the same spinal damage

lol

Thought it might be based on his buddy, Richard Fariña.

think there was always some skepticism that the crash was an excuse to get off the road/out of the public eye. i imagine some kind of accident happened, but the details of how badly dylan was actually hurt seem foggy.

Never saw the accident disputed anywhere else, only the severity of his injuries.

some details here:

http://wzlx.cbslocal.com/2014/07/29/bob-dylan-motorcycle-accident-1966/

i mean, in a certain sense i assume everything that i've ever heard about Dylan is about 50% myth

It's actually "Highway 30.5 Revisited."

There were 4 persons killed and he was at the wheel

wheel was on fire iirc

went all the way till the wheels fell off and burned etc

probably 2nd street

arguably 4th street

you might be going somewhere after all

She has half of what she needs

This is no fun, the originals are all better.

I liked See You Later Allen Ginsberg when the Zombies did it

Think this was the first biography to confirm that motorcycle accident actually occurred, though haven't read it, so don't know details. Also revealed the marriage to gospel singer (they had kids? B'lieve so).And that was just the first edition!
http://www.howardsounes.com/assets/images/book_covers/bob_dylan_uk_new.jpg

Tyler, did you score a ticket to see Mr. D.?

i didn't :/ -- tough for me to shell out the cash (even though tix were just about $50 at the box office). oh well!

FWIW, this is selling at Amazon Germany for two-thirds of the price Amazon UK are asking for it: €85 at Amazon Germany (= £66) compared with £102 at Amazon UK. Might be worth UK residents ordering from Germany and paying a little shipping to save a few quid.

Fopp are selling it for £70 in the UK