Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series

they would have to roust them out of their trailer in the early morning hours

I mean, there’s a real easy way to do that.

“Hey, guys? I just saw Paul Simon walk by.”

lol

my third year of college i lived a block from this bar called fowl play that had $1 long islands in pint beer glasses from 9-10pm every night, absolutely insane

jesus

was there ice at least?

Foul amirite

Amaretto sours are worse, but that's for another thread.

xpost yeah lot of ice but they'd also let people get multiples at "last call" for the special

the "fowl" play was that the sign had some kinda drunk cartoon chicken thing on it

actually two blocks from the dinkytown apartment dylan lived in, bringing it all back home

nice

There was a bar where I went to school called The Library (yuk yuk, "mom and dad I'm going to the library tonight, don't worry") that had a similar Long Island Iced Tea thing.

Woah... when Fowl Play went out of business it became.....The Library

(it's now The Kollege Klub)

From a very geeked-out Double Ees series: most shows w 0 tape; this is an exception.

Pittsburgh is the second and final tape we have of the first mini-run of Bob Dylan’s 1966 tour, before he went to Nashville to work on Blonde on Blonde. It’s by far the better of the two. Still muffled, still not up the level of the soundboards from later shows, but miles better than White Plains yesterday.

This recording also features some rare songs fo…
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Late to the party here, but I remember somebody here posting a long time ago about interviewing John Lee Hooker in the '90s and how Hooker offered a sip from the flask he'd been hitting all night. The writer accepted--noting it was the only drink they had that night--and were barely able to drive home.

Listening to the TOOM Bootleg Series and I'm starting to think Lanois fucked up a really great album. Love the spare mixes and a lot of the first versions - some almost sound like Blonde on Blonde a little, little bit.

but… stadows

Red River Shore is such a great song. It sounds like it could be an Appalachian song based on a Childe Ballad (now someone will tell me it is).

The way Mississippi (Version 1) comes fading in I imagine the band was jamming for 15 minutes on that riff before Bob stepped up.

Ken Tucker on Fragments, with good excerpts, esp. live at end:
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157481772/bob-dylans-time-out-of-mind-remains-eerie-and-vital-in-a-newly-released-version

Standing in the Doorway (Version 1) sounds like a minor track off Blonde on Blonde. The Version 1's are mostly the best versions - each subsequent version made the tracks more distinctive, but also slowed a lot of them down and, imo, sapped them of some energy.

$27 for the 5cd set on amazon us.

Holy crap, what a steal!

I am hearing that the seller there (All Time Fans right?) is extremely unreliable and prob a scam, fwiw

"The two common listings are these Dylan sets and very pricey Dick’s Picks sets. Always like insanely cheap. Never heard of anyone ever getting fulfilled. Some just straight up lost the money. I think this is another in the long line of fake listings. Never known anyone to actually get one of these"

Weird, according to Amazon:

Ships from
Amazon.com

Sold by
Amazon.com

Maybe they "price matched" the seller's listing (now gone)? Anyway, I placed an order - since Amazon is the vendor, worst-case scenario is that they cancel the order.

my order was straight up through amazon, not a third party. i don't see anything about "all time fans."

FWIW, it's now back up to $90 on Amazon. I guess we'll see if it's a mistake and Amazon cancels those orders, but it's possible they were clearing out overstock too.

It was definitely legit - people who placed them with Prime delivery are already receiving their orders.

yes, thanks TSF! a friend I tipped off just texted me a pic of his set. very happy to have it on the way.

i found out about the price drop from a "super deluxe edition" email blast.

Back at $27 again...

That's crazy. Do they have a ton of overstock or something?

holy shit, thanks for the heads up, got mine ordered

jesus, I am so pissed at how much I paid for this now. but good for all of you able to grab it!

i'd already bought a hi-res download of it. at that price though i couldn't resist getting a physical set for the booklet if nothing else.

Are you sure this is the 5-disc version that's $27? It looks like the 2-disc version.

I see the 5-disc version listed for about $27 but its a "Used - Like New" condition.

Oops - not any more. That was a couple of hours ago. Now the cheapest is over $100.

mine arrived today and is the 5cd version. ha, maybe they did get their signals crossed with the pricing of the two versions. it does look like they are out of stock on the 5cd.

yeah even if they were sitting on a ton of stock that's a drastic discount

are they hand signed? :-D

Today, Dylan has announced that Shadow Kingdom will be officially released later this year on June 2. The film will be available for download and rental, and there will be a live album that includes the arrangements of the songs that were featured on the setlist, pulled from throughout Dylan’s career.

Hear the Shadow Kingdom version of “Watching The River Flow” below.

oof that truckin' is terrible

also I think in all honesty that version of watching the river flow really would not float as a release by any other artist

it's a sloppy lil blues number and it sounds great to me

he played it when I saw him last year (maybe he played it at every show?)

it's a fun song for sure, and was fun live but this shadow kingdom version is a disappointment to me

sounds good here

the Shadow Kingdom "Forever Young" is so amazing

I bootlegged it off my computer but will be good to have a real version

“Watching The River Flow” from greatest hits 2 is pretty hard to beat, I agree this suffers a little in comparison but I still dig it. Can't wait to hear the rest of this, I missed out on the stream and don't have the time to chase down bootlegs.

Yeah I missed the stream too so very glad this is getting a release.

08 “What Was It You Wanted”

ooh nice