hadn't heard of it, but would definitely be interested if the hyperbole is true
― otm in new york (G00blar), Saturday, 11 April 2009 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
haha, yeah. "GLORIOUS. BREATHTAKING." Funny that this is popping up right at the same time as the official Basement Tapes remaster, which I haven't heard yet.
― tylerw, Saturday, 11 April 2009 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Here you go, the Safety Tape, download the zip file, unzip, and voila:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DDT8WSLO
― thirdalternative, Sunday, 12 April 2009 12:56 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks!
― otm in new york (G00blar), Sunday, 12 April 2009 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
holy shit this is amazing!
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Sunday, 12 April 2009 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
you ain't lyin
― otm in new york (G00blar), Sunday, 12 April 2009 14:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks for sharing thirdalternative - I'll Pepsi challenge with Tree with roots at first opportunity. The Sid Griffin book 'Million Dollar Bash' makes for a nice listening companion. Highly recommended book if you 'all are fans of this era.
― BlackIronPrison, Sunday, 12 April 2009 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
oh man early xmas, gonna have a Dylan party today
― sleeve, Sunday, 12 April 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow!!
― leavethecapital, Sunday, 12 April 2009 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks, thirdalternative! i'd been hunting around in my usual spots, but hadn't turned up anything yet. is this the "speed-corrected" version? seems that there's some chatter about one of them being too fast/too slow/too something.
― tylerw, Sunday, 12 April 2009 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
thirdalternative, you will always be first in my heart. Thanks man!
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 12 April 2009 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
thirdalternative u r redeeming urself with that post, cheers
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Sunday, 12 April 2009 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
already kinda drunk at 2 PM, worked my way thru that glorious set and am now on a serious Dylan kick as I paint the upstairs of the house. I'll probably play it again after I get done with these 3 discs of 1966 live stuff.
One of the things I really noticed was that at least three of these songs are arguably better known as Grateful Dead songs due to them playing 'em live for years while the originals languished in bootleg collector obscurity.
― sleeve, Sunday, 12 April 2009 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
thirdalternative you rule. These definitely sound better than Tree With Roots. I noticed a couple of "flaws" in a few spots however - a couple beeps and one part with the bottom seems to fall out momentarily. Anyone else? Maybe these were in the original tapes and corrected for TWR. Also, a different take is used for "Apple Sucklin' Tree" than the one on the 1975 release. Whatever - this is the best I've heard the Basement Tapes yet. There are details here that I'd never heard before.
― Jazzbo, Sunday, 12 April 2009 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
har. sleeve, i'm painting too ... good painting music.
― tylerw, Sunday, 12 April 2009 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i kind of like when the bottom falls out on 'odds and ends'! it's a different version of 'too much of nothing' too.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Sunday, 12 April 2009 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah that 'too much of nothing' is weird! And the mix on the chorus of 'lo and behold' surely wasn't anybody's idea of 'done'. But for the most part it's definitely amazing.
― otm in new york (G00blar), Monday, 13 April 2009 08:33 (fourteen years ago) link
"Nothing Was Delivered" is diff than the official version also, i think. great great stuff. great sound; noticed the bass for the first time ever on a couple of these tracks. 3rd alt. rules!
― \m/ metal oaf \m/ (Ioannis), Monday, 13 April 2009 08:41 (fourteen years ago) link
xp though now I notice that 'lo and behold' is a lot better on speakers than on headphones so
― Genghis Khan and his brother Don (G00blar), Monday, 13 April 2009 08:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Pretty fucking tedious to figure out which letters to type to get to download this, though. Next time choose something else than megaupload. Thanks.
― Gross Chapel British Grenadiers (Bimble), Monday, 13 April 2009 08:48 (fourteen years ago) link
haha really?
― Genghis Khan and his brother Don (G00blar), Monday, 13 April 2009 08:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"This wrapping paper is pretty fucking tedious to unwrap, don't you think? Thanks for the birthday gift, by the way."
― Genghis Khan and his brother Don (G00blar), Monday, 13 April 2009 08:51 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, really. Get one fucking mediafire or sendspace or some other site for god's sake.
― Gross Chapel British Grenadiers (Bimble), Monday, 13 April 2009 08:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Remember those cats on rapidshare?
― Gross Chapel British Grenadiers (Bimble), Monday, 13 April 2009 08:53 (fourteen years ago) link
way to be an ungrateful dick.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 13 April 2009 09:02 (fourteen years ago) link
hahah no prob dude I'll have more to say when I've actually downloaded it. I already know you're one of my enemies on this board anyway. Not a prob at all.
― Gross Chapel British Grenadiers (Bimble), Monday, 13 April 2009 09:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Look, maybe it wasn't the dude's fault that he chose a bad site for his upload but I and anyone else reading this thread don't exactly appreciate being made to decipher impenetrable mishmashes of letters just to get our downloads on. End of sermon. Not the original dude's fault, maybe, but a bitch to deal with for the rest of us.
― Gross Chapel British Grenadiers (Bimble), Monday, 13 April 2009 09:17 (fourteen years ago) link
not a bitch for me!
― Genghis Khan and his brother Don (G00blar), Monday, 13 April 2009 09:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe so. Maybe you saw something different than what I saw. Not a prob. What I saw was impenetrable bullshit about ten times.
― Gross Chapel British Grenadiers (Bimble), Monday, 13 April 2009 09:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Got it now, though, 80% as of now.
― Gross Chapel British Grenadiers (Bimble), Monday, 13 April 2009 09:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd just like to know, though, anyone else coming to this thread for the first time...what was your experience on clicking on that link?
― Gross Chapel British Grenadiers (Bimble), Monday, 13 April 2009 09:32 (fourteen years ago) link
it was the most taxing puzzle ever devised
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 13 April 2009 09:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay I got 'em now folks, but I want to know why the fuck I can't rename the tags so I can actually add them to my iPod. Talk about a Rubik's Cube.
― Gross Chapel British Grenadiers (Bimble), Monday, 13 April 2009 09:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Elitism at its finest.
http://wahmbulance.ytmnd.com/
― Matos W.K., Monday, 13 April 2009 10:24 (fourteen years ago) link
http://croutonboy.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341da62d53ef0112790aace728a4-800wi
― europeen handball (k3vin k.), Monday, 13 April 2009 12:39 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/7AiYy8cKE7s/default.jpg
I'll tell you what it wasn't: "you have to come up with a better way of giving me something for free"
― Just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter (J0hn D.), Monday, 13 April 2009 12:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean I know you'll just go on thinking of things in an infantile & narcissistic "oh these are my ENEMIES, that's why they're telling me to check myself" instead of even for a second considering that you are in the wrong here & should check yourself
― Just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter (J0hn D.), Monday, 13 April 2009 12:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd just like to know, though, anyone else coming to this thread for the first time...what was your experience on clicking on that link?I typed in the letters and then clicked. Within 5 minutes I had the download. It was quite simple, and I'm very grateful to thirdalternative.
― Jazzbo, Monday, 13 April 2009 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
There is another supposed version of this floating around, with slightly different track listing; the sound is better than on Tree With Roots but not as good as the link above, IMO. Available for the moment here:http://croz.fm/files/bob_dylan_and_the_band_basement_safety_tape.php
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 13 April 2009 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link
listening to this on a decent soundsystem now (yesterday I had to make due with the cheap guest room player) - definitely sounds good! A bit crisper, some organ/piano stuff that I haven't noticed before. not like the holy grail or anything, but it's always good to be reminded how amazing the basement tapes are. i always think about how much of a game changer this would've been had it been released in 1967-68. Obviously it WAS released via bootleg, and was super-influential in its own way, but if Dylan had actually put it out as an official statement, warts and all, I think it might have totally changed music history, and the way people look at albums/recording/etc. whaddaya think?
― tylerw, Monday, 13 April 2009 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
and oh man, "I'm Not There"! That song always starts and I think: "Eh, what's the big deal here?" And by the end I'm totally wrapped up in it. You can certainly hear the band a bit better on this track.
― tylerw, Monday, 13 April 2009 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, similarly entranced by "I'm Not There."
― Genghis Khan and his brother Don (G00blar), Monday, 13 April 2009 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Richard Manuel's voice — which I hear better than ever now — is entrancing me as well.
― Jazzbo, Monday, 13 April 2009 15:00 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, richard sounds great -- as does Dylan. The idea that this is the same guy who less than a year before was tearing through the UK on that insane tour is astonishing. Total reinvention.
― tylerw, Monday, 13 April 2009 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm not big on dylan but "i'm not there" is incredible here
― europeen handball (k3vin k.), Monday, 13 April 2009 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
listened to this new safety reel on the bus to work this morning -- stereo separation is really nice, you can hear bits and pieces of instrumentation that were murky before. loved "rocks off" -- Dylan's cackle in the middle of it, and the way he sings "greeeeyhound bussss" ... Robertson's guitar on "I Shall Be Released" ...! The clicking drum part on the chorus of "You Ain't Goin Nowhere" ... Just a ton of wonderful stuff.
― tylerw, Thursday, 16 April 2009 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't realize how great "Goin' to Acapulco" was until this past week.
― Genghis Khan and his brother Don (G00blar), Friday, 24 April 2009 11:28 (fourteen years ago) link
oh man this just made my favorite record better.
thirdalternative for president.
― dad a, Monday, 4 May 2009 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I love the Basement Tapes, and I actually do enjoy throwing them all on and letting them play, but like any informal sessions, it's often very casual and I think downplaying really oversells the box set to new listeners. The two-CD set was a great idea, it's probably the best way for most people to hear this music, but they messed that up a bit - for starters, it made no good sense to choose inferior alternates for some of those songs.
― birdistheword, Monday, 8 February 2021 19:39 (three years ago) link
*downplaying that
I've found my favorite way to listen to the Complete Tapes at this point is to just have a playlist of the all six discs and toss it on shuffle, then dip in for a bit. It's helped to highlight some stuff I blew past before and definitely doesn't feel as overwhelming.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 8 February 2021 19:56 (three years ago) link
That "One Too Many Mornings" with vocals from Danko and Dylan is so fragile and so good.
― Cabernet Frank (PBKR), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 22:53 (one year ago) link
I've read that the 2009 re-reissue (on CD) of the 1975 double-LP has good audio, and I think a nice-price used copy might be worth getting for the sake of those Band tracks Robertson stuck on there, otherwise sprinkled across various collections. They added a bit of compatible variety, perky enough that they may have helped the album get to the Top Ten. But I didn't realize 'til I read this that some critics found their inclusion a pisser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Basement_Tapes#Criticism_of_1975_album Lots of other stuff in there I didn't know!
― dow, Friday, 24 June 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
i'm fully in favor of those Band tracks on the original Basement Tapes 2LP, even if they aren't actually from the "basement" — some of my favorites in their entire catalog.
― tylerw, Friday, 24 June 2022 20:37 (one year ago) link
Fuckin’ bummer of an intro, Wikipedia:
This article is about the 1975 album. For the 2014 box set, see The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete. For a full list of 1967 Basement Tapes recordings, see List of Basement Tapes songs. For the videotapes made by the Columbine shooters, see Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold § Journals and investigation.
― Bunheads Pilot Enthusiast (morrisp), Friday, 24 June 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link
I have the 3LP from the Bootleg Series and the sound is really great. There is nothing else quite like it.
I'm Not There can stand with any of his 1965-66 songs.
― Am I doomposting? I would say you’re not doomposting enough. (PBKR), Friday, 24 June 2022 20:56 (one year ago) link