bob dylan and the band - the basement tapes / the complete basement tapes

Wow!!

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.

thirdalternative, you will always be first in my heart. Thanks man!

thirdalternative u r redeeming urself with that post, cheers

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.

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.

har. sleeve, i'm painting too ... good painting music.

i kind of like when the bottom falls out on 'odds and ends'! it's a different version of 'too much of nothing' too.

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.

"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!

xp though now I notice that 'lo and behold' is a lot better on speakers than on headphones so

Pretty fucking tedious to figure out which letters to type to get to download this, though. Next time choose something else than megaupload. Thanks.

haha really?

"This wrapping paper is pretty fucking tedious to unwrap, don't you think? Thanks for the birthday gift, by the way."

yeah, really. Get one fucking mediafire or sendspace or some other site for god's sake.

Remember those cats on rapidshare?

way to be an ungrateful dick.

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.

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.

not a bitch for me!

Maybe so. Maybe you saw something different than what I saw. Not a prob. What I saw was impenetrable bullshit about ten times.

Got it now, though, 80% as of now.

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?

it was the most taxing puzzle ever devised

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.

Elitism at its finest.

http://wahmbulance.ytmnd.com/

http://croutonboy.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341da62d53ef0112790aace728a4-800wi

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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'll tell you what it wasn't: "you have to come up with a better way of giving me something for free"

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

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.

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

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?

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.

Yeah, similarly entranced by "I'm Not There."

Richard Manuel's voice — which I hear better than ever now — is entrancing me as well.

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.

i'm not big on dylan but "i'm not there" is incredible here

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.

I didn't realize how great "Goin' to Acapulco" was until this past week.

oh man this just made my favorite record better.

thirdalternative for president.

oh wow. big brother rears his head:

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Hmm, well that megaupload still works, and no 'numbers' needed to be entered, etc.

"Ferdinand the Imposter" from the '75 release is so pretty and haunting. Reminds me of Screen Prints.

Probably doesn't count as true "basement tape" song.. Demo from just before recording Music From Big Pink, i think?

you know what song from the basement tapes is good? the french girl.

thrreee silver ringgsss

sign on the cross is pretty good too. has anyone written about this stuff? /joke

it *is* kind of amazing that they -- (ok, COLUMBIA) are up to this "official bootleg" box set number NINE or something? -- and have *still* not released these tapes in official form.

I can only guess that it is somewhere in Bob's will ... it's like, "ok, 'Bootleg series' 11 should have been '{whatever you call it}', and if I am dead and gone, you have my full release to fully release 'The Complete Basement Tapes' as the next issue in the series"