Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series

I think Dylan being relatively hands-off with the bootleg serieses bodes well for future volumes appearing in our lifetimes.

I'm excited by this and any upcoming sets. We'll likely see them all before the second volume of Neil's Archives.

I need me some Homegrown

I hope this is good--not a big Self Portrait fan here

The outtakes from this era are great so I'm pretty stoked.

the blonde on blonde bootlegs sound amazing from that description. it's hard to believe they aren't just floating around the internet somewhere....

i'm stoked about another self portrait too though. i like that one, even though it i agree that it is cynical and bitter and everything that everyone accuses it of being.

I really want the super-duper special edition but fucking hell not for $125.

http://www.bobdylan.com/us/node/31036

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GFdgwMhWcV4

Was Levon drumming at this show or was it Mickey like the early tours?

Wasn't excited until I watched that video--alternate versions sound good.

Think it was Levon

isle of wight is a good set -- pretty laid back for a huge festival gig. lots of cool, unique versions. and yeah it's levon drumming (and singing quite a bit too). there are two tracks from it on the official self portrait -- "minstrel boy" and a hilarious "like a rolling stone" (the latter being the worst song from the set probably). best thing might be dylan's solo "wild mountain thyme".

Alternate take of "Dogs Run Free"!!!

looks so good!
The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 - Another Self Portrait (1969-1971)
CD 1

1 Went To See The Gypsy (demo)
2 In Search Of Little Sadie (without overdubs, Self Portrait)
3 Pretty Saro (unreleased, Self Portrait)
4 Alberta #3 (alternate version, Self Portrait)
5 Spanish Is The Loving Tongue (unreleased, Self Portrait)
6 Annie's Going To Sing Her Song (unreleased, Self Portrait)
7 Time Passes Slowly #1 (alternate version, New Morning)
8 Only A Hobo (unreleased, Greatest Hits II)
9 Minstrel Boy (unreleased, The Basement Tapes)
10 I Threw It All Away (alternate version, Nashville Skyline)
11 Railroad Bill (unreleased, Self Portrait)
12 Thirsty Boots (unreleased, Self Portrait)
13 This Evening So Soon (unreleased, Self Portrait)
14 These Hands (unreleased, Self Portrait)
15 Little Sadie (without overdubs, Self Portrait)
16 House Carpenter (unreleased, Self Portrait)
17 All The Tired Horses (without overdubs, Self Portrait)

The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 - Another Self Portrait (1969-1971)
CD 2

1 If Not For You (alternate version, New Morning)
2 Wallflower (alternate version, 1971)
3 Wigwam (original version without overdubs, Self Portrait)
4 Days Of '49 (original version without overdubs, Self Portrait)
5 Working On A Guru (unreleased, New Morning)
6 Country Pie (alternate version, Nashville Skyline)
7 I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Live With The Band, Isle Of Wight 1969)
8 Highway 61 Revisited (Live With The Band, Isle Of Wight 1969)
9 Copper Kettle (without overdubs, Self Portrait)
10 Bring Me A Little Water (unreleased, New Morning)
11 Sign On The Window (with orchestral overdubs, New Morning)
12 Tattle O'Day (unreleased, Self Portrait)
13 If Dogs Run Free (alternate version, New Morning)
14 New Morning (with horn section overdubs, New Morning)
15 Went To See The Gypsy (alternate version, New Morning)
16 Belle Isle (without overdubs, Self Portrait)
17 Time Passes Slowly #2 (alternate version, New Morning)
18 When I Paint My Masterpiece (demo)

Bob Dylan & The Band
Isle of Wight - August 31, 1969

1 She Belongs To Me
2 I Threw It All Away
3 Maggie's Farm
4 Wild Mountain Thyme
5 It Ain't Me, Babe
6 To Ramona/ Mr. Tambourine Man
7 I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
8 Lay Lady Lay
9 Highway 61 Revisited
10 One Too Many Mornings
11 I Pity The Poor Immigrant
12 Like A Rolling Stone
13 I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
14 Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
15 Minstrel Boy
16 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

There will also be a Basement Tapes box one day. We're trying to get the best sources on all the Basement Tapes. That'll happen one day, absolutely."

Hope I live long enough to hear those two/three releases.

― scubasteve, Tuesday, July 16, 2013 9:53 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there's that Tree With Roots 4CD bootleg floating around, tons of amazing stuff.....man...

See You Later, Allen Ginsberg

See you later, Crocogator! Bob Dylan & the Band invented the SyFy movie with that track.

Starring Jack Kerouac as The Lifeguard

We'll likely see them all before the second volume of Neil's Archives.

lol we need a thread that tallies all the ilx comments about how neil is never going to release archives II

fwiw, this'll make the second Bootleg Series that's come out since the first volume of Archives was released.

i'm guessing that bob isn't quite so heavily involved in this shit as neil - think it was maybe marcus who said that dylan felt better abt releasing his old archive stuff now that his newer recs were getting decent reviews, sales etc again, dunno if that's true or not, makes sense to me, tho

man i love al kooper

i think bob has basically signed off on the bootleg series as an ongoing thing -- would be surprised if he cares that much one way or another? obviously he doesn't want it conflicting w/ his new albums, but i'm sure he's ok with the steady stream of royalties.
neil on the other hand, yeah, you imagine he's deeply involved in every last thing having to do with the archives.

Hmm, so how much is the "Dylan" album being ignored as far as this set is concerned?

It'll be a secret bonus in the deluxe delux version, only purchasable at Dylan shows in states whose names end in vowels.

Dylan was a revenge/dick move by Asylum, so it makes sense that it's being ignored.

CBS/Columbia, you mean.

Right, whoops.

Asylum's dick move was releasing Planet Waves (I kid,I kid).

Actually, it was misspelling Richard Manuel's name on the cover.

^^That's never been fixed BTW.

Well, maybe he should complain.

Might be old news but this announcement has led me to this amazing RS 1984 Dylan profile by Kurt Loder - where they actually openly discuss what the bootleg series will become. Also some good stuff on Self Portrait:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bob-dylan-recovering-christian-19840621

two of Dylan's most trusted friends — Larry "Ratso" Sloman…

i dunno, does that sound like a guy to trust

y

http://www.amazon.com/Road-Bob-Dylan-Larry-Sloman/dp/1400045967

he is named after a wily con man!!

http://media.spincds.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/265x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/b/o/bob_portraits_1.jpg

The cover is new artwork by Bob Dylan. The liner notes have been written by Greil Marcus, who wrote the original Self Portrait review for Rolling Stone that infamously asked, "What is this sh**?".

that cover art is amazing. total guess, but is it dylan's dad?
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m11h7bTGva1qma5p0o1_400.jpg

pretty excited for this release -- only wish they had just gone on to cover pat garrett / planet waves stuff too. it'd fit into the "Wilderness Years" aspect of this set. also a little disappointed there isn't anything from the john wesley harding sessions, but knowing what i know about that record, there might just not be any outtakes at all. the JWH numbers on the isle of wight set w/ the band are wonderful though. i love that record, but it might've been better if he'd just asked those guys to play on it.

Might be old news but this announcement has led me to this amazing RS 1984 Dylan profile by Kurt Loder - where they actually openly discuss what the bootleg series will become. Also some good stuff on Self Portrait:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bob-dylan-recovering-christian-19840621

Keep trying, it's worth it. And speaking of his house in Malibu, as he does, here 'tis (brace yourselves) http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k20/thaliasghost/2995_Malibu3ir.jpg
Reminds me of some of his albums (and interviews).

What is that thing on the far left--?

chimney covered w/vines?

His old political leanings, xpost

that cover art is amazing. total guess, but is it dylan's dad?

I understand it's Jack Kerouac.

Super excited for this!

Keep trying, it's worth it.

Still plowing through it -- there's some serious gold in here.

On video:

What do you make of video? Do you think it's all that important?

Uh, to sell records, yeah. But videos have always been around. David Bowie's been makin' 'em since he started. There was one thing I saw on a video, and I thought it was great. Then I heard the record on the radio, and it was nothin', you know? But video does give you something to hook onto.

I was just talkin' to Ronnie Wood the other night. He went to the Duran Duran show at the Garden, and he said it was really funny, because they had a great big screen up over the stage with huge close-ups of the band members. And every time they showed a close-up of somebody in the band, the audience would just go crazy — they'd go mad, you know? So while they were showing a close-up of somebody in the band, the guitar player'd be playing a lick. So he'd think they were all doing it for him. Then he'd play the same lick again to get the same response — and get nothing.

On Self Portrait:

But why did you make it a double-album joke?
Well, it wouldn't have held up as a single album — then it really would've been bad, you know. I mean, if you're gonna put a lot of crap on it, you might as well load it up!

On change:

In the Sixties, there was feeling that this society really was changing. Looking back, do you feel it changed that much?
I think it did. A lot of times people forget these modern days that we know now, where you can get on an airplane and fly anywhere you want nonstop, direct, and be there — that's recent. That's since what, 1940? Not even that — after the war, it was. And telephones? Forget it. I mean, when I was growin' up, I remember we had a phone in the house, but you had to dial it; and I also remember there was a party line of maybe six other people. And no matter when you got on the phone, you know, there might be somebody else on it. And I never grew up with television. When television first came in, it came on at like four in the afternoon, and it was off the air by seven at night. So you had more time to . . . I guess to think. It can never go back to the way it was, but it was all changing in the Fifties and Sixties.

My kids, they know television, they know telephones. They don't think about that stuff, you know? Even airplanes: I never rode on an airplane until 1964 or somethin'. Up till that time, if you wanted to go across the country, you took a train or a Greyhound bus, or you hitchhiked. I don't know. I don't think of myself as that old, or having seen that much, but . . .

That's very possibly the best profile of a major star I've ever read. Damn.

I remember we had a phone in the house, but you had to dial it

^^Unused lyric from "Clean Cut Kid".