Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series

goddamn it!
xp it's too bad this set doesn't have a dylan version of love is just a 4 letter word! i think that was rumored.

I clicked on it, it did nowt.

works for me. looks HEAVY.

it was SO heavy to carry home from work, it's 15" x 15" x 6"....waiting a little before i lift the lid, let the excitement build. I'll post another 1 or 2 if there is interest...

As you can see it comes with a big boy Da Buddha vaporizer (I kid)

xxxxpost Yeah, she's pretty salty in Hajdu's Positively 4th Street, and in Rolling Stone's coverage of Rolling Thunder Review. She finally agrees to get on the bus when assured a proper stipend. ("I dunno, we're not dealing with the most stable personalities here--what if Ramblin' Jack decides he wants to go live in a boxcar when we're playing the hardcore folkie places?") Then Dylan comes sidling up, "with a collector's glint in his eye": "Hey you gonna sing that song, yknow---" "What song?" "Aw yknow that song,,,I heard it on the radio the other day---" (reporter picks up that they're referring to the recent "Diamonds and Rust") "You mean," she grabs him by the hair at the back of his neck, looks him hard in the eye,"that song I wrote about my husband?"

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I made some snaps of the box set if anyone is interested. The whole thing is incredible but the fetish Powerball is an actual 35mm strip of the release print of Don't Look Back. Completely over the top.

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they were an hour ago! looked good

xp dow: where's that story from? hilarious stuff!

haha, this thing is dylan nerd heaven

The "Diamonds and Rust" story is apparently told in her memoir and quoted in Wikipedia.

^^IIRC, it was also in the big tour report in Rolling Stone.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/on-the-road-with-bob-dylan-joan-baez-and-the-rolling-thunder-revue-19760115?page=3

what's this mystery box????

kind of crazy that in the midst of multiple attempts at "on the road again," they knock out "maggie's farm" in one take. boom.

xxpost, yeah, I was just reciting that as remembered, glad it's online--thought it might have been written by another of the Stone's Rolling Thunder correspondents, Larry Sloman, dubbed "Ratso" by some of the touring minstrels (he was also assigned to walking Dylan's dog)(Ratso pronounced Lou Reed's Berlin "The Sargent Pepper's of the Seventies," which sounds about right; the mid-70s, anyway, unless it was Tonight's The Night).

kind of crazy that in the midst of multiple attempts at "on the road again," they knock out "maggie's farm" in one take. boom.
--tylerw

Yeah the track lists show some mind boggling stuff. There are single recording dates where you just can't believe he churned out five or six final versions, unreal

Saw the vinyl at Amoeba today. Three LPs for $90? No thank you!

xp yeah -- and some iconic moments that are just total on-the-fly improvs, like hearing them deciding how to start "subterranean homesick blues"...

which one of you fools is gonna give me a copy of this cuz no way am I paying for it

Three LPs for $90?

Huh...so Bob at least borrowed one idea from Neil Young.

Haha.

So there is a Ponos version?

I'm 10 minutes in to the first disc. You must go buy this. Jaw dropping.

which one of you fools is gonna give me a copy of this cuz no way am I paying for it
--Οὖτις

Bernie stans only, dude, sorry

lol Tarfumes

Is there a picture of Al Gorgoni somewhere in that thing?

Speaking of Rolling Thunder, how's the Bootleg Series collection? I like the Hard Rain LP.

Hadn't seen this before: good bio of Tom Wilson, with lots of cool quotes from his clients and others:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/remembering-bob-dylan-velvet-undergrounds-pioneering-producer-20151104?page=6

Oh man dow, you need to get that Rolling Thunder Revue thingy right away. Hard Rain is a like a watered down version of what they did with the highlights discs on the bootleg series (and I like Hard Rain more than most, it seems). It's probably my second favorite of the entire series, after the '66 concert.

seconded, the rolling thunder bootleg series is a blast

Thirded. Totally dig that Rolling Thunder thingumybob, which I started listening partly because of reviews on this thread, thanks guys. Also saw in some bios, and on this and other threads that Hard Rain is from the second leg or incarnation of the tour, I think, which just couldn't recapture the magical mix of the first one. There is a funny quote in the Clinton Heylin bio from Kinky Friedman, who replaced Ramblin' Jack Elliot, I believe to the effect that what he learned on that tour was "there is only one step from the limo to the gutter."

Elliott

Yes, Hard Rain is not actually from the proper Rolling Thunder Revue. But, pretty darn close, in any case.

Did some laundry while listening to the Sampler on Spotify. Folding clothes went along well with the peppier "Leopardskin Pillbox Hat."

that 'leopardskin pillbox hat' on the sampler is kinda hilarious, damn near a spike jones tune or something

anyone know if he's done 'visions of johanna' live w/ a similar approach to that on the sampler? the other cuts were interesting or entertaining, they gave me fresh ears, but that's the one that really made me sit up and go 'holy shit'. i think if i came across him unaware doing that live circa say before the flood it would've blown my mind.

to my knowledge he's never really strayed too far from the blonde on blonde arrangement of "visions" -- he's done it solo obviously, but never really radically re-imagined it.

Anyone else who bought the 18CD one having trouble with the digital download? Unbelievable, for 600 bucks!

Anyone else who bought the 18CD one having trouble with the digital download?

but sry to hear that

not much buzz around this record is there? have not been able to hear it all myself yet...

anyway, I guess it was suggested upthread that this is less a revelation (1-3, Tell Tale Signs, Another SP) more a documentation (whitmark, basement tapes) type bootleg

Ha, Niels, yes--I don't imagine there are any others. The thing I like best about the box is hearing each session complete, how he works. As TylerW said, I think, he's going along and then--boom--Maggie's Farm, one take. The whole thing is thrilling in that way

that does sound really cool

I'm sure it will circulate, if you know what i mean

less a revelation...more a documentation...the basement tapes: The Complete Basement Tapes were revelatory to me, even after hearing A Tree With Roots: more songs, incl. ones prev. heard only in fragments, and others complete unknowns (better sound doesn't hurt). Think I can wait for this one, though.

The 6-disc version, that is; doubt I could ever afford the 18 (which might be required for revelation).

i've made it through 9 discs so far, and it is a very fun listen. i'll probably go back through it one more time and cherrypick the stuff I actually want to listen to over and over. but it is just cool to be a fly on the wall, hearing the whole thing unfold.

I found the 6-disc edition to be endlessly fascinating, and the LARS session confirmed what I've long thought to be true: there is no more difficult or challenging situation for a musician than playing with Bob Dylan. You have to consider the implications of every word in every line; then, you have to make it swing. Now do all of that without coming off as self-conscious and/or getting in the way.

And on an optimistic note, the website says "these will be the only copies of the collector's edition ever manufactured" -- that still leaves open the possibility for a stripped-down release of all the material (maybe just the discs without the vinyl or the books, maybe a download-only of the music).

"LARS session"?

Like A Rolling Stone