Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series

Kind of relevant/funny (grabbed via the hoffman forums) -- a still from Antonioni's Blow Up
http://www.idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/images/bu/burickytick.jpg

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, the Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition of the film will be released on October 28th, and will mark its first release on Blu-ray (standard DVD is also available). These 10th Anniversary Editions of the film all feature 2 1/2 hours of bonus and never-before-seen content, including extended scenes from the film and full-length interviews with Scorsese, Dave van Ronk and Liam Clancy. Both formats are also available in a Special Edition Deluxe Box that will include both Blu-ray and DVD versions of the film and bonus content, as well as an exclusively produced Bob Dylan magazine that features reproductions of historical articles about the artist, plus three high-quality lithographic photo prints of Dylan, all in a deluxe portfolio

BOX SET SPECIAL FEATURES:

Two-disc Blu-Ray edition & two-disc DVD edition in a deluxe portfolio
Three 8x10 lithographic photo prints
Special edition Bob Dylan magazine featuring historical articles and photos
BLU RAY & DVD FEATURES:

Unedited “Apothecary Scene” from the 1966 U.K. tour
Interview with director Martin Scorsese on the making of the film
Extended interviews from Liam Clancy and Dave Van Ronk
Original trailer for the DVD release
BOB DYLAN PERFORMANCES:

“Blowin’ in the Wind” – live on TV : March 1963
“Girl from the North Country” – from unaired Canadian TV special “Quest”: February 1964
“Man of Constant Sorrow” – live on TV : March 1964
“Mr. Tambourine Man” – Newport Folk Festival : July 26, 1964
“Love Minus Zero/No Limit” – London, England : May 1965
“Like a Rolling Stone” – Live in Newcastle, England : May 21, 1966
“One Too Many Mornings” – Live in Liverpool, England : May 1, 1966
OTHER FEATURES:

Unused promotional spot for “Positively 4th St.”
“I Can’t Leave Her Behind” – work in progress in hotel room Glasgow, May 19th, 1966

(that's the deluxe Deluxe; for diff editions---I might just get the cheapo Deluxe DVD---check his site)

Links on this page will let you compare contents of each edition: https://ndh10.com/

As Matos pointed out, the film came out 11 years ago in July so this is about 70 weeks late

Guess "11th Anniversary" doesn't have the same ring to it

https://www.discogs.com/Bob-Dylan-The-Bootleg-Series-Collection/release/7730624
^^impressive enough box

kinda wanna do a new bootleg series poll, either as vol 13 anticipation or after its release

listening to vol 5 Rolling Thunder Revue today - I don't really like it all that much, too heavy, hectic, rushed... the Biograph set does feature the ultimate live "Isis" though, and that's from same tour iirc

I'd rank vols 1-3, Live 1966, Tell Tale Signs as top releases

No Direction Home, Another Self Portrait and Complete Basement Tapes very good mid-tier (ASP and CBT great albums, NDH not a good album but some fantastic tracks featured)

Whitmark Demos and Rolling Thunder bottom, RT cuz I'm not much into the shouting style etc. and Whitmark Demos cuz I felt like I'd heard it all already

can't recall vol 6 too well, not sure what to make of vol 12

listening to vol 6 now I remember it is excellent, need to revisit proper but probably place it in top tier

6 is good, apart from Baez ruining it. Nice to hear "fun Bob"

Pretty Things got banned from there in 65 or so. Tarfumes probably has the deets, but The Who had a disastrous tour there as well.

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Ugly tHings had a special book dedicated to the Pretty Things Australian tour released several years ago. Not sure if it's still available but since Mike Stax's fandom of the Pretty Things is pretty deep he may have kept it in print.

Sorry that would be NZ and Australia was Small Faces/Who

Has there been any talk of a Grateful Dead set to make something valid official rather than the mess the released set was?

Andy Greene reports:
Bob Dylan's new box set The 1966 Live Recordings isn't hitting shelves until November 11th, but his team is already thinking about their next archival release. For the thirteenth chapter of the Bootleg Series, the musician is strongly leaning toward a box set devoted to his gospel period, which ran from 1979 to 1981. The only other set under major consideration is one that chronicles the 1974 Blood on the Tracks sessions.
----from http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bob-dylan-plotting-gospel-years-bootleg-series-w444677?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=daily&ut

Woah, either would be highly welcome in these quarters

Would definitely pick up a gospel-era set.

super pumped about the gospel era set!!! i remember a Mojo article about some of those tours and they sounded pretty crazy, like raging band and a really adversarial, fire and brimstone vibe between him and the audience...

yeah good idea to do a period outside of the 60s. will be interesting to see how they put it together, considering the kitchen sink approach of the last few releases.
live shows from this period smoke, he had an amazing band.
http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=3087

Gospel set would be interesting but the idea that it would be more desirable than a Blood on the Tracks era set is wtf.

yeah i mean i've wanted to hear the 2 version of the album (ny and minneapolis) sorted by date in their entirety since forever

Think I might be getting off the bus at this point.

Same. Blood never did it for me, outside of a few songs; his band just seemed kind of meh on that record. And I could never get into the gospel stuff.

I'd really be into a never-ending tour box, provided it starts around '97-'98 or so.

The settings are very, very secondary to the songs and the singer on Blood 2.0, much more so than any of his other 1970-1980 albums, far as I remember, but I think it works out okay. 1970's New Morning (tweaking the John Wesley Harding sound design, adding a few more performers at times, with more atmospheric changes, shadings)is also very spare, but more striking than the second Blood, because the players (and singers) are more distinctive (for the most part, though dig the New Riders steel guitarist on a couple Blood 2.0 tracks). Seems like the original Blood would be like that, with Eric Weissburg etc aboard, although xgau previewed it and said "it struck me as a sellout to the memory of his acoustic period." I dunno, I wouldn't mind hearing it all, though hope it's not like that slow strummy version of "Tangled Up In Blue", frequently on YouTube (he's sitting on a stool in a Rolling Thunder lull, with the melting clownface).

Always thought Endless Tour might eventually be like Dick's/Dave's Picks....

i think the gospel era one could be cool, another self-portrait was def not something ppl were clamoring for and that turned out to be among the most satisfying of all the bootleg series

Yeah, I was shocked at how great Another Self Portrait was...although, I haven't played the actual Self Portrait disc more than once.

also tell-tale signs had a lot of gems on it and held together

in a way i almost prefer the ones from less "classic" eras because they tend to reframe his career in interesting ways

yeah tell tale signs and ASP are definitely the most interesting Bootleg Series releases -- even moreso since there was a ton of stuff on each that had never been bootlegged.

those and the first bootleg release

One spin of the original Self-Portrait is about right, although I wouldn't mind hearing "Days of '49" again.

another self portrait is probably the dylan thing i've listened to the most in the past 4-5 years ... so great.

If The Complete Basement Tapes counts re the regular Bootleg Series, it's def one of the best therein (even if you've got A Tree With Roots, cause there's even more songs and also for inst a longer "Bourbon Street" and better sound)
Also Vol. 1-3, if that's the one subtitled Series of Dreams.

But yeah wow what I've heard of Another S-P (gotta get the version w Isle of Wight, right?)

i mean, they're all great, let's be real.

Also---seems like I've seen this listed as part of the Bootleg Series, although it was Japan-only (nevertheless, some good prices for second-hand online). Seems like it should be in there, with lots of OOP and prev. unreleased, plus cherrypicks from legit oldies (sure wish they'd incl. more from the OOP Tribute To Woody Guthrie, like the scorched earth "I Ain't Got No Home" and cathartic "Dear Mrs. Roosevelt", electric as hell):
https://www.discogs.com/Bob-Dylan-Live-1961-2000-Thirty-Nine-Years-Of-Great-Concert-Performances/release/2582881

yeah that one is pretty haphazard, but has plenty of good stuff on it. the "tryin to get to heaven" is fantastic. and anyone skeptical about a gospel era bootleg series should check the "dead man" and "slow train" included.

(durr, not tryin to get to heaven, cold irons bound)

that heavy, excellent performance of "Cold Irons Bound" was floating around the US as a promo-only (?) single, around the time of the album's Japan-only release.

Light blue label, y'all may remember it...

this one?

https://www.discogs.com/Bob-Dylan-Love-Sick/master/363988

i think a lot of that 1961-200 comp was drawn from a brief late 90s/early 00s period when Dylan's web people were putting up a ton of real audio rarities from the vaults.

Yeah. Hi Sleeve, there were several CD singles & EPs with some or all of the tracks in your link; the only version I've still got is this: https://www.discogs.com/Bob-Dylan-Million-Miles-Live-Recordings-1997-1999/release/2884949

Still dying for the complete Masked & Anonymous sessions. Whotta band!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hO-83CIVKM
^^if there's more of this I'm all in, must've seen that clip a thousand times

niels I just went down a Bob Dylan YouTube rabbithole and it was v v rewarding - thank you

so happy to hear that!

Goddamn if Bob doesn't deliver that sublime song with the cold dead sneer I had always pictured. And that band clicks like a detonator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqi9BNl1OhA
^^this is a decent jam, how come it's not on the vols 1-3 release? is it on any official release?

I just finished listening to the 6CD set of VOL 12: THE CUTTING EDGE.

It took me 10 months, on and off, and with playing songs and discs over and over again.
Finally reached 'sad eyed lady of the lowlands' and don't need to hear it more than once -- a peculiarly unappealing song to me, almost uniquely in this Dylan era.

But the whole box set (leaving aside the longer version which is probably too much even for me) seems like the best music reissue I've ever heard, and unparalleled for sheer history-making studio excitement.

Just realizing for the first time that 'Visions of Johanna' used to be fast R&B was a typical revelation, though true deep Dylan fans will have known it for 40 years.

I haven't read or heard any discussion of it at all - I will now look for some on this thread.

'66 world tour box out today; Times has a thing on the recent promotional film w prev. unreleased footage, and interview w the guy who recorded all the shows (also some audio for Eat The Document etc) http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/arts/music/bob-dylan-1966-live-recordings-video.html?_r=0

xpost - yeah that visions of johanna kinda ruined me on the album version

saw a listing for the "real" albert hall show

that short doc is great -- but it just makes me want to have a full-length doc devoted to the 66 tour (i know there's a lot already on no direction home, but it still seems like they could do a devoted film).
really want that 66 set, but probably will have to wait til xmas.