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zphage 3378 posts |
Aug 26, 2014, 13:11
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The definitive chronicle of Dylan's legendary 1967 sessions with The Band Historic 6-disc set includes 138 tracks Compiled from meticulously restored original tapes Exclusive 120 page deluxe-bound book containing rare and unseen photographs and memorabilia Extensive liner notes Compiled from meticulously restored original tapes many found only recently this historic six-disc set is the definitive chronicle of the artist's legendary 1967 recording sessions with members of his touring ensemble who would later achieve their own fame as The Band. Among Bob Dylan's many cultural milestones, the legendary Basement Tapes have long fascinated and enticed successive generations of musicians, fans and cultural critics alike. Having transformed music and culture during the early 1960s, Dylan reached unparalleled heights across 1965 and 1966 through the release of three historic albums, the groundbreaking watershed single "Like A Rolling Stone," a controversial and legendary 'electric' performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and wildly polarizing tours of the United States, Europe and the UK. Dylan's mercurial rise and prodigious outpouring of work during that decade came to an abrupt halt in July 1966 when he was reported to have been in a serious motorcycle accident. Recovering from his injuries and away from the public eye for the first time in years, Dylan ensconced himself, along with Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson and, later, Levon Helm, in the basement of a small house, dubbed "Big Pink" by the group, in West Saugerties, New York. This collective recorded more than a hundred songs over the next several months including traditional covers, wry and humorous ditties, off-the cuff performances and, most important, dozens of newly-written Bob Dylan songs, including future classics "I Shall Be Released," "The Mighty Quinn," "This Wheel's On Fire" and "You Ain't Going Nowhere." When rumors and rare acetates of some of these recordings began surfacing, it created a curiosity strong enough to fuel an entirely new segment of the music business: the bootleg record. In 1969, an album mysteriously titled Great White Wonder began showing up in record shops around the country, and Dylan's music from the summer of 1967 began seeping into the fabric of popular culture, penetrating the souls of music lovers everywhere. With each passing year, more and more fans sought out this rare contraband, desperate to hear this new music from the legendary Bob Dylan. The actual recordings, however, remained commercially unavailable until 1975, when Columbia Records released a scant 16 of them on The Basement Tapes album (that album also included eight new songs by The Band, without Dylan). A critical and popular success, The Basement Tapes went Top 10 in the US and UK. Over the years, the songs on The Basement Tapes have haunted and perplexed fans, with the recordings themselves representing a Holy Grail for Dylanologists. What's on the rest of those reels? The Basement Tapes Complete brings together, for the first time ever, every salvageable recording from the tapes including recently discovered early gems recorded in the "Red Room" of Dylan's home in upstate New York. Garth Hudson worked closely with Canadian music archivist and producer Jan Haust to restore the deteriorating tapes to pristine sound, with much of this music preserved digitally for the first time. The decision was made to present The Basement Tapes Complete as intact as possible. Also, unlike the official 1975 release, these performances are presented as close as possible to the way they were originally recorded and sounded back in the summer of 1967. The tracks on The Basement Tapes Complete run in mostly chronological order based on Garth Hudson's numbering system. Disc: 1 1. Edge of the Ocean 2. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It 3. Roll on Train 4. Mr. Blue 5. Belshazzar 6. I Forgot to Remember to Forget 7. You Win Again 8. Still in Town 9. Waltzing with Sin 10. Big River (Take 1) 11. Big River (Take 2) 12. Folsom Prison Blues 13. Bells of Rhymney 14. Spanish is the Loving Tongue 15. Under Control 16. Ol' Roison the Beau 17. I'm Guilty of Loving You 18. Cool Water 19. The Auld Triangle 20. Po' Lazarus 21. I'm a Fool for You (Take 1) 22. I'm a Fool for You (Take 2) Disc: 2 1. Johnny Todd 2. Tupelo 3. Kickin' My Dog Around 4. See You Later Allen Ginsberg (Take 1) 5. See You Later Allen Ginsberg (Take 2) 6. Tiny Montgomery 7. Big Dog 8. I'm Your Teenage Prayer 9. Four Strong Winds 10. The French Girl (Take 1) 11. The French Girl (Take 2) 12. Joshua Gone Barbados 13. I'm in the Mood 14. Baby Ain't That Fine 15. Rock, Salt and Nails 16. A Fool Such As I 17. Song for Canada 18. People Get Ready 19. I Don't Hurt Anymore 20. Be Careful of Stones That You Throw 21. One Man's Loss 22. Lock Your Door 23. Baby, Won't You be My Baby 24. Try Me Little Girl 25. I Can't Make it Alone 26. Don't You Try Me Now Disc: 3 1. Young but Daily Growing 2. Bonnie Ship the Diamond 3. The Hills of Mexico 4. Down on Me 5. One for the Road 6. I'm Alright 7. Million Dollar Bash (Take 1) 8. Million Dollar Bash (Take 2) 9. Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread (Take 1) 10. Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread (Take 2) 11. I'm Not There 12. Please Mrs. Henry 13. Crash on the Levee (Take 1) 14. Crash on the Levee (Take 2) 15. Lo and Behold! (Take 1) 16. Lo and Behold! (Take 2) 17. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Take 1) 18. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Take 2) 19. I Shall be Released (Take 1) 20. I Shall be Released (Take 2) 21. This Wheel's on Fire 22. Too Much of Nothing (Take 1) 23. Too Much of Nothing (Take 2) Disc: 4 1. Tears of Rage (Take 1) 2. Tears of Rage (Take 2) 3. Tears of Rage (Take 3) 4. Quinn the Eskimo (Take 1) 5. Quinn the Eskimo (Take 2) 6. Open the Door Homer (Take 1) 7. Open the Door Homer (Take 2) 8. Open the Door Homer (Take 3) 9. Nothing Was Delivered (Take 1) 10. Nothing Was Delivered (Take 2) 11. Nothing Was Delivered (Take 3) 12. All American Boy 13. Sign on the Cross 14. Odds and Ends (Take 1) 15. Odds and Ends (Take 2) 16. Get Your Rocks Off 17. Clothes Line Saga 18. Apple Suckling Tree (Take 1) 19. Apple Suckling Tree (Take 2) 20. Don't Ya Tell Henry 21. Bourbon Street Disc: 5 1. Blowin' in the Wind 2. One Too Many Mornings 3. A Satisfied Mind 4. It Ain't Me, Babe 5. Ain't No More Cane (Take 1) 6. Ain't No More Cane (Take 2) 7. My Woman She's A-Leavin' 8. Santa-Fe 9. Mary Lou, I Love You Too 10. Dress it up, Better Have it All 11. Minstrel Boy 12. Silent Weekend 13. What's it Gonna be When it Comes Up 14. 900 Miles from My Home 15. Wildwood Flower 16. One Kind Favor 17. She'll be Coming Round the Mountain 18. It's the Flight of the Bumblebee 19. Wild Wolf 20. Goin' to Acapulco 21. Gonna Get You Now 22. If I Were A Carpenter 23. Confidential 24. All You Have to do is Dream (Take 1) 25. All You Have to do is Dream (Take 2) Disc: 6 1. 2 Dollars and 99 Cents 2. Jelly Bean 3. Any Time 4. Down by the Station 5. Hallelujah, I've Just Been Moved 6. That's the Breaks 7. Pretty Mary 8. Will the Circle be Unbroken 9. King of France 10. She's on My Mind Again 11. Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad 12. On a Rainy Afternoon 13. I Can't Come in with a Broken Heart 14. Next Time on the Highway 15. Northern Claim 16. Love is Only Mine 17. Silhouettes 18. Bring it on Home 19. Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies 20. The Spanish Song (Take 1) 21. The Spanish Song (Take 2)
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1001realapes 2387 posts |
Aug 27, 2014, 05:46
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INSTABUY !!!
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Stevo 6664 posts |
Aug 27, 2014, 08:33
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Has been something I've hoped would turn up in that series for years. Now just hoping its not wildly expensive. I've seen that there's a 2cd/3lp abridged version too. Main one being 6cd. Trying to remember what the problem with the sound was. Other than I didn't see it remastered when the definitive versions of other 60s material were. That was also true of his 1st s/t lp. Think that came later though. Stevo
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Hunter T Wolfe 1707 posts |
Aug 27, 2014, 10:30
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I downloaded a bootleg with certainly the majority of this stuff on (it filled 5 full CDs) about 4 years ago after reading Greil Marcus's book on the subject. I still haven't managed to listen to it all the way through.
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aswyth 78 posts |
Aug 27, 2014, 15:20
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Stevo wrote: I've seen that there's a 2cd/3lp abridged version too. Main one being 6cd. Trying to remember what the problem with the sound was. Other than I didn't see it remastered when the definitive versions of other 60s material were. That was also true of his 1st s/t lp. Think that came later though. There was the original (legit) Basement Tapes CD, which actually *was* remastered a few years back and sounds pretty good, considering the source material. (The first album CD was remastered at the same time.) However, you'd need both that and the 6xCD box to have all the material. The original Basement Tapes collection contained half a dozen songs by the Band (without Dylan) that won't be on this boxed set, and apparently a lot of the other songs were overdubbed and messed with by Robbie Robertson long after the fact. They won't be on this version either (only the original non-overdubbed versions will be.) Someone's told me that 38 of these tunes (or versions thereof) have never been available, even as bootlegs.
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bauheed 895 posts |
Aug 29, 2014, 12:34
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Stevo wrote: Now just hoping its not wildly expensive. £110 on Amazon. Just in time for Christmas... http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00MXILU3S/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B00MXILU3S&linkCode=as2&tag=theactlis-21
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Stevo 6664 posts |
Aug 29, 2014, 13:09
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Wonder what the shorter version will cost?
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Lubin 509 posts |
Aug 29, 2014, 15:12
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Stevo wrote: Wonder what the shorter version will cost? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Basement-Tapes-Raw-Bootleg-Vol/dp/B00MXILUH4/ref=sr_1_6?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1409321427&sr=1-6&keywords=bob+dylan
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thispoison 253 posts |
Sep 01, 2014, 18:09
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The upgrade in SQ on 'I'm Not There (1956)' [one of Dylan's very best sngs IMO - a ghostly mysterious timeless wonder] from the bootlegs to the 'I'm Not There' OST was considerable, AND there are reels of newly discovered tapes, so this set COULD be revelatory. Won't be paying £110 for it though.
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