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aswyth
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Re: Complete Dylan Basement Tapes
Aug 27, 2014, 15:20
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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