Out in early November in 2CD / 6 CD and 18CD editions – the cream, the trifle or the 18 course banquet with wafer thin mint of Zimmy’s 1965-1966 studio & I assume some live adventures.
I can see myself buying the 6 CD and “downloading” the 18 unless its really reasonable price. Which it won’t be. The full set is just a “copyright extension” kind of release I’m guessing
Gee 18 CDs
I’m still scarred from paying a bundle essentially for some pics of record covers on the tell tale signs
Mug that I am I will probably bend over again.
Downloaded the two pre-release tracks from amazon this morning and they’re great. Will probably go for the 2-disc set, I think that’ll be enough for me. One whole CD of LARS seems a bit much – 20 versions!
The bobternet has been going crazy since yesterday, it’s most entertaining!
Blimey. Nine mono 45s in the big set: http://bobdylanbox.shop.musictoday.com/page/MinimalSplash
…and 600 dollars. Double blimey.
I’m still waiting for a release of his Warfield Theater shows from 1979, or something from the 1978 tour. I have a boot from Adelaide in 78 which pisses all over Budokan…
Yes Japan was start of tour , were hitting their stride into the Aussie leg. Is that boot of Adelaide or Brisbane ” aka OK I still get stoned “
Yes, thats the one! The internet tells me it was recorded at the Festival Hall Brisbane.
yeah really good, Dylan in fine voice ,good gtr sax, the whole shooting match .
Of course this is a glorious era, however Bob never spent too long recording albums, so the differences in takes may not be that significant relatively. Not like Strawberry Fields or something that evolved over weeks or months. 2 CD (or 3 LP) set for me, I may find ,ahem, another way to hear the 6 CD version. The 18 CD version? No one really would listen to that more than once, surely?
I would have thought that the 18 disc set would only appeal to the sort of person who has it all on bootlegs already
Therein lies madness….
I’m sticking to my less Dylan is more Dylan strategy, it’s never let me down yet.
One thing is sure, Dylan’s people over the last 25 years have left The Beatles and The Stones back catalogues in the shade.
Bit the bullet -went for the elpees with cd version thrown in.
Didn’t fancy the 18 CD version, but then they got me with the leopard skin printed spindle….
This period is where Dylan really broke all the current boundary’s and this glorious music influenced everyone on the rock scene at that time and since.
It`s the 6 CD box for me and `Like A Rolling Stone` is in my top 5 songs of all time BUT 20 times??? YES bloody marvelous.
How much of this is ‘Thin Wild Mercury Music’?
Now that is bootleg and a half – the Seems Like A Freezeout version of Johanna is the peach.
http://www.bobsboots.com/CDs/cd-t21.html
You could do worse by tracking down the bootleg set ‘Electric Gashcat’ for the best of these years
http://jokerman.org.uk/lb/files/LBF-06057-Electric-Gashcat-Electric-Gashcat-Description.txt
I have that boot. It’s brilliant. Up there with the Cash sessions and BOT Tapes. I think I have most of the other numbers on assorted ‘genuine bootleg’ series.
According to “sources” we may still see a Blood On The Tracks bootleg series release..
“The Cutting Edge is the third Bootleg Series collection released in the past two years, following Another Self Portrait and The Basement Tapes Complete — and the Dylan camp is nowhere near done raiding the vaults. “We’ve always wanted to do one of pre-album stuff where Bob is just singing songs in Greenwich Village coffeehouses,” says the Dylan source. “We’d also love to revisit Blood on the Tracks, Infidels, Oh Mercy and the gospel albums.”
Blood On the Tapes \ Tracks is a shoe-in, as is a Gospel show (Massey 1980), Oh Mercy they’ve covered in Tell Tale Signs really. I fell the folkie Dylan has been done really.
I’d have liked a DVD to accompany the 1965-6 Bootleg set. The Pennebaker ‘Something Is Happening’ edit of the 66 tour footage alongside Eat The Document and the full footage of stuff we saw in the No Direction Home film.
What I don’t get is why the 2CD set is around £16 and the 6CD set is £106. They did this with the last two installments as well and, frankly, that is taking the preverbial. The 18CD set is $599.99 and limited to 5,000 – no way is it worth that money, but they know people will be gagging to hear this stuff – I guess they do it because they can. This really hacks me off!
It seems that a good number of people seem prepared to stump up the £500 plus, based on an assumption that the set will appreciate in value.
Even knocking off £100 for the singles and book it still means paying £20 plus for each CD. Which seems a lot in an age of digital downloads and file sharing.