Dylan- Bootleg Series vol. 11

[johngael]

The next installment of the Bob Dylan Bootleg series was announced today. It will contain 6 discs of the legendary Basement Tapes all remastered from the original analogue tapes in the collection of Garth Hudson. There are even some tapes that were thought to be lost that were rediscovered from the Red Room at Bob's house. Can't freaking wait!!! For more information go to http://www.bobdylan.com

[drjohncarpenter]

The next installment of the Bob Dylan Bootleg series was announced today. It will contain 6 discs of the legendary Basement Tapes all remastered from the original analogue tapes in the collection of Garth Hudson. There are even some tapes that were thought to be lost that were rediscovered from the Red Room at Bob's house. Can't freaking wait!!! For more information go to http://www.bobdylan.com

I've had them all for years, on A Tree With Roots, but this will be a must-buy!

The Basement Tapes To Be Released November 4

BOB DYLAN'S THE BASEMENT TAPES COMPLETE: THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 11 SET FOR NOVEMBER 4 RELEASE BY COLUMBIA RECORDS/LEGACY RECORDINGS

Meticulously Restored for the First Time from Newly Found Original Tape Sources, Six Disc Set is Definitive Chronicle of Dylan's Legendary 1967 Sessions with The Band

Special Two Disc Edition, The Basement Tapes Raw: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 Presents Highlights From The Basement Tapes Complete

Pre-Order The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 At Amazon

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Bob Dylan - The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11
Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings will release Bob Dylan's The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 on November 4. 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.

The Basement Tapes Raw: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11, a two-disc version of highlights from the deluxe edition, will also be released on November 4. This will also be issued as a 3 LP set on 180-gram vinyl.

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 United Kingdom. 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 in upstate New York.

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, which would come to be known as Bob Dylan and The Band, 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, with John Rockwell, of The New York Times, calling it "one of the greatest albums in the history of American popular music," Paul Nelson, in Rolling Stone, praising the tracks as "the hardest, toughest, sweetest, saddest, funniest, wisest songs I know"' and the Washington Post noting that "...Dylan has to rank as the single greatest artist modern American pop music has produced." Robert Christgau gave the album an A+ rating in the Village Voice, where it topped the annual Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.

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.

BOB DYLAN - THE BASEMENT TAPES COMPLETE:
THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 11
(all songs written by Bob Dylan unless otherwise noted)

CD 1
1. Edge of the Ocean
2. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It (written by Clarence Williams)
3. Roll on Train
4. Mr. Blue (written by Dewayne Blackwell)
5. Belshazzar (written by Johnny Cash)
6. I Forgot to Remember to Forget (written by Charlie A Feathers and Stanley A Kesler)
7. You Win Again (written by Hank Williams)
8. Still in Town (written by Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard)
9. Waltzing with Sin (written by Sonny Burns and Red Hayes)
10. Big River (Take 1) (written by Johnny Cash)
11. Big River (Take 2) (written by Johnny Cash)
12. Folsom Prison Blues (written by Johnny Cash)
13. Bells of Rhymney (written by Idris Davies and Peter Seeger)
14. Spanish is the Loving Tongue
15. Under Control
16. Ol' Roison the Beau (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
17. I'm Guilty of Loving You
18. Cool Water (written by Bob Nolan)
19. The Auld Triangle (written by Brendan Francis Behan)
20. Po' Lazarus (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
21. I'm a Fool for You (Take 1)
22. I'm a Fool for You (Take 2)

CD 2
1. Johnny Todd (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
2. Tupelo (written by John Lee Hooker)
3. Kickin' My Dog Around (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
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 (written by Ian Tyson)
10. The French Girl (Take 1) (written by Ian Tyson and Sylvia Tyson)
11. The French Girl (Take 2) (written by Ian Tyson and Sylvia Tyson)
12. Joshua Gone Barbados (written by Eric Von Schmidt)
13. I'm in the Mood (written by Bernard Besman and John Lee Hooker)
14. Baby Ain't That Fine (written by Dallas Frazier)
15. Rock, Salt and Nails (written by Bruce Phillips)
16. A Fool Such As I (written by William Marvin Trader)
17. Song for Canada (written by Pete Gzowski and Ian Tyson)
18. People Get Ready (written by Curtis L Mayfield)
19. I Don't Hurt Anymore (written By Donald I Robertson and Walter E Rollins)
20. Be Careful of Stones That You Throw (written by Benjamin Lee Blankenship)
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

CD 3
1. Young but Daily Growing (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
2. Bonnie Ship the Diamond (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
3. The Hills of Mexico (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
4. Down on Me (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
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 (written by Bob Dylan and Rick Danko)
22. Too Much of Nothing (Take 1)
23. Too Much of Nothing (Take 2)

CD 4
1. Tears of Rage (Take 1) (written by Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel)
2. Tears of Rage (Take 2) (written by Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel)
3. Tears of Rage (Take 3) (written by Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel)
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 (written by Bobby Bare)
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

CD 5
1. Blowin' in the Wind
2. One Too Many Mornings
3. A Satisfied Mind (written by Joe Hayes and Jack Rhodes)
4. It Ain't Me, Babe
5. Ain't No More Cane (Take 1) (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
6. Ain't No More Cane (Take 2) (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
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 (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
15. Wildwood Flower (written by A.P. Carter)
16. One Kind Favor (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
17. She'll be Coming Round the Mountain (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
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 (written by James Timothy Hardin)
23. Confidential (written by Dorina Morgan)
24. All You Have to do is Dream (Take 1)
25. All You Have to do is Dream (Take 2)

CD 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 (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
6. That's the Breaks
7. Pretty Mary
8. Will the Circle be Unbroken (written by A.P. Carter)
9. King of France
10. She's on My Mind Again
11. Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
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 (written by Bob Crewe and Frank C Slay Jr.)
18. Bring it on Home
19. Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
20. The Spanish Song (Take 1)
21. The Spanish Song (Take 2)

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BOB DYLAN- THE BASEMENT TAPES RAW:
THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 11
(all songs written by Bob Dylan unless otherwise noted)

CD 1
1. Open the Door, Homer (Restored version)
2. Odds and Ends (Alternate version)
3. Million Dollar Bash (Alternate version)
4. One Too Many Mornings (Unreleased)
5. I Don't Hurt Anymore (Unreleased) (written by Donald I Robertson and Walter E Rollins)
6. Ain't No More Cane (Alternate version) (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
7. Crash on the Levee (Restored version)
8. Tears of Rage (Without overdubs) (written by Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel)
9. Dress it up, Better Have it All (Unreleased)
10. I'm Not There (Previously released)
11. Johnny Todd (Unreleased) (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
12. Too Much of Nothing (Alternate version)
13. Quinn the Eskimo (Restored version)
14. Get Your Rocks Off (Unreleased)
15. Santa-Fe (Previously released)
16. Silent Weekend (Unreleased)
17. Clothes Line Saga (Restored version)
18. Please, Mrs. Henry (Restored version)
19. I Shall be Released (Restored version)

CD 2
1. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Alternate version)
2. Lo and Behold! (Alternate version)
3. Minstrel Boy (Previously released)
4. Tiny Montgomery (Without overdubs)
5. All You Have to do is Dream (Unreleased)
6. Goin' to Acapulco (Without overdubs)
7. 900 Miles from My Home (Unreleased) (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
8. One for the Road (Unreleased)
9. I'm Alright (Unreleased)
10. Blowin' in the Wind (Unreleased)
11. Apple Suckling Tree (Restored version)
12. Nothing Was Delivered (Restored version)
13. Folsom Prison Blues (Unreleased) (written by Johnny Cash)
14. This Wheel's on Fire (Without overdubs) (written by Bob Dylan and Rick Danko)
15. Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread (Restored version)
16. Don't Ya Tell Henry (Alternate version)
17. Baby, Won't You be My Baby (Unreleased)
18. Sign on the Cross (Unreleased)
19. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Without overdubs)

Musicians:
Bob Dylan
Robbie Robertson
Rick Danko
Richard Manuel
Garth Hudson
Levon Helm

(Lead vocals are sung by Bob Dylan. Harmony and instrumentation are unknown because all involved were multi-instrumentalists and vocalists, and no records remain.)

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http://www.bobdylan.com/us/news/bob-dylans-basement-tapes-complete-bootleg-series-vol-11-set-november-4-release

[johngael]

There will also be a 2 disc "Best of" version. Someone at Visions of Johanna did a comparison with A Tree With Roots and it looks like there are 11 or 12 all new tracks. The deluxe also has a 149 page (I think) hardback book with it. I already pre-ordered my copy.

[drjohncarpenter]

What I love about these sessions is how they started off as loose jamming, with all kinds of fascinating covers, from Sun to folk, from country to blues and novelty, and then new songs began to pop up. And it seems like Bob decided this could be a way to bang out a dozen fresh tunes and fulfill his Columbia contract. The caveat was that these new songs were perhaps the most stunning of his entire career, with the Band behind him in every way possible. And, at the end of the day, not a single cut saw the light of day by these guys until a 1975 double album release.

This will be quite the big drink come November, and worth every drop!

[George Smith]

Awesomely good news.

[rjm]

An answer to a prayer! I just came from the Rolling Stone site, reading all about it. {huffing and puffing}

ALL of it! Remastered, untampered-with (unlike the '75 release of a sampler).

They did it!!!!!!!

{ready to burst!}



rjm

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[drjohncarpenter]

An answer to a prayer! I just came from the Rolling Stone site, reading all about it. {huffing and puffing}

ALL of it! Remastered, untampered-with (unlike the '75 release of a sampler).

They did it!!!!!!!

{ready to burst!}

rjm

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You could have heard this material years ago, you know.

[rjm]

I tried. I did get some very generous, friendly advice for which I am very thankful. Somehow, I got lost. Whenever I found a place to get it, something went wrong.

I could have just done it via eBay, but my account got messed up when I tried to sell something, and the guy was a fake. I really didn't go back to eBay after that.

Anyway, this has even more, in the best possible sound. And it's all legal!

rjm

[drjohncarpenter]

I tried. I did get some very generous, friendly advice for which I am very thankful. Somehow, I got lost. Whenever I found a place to get it, something went wrong.

I could have just done it via eBay, but my account got messed up when I tried to sell something, and the guy was a fake. I really didn't go back to eBay after that.

Anyway, this has even more, in the best possible sound. And it's all legal!

rjm

Hmm, your memory seems a tad fuzzy.

[rjm]

I tried. I did get some very generous, friendly advice for which I am very thankful. Somehow, I got lost. Whenever I found a place to get it, something went wrong.

I could have just done it via eBay, but my account got messed up when I tried to sell something, and the guy was a fake. I really didn't go back to eBay after that.

Anyway, this has even more, in the best possible sound. And it's all legal!

rjm

Hmm, your memory seems a tad fuzzy.

Perhaps. That happens.

But I also lost, or couldn't find that particular message. I searched and searched. It's in there somewhere. I think it was extremely helpful, but it was also very early, before I had a genuine 21st century computer.

(Anyway, looking the dates, this was months before I got WiFi, and that first tablet with 3G. All I had was a tiny keyboard Kindle with a sort-of-browser, a Win98 computer without a sound card on a dial-up connection, and a Dell with a failing hard disk and a sound card that had worked sporadically and a dial-up connection) but wasn't really working anymore. By November/December of that year, it was all upgraded, except for the Dell, which I have abandoned. I missed a lot.)


rjm
P.S. -- I JUST found the relevant message! Oh!!!!!!!! My bad!

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[drjohncarpenter]

Hmm, your memory seems a tad fuzzy.

Perhaps. That happens.

But I also lost, or couldn't find that particular message. I searched and searched. It's in there somewhere. I think it was extremely helpful, but it was also very early, before I had a genuine 21st century computer.

(Anyway, looking the dates, this was months before I got WiFi, and that first tablet with 3G. All I had was a tiny keyboard Kindle with a sort-of-browser, a Win98 computer without a sound card on a dial-up connection, and a Dell with a failing hard disk and a sound card that had worked sporadically and a dial-up connection) but wasn't really working anymore. By November/December of that year, it was all upgraded, except for the Dell, which I have abandoned. I missed a lot.)


rjm
P.S. -- I JUST found the relevant message! Oh!!!!!!!! My bad!

Sent via mobile

No worries, I'm just teasing. The new set will be awesome.

[rjm]

Hmm, your memory seems a tad fuzzy.

Perhaps. That happens.

But I also lost, or couldn't find that particular message. I searched and searched. It's in there somewhere. I think it was extremely helpful, but it was also very early, before I had a genuine 21st century computer.

(Anyway, looking the dates, this was months before I got WiFi, and that first tablet with 3G. All I had was a tiny keyboard Kindle with a sort-of-browser, a Win98 computer without a sound card on a dial-up connection, and a Dell with a failing hard disk and a sound card that had worked sporadically and a dial-up connection) but wasn't really working anymore. By November/December of that year, it was all upgraded, except for the Dell, which I have abandoned. I missed a lot.)


rjm
P.S. -- I JUST found the relevant message! Oh!!!!!!!! My bad!

Sent via mobile

No worries, I'm just teasing. The new set will be awesome.

rjm

[johngael]

So now that this has been announced, this would be a good time to see if anyone is interested in this material from another source. I have 11 discs of Basement Tapes reels and I won't be needing them anymore so if anyone is interested, PM me. The only thing I would ask is that you pay for the postage. Otherwise they will be free.

[drjohncarpenter]

So now that this has been announced, this would be a good time to see if anyone is interested in this material from another source. I have 11 discs of Basement Tapes reels and I won't be needing them anymore so if anyone is interested, PM me. The only thing I would ask is that you pay for the postage. Otherwise they will be free.

I strongly advise that you hang on to that private archive until you're sure they are superfluous.

[The Pirate]

So now that this has been announced, this would be a good time to see if anyone is interested in this material from another source. I have 11 discs of Basement Tapes reels and I won't be needing them anymore so if anyone is interested, PM me. The only thing I would ask is that you pay for the postage. Otherwise they will be free.

Is it this set?

http://theband.hiof.no/albums/boot_from_the_reels_complete_basements.html

[johngael]

Yep, looks like the one I have. They are CD-R's with home made covers but covers all 11 reels.

[drjohncarpenter]

Yep, looks like the one I have. They are CD-R's with home made covers but covers all 11 reels.

No comment?

[johngael]

Yep, looks like the one I have. They are CD-R's with home made covers but covers all 11 reels.

No comment?

As to.........?

[drjohncarpenter]

Yep, looks like the one I have. They are CD-R's with home made covers but covers all 11 reels.

No comment?

As to.........?

My advice.

[johngael]

Yep, looks like the one I have. They are CD-R's with home made covers but covers all 11 reels.

No comment?

As to.........?

My advice.

What about it? I didn't know you were looking for one. My feeling is that the Official set will have all of what I have, give or take. If someone else can get some happiness and enjoyment through what I am offering, good enough for me.

[drjohncarpenter]

My experience is that sometimes official releases omit or alter something, making the original private release still worth having for the serious collector.

Sorry to have bothered you.

[When In Rome]

Why is the deluxe edition sooo expensive? On Amazon UK it's £110. Seems a little steep for six CD's. Is there likely to be a book with it at least? There's no mention of one on the http://www.bobdylan.com/us/home site nor on unless I'm missing something...
Perhaps Bob himself hand delivers them?

[johngael]

There is a book, yes. There is also a 2 disc "Best of" if you don't want the whole deluxe package.

[rjm]

The 2 disc version is called "Raw." The complete version is called, well, "Complete." If it's inexpensive, you are only getting the sampler.

rjm

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[When In Rome]

Looks like it comes with two books...

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