Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol 1-3 5LP Vinyl - BOX
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BOB DYLAN - THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL 1-3(RARE & UNRELEASED 1961-1991)
VERY RARE ORIGINAL UK 1991 5LP VINYL BOX SET BY BOB DYLAN.
COVER: TEXTURED PICTURE BOX AND COMES COMPLETE WITH BOOKLET.
RECORD LABEL: CBS. / ISSUE NUMBER: 468086 1
VINYL CONDITION: EX+/EX+/EX+/EX+/EX+.
This rare box set is still in great condition. I bought it at the time of release and all the disks are still in excellent condition. I've checked all ten sides and could not find a single noticable scratch. The box is also in excellent condition apart from a little damage in the lower left corner (See picture).
This 5 album box set offers a new look at Bob Dylan. The booklet is about 60 pages long and goes into detail about each track, along with many pictures.
Excerpt from a review:
Thus began the great tape hunt, the quest to collect anything and everything that Bob Dylan had ever recorded. Over the last 20 years, a feverish underground network of collectors has been at work, tracking, tracing, and trading tapes.
And now at last, something of the true extent and value of much of the buried treasure long sought after by tape collectors is brought to light. In this cornucopia of previously unissued material are stashed home recordings, demo recordings, outtakes, alternative takes, coffeehouse recordings, concert recordings, and more. Much of it teaches us a good deal about the way in which Dylan developed as a songwriter or performer in those early years; some of it is nothing short of sensational -- performances of staggering power and subtlety and seemingly infinite variety. The main focus in this collection is on Dylan as the songwriter: 38 songs that have never been released on an official album, as well as demo and rehearsal versions of well-known songs. Subsequent volumes will deal with live work, including the legendary 1966 Royal Albert hall appearance. For those who never suspected this material even existed, there are untold delights in store. And for those exhaustive and insatiable collectors, the "completists" who like to think that they've heard everything, included here are a bunch of previously unsuspected tracks.
Whatever reputation Bob Dylan has enjoyed as a writer and performer in his 30-year recording career will inevitably have to be reviewed in the light of this historic collection. And if the writers and critics who are called upon to reassess Bob Dylan's achievements find that the superlatives have all been used up on his back catalog of official releases, they'll just have to come up with a bunch of superlative outtakes, won't they?
JOHN BAULDIE
London, 1991
Note: The pattern on the box in the second picture is just a reflection.
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