BOB DYLAN/THE BAND GREAT WHITE WONDER FIRST PRESSING THE ONE THAT STARTED IT ALL
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BOB DYLAN/THE BAND~GREAT WHITE WONDER~FIRST PRESSING~THE ONE THAT STARTED IT ALL
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BOB DYLAN
"THE GREAT WHITE WONDER"
SUPER RARE 1969 FIRST PRESSING!!
TWO LP SET in THICK gatefold cover!
THIS IS THE ONE THAT STARTED THE WHOLE BOOTLEG CRAZE!
COVER IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH STRONG SEAMS ALL AROUND AND NO SPLITS!!
THERE IS A NAME WRITTEN ON THE FRONT.
VINYL IS NEAR MINT BUT, LIKE ALL COPIES, HAS A FEW MINOR PRESSING INCONSISTENCIES.
In 1968, word got out that there was new music by Dylan, recorded with The Band in a basement in upstate New York. What came out in the spring of 1969, however, was Nashville Skyline ? a good record, but not the one we'd heard about. Then, in the summer of 1969, FM radio began playing pirated Dylan recordings. The Great White Wonder was the first bootleg I'd ever heard from anyone. On the cheaply packaged double LP, you could hear Dylan singing with The Band on songs such as "I Shall Be Released," "Open the Door Richard," "Too Much of Nothing" and "Tears of Rage." There were also recordings on the LP rumored to be made in a Minneapolis hotel room in 1961. It was all so underground, and it was all so exciting. Pressed up as a double album in an initial run of 1,000 copies by two anonymous L.A. music industry insiders who went by Dub and Ken, Great White Wonder started appearing in record stores in summer 1969, the title gleaned from its plain white jacket, decorated - in some cases - with a titular stamp. There were 23 tracks on Wonder, subscribing to a sequencing logic that is hard to pin down. Ten cuts were drawn from the "Minnesota Tapes", a collection of American standards Dylan recorded in May and December 1961. "Only a Hobo" and "Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag" came from 1963 Columbia demos, and "Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence" and "If You Gotta Go, Go Now" were great-sounding studio outtakes from the Highway 61 sessions. A version of "The Death of Emmitt Till" was pulled from a session with the folk magazine Broadside, and "Living the Blues" was recorded off of the television, from Dylan's May 1969 appearance on "The Johnny Cash Show". Wonder was a grab-bag retrospective of Dylan's career to that point, serving as something of a corrective to his absence and a harbinger of a career that wouldn't continue along the path it had taken for the first half of the decade. In terms of recording quality, these songs were only intended as demos, But the low-fi recordings-- only added to their aura, and to the sense that fans were listening in on a secret meeting between collaborators. "We went in with a sense of humor? It was all a goof," the Band's Robbie Robertson later told Rolling Stone Magazine's Greil Marcus. "We were playing with absolute freedom; we weren't doing anything we thought anybody else would ever hear, as long as we lived. But what started in that basement, what came out of it? came out of this little conspiracy, of us amusing ourselves." This was the nature of a leak in 1969-- a rare glimpse into the backstage life of a superstar. A conspiracy built from a conspiracy. It was the first time that unheard recordings of a superstar's new compositions had leaked to the public, and were being sold. It's easy to take such a thing for granted today, when leaks circulate freely online, but Wonder represented the earliest moment when advancing technologies combined with popular demand and illicit entrepreneurship to create cracks in the record industry's otherwise firm facade. Great White Wonder may be a modern impossibility in its original incarnation, but 46 years later, in a vastly de-industrialized music climate, its ongoing legacy suggests less a digital revolution than the mundane fact that, in the face of innovation, some old habits die hard.
Side one
"Candy Man"
"(As I Go) Ramblin' 'Round"
"Black Cross"
"I Ain't Got No Home"
"The Death of Emmett Till"
"Poor Lazarus" (Traditional)
Side two
"Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag"
"If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Got to Stay All Night)"
"Only a Hobo"
"Sitting On a Barbed Wire Fence"
"Mighty Quinn" (take 1)
"This Wheel's on Fire" (Bob Dylan and Rick Danko)
Side three
"Baby Please Don't Go"
Interview by
"Dink's Song"
"See That My Grave Is Kept Clean"
"East Orange New Jersey"
"Man of Constant Sorrow"
Side four
"I Shall Be Released"
"Open The Door, Homer" (take 1)
"Too Much of Nothing" (take 2)
"Nothing Was Delivered" (take 1)
"Tears of Rage" (take 2)
"Living the Blues" (Live, The Johnny Cash Show)
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