NEW Bob Dylan and the Band Basement Tapes RAW Bootleg Series, Vol 11 Vinyl LP
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Bob Dylan and the Band Basement Tapes RAW: The Bootleg Series, Vol 11 Vinyl LP. Condition is "New". Shipped with USPS Media Mail.
There is a hole in the face of the plastic packaging, but everything else is mint. Brand new item, never opened.
A great gift for any music fan for the holidays! Order soon to receive by Christmas.
Description: Specialdeluxe LP-set on 180-gram vinyl
Featuring 3 LP's of 38 highlights from Dylan"s legendary 1967 sessionswith The Band.Compiled from meticulously restored original tapes
Includes exclusive 12x12" booklet with extensive liner notes and rarephotographs.Also includes all the tracks on 2 CD's Compiled from meticulouslyrestored original tapes many found only recently-this historic six-disc set isthe definitive chronicle of the artist's legendary 1967 recording sessions withmembers of his touring ensemble who would later achieve their own fame as TheBand.
Among Bob Dylan's many cultural milestones, the legendary Basement Tapes havelong fascinated and enticed successive generations of musicians, fans andcultural critics alike. Having transformed music and culture during the early1960s, Dylan reached unparalleled heights across 1965 and 1966 through therelease 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 ofthe United States, Europe and the UK. Dylan's mercurial rise and prodigiousoutpouring of work during that decade came to an abrupt halt in July 1966 whenhe was reported to have been in a serious motorcycle accident.
Recovering from his injuries and away from the public eye for the first time inyears, Dylan ensconced himself,along with Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, RichardManuel, Garth Hudson and, later, Levon Helm, in the basement of a small house,dubbed "Big Pink" by the group, in West Saugerties, New York. Thiscollective recorded more than a hundred songs over the next several monthsincluding traditional covers, wry and humorous ditties, off-the cuffperformances and, most important, dozens of newly-written Bob Dylan songs,including future classics "I Shall Be Released," "The MightyQuinn," "This Wheel's On Fire" and "You Ain't GoingNowhere."
When rumors and rare acetates of some of these recordings began surfacing, itcreated a curiosity strong enough to fuel an entirely new segment of the musicbusiness: the bootleg record.In 1969, an album mysteriously titled Great WhiteWonder began showing up in record shops around the country, and Dylan's musicfrom the summer of 1967 began seeping into the fabric of popular culture,penetrating the souls of music lovers everywhere. With each passing year, moreand more fans sought out this rare contraband, desperate to hear this new musicfrom 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 andUK.
Over the years, the songs on The Basement Tapes have haunted and perplexedfans, with the recordings themselves representing a Holy Grail forDylanologists. What's on the rest of those reels?
The Basement Tapes Complete brings together, for the first time ever, everysalvageable recording from the tapes including recently discovered early gemsrecorded in the "Red Room" of Dylan's home in upstate New York. GarthHudson worked closely with Canadian music archivist and producer Jan Haust torestore the deteriorating tapes to pristine sound, with much of this musicpreserved digitally for the first time.
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