Bob Dylan - 50th anniversary collection - 1964

£84.99. They even threw a free mug in; they must have some promo on at the mo.

 

And you didn't give us a picture of the mug!! :O

 

Ha! It's a Piccadilly Records mug, not a Dylan item. I didn't think you'd be interested

 

Just another ultra-completist here

 

Piccadilly said they were sold out first thing this morning

 

Do we know yet whether the Philadelphia show is from a better-quality audio source than the circulating audience recording?

 

No, but we know there was a mug involved !

 

What? That picture on the mug isn't from '64! The angry mob demands period-correct pictures on their special complimentary mugs!

 

Any news on the sound quality of the box?

 

Before there's an uproar across the Internet, I should point out that this is a random mug picture from a Google search.

 

Whew! I guess we can put the torches and pitchforks away!

 

Seconded. Especially the live sections. I'm nearly certain that it will just be the circulating audience tapes but I'm more than willing to be wrong.

 

I got through to Badlands yesterday. They opened the phone lines at 2pm, I spoke to someone at about 2.45pm. I've reserved my copy, but they said I'd get a copy IF Sony delivered the quantity they promised, as I reserved one of the final copies. Seems strange that Piccadilly had theirs on Friday but Badlands wont have theirs until Mon/Tue. Badlands were charging £99.99 plus postage....and no mention of a mug!

 

Out of interest, how much are Badlands charging this year for postage?

Apologies to all those champing at the bit for details, but the contents of the 1964 box will, no doubt, be in general circulation before I have time to sit and listen. Today is my only day off in a two-week stretch, and I have family stuff to attend to. Be patient; you've already waited 50 years, a few more days won't harm.

 

spoke to Badlands at about 2:50. If I don't get my set I know who to blame!

 

Badlands charging £10 for postage.

 

That's not bad, actually, considering the weight of this thing. They did a really good job last year, hand-delivered by courier, so I'm sure they'll all reach their respective destinations safe and sound.

 

Good point. Most of the Springsteen recordings were from the mid-70s.

 

My local shop received one copy, they were a bit cheeky charging £100 for it but I could not resist. Now if only I owned a turntable.

 

Give it to me ;-) My Project expression will be glad to put these arm around these 9 LP man !

 

Just collected mine from Resident Music in Brighton. £89.99.

Hope to have some time later today to clean at least a couple of the discs and have a quick listen - most likely Philadelphia first to see what the quality is like. I haven't seen any definitive answers as to whether this is a poor audience bootleg or a previously unreleased soundboard.

But I have a couple of annoying webinars / training sessions that will take up most of my afternoon first.

 

If I wanted this I'd never be able to get it. There are no record shops within a 30 mile radius of where I live. But thankfully I really don't want it so it doesn't matter so much. People are talking about 40 CD's worth of material from 1965/66. Are you serious? I can barely get through Bootleg Series Vol. 7 which contains quite a lot of 65/66 out-takes already. I'm too familiar with this material and out-takes bore me to be honest. I can't imagine hearing 20 takes of any song, great or not. I can't also imagine that CD multiplied by 40. Maybe I've heard too much Dylan? Blonde On Blonde is wallpaper music to my ears now. I've heard it too many times. What material exists that could really freshen up the B.O.B. experience for me? Back in the 80's I remember hearing the electric version of "Desolation Row"and thinking it was ok but thanking Dylan that we got the final version on H61R. Maybe I just can't get into any out-takes. I always prefer to buy stand-alone versions of albums without "bonus material" attached in preference to the expanded versions!

 

Resident Music has one copy left. You have to come to the store to pick it up. They are not allowed to post it out.

 

Well of course the point of the releases is to protect Bob and Sony's copyright rather than to make a listenable product for anyone. If they don't releae this stuff now, the material will enter the public domain and they'll lose the exclusive rights to it. There are a lot of live shows from 65-66 that would create a ton of redundancy but they'll still need to release them if they want to protect their rights. If they do a mainstream release too Itll be much shorter.