Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live Recordings - Sony 36-CD box-set - November 11th 2016

Indeed -- so much has changed in less than a decade. Tell Tale Signs (Bootleg Series Vol. 8) was a "standard" 2-CD set in 2008 -- Sony almost actively discouraged the "deluxe" 3-CD version with it's outrageous pricing. BS9 (The Witmark Demos) was a traditional 2-CD set, but since then the approach has changed entirely. Another Self Portrait (BS10) was also a 2-CD set, but two stand-alone discs (the Isle of Wight concert and the remastered core album) made it the largest Bootleg Series set to date. I always kind of figured that when they got around to the Basement Tapes, it would be very thorough, but not exhaustive -- kind of an official "A Tree With Roots" -- but they did indeed go the "exhaustive" route, knowing that they'd just be releasing the rest of the tapes in a Copyright Dump in 2017 anyway.

I think the success of The Cutting Edge box showed Sony, Dylan Inc. and all of us that there is no reason to hold back anymore. There's money to be made, the fans want it, and they'll pay for it. I see the low price for the Live 1966 set almost as a "thank you" to the 5,000 guinea pigs who went for the $700 Collector's Edition of BS12 -- when you combine the two, it's almost a bargain. I know we've all been begging for other things from the Bootleg Series -- the Gospel Years, Blood On The Tracks, even more 1980s stuff -- but I think the events of the last few years have ensured that we will get much larger sets for those holy grails than we would have gotten ten years ago. With the Copyright issue mostly dealt with for the next few years, I think we have a LOT of great, great stuff coming our way.

 

That's a reasonable quantity. We certainly don't need an infinite release.

 

Well there is always an end game but aside from the big Cutting edge , most other collections are still available.

But I agree if someone wants one , then don't wait.

 

Maybe that intro was tacked onto the preceding track? I don't know, I haven't checked any track times -- I'd just be surprised if ANY banter was cut from this set. The banter is part of the magic of that tour!

 

36 CD's?
I find it hard to believe that anybody has the time and motivation to sit through so much music from one artist recorded 40 years ago.
I am a Bob Dylan fan but would rather spend my time and budget exploring new exciting music being released every week!

 

The best damned idea since Europe 72. WOOT!/k

 

Well it is $3 million, not a bad income from one individual

 

You can even catch a glimpse of the onstage Dylan through the glass doors. Nice timing to get the refusniks.

 

He was a bastard in the second half... in addition to being a smashed idol.

 

First I know of it. It certainly wasn't in general circulation when I was collecting "full time" (up through 2002).

 

funny, I already have this shirt, but gray with "06" instead of "66" for the 2006 tour.

 

Obviously, you just haven't had enough opportunities to meet profoundly shiftless and inert people like me, or you would find it all too easy to believe.

 

Did they produce and distribute the product for free?
I don't want to argue this as I'm not familiar with the industry or the numbers involved. That said, 5,000 just seems pretty small. Excuse my ignorance here.

 

Highly doubt this. The small profit margin over the manufacturing cost (compared with last year's big set) means Columbia plans (hopes) to sell many, many copies.

 

CD 14 -Liverpool, May 14, 1966 (Soundboard)

The Band released "Tell Me Momma" on their box set A MUSICAL HISTORY in 2005:

16) Tell Me Mama - Bob Dylan 4:05 #
COMPOSER: Bob Dylan
REC DATE: 5/14/66 The Odeon - Liverpool


So why does it say Track 5 (Tell Me Mama) is "(Incomplete - Drop Out)"

 

Hey man, we like what we like. At this point, Dylan has been a friend for a long time and listening to his music brings me a lot of joy! FYI I listened to 4 albums today (i.e., BS4, Hazards of Love, Division Bell & Communique) while at work and normally I play more.

 

No of course it cost a lot of money to produce, probably 50% or so of the retail cost, but even so it's a very decent return.

 

I'm sure you'd agree there's likely to be a larger market for a 36-disc $109 box than there is for an 18-disc $600 box. Also, 5,000 copies of the big box were sold because that's how many were made. If they had made more, they probably would have sold more, especially once people heard about the '65 Live bonus dump.

 

You can't argue with the price but the logic of owning such a thing even for me-a recovering Bobcat- is a bit bonkers.

Yes I will probably buy it.

 

While I agree with you in that I will find this Live 1966 box a bit of a slog -- and I may never even bother listening to the poor-sounding audience recordings -- but it could be argued that the best of this box will be better than anything else released by anyone this year. I like new music too, but great music is great music, no matter when it was recorded.

 

I'm gonna sit through all 36 cds and then i'm gonna whine about the Band. He's a disgrace etc..., I paid £105 to hear a folk singer, not a pop group, he should dump them.
I will have to take a couple of breaks though. Anyone wanna suggest what might be the best tracks to go for a toilet break while listening to all 36 cds consecutively.
Is it greedy to want all 20+ hours of footage too ? I'd be up for a multi disc blu ray set to go next to this and The Cutting Edge.

 

A great question; so far, the answers I've seen proposed are thus: 1. The track on A Musical History is mislabeled by date (and potentially the whole TAPE of whatever-that-concert-is has been mislabeled over the years, 'cause there's another track too? I forget, and I can't find the post I read to that effect); 2. There's an alternate tape source they couldn't get, but which was used for A Musical History (which would have the full Tell Me, Momma on it); 3. It's a different mistake of some sort.

 

36 CDs of Live '66 ... that can blow your mind ... like when cousins, are two of a kind.

 

They wont. I didnt. And no one I know did.

 

And that is one butt ugly cover