Dylan Basement Tapes

Asamel said:

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-82259216/

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Bruce this is incredible news. Thanks for posting.

I bought the 143 track complete 24 bit download, for a..ah..very nice price...

I have searched for the past 30 minutes...any idea how much the limited edition reel will be and where you can buy it?

The first major label pre recorded reel in 40 years?

This stuff is historic, but not hifi. I own The Great White Wonder on vinyl. I also own all of the Bootleg series on CD. Unless someone has applied some serious magic here, higher resolution, in any form or fantasy, is likely to reveal more warts than wonders. With that said, I love the warts, and anyone who truly loves American music should own this stuff in whatever form floats their boat. It is raw. Rough. Some is actually a bit hard to listen to. But it is a collection of absolutely brilliant musicians, led by the greatest songwriter in memory, running the entire history of American popular music through the filter of their own remarkable sensibilities and taking the next step. This is the DNA of all the American roots music that has followed. Tape. Vinyl. Spotify. Whatever. Just listen.

Tim

I like this one quite a bit, fwiw...

Phelonious Ponk said:

This stuff is historic, but not hifi. I own The Great White Wonder on vinyl. I also own all of the Bootleg series on CD. Unless someone has applied some serious magic here, higher resolution, in any form or fantasy, is likely to reveal more warts than wonders. With that said, I love the warts, and anyone who truly loves American music should own this stuff in whatever form floats their boat. It is raw. Rough. Some is actually a bit hard to listen to. But it is a collection of absolutely brilliant musicians, led by the greatest songwriter in memory, running the entire history of American popular music through the filter of their own remarkable sensibilities and taking the next step. This is the DNA of all the American roots music that has followed. Tape. Vinyl. Spotify. Whatever. Just listen.

Tim

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Hey Tim:

I very much admire you skepticism about most things, very refreshing!...

To say these sessions were historic would be the understatement of the century for sure, and many of these songs literally launched careers, and
established several new genres.

But to the tapes...

I can tell you with absolute certainly the newly remastered version is far superior to anything you have heard before. They
went back to Garth Hudson's original reels and digitally captured, cataloged, and mastered each tape. Any previous version
is from multi generation copies. I have listened to the set extensively. But note, that on the mega 6 disc set, at least one disc, maybe two,
are of highly questionable fidelity, but the rest is very good.

The "official" Basement Tapes release is bogus, with overdubs by Robertson and others, really a bit a of a sham to capitalize on the
the mystique of the original boot which you have.

The best part of these sessions, that despite the so called lo fidelity, is that it is impossible to beat the immediacy of 6 guys or so in a
room with microphones and a tape recorder.

Getting these things to hifi, much less audiophile, is a masterful mastering feat (I'll go into Dr Seuss soon...). Gotta hear them. Gotta have them. Probably too late to get them on my Christmas list...

Tim