Saturday, February 1, 2020

Bob D*Y*L*A*N - Judas! (The Complete 1965-66 Recordings) Part One


So here it finally is, after three 1/2 years! To call this project a bitch would be a HUGE understatement. the lion's share of the work was done in late 2016 and a beta version was released in February 2017 in a small private forum. I was missing a few single edits to complete the set and finally got them a few months ago while working on the KHJ series.

My original idea was simply to arrange The Cutting Edge with Live 1966 so that these would work together and also to put all the sessions/concerts in a folder each. But as I started working I decided the only way to do it correctly was to include all of the 1965 copyright set ............ and Great Danes's 15-disc 1965 Revisited ...... and Vigotone's 26 disc Jewels and Binoculars and Crawling On The Cutting Room Floor. That wasn't enough - I added in all of the singles (in original 45 versions!) and the three LPs in mono and stereo, including known alternate mixes. This is the (damn near) complete Great White Wonder in proper context, in order, as complete as possible, in the best possible quality (for 320) and without having all of that annoying trouble of searching through multiple discs/volumes to get a complete session or show. In fact, many studio sessions have slates, count-ins, and endings restored that were not even included on The Cutting Edge!

1225 tracks. 85 hours. Over 11 and a half gigs. Every concert, studio recording, demo, private recording and interview that exists.  As you could imagine, some of this was a tough slog. Every track has to be individually re-tagged by hand. There are no track numbers. No worries though, it will load and play in the correct order. A small portion of the material is NOT 320 (1965 Revisited) but it's mostly interviews or other non-musical stuff. No big whoop. Going back through it in 2020, I fixed some errors/omissions, did some upgrades, tagged each track with the original source cover art. It's all spruced up!

As new performances are discovered and when I get them, I will post updates to this set so they fit in with the rest of the set.

That said, I can now finally share it all with you. But first, let me explain about the track/file numbers:

19650308-01 - Subterranean Homesick Blues [Mono Single Edit]
[year][month][date][-order][-track title]

[SNB]= Soundboard recording taken directly from the mixing board.
[AUD]= Audience recording.
[CBS]= Professional multi-track recording of a live show.

I'm going to divide this into (probably) 5 posts, because of its size. There are 30 parts in total. Inside the first part is a text file with the complete contents.

Part One:
19650113 - Session 1 (of 3) for Bringing It All Back Home
19650114 - Session 2 (of 3) for Bringing It All Back Home
19650115 - Session 3 (of 3) for Bringing It All Back Home
19650217 - Les Crane Show, WABC-TV New York
Yandex
Zippy
G-Drive

Part Two:
19650308 - US Single Columbia  4-43242
19650322 - US LP Bringing It All Back Home COL 2328 (Mono-Stereo)
19650327 - Santa Monica Civic Auditorium {AUD}
Yandex
Zippy
G-Drive

Part Three:
19650426 - London Airport Arrival (Don't Look Back)
19650430 - Live at The Oval Sheffield  [SNB]
19650501 - The Odeon Liverpool [SNB]
19650502 - De Montfort Hall, Leicester [SNB]
Yandex
Zippy
G-Drive

Part Four:
19650504 - Savoy Hotel, London
19650505- Town Hall, Birmingham [SNB]
19650506 - City Hall, Newcastle [SNB]
Yandex
Zippy
G-Drive

Part Five:
19650507 - Free Trade Hall, Manchester [SNB]
19650508 - Savoy Hotel, London
19650509 - Royal Albert Hall, London [AUD]
Yandex
Zippy
G-Drive

Part Six:
19650510 - Royal Albert Hall, London [SNB]
19650512 - Levy Recording Studio (London)
19650521 - Studio Overdub Session
19650601 - BBC London
19650604 - UK Single CBS 1871
19650615 - Session 1 (of 6) for Highway 61 Revisited
Yandex
Zippy
G-Drive

23 comments:

Claygator said...

Fantastic effort. Thanks so much for all your hard work.

RMstorm said...

WOW! Thanks for sharing.

Mike said...

"Wow" is right! What an undertaking!
Mike M

Anonymous said...

Good grief, sir. I thought I had this covered because I own the 18 disc Cutting Edge, the 15 disc Great Dane set (which has become exceedingly rare) and the 26 disc Vigotone set (which is almost as rare).

And you're telling me there's more? Blessed be obsessive music fans! Thank you!

I too am anonmyous. said...

This is great apart fro Yandex telling me I've reached my limit when I haven't used Yandex!

BlankFrank said...

@ I too am anonymous, Yandex can be dicey for some, others love it. For that reason, I added the Zippy option. They weren't all up last night, all OK now.

peerke said...

Wow, I didn't see this coming. What a great job.
You made my day/week/year.

TallPaul said...

I'm unable to download any of the files - the Zippy files give a 402 error message and the Yandex files show I've used my download limit exceeded

TallPaul said...

Zippy msg 403 Forbidden

Anonymous said...

Same here

Gummo said...

This is an amazing accomplishment, one that official companies could never hope to match. Your scholarship and attention to detail are incredible, not to mention your generosity!

Can't thank you enough!

Bob W. said...

This is amazing. What a massive undertaking. You have shown more dedication and perseverance than anyone could have expected. A fabulous job. "Thank you very much" - seems so lame in trying to show my appreciation.

Kwai Chang said...

WeTransfer Links GOOD for 7 days!
Parts 1-3:
https://we.tl/t-Bnbiy7Npw2
Parts 4-6:
https://we.tl/t-rTHeeSM5Op
You're welcome! (Tell the others!)
Kwai Chang

351M10 said...

Thank you so much for your effort. I really appreciate your projects.

I too am anonmyous. said...

BF, TY!

Anonymous said...

This is flat out scholarly and impressive. Really great work.

Anonymous said...

Wow ! thanks a lot !

Kwai Chang said...

Once more for the 'love' of Judas!
WeTransfer links are GOOD for 7 days!
Parts 1-3:
https://we.tl/t-E3kxi6NZ51
Parts 4-6:
https://we.tl/t-Vqp3Ccqewv
Thank you, BlankFrank!
(Please thank our host!)
KC

zipper said...

This is just stunning BF. Many, many thanks buddy.

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