Bob Dylan bootleg recordings
Dylan is generally considered to be the most bootlegged artist in rock history,[1] rivaled only by the Grateful Dead.
[1] It contained a variety of material: several tracks coming from a hotel rehearsal in December 1961 (recorded by then-girlfriend Bonnie Beecher), Witmark publishing demos, an interview with Pete Seeger, studio outtakes from the Highway 61 Revisited sessions, songs recorded with The Band in the summer of 1967 in Woodstock, New York (which would become known as The Basement Tapes), and one live performance from a 1969 broadcast of The Johnny Cash Show.
The release of the Great White Wonder gave birth to a fake bootleg that began as a gag concocted by editors at Rolling Stone magazine.
The album, The Masked Marauders, was supposedly recorded during a jam session between Dylan, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney.
The write-up sparked numerous inquiries from readers, and a band was hired to record first some singles, then a full album.
[5] Over the years, many more labels began to release the electric set, generally using the phrase "Royal Albert Hall" in the title.
[12] Months after the release of his first album, Dylan gave five club appearances plus a guest set in Montreal, returning to Greenwich Village with $200 after paying his own travel and staying with locals.
The guest set was at the Finjan Club on Victoria Avenue owned by Shimon Ash after the regular show at the Pot-pourri that same night.
The entire two-hour Finjan Club set on that Monday evening was recorded on a quality reel-to-reel tape recorder owned by musician Jack Nissenson but the tape remained unreleased until the Yellow Dog CD issue of 1991 entitled Bob Dylan – Live Finjan Club, Montreal Canada, July 2, 1962.
"[15] Several tapes of Dylan performing at the Gaslight have long been circulating among collectors, although it is not known when the first bootlegs containing them were produced.
Dylan originals include "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall", "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right", and an unreleased song called "John Brown".
It also included three songs from a Broadside radio show, and three from the march on Washington D.C.[18] Dylan's performances at the 1963, '64, '65, and later 2002 Newport Folk Festival have all been recorded and widely distributed.
This event's recording circulated long before "Maggie's Farm", the first song played at the concert, along with "Chimes of Freedom" were released on volume seven of the Bootleg Series in 2005.
The early parts of the tour, taking place in the United States, contained "Positively Fourth Street" and "Love Minus Zero/No Limit", and "To Ramona" in the set list.
An official release of the long-bootlegged "Royal Albert Hall" concert finally appeared in 1998 as the fourth volume of the Bootleg Series.
Dylan and the Band had come to Woodstock in 1967, with the intent to shoot further scenes for the documentary Eat the Document, but their focus soon reverted to music.
Three songs from these sessions have not surfaced in complete form: "Even if it's a Pig Part I and II" (written by The Band), "Wild Wolf" (Dylan), and "Can I Get a Racehorse?".
Very few recordings from the tour have been officially released; many have been single songs only, but entire concerts have not been made available to the general public.
