The Basement Tapes - Dylan, Bob (CD 1988)

This is one of those legendary releases with a long history and many rumors and myths surrounding it. It is also music that was not even originally intended for release. It was merely six musicians banding together in a basement to make music together. The original sessions were done for their own benefit only. And yet somehow this has become one of the more interesting recordings in American music. The sessions with Bob Dylan and The Band were done in the basement at Big Pink. This was a home in Saugerties, NY rented by members of the Band. The recordings were made from June through October.

There are people out there perverts and loons one and all who consider the complete recorded works of both The Band and Bob Dylan to be unlistenable mulch. Don t believe me? Well, I could give out their phone numbers and home addresses, but I fear over the next few days their heads might be dangling from a length of coil and used as the ball in a homely game of bumble-puppy. In which case then the first one is named Richard Friedman and he is a resident of Grangemouth, which for non-UK residents is the Scottish equivalent of Kabul. All those gun-lovers and twitchy war veterans are advised to..

In the mid-1960s, Bob Dylan was at the peak of his musical prowess as he went from folk music to electric. While courting controversy with his move to play rock n' roll from fans of folk music, the albums Dylan was putting out at the time were considered to be landmarks, most notably Blonde on Blonde in 1966. During that time when he went electric from 1965-1966, he went on the road backed by a band then known as the Hawks that consisted of guitarist Robbie Robertson, bassist Rick Danko, pianist Richard Manuel, organist Garth Hudson, and drummer Levon Helm. Though Helm left early in the tour..