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Title: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: Fletch on August 30, 2013, 12:49:09 PM
Picked this up today (worldwide release was today I think?) and I'm on my second time round listening.

Really love the whole official bootleg series, but especially the stuff that concentrates on the outtakes/alternate versions. The acoustic demos Bob lays down are disarmingly non-commercial and beautiful to listen to collected like this. Some nice out of time and tune guitar playing peppered throughout, played by David Bromberg.

I bet Mark has these CDs today too, he's a fan !  ;)
Title: Re: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: Love Expresso on August 30, 2013, 07:48:19 PM
You mean, signed by Bob? (not)  ;)

LE
Title: Re: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: Fletch on August 31, 2013, 03:51:09 AM
You mean, signed by Bob? (not)  ;)

Haha, yeah "dedicated to my friend Guy..." :)

Title: Re: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: Pottel on August 31, 2013, 07:28:02 PM
Not yet bought. Will buy though. Deluxe obviously...
Title: Re: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: vgonis on September 08, 2013, 09:46:26 PM
Just got the vinyl box set. A peculiar thing with the various different CD editions. It seems as though that you have to buy the deluxe CD edition to have all the material. And it is pretty pricy! It is the bootleg series "Tell tales..." all over again. A real shame.
Title: Re: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: Pottel on September 08, 2013, 10:33:20 PM
tell tale signs was so worht the money though. love it.
Title: Re: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: vgonis on September 08, 2013, 10:47:36 PM
If you were buying  the deluxe edition book 3CD, it would cost you nearly 90 Euros.  There was also a vinyl edition (with less material) (70 Euros)  a 2 CD edition and a single CD edition. Each one had less material than the complete 3 CD edition, and completely annihilated the purpose of the series. It was not just a compilation. And we have the same thing with this one. Thank God they don't sell a single CD edition this time.
Title: Re: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: Pottel on September 09, 2013, 07:16:58 AM
shit, bought the 2cd version. need the triple one...money,..come to me now!
Title: Re: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: Fletch on September 09, 2013, 10:00:04 AM
The budget way of buying is to buy the 2 cd basic version, and then if you choose, purchase the Isle Of Wight concert on iTunes. No deluxe $$ required!

Still really enjoying this bootleg, fantastic songs, great singing and vibes!! :) highly recommend, to Bob appreciates.
Title: Re: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: vgonis on September 09, 2013, 10:13:40 AM
The budget way of buying is to buy the 2 cd basic version, and then if you choose, purchase the Isle Of Wight concert on iTunes. No deluxe $$ required!

Still really enjoying this bootleg, fantastic songs, great singing and vibes!! :) highly recommend, to Bob appreciates.

Oh Fletch you are a healthy listener.  ;D I have the collecting disease, and I think that Pottel has it as well.  :-\  Dylan, Knopfler and Pink Floyd as he states!    8)  If money wasn't an issue I would have every little edition from them as well. It has to do with the edition. The book/box/etc that comes with it. I have stopped buying all the bands I was following and liked since the beginning of the crisis, except Knopfler, Darren Hayman, Belle and Sebastian and Dylan (I missed the Pink Floyd boxes that have come out.  :'( ) But it is not the music contained, but also the format. It is about collecting.   
Title: Re: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: Fletch on September 09, 2013, 10:25:23 AM
I hear you VG, those big fat books are very alluring! :) I started a thread at ER a few days back reminiscing about the first official Bob bootleg boxset back in 91ish.. The boxset was a relatively new concept back in those days, it was certainly my first time *blush* and also my major induction to the world of Bob.

By the way, fans of a marvelous clean Fender blues sound will love George Harrisons tone on the song Working On A Guru (from Another Self Portait), at least I do ! :)
Title: Re: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: vgonis on September 09, 2013, 12:15:49 PM
And when the time comes to sell them to pay for the rent, it is quite   :'( . Anyways, my first introduction to Dylan was in 1989-1990 when a girl at my high school gave me three tapes to listen. It was Oh, Mercy, Blonde on blonde, and The freewheelin'. It was love at first listen. Still my favourite Dylan albums, together with John Wesley Harding, Blood on the tracks and Slow train Coming. Yes, there are at least another 5-6 albums that come close.  ;D  My first box was biograph. Do you know it?
Title: Re: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: Pottel on September 09, 2013, 09:03:21 PM
you mean the one with Blind willie on it Fletch? that was a big eye opener for me.
not sure what came first for me, Nashville Skyline, that my dad bought for me, or slow train coming and shortly after infidels that i bought myself.
Title: Re: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: dmg on September 10, 2013, 02:10:53 PM
Talking of Blind Willie McTell, I downloaded The Best of Blind Blake last night from iTunes.  Includes Rope Stretchin' Blues prior to being "severely Hillbillied!"  Great stuff!
Title: Re: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: Pottel on September 10, 2013, 07:03:07 PM
Rope stretching' aaahhh...loved the billies version....
Title: Re: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: dmg on September 10, 2013, 11:17:53 PM
Rope stretching' aaahhh...loved the billies version....
Me too.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0SU16Plt3A
Title: Re: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: vgonis on September 11, 2013, 05:34:57 AM
Awesome really!
Title: Re: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: twm on September 11, 2013, 03:39:47 PM
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2013/09/bob-dylan-another-self-portrait-bootleg-series-vol.html
Title: Re: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: vgonis on September 11, 2013, 04:22:31 PM
"Another Self Portrait is absolutely essential listening for Bob Dylan fans. It may contain the best music you
Title: Re: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: Pottel on September 11, 2013, 10:43:23 PM
sorry but prefer steve's haunting voice and marks playing, by far....
Title: Re: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: twm on September 13, 2013, 01:36:00 AM
A contrary view:

http://www.collapseboard.com/reviews/albums-reviews/bob-dylan-another-self-portrait-1969-1971-the-bootleg-series-vol-10-columbia/
Title: Re: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: vgonis on September 13, 2013, 11:18:21 AM
A contrary view:

http://www.collapseboard.com/reviews/albums-reviews/bob-dylan-another-self-portrait-1969-1971-the-bootleg-series-vol-10-columbia/

Man what a roller-coaster of an article! And that Wallace guy so full of straight forward ideas and opinions. I would try to be more settle even if some of his points are rather strong and I agree with them. But I guess he has a following, just because of the way he sees things and expresses himself. Went to see some other articles and found this one:
http://www.collapseboard.com/features/columns/the-quality-of-music-and-the-conformity-of-youth-dwindling-album-sales-explained/
where somewhere he lists DS in the shitty list of music been sold...
Title: Re: Dylans Another Self Portrait
Post by: vgonis on September 29, 2013, 08:26:44 PM
I have listened to it. One of the best in the bootleg series. For music lovers.