July 11, 2010
This mindmap (click to enlarge) was made in 1991 (originally hand drawn, for this blog converted into an electronic mindmap) shortly after the release of the Bootleg series 1-3. I read in the liner notes: “Santa fe, is just one example of a batch of previously unsuspected Basement Tracks”. I was annoyed. Never liked the released Basement tapes (1975). For starters (sorry Band members and fans) because of the tracks of the Band. Secondly - I started hunting Dylan bootlegs since 1974 -, I knew there were much better songs circulating (like the majestic Sign of the cross and I am not there) and the drop by drop releases (Like Quinn the Eskimo on Biograph and Santa Fe and I shall be released on the Bootleg series. And what i could not know in 1991 the release of I am not there on the soundtrack of the film named after the song). This five gems alone would have turned the Basement Tapes in a mindblowing album. If Rolling Stone gave the album Basement Tapes five stars in 1975 what would the ranking be if the five added gems had been added? What was the reason for CBS (and/or Dylan) to discard the best Basement Tapes songs? Just business as usual as with almost all Dylan albums (read my blog another side about the Shot of love outtakes). Just leave out the best songs? And returning to the liner notes of the Bootleg series 1-3, if there is indeed a batch of previously unsuspected Basement Tracks (I doubt it), release them! And not one each decade, but coherently on one new CD, the bootleg series volume 9. The Basement Tapes deserves a place in history, as an important period in Dylan’s career between Blonde on Blonde and John Wesley Harding.

This mindmap (click to enlarge) was made in 1991 (originally hand drawn, for this blog converted into an electronic mindmap) shortly after the release of the Bootleg series 1-3. I read in the liner notes: “Santa fe, is just one example of a batch of previously unsuspected Basement Tracks”. I was annoyed. Never liked the released Basement tapes (1975). For starters (sorry Band members and fans) because of the tracks of the Band. Secondly - I started hunting Dylan bootlegs since 1974 -, I knew there were much better songs circulating (like the majestic Sign of the cross and I am not there) and the drop by drop releases (Like Quinn the Eskimo on Biograph and Santa Fe and I shall be released on the Bootleg series. And what i could not know in 1991 the release of I am not there on the soundtrack of the film named after the song). This five gems alone would have turned the Basement Tapes in a mindblowing album. If Rolling Stone gave the album Basement Tapes five stars in 1975 what would the ranking be if the five added gems had been added? What was the reason for CBS (and/or Dylan) to discard the best Basement Tapes songs? Just business as usual as with almost all Dylan albums (read my blog another side about the Shot of love outtakes). Just leave out the best songs? And returning to the liner notes of the Bootleg series 1-3, if there is indeed a batch of previously unsuspected Basement Tracks (I doubt it), release them! And not one each decade, but coherently on one new CD, the bootleg series volume 9. The Basement Tapes deserves a place in history, as an important period in Dylan’s career between Blonde on Blonde and John Wesley Harding.

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