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B1G Diversion: Favorite Live Albums/Box Sets

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Hoody Wayes's picture
November 28, 2017 at 8:54pm
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I can say (er...write) having completed listening to Bob Dylan's The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 -- Collector’s Edition - boasted as "...every note recorded during the 1965–1966 sessions, every alternate take and alternate lyric" it surpasses that boast. It's an odyssey over 18 discs that might as well be planets in a universe:

https://www.billboard.com/articles/review/album-review/6762375/bob-dylan-cutting-edge-bootleg-series-box-set

There are so many gems in this treasure chest. I really like this one, though:

Now, I am about halfway through Dylan's The 1966 Live Recordings. The sound quality of the London gigs at Royal Albert Hall put you in the moment. Tell Me Mama recorded during the second half of the first gig, is kick-ass rock and almost as good as what is to me, Dylan's greatest live performance:

 

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