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dylyricus @dylyricus.com · 13h

Questionable location credit but, still, a genuinely great new-found photo of Bob Dylan
www.reddit.com/r/bobdylan/c...

Photo posted by icamisawiclicked of Bob Dylan walking through cried. Caption "not a great picture, but my husband took this back in the 70's in Baton Rouge"

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dylyricus @dylyricus.com · 1d

I'm with you at this stage.

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 3d

🧵 95/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Hibbing, Minnesota. May 2025. Birthplace of Bob Dylan. They are mighty proud of him here.

Hibbing, Minnesota Public Library - home of a Bob Dylan exhibit

Monument outside the Hibbing, MN library honoring Nobel Prize in Literature honoree, native son Bob Dylan

A life-sized Bob Dylan cardboard cutout at the Dylan exhibit in the Hibbing Public Libraru

Small detail of song lyrics on the monument to Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize, Hibbing, Minnesota. "May you stay forever young"

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Joel B @joelbrandhorst.bsky.social · 3d

Robert Z homage station at Fitger’s Brewhouse

A glass case of Bob Dylan photos, posters and facts printed on cards at Fitger’s in Duluth

The smokestack tower at Fitger’s in Duluth

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dylyricus @dylyricus.com · 3d

The promise of the Bootleg Series 18 has been years in the making:

"For decades we’ve been collecting tapes from the time before he began making official recordings ... We have some beautiful-sounding tapes that nobody has ever heard”

- Rolling Stone 2018
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

“We’ve wanted to do a Bootleg Series on Bob’s earliest performances for a long time,” says a source close to the Bob Dylan camp. “For decades we’ve been collecting tapes from the time before he began making official recordings. I think it would be really interesting to go through those. We’ll probably call it something like The Villager.”.

Recordings from his era have been circulating within fan circles for decades, most notably a trio of tapes that Dylan’s girlfriend Bonnie Beecher and his friend Tony Glover created between May and December of 1961. The vast majority of songs in his set at the time were covers like “Baby Please Don’t Go,” “I Ain’t Go No Home” and “Man of Constant Sorrow.” “We have some beautiful-sounding tapes that nobody has ever heard,” says the source. “Or if they have, we have first generation tapes.”

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dylyricus @dylyricus.com · 4d

Not working for me on Qobuz but I'm good :-)

dylyricus @dylyricus.com · 4d

Hard to see where those pre-releases can be heard. Not on YouTube or Spotify that I can see. Qobuz shows them but won't play (maybe they require their paid streaming service)

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dylyricus @dylyricus.com · 4d

The book I'd be more interested in is a behind-the-scenes about how this one began and how it ended up this way. I can't help but think it wasn't originally intended to be like this.

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dylyricus @dylyricus.com · 4d

I generally have an inherently positive attitude but I have to ask: is anyone genuinely excited for the upcoming bootleg series 18? If so, can you share why? It seems like they undershot this significantly, a big mostly rehashed missed opportunity. I hope I'm wrong.

The Change my Mind meme, with most of the text from the post reproduced, followed by " change my mind"

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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 4d

The Bootleg Series Vol. 18 is coming on October 31st with home tapes, live recordings and outtakes from Bob Dylan's early career.

To get in the mood, I'm revisiting unofficial bootlegs from this period, starting with May 1961's Minnesota Party Tape.

dylanrevisited.com/2025/10/04/t...

The Minnesota Party Tape (May 1961)

The 18th edition of The Bootleg Series is coming on October 31st. It promises official versions of home tapes, live recordings and outtakes from Bob Dylan’s early career. Ahead of this exciti…

dylanrevisited.com

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dylyricus @dylyricus.com · 6d

These are the songs originally slated for inclusion in the first Bootleg Series but didn't make the final cut

The following songs from the previous list didn't make it this time:

Lonesome Whistle Blues - Freewheelin' outtake (10/6/62)
Long Ago, Far Away - Witmark demo (?)
Farewell - Witmark demo (?)
John Brown - Witmark demo (?)
Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag - The Times outtake
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - alternate version from 1/15/65
+ Medicine Sunday - complete version
She's Your Lover Now - piano version from February 1966
* Silent Weekend
It Ain't Me Babe - LIVE from Renaldo & Clara
+ No Man Righteous - Slow Train outtake
Ain't Gonna Go To Hell - LIVE from 1979
Shot Of Love - LIVE from Avignon 1981
* fur Slippers

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dylyricus @dylyricus.com · 6d

These are the songs originally slated for inclusion in the first Bootleg Series but didn't make the final cut

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dylyricus @dylyricus.com · 7d

On Amazon's Bootleg Series 18 listing page, they recommend a genuine bootleg to buy as well. Track listing of that kind of shows up the original version, to be honest...

Description

Bob Dylan - The Broadcast Collection 1961 - 1965 5CD Box Set

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, author, and visual artist who has been a major figure in popular culture for six decades. The Broadcast Collection is a unique collection of his live broadcast sessions between 1961 and 1965 in New York, Chicago, Mineapolis and Montreal. Bob Dylan’s recording at Bonnie Beecher’s Apartment is a famous “home” tape of Dylan. Large portions of this tape appeared on the first Dylan bootleg album, the legendary Great White Wonder. The Broadcast Collection also includes the live broadcast at Finjan Club Montreal 1962. The tape features one of Dylan’s most powerful original blues The incredible Finjan tape belongs in every collection.

CD 1: Bob Dylan – Live at New York 1961-1965 & Chicago 1963

CD 2: Bob Dylan – Live at New York 1961-1965 & Minneapolis 1961

CD 3: Bob Dylan – Live at New York 1961-1965

CD 4: Bob Dylan – Live at Bonnie Beecher’s Apartment Minneapolis 1961

CD 5: Bob Dylan – Live at Finjan Club Montreal 1962 & Folkways Studios New York City 1962/1963

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Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social · 7d

On September 29, 2000, a fan frantically waves a copy of New Morning at the window of Bob's bus, stuck in traffic.

At the very next show, Bob debuts a New Morning song he's never played live before.

Coincidence?

Lesson: Someone wave Street Legal at Bob's bus this fall

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dylyricus @dylyricus.com · 8d

"I don't know what I'm gonna do
I was alright, 'til I fell in love with you
(I kinda wish I hadn't)"

Bob Dylan
Sep 18, 2025 Noblesville, IN

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dylyricus @dylyricus.com · 7d

I forgot all about "Club Sandwich"!

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dylyricus @dylyricus.com · 8d

"I don't know what I'm gonna do
I was alright, 'til I fell in love with you
(I kinda wish I hadn't)"

Bob Dylan
Sep 18, 2025 Noblesville, IN

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dylyricus @dylyricus.com · 8d

In my younger days I signed up for the Paul McCartney fan club but immediately regretted it when the materials arrived under the title "Fun Club"

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dylyricus @dylyricus.com · 8d

Interesting (to me) would be to ask two questions of Dylan fans: which studio version of Tangled did you hear first, and which studio version to you like best? I'm willing to bet they are almost always one and the same.

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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 8d

While Bootleg Vol. 2’s alternate takes of songs from Bob Dylan’s mid-60s electric era were interesting, they lacked the mystique of the outtakes from Blood on the Tracks.

The collection’s unreleased New York versions from that album were a glimpse into a parallel universe. 🧵

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dylyricus @dylyricus.com · 8d

This was the first version of Tangled Up In Blue I ever heard, and I still feel it's far superior to the final album recording.

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dylyricus @dylyricus.com · 10d

Follow your own star: Lessons from four years writing about Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour | The Post

(Mike Johnson, of the Untold Dylan website, has a three-volume book series out)

The Post

www.thepost.co.nz

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dylyricus @dylyricus.com · 10d

Oh. Sorry, I only just learned it was a joke 😂

dylyricus @dylyricus.com · 10d

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 14d

It's a joke. It's not a label; people are adding it to their own posts. Like this:

ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘢. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳.

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Johnny Borgan @johnnyborgan.bsky.social · 10d

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