1969 BOB DYLAN 2 LP Set...Original BOOTLEG, NM Cond . GF 1-2-3-4
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TOP ORIGINAL COPY...NM WHITE WONDER...totally original, purchased in 1969.
"In the summer of 1969 a strange new Bob Dylan double LP hit record store shelves in a plain white sleeve. The words “GF 001/2/3/4” were stamped on the cover, though later editions were called Great White Wonder. One record consisted of the tracks from the long-rumored Basement Tapes, while the other one was largely folk covers taped live in 1961. Nobody realized it at the time, but it was the first commercially available bootleg".
Great White Wonder flew off shelves, kicking off the age of the rock & roll bootleg. In the four decades since, Dylan has been bootlegged more than any other artist. In 1991 he decided to beat the bootleggers at their own game by releasing the three-CD set, The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3. He’s since put out six more volumes (always with better sound quality than what’s previously circulated), but it’s done nothing to stop the flood of underground releases.
His refusal to release a single show from the Never Ending Tour, the complete unedited Basement Tapes or countless other legendary bootlegs has led to a very active underground Dylan recording community. As the man himself sang in 2001, “Some of these bootleggers, they make pretty good stuff.”
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