Bob Dylan Bootleg LP - ISLE OF WIGHT Concert 1969 RARE

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This rare, 50 year-old bootleg LP is up for auction - Bob Dylan live at the Isle of Wight Festival in August of 1969.  The record's condition is near-mint/excellent and I know it's only been played once since I obtained it in the 1990s from a record dealer who had a couple of them. He was willing to sell me this one as it had some slight moisture discoloration on the cover (visible in photos.) Despite this, the plain white cover is intact and isn't split, and all the album information was just printed on a yellow insert that was then slid into the plastic sleeve (as pictured.) See photos for label information. Again, the record inside the sleeve is as close to pristine as you can find anywhere.
This Isle of Wight show, and the ensuing bootlegs that cropped-up after, are legendary to fans of Dylan and 60s rock in general. For those that aren't familiar, here's some info from online:

"The 1969 festival was considerably larger and more popular than the previous year's. Dylan had been little heard of since his allegedly near-fatal motorcycle accident in July 1966. Shunning the Woodstock Festival, held near his home in upstate New York, Dylan was initially reluctant to perform his comeback show on the little-known Isle of Wight. After weeks of negotiations, the Foulk brothers showed him a short film of the island's cultural and literary heritage; this appealed to Dylan's artistic sensibilities, as he was enthusiastic about combining a family holiday with a live performance in Tennyson country.  The family was scheduled to travel to Britain on the Queen Elizabeth II and nearly missed the gig because Dylan's son Jesse had been hit by a ship cabin door and needed to be hospitalised. Dylan travelled to the site by plane at the last minute.[7]

Before the festival, Dylan and his fellow Woodstock residents, the Band, rehearsed at Forelands Farm in Bembridge, and were joined there by George Harrison, the only "outsider" to have visited him in his enclave in the Catskill Mountains. On Saturday, 30 August, the day before Dylan was to take the stage, Harrison's fellow Beatles John Lennon and Ringo Starr arrived on the island, along with Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, and Eric Clapton. Also seated in the sealed-off VIP area in front of the stage would be Beatle wives Pattie Harrison, Yoko Ono and Maureen Starkey, together with celebrities such as Jane Fonda, Françoise Hardy, Georges Moustaki, Syd Barrett, Donald Cammell, Elton John and others.

Thanks to rumours that one or all of the Beatles would be joining him on stage, Dylan's comeback show had become, in the words of music journalist John Harris, "inflated into the gig of the decade".  On 31 August, Dylan arrived on stage in a cream suit recalling Hank Williams.  Backed by the Band, he performed recent pieces from his Nashville Skyline and John Wesley Harding albums, as well as countryfied versions of earlier songs such as "Maggie's Farm", "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Like a Rolling Stone".

Dylan's setlist was as follows:

1. "She Belongs to Me"
2. "I Threw It All Away"
3. "Maggie's Farm"
4. "Wild Mountain Thyme"
5. "It Ain't Me, Babe"
6. "To Ramona"
7. "Mr. Tambourine Man"
8. "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine"
9. "Lay, Lady, Lay"
10. "Highway 61 Revisited"
11. "One Too Many Mornings"
12. "I Pity the Poor Immigrant"
13. "Like a Rolling Stone"
14. "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight"
15. "The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)"
16. "Minstrel Boy"
17. "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"

Four performances from this concert were included on Dylan's album Self Portrait (1970): "Like a Rolling Stone", "The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)", "Minstrel Boy" and "She Belongs to Me". His set with the Band was also released in several countries on various bootleg records.

LP will be safely and securely shipped in cardboard. Good luck bidding!