Expecting Rain

All I know is I'm definitely not hoping for anything that has to do with the 65/66 concerts. I'm more inclined to the late 65 concerts just because there's more of a mystique to them, but all of those will be released next month with the Copyright Collection. BS4 already perfectly represented the 1966 World Tour and Jewels and Binoculars give you a fine picture of the rest. As much as I would like to hear the complete Royal Albert Hall concerts, its time to stop milking the 60s.

Is this really happening?

Hopefully they'll do a CD version

They won't. They understood the problem with the 1962 collection and now they have their own design, which is kind of good for a copyright collection compare to the Beach Boys (62-65) or the Beatles (63). It looks like Great White Wonder revisited every year . The quality isn't always there, so there is no need to give it a CD treatment.

Here's the last Beach Boys collection for instance: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B016 ... eluxeed-21

I don't want Dylan to get this kind of format.

However, don't expect too much of the electric shows. Forrest Hills will not be improved according to the BBC program we listened to last month. The only surprises are coming from Carnegie Hall, the Woodstock rehearsals with the Band, and an enhanced Berkeley show. I don't believe we would have a demo of Love Is Just A Four Letter Word or anything like that though

Do we know for sure there's a tape of Carnegie Hall and a better sounding Berkeley show?

They won't. They understood the problem with the 1962 collection and now they have their own design, which is kind of good for a copyright collection compare to the Beach Boys (62-65) or the Beatles (63). It looks like Great White Wonder revisited every year . The quality isn't always there, so there is no need to give it a CD treatment.

Here's the last Beach Boys collection for instance: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B016 ... eluxeed-21

I don't want Dylan to get this kind of format.

For Carnegie, rumors said super-collectors have it, like the Woodstock rehearsals. For Berkeley, Bobsboots noted several audience sources coming out since the 90's. Some are definitely listenable, far better than the Philadelphia show of 64 for instance. We can maybe expect some shows to be recorded professionally at the time. Berkeley could have been used as a warm-up for the World Tour and gave Bob some inspiration for BoB sessions. So he would have needed a trace of his concert

I've heard the missing BoTT tape(s) story previously, can't remember where from though.

Not sure how interested I would be with a set entirely focused on BoTT. The nice thing about Cutting Edge is its such an overwhelming set with so many different songs, you can hear the evolution of all the classics. BoTT sessions has what, like 11.5 different songs? It's probably my favorite album of all time but I dunno how interesting it could be, though the solo session sounds really intriguing.

Personally hoping for an ASP/TTS style BS ranging from Pat Garrett to Desire, maybe a few live tracks thrown here and there. Although what are they going to do with John Wesley Harding? I don't think there's enough material to warrant its own Bootleg Series, maybe Jelly Roll is onto something with just throwing the best outtakes onto this one. Otherwise its just going to slip into 2017's copyright set.

I hope they f*ck off with the 60's for the next 3 or 4 releases of The Bootleg series. We already got more than enough of that stuff out there. Let's cover some other portions of the guys career already.

Hinted at by Dylan's people:
- Blood On The Tracks sessions (including previously unknown solo version of the entire album)
- Gospel era (live and studio)
- 1978 tour (focus on later shows)
- Sydney 1986
- "pre-album stuff where Bob is just singing songs in Greenwich Village coffeehouses"
- Infidels sessions
- Oh Mercy sessions

My suggestions:
- The Jokers acetate (Bob's first band recorded in 1956)
- Karen Wallace tape 1960 (maybe not as a mainstream BS release, but perhaps as a vinyl only Record Store Day release in the style of the early Great White Wonder vinyl bootlegs)
- Rundown Studios era 1977-1981 (1977 "I'm Cold" demos, if extant, 1978 "Street Legal" piano demos, if extant)
- Infidels/Empire Burlesque/Knocked Out Loaded/HoF Sessions 1982–1986
[Blind Willie McTell (electric/band version), Julius And Ethel, Union Sundown ("man in the mask in the white house"-version), duets with Clydie King (1982), Almost Done, Dirty Lies, Enough Is Enough, New Danville Girl, Freedom For The Stallion, To Fall In Love With You etc.]
- 1987 Down In The Groove sessions (including reconstruction of the original version of the album)
- 1989–2009 round up of outtakes/demos/rarities
[1989 Emlah Court sessions (including God Knows piano demo), Twenty-One Years (WGW outtake, 1993), Hello Stranger (WGW outtake, 1993), Goodnight My Love (WGW outtake, 1993), I'm Not Supposed To Care (outtake, 1994), One Night Of Sin (outtake, 1994), Easy Rider (Don't Deny My Name) (outtake, 1994), My Blue Eyed Jane (alternate version, 1994), 1996 Oxnard sessions, Shake Sugaree (TOOM outtake, 1997), Tell Ol' Bill ("rockabilly“ version, outtake, 2005), Vigilante Man (The People Speak outtake, 2009) etc.]
- 1990 Under The Red Sky (rough mix version, live in the studio, no overdubs, untouched by Don Was) [vinyl only Record Store Day release]
- unreleased album recorded in Chicago in 1992
- 1984 tour (London or Brussels 06/07, Rome 06/21, Barcelona 06/28)
- 1987 entire tour with the Grateful Dead
- 1987 entire Temples In Flames tour
- 1988 early "Never-Ending Tour" show(s) [Concord, Sacramento, Berkeley, Mountain View, East Troy, Wantagh]

I'd love a 72-76 compilation, with BOTT as a centerpiece for a BS13 release, but I could happily wait another year for it if we would get a '66 CD/DVD package consisting of Eat The Document, Something Is Happening Here and a 66 concert clips collection - all from the Pennebaker footage, plus a CD of the Paris concert, rumored to have been recorded by CBS.

Really wondering what the 85 Disc Collectors Edition is going to cost...

It looks like you're right... hopefully.

Bob Dylan ‎– The 50th Anniversary Collection - Dec. 27th, 2012

Bob Dylan ‎– 50th Anniversary Collection 1963 - Dec. 2nd, 2013

Bob Dylan ‎– 50th Anniversary Collection 1964 - Dec. 8th, 2014

Bob Dylan - 50th Anniversary Collection 1965 - Dec. ???, 2015

I have a feeling the 1965 collection is going to be good. Is this a hopeful indication that we will get the Carnegie Hall 1965 performance?