Expecting Rain

At a point in time that is marked by people constantly announcing what they hate, Dylan releases a set of music, in which he announces what he loves. Instead of attacking a perceived enemy he celebrates his hero (his words, Sydney 1986). You gotta serve somebody.

Well, i don't know about you, maybe the thought just didn't occur to you,
but when i see a man posing with his arms out by his sides, on the cover
of a Gospel album, it didn't take any deep thought to arrive at the notion
that the clever folk at Sony might well have noted the very same thing i did,
and i noted it upon sight of seeing the cover, no deep thought required there.

Regarding quality, its a live album, so a photo of Dylan on stage from the era
of the recordings seems apt. So the concept is quite sound, however things
become subjective when it comes to choice of the photo used, and fonts.
Some may find the fonts garish, others may appreciate them, there's no
right or wrong answer to that i guess.

Thirdly, Triplicate.
Dylan has mentioned in interview (also in the 2001 Italian Press Conference i think)
that he associates certain sounds within music to certain colours, he's not
unique in that, ive met quite a lot of musicians saying the same thing, so it could
well have been at the request of Dylan that they used the colour scheme that we got.
Of course, maybe he had no part to play in the sleeve at all, unless he speaks about
it, then we won't know. The font for the title 'Triplicate' is very Ye Olde English isn't
it, i'm no expert on lettering, and what styles of lettering come from what eras in
history, but it would appear he/label were aiming for simple and classy looking.
Some may agree that's what was achieved, others may hate it.
It is was it is. But i'd be interested to know if the music/colour aspect came
into play here.

album cover looks great

by the way, if I am not mistaken, this is the first official release with a pic of Dylan in concert on the cover since "Real Live"

http://www.expectingrain.com/discussions/download/file.php?id=6480&mode=view

It does look uncannily similar doesn't it.
It's not an album i'd have ever come across, so it's not a comparison
that was readily available to me until just now.
What is 'movable text'? Sounds intriguing.

The 39 Years Of Great Performances had Dylan on the cover in concert.
Actually, i think from 1981 now i come to think about it.
That's an official live album.

I was going to be very critical of both the artwork and the tracklisting - but having seen the photos of the full set on the Dylan website, I'm now very enthusiastic.

My initial thoughts were that they were underplaying this release so they wouldn't saturate the market before the big Blood on the Tracks box set next year. However, the full photos on the official site look like another treat of a box set. Count me in!

I'm slightly disappointed that the tracklist doesn't contain any obvious surprises, but it's all good stuff. Having a DVD is a step in the right direction for the bootleg series. Hopefully we'll get some RTR/Hard Rain footage with the BOTT BS14 release.


Edit to add: Have we been writing 'Cover Down Breakthrough' wrong all these years?

That's a bloody good question. I never thought about it when I ordered it. I can only hope that as they ship word wide, it will be region free. If not I will just have to use software to make a region free copy myself.

Is the BOTT BS14 set confirmed then? If so, do you have any more info on it or can you point me to where there is info?

Is the BOTT BS14 set confirmed then? If so, do you have any more info on it or can you point me to where there is info?

Does anyone know? The price on bd.com is tempting, but not with the hassle of cracking region coding...

Well, i don't know about you, maybe the thought just didn't occur to you,
but when i see a man posing with his arms out by his sides, on the cover
of a Gospel album, it didn't take any deep thought to arrive at the notion
that the clever folk at Sony might well have noted the very same thing i did,
and i noted it upon sight of seeing the cover, no deep thought required there.

Regarding quality, its a live album, so a photo of Dylan on stage from the era
of the recordings seems apt. So the concept is quite sound, however things
become subjective when it comes to choice of the photo used, and fonts.
Some may find the fonts garish, others may appreciate them, there's no
right or wrong answer to that i guess.

thanks, I stand corrected, how could I have missed that one, when looking through my official releases shelves, and that pic on that release is definitely from 1981 even with the same jacket (with "Dead Man" from New Orleans the only 79-81 track included), I purchased that CD here in Cork in March 2001; it is the only official Dylan release, where I was present during the recording (well, 3/16th of it), having attended both Portsmouth shows half a year earlier

Could some kind soul give me an idea of the top bootlegs from each year, 79,80,81? Im in need of updating this period and looking for the best quality sounding recordings.

I wonder if all the haters of the BS 13 cover are also equally
unhappy with the ''39 Years....'' album?

I had the same worries and asked them, and they say the DVD is region free !