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Title: Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, The Band, and the Basement Tapes
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Manufacturer: Jawbone Press
List Price: $19.95
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| Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, The Band, and the Basement Tapes by Jawbone Press Not much we don't already know. |
| Plus it's expensively packaged, running counter to the elegant simplicity of the subject. the sessions were off the cuff, born to be bootlegged. The paper, the printing: it's all overdone. Not enough substance, strictly for the uninitiated and tourists. |
| Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, The Band, and the Basement Tapes by Jawbone Press Better than Marcus' Book |
| I prefer Girffin's book over Marcus' book. Sid Griffin focuses on the songs themselves, the time in Dylan's life in which they were recorded, the recording process, and the impact the Basement Tapes had as they trickled out. Greil Marcus' book was yet another exercise in establishing how erudite and cultured he is as compared to the rest of us. While some may find that interesting, and Greil Marcus does occasionally make some interesting points, I think the guy is a pedantic jackass. I'd much rather discuss the Basement Tapes with Sid Griffin than with Greil Marcus. |
| Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, The Band, and the Basement Tapes by Jawbone Press Lost time IS found again! |
Finally, someone got around to compiling all the information I needed to know about The Basement Tapes. Obviously, we're never going to know the full story, but Griffin fills the gaps with cheerful conjecture.
Griffin's writing really captures the spirit of these recordings.
Dylan should have commented, darn him! But he's too busy doing Cadillac commercials I guess.
Recommended reading for tired Dylan Freaks tired of the same ol' same ol'. |
| Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, The Band, and the Basement Tapes by Jawbone Press Very Informative and detailed |
| Great info on the legendary Basement Tapes from a music scholar - I found myself listening along to "A Tree With Roots" as I read the book - A VERY different book than "Old Weird America" - An excellent companion piece to Marcus' book |
| Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, The Band, and the Basement Tapes by Jawbone Press the bash |
| A lot of words have been written about the legendary and mysterious Basement Tapes, but none have been written with quite the same accessibility and musicianly insight as Griffin's Million Dollar Bash. You truly get a sense of the quiet revolution that Dylan and his Band-mates were creating in various music rooms in Woodstock during 1967. If it wasn't for a sloppy edit and a totally inappropriate cover image -- isn't that 1965 or 66 vintage Dylan? -- Million Dollar Bash would rate the full five stars. |
| Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, The Band, and the Basement Tapes by Jawbone Press Product Description |
Million Dollar Bash tells the story of the basement tapes, a strange series of recordings made by Bob Dylan when he went on the lam in the summer of 1967. Remarkably, these casual sessions kick-started the entire Americana genre and produced some of the most revered and misunderstood songs in Dylan’s catalog. Author and musician Sid Griffin begins the story in 1966, when Dylan first discovered his interest in electric music. Griffin then examines the tapes in detail — he analyzes the music, discusses how and why it was made, and speculates over who joined Dylan in making it. As he tells the story, Griffin ponders the question that has intrigued Dylan fans for nearly 40 years: why were the tapes so different from the music Dylan had made up to that point? This important book examines a major turning point in music history and inquires into a group of songs that were enormously influential at the time of their creation and that have been prized by musicians and fans ever since. |
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