BOB DYLAN- GREAT WHITE WONDER RARE 1969 VINTAGE TMOQ 2LP FOLK PSYCH CLASSIC ROCK
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RARE VINTAGE "FAN CLUB" DOUBLE ALBUM!
"BOB DYLAN- GREAT WHITE WONDER"
1969 plain label
The condition of the gatefold cover is about VG+ with some tape on seams and minor writing. The condition of both discs are VG+ and play well.
This is the first underground rock release, a legendary double album originally pressed in a run of 1,000-2,000 copies by two anonymous L.A. insiders known as Dub and Ken. It began appearing in stores in June 1969, and got its nickname from the plain white jacket. This is the second version, still from 1969, but decorated with the titular stamp. This was the first time these previously unheard 23 tracks had been available anywhere, though the sequencing logic is hard to pin down. Ten cuts were drawn from the "Minnesota Tapes", a collection of American standards recorded in May and December 1961. "Only a Hobo" and "Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag" came from 1963 Columbia demos, and "Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence" and "If You Gotta Go, Go Now" were great-sounding studio outtakes from the Highway 61 sessions. A version of "The Death of Emmitt Till" was pulled from a session with the magazine Broadside, and "Living the Blues" was recorded off of the television, from the May 1969 appearance on "The Johnny Cash Show". There are also seven Basement Tape demos from just before Dylan left to make John Wesley Harding in Nashville. Along with "This Wheel's On Fire", "The Mighty Quinn", "Nothing Was Delivered", "Too Much Of Nothing" and "Open The Door, Homer", there was also "Tears of Rage" and "I Shall Be Released", which had respectively opened and closed Music From Big Pink. Great White Wonder was a grab-bag retrospective of Dylan's career to that point, serving as something of a corrective to his absence and a harbinger of a career that wouldn't continue along the path it had taken for the first half of the decade. There is a near endless variety of editions of this LP. The same companies have packaged the same album many ways, and some of them have been altered by the distributors, retailers, and end line consumer. Along with the minor intentional alterations (such as changes in insert or stamp color and label design) there are inadvertent minor changes such as differing hues of the same color cardboard jacket stock, or raw vinyl used to press the LP (which is relatively nice in this case). It would be a herculean task to try to document every minor unintentional variant, but this second version is identifiable by its lack of matrix information and front cover rubber stamp, which is the same one TMQ would later use for their "official" issue (the first press was also technically TMQ, but there was no rubber stamp, insert or label design yet).
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