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Thank you Steve for the kind words. It was truly a pleasure remixing that album. The biggest challenge was to maintain the integrity of the spirit and feel of the original mixes while offering a new approach. Michael Brauer

Steve thanks so much for sharing my system on your channel. Truly an honor. Keep up the good work.

I love Bob Dylan and it was great to see an episode about him! Thanks Steve

I was just watching your video about Blonde on Blonde a couple of days ago and I’ve been on a big Bob Dylan kick for a month now. This is perfect.

Wow Almost got emotional listening to you talk about Dylan with such love Just got the 10 lp special edition today and can’t wait to listen to it The whole bootleg series is an absolute treasure trove of material Thanks

Steve, Steve, Steve...Why do you make me spend my money like this. After watching your passionate review, I ordered two of the vinyl box sets of the bootleg series. This is the greatest thing about your channel--it is as much about the music as it is about the gear. You really set the standard for all the audiophile channels. Thanks for all you do!

Steve, sometimes we may have our differences but I’ll tell you the good thing about you: You get so excited. You’re like a little kid. And you communicate that excitement to the viewer. It’s a blast to watch. (Although I would have thought that you knew about the quote about the “thin, high mercury sound” that he liked so much on Blonde On Blonde.) Just a quibble. Great show.

This is great! Really enjoyed your perspective and quick breakdown on Dylan's albums.. more like this maybe!? 👍👍

Great video Steve with a ton of great info. Love Time Out of Mind so will oder this LP set immediately. As an aside, had the pleasure meeting you in 1990 at Stereo Exchange where you setup a fantastic demo of Sonus Faber Electa Amator speakers with Counterpoint amps and Roksan turntable. I subsequently purchased the Electa Amators and Roksan turntable. Many thanks for sharing.

Steve - Great video. I discovered Bob’ music in ‘67 and he’s been my favorite ever since. So many great memories of listening to his music. Thanks for helping me reminisce.

My vinyl edition of this Dylan music just arrived on my doorstep! I own all of his music and appreciate your enjoyment of him as well! I also appreciate you and your programming!

Steve, loved your take on Dylan. I was 22 (49 now) the first time I heard "Like a Rolling Stone." It literally changed my life... it make me really think for the first time. Since, I prob have 50 Dylan albums. I now love to listen to his traditional albums (Good as I Been to You, World Gone Wrong). I'm going to pick up the new "Time Out of Mind" though I've always loved the original's sound...

Yay! Recording reviews! Love it, more please!

Wow! Just maybe your best video ever. This is a classic. Do more of these.

Well done, sir. I have spent the weekend tracking through the Fragments box as well. I am not sure I like the remix as much as you do, but it is definitely an interesting listen. I'd like to see a remaster of the original release (preferably in hi-def audio), but for some reason I don't think that is ever going to happen. BTW, I liked the sound on the Guitars Kissing bootleg more than I did the official RAH release.

I really enjoyed your review of Bob Dylan's recordings. Blood On The Tracks is terrific, but for me, and for reasons I don't know, the OG mono of Highway 61, on vinyl, comes closest to my ideal Dylan sound. More music reviews please.

Like A Rolling Stone was released about a month before my twelfth birthday and I still clearly remember it's impact on me. (Though it was a while before I could plumb the import of the lyrics.) I also recall that it was unprecedented for such a long song to be played uncut on AM radio.

Thank you Steve! Great find

I listened to both today. The old mix I like because the swampy sound. The new version is almost another album. I like them both.

Great episode! Live this new bootleg series.

Blood on the tracks was one of my first vinyl albums and one of my favourite Dylan albums too. Love your work as usual. Regards from Sydney Australia.

Thank you Steve. Having spent 18 hours with this new release, you are spot on. For me, Blood on the tracks is definitely the best sounding and also his greatest collection of songs. I can’t wait to devote another 6 hours to Fragments tonight.

Thank you for this great video, I have always loved Dylan but stopped listening to him after Nashville Skyline (which I loved ) but moved on to different artist. So 2020 arrives and I discovered the bootleg series. I have since bought them all but have not completed my listening as of yet. I enjoyed your views on his music and this series . Take care!

Steve I'm with you as a life long listener of all things Dylan as well as playing his songs, from this album, with a band. In 1997 I mainly listened to TOM in the car as i drove through the canefields and country side of rural NSW Australia. I think this melded the landscape and the music for me, but that's just my subjective take. Thanks for the very detailed review.

thank you for this video..the quality and sound of Bob Dylan records really deserves a discussion ..i'm a big fan, named my son after him, they share the same b-day, "Highway 61" is a great record and "Like a RollingStone" possibly the best rock song ever..i've listen to that thousands of times..from a small transmitter radio to a single dash speaker in a 64 chevy to blaring on a couple thousand dollar system..it sounds as powerful as ever on every format..or stereo i've ever listen to..great video, more of these..thank's

Thanks, Steve. I have been a huge Dylan fan from the day one also. I put him above the Beatles and the Stones. This new release will be a must buy for me. I was so focused just on the music that I never paid a lot of attention to the recording quality.

Thanks for the heads up on the fragments. Sounds good

My favourite singer by far. Hits another level

I guess Infidels is the last "all analog" made album from Bob Dylan, which i found very good sounding. Mark Knopfler's guitar is just amazing and the band is playing there ass 'ss of. Also Slow Train Coming is a good sounding Bob album. ✌️❤️🇩🇰

Fantastic.. Took me some time to get into Dylan … always thought I would but was just waiting for the right time.. stayed up late one night and watched No Direction Home .. and bam … it all made scenes…. I got lucky as I was in time to snap up those early Bootleg series on 200g classic records…yes there a treasure…and I’m so glad to have them .. One of my favourite sets is the Another Self Portrait…shines new light on that miss understood album … top stuff..

Great episode and review of the new bootleg release. Fully agree with regard to the sound quality of the new 2023 remix of the Time out of Mind album! Brilliantly done and so much better then the original to my ears. Thank you to the engineer for doing such a very fine job!!!

Very nice and emotional review! My "favorite" album is Bob Dylan's entire work .

Blonde On Blonde is my favorite Dylan album.

I have a modern reissue of Time out of Mind and think it sounds pretty good. It's got Lanois all over it. Love it. I have the 4 LP box set ready for me to pick up at my local record store.

lovely video wonderfully expressive of Bobs music

I discovered Bob Dylan in 1962 at the age of 15 and I am a lifelong fan. Thru my high school days, I purchased all his vinyl BUT not allowed (Old School Dad) at home to play them thru the speakers on the family RCA console speakers so initially listened thru my shortwave headset and finally a used pair of Koss Pro 4A headphones. At age 18 I finally had a car so Dylan on 8 Track with 6 speakers and a spring style reverb were added. Somewhere along the line, I memorized all the words to Subterranean Homesick Blues, which I can recite even now as my GrandKids know. I have noted that Dylan is not about his voice or in many cases the quality of the music, but, I contend that his words are those of a Nobel Laureate POET. With your observations and perspective today, as I'm retired, I'm going to go thru my complete collection of Dylan CD's in order of release. I will listen byway of a McIntosh CD player, a DIY 2 watt Single Ended Class A, Russian Boob Tube HeadPhone Amp and Sennheiser HD 58X Headphones with Lagavulin Single Malt Scotch of course. Yes Steve, you have inspired me to rediscover hidden secrets of Dylan, thank you.

Fully agree re: Live 64 and Live 66. Giddy is a great description. The road weary, cynical acoustic set from 66 is my absolute go-to. Thanks for a great topic, Steve!

Un critico con la passione di un ragazzino, Bob ti amerà per questo perché sei un uomo onesto, in un mondo in cui o si celebra o si disprezza. U R the N.1 of KZfaq, chapeau Audiophiliac! ❤

Guttenberg on Dylan! I’m shocked, but pleasantly surprised that you reviewed his sound. I’ve been hooked on his music, and sound, for 50+ years. Through 2003 I owned more than 45 of his albums - but they were stolen by some common thief. Many of those albums were first issues. Some were rare imports - true bootlegs. Your review was great and insightful. I’d love to hear your thoughts on Rough and Rowdy ways.

Saw a local folkie, Bill Madison, perform Desolation Row in "66 when I was at college in Rhode Island and it flipped me out. I was at the record store the next day for Highway 61 Revisited and Bringing it All Back Home, still listen to them monthly.

Time Out of Mind definitely had a "Lanoised" sound, and while typically I prefer more naturalistic, less-cluttered production, I do like what he's done w/ Dylan, the Neville Brothers, U2, Luscious Jackson, and such; and Oh Mercy sounds great for Bob. For a VERY uncluttered Dylan sound, him really getting back to his roots, I recommend a pair of his early 90s recordings- 'Good as I been to You' and 'World Gone Wrong'- just Dylan w/ an amplified electric guitar, singing traditional works. His interpretations of them are awesome!

One of the things I love about Time Out of Mind is the production and mix by Daniel Lanois. To each their own ;)

Dylan fan here. Saw the album on Tidal a couple hours ago, played the first track. Figured the set was just another reboot for some bucks. Will have to sit down for some critical listening after watching this vid. Big fan of Oh Mercy. And holy crap, making music for 60+ years. Saw him live about 12 years ago. He was pathetic, don’t think he even knew or cared where he was. This was a great variation of your usual vids, Steve. I think many of us would love to see more like it.

Rough and Rowdy Ways is also a great sounding record, one of his best. Produced by Bob

The only album of Bob’s that I’ll play over and over again is Desire, which doesn’t often get a lot of love.

'Not Dark Yet' (2022 Remix) is my fav.

Yes to Blood on the Tracks. I'm not much of a Dylan fan, but that's one I can put on -- once in a while.

Just FYI, there were plenty of signals that we used to feed through organ and guitar speakers when we didn't want a precision, low-distortion sound. That was just part of the musical instrumentation. It's often true that, in an excellent, highly transparent and neutral listening environment like a control room in a studio, few things sound more out of place than a crystal-clear instrument that was not intended to be crystal-clear (hence the decades-long boom market in distortion pedals, etc.). And, if I had to pick a human vocal sound that I would guess that might also be true of, in the judgment of quite a few engineers, I would have Bob Dylan's at or near the top of that list. It doesn't surprise me at all that even a first-rate reinforcement or recording engineer might have his voice going through a guitar amp (or a Leslie without the motor on 😊).

Highway 61 might be the best rock album in history!

Nice talk Steve. I turned my friends on to Dylan after I heard Like a Rolling Stone and then later, Desolation Row on the radio. We were into heavy rock at the time. Agreed, Blood on the Tracks was everything to me. There was no topping it. Every song was the best. After that album, other albums just seemed to be made because he was Bob Dylan. I never felt it again. With that said, my goal is to try to listen to his albums after BOTT. I have heard snippets of the Bootleg series and Desire. I'm sure that I can find songs to love.

What a great insight into th Bob Dylan sound*s. Thank you!

I have a question would a Chinese 300b tube amp be able to power Triangle Borra 07 Floor Standing Speakers?

He said Blonde on Blonde had "that thin wild mercury sound"

Highway 61 - my first record.. sigh.

When someone claims "Dylan can't sing," I know they don't know too much about singing. Or at least they have a miserly view of what constitutes good singing. “But I like the sound of him, I didn’t have to listen to his words...just the sound is what counts. The overall thing.” - John Lennon on Bob Dylan

Thank You men ! Becouse of You im discovering great music, keep it up to the end of the world ! 😊

I think that Desire is one of Dylan`s best sounding records.

Guys, I'm beginning to hear voices and there's no one around. I'm 20 miles out of town cold irons bound!

The reason I enjoy your show more than any other is that you don't mask your enthusiasm or your giddiness (in the best of sense of the word) when sharing reviews. And I enjoyed your recent piece on building a listening room, mostly because of seeing and hearing Herb. More please! Every month or so I toss another quarter into the Herb jukebox and we talk audio; his knowledge is worth every penny. And we also tell a few lies and solve the problems of the world. A fine gent!

I'm honestly not knocked out by the '22 remix of the album proper. It seems less dynamic than the original. And with the added clarity, if Bob goes off-pitch (which happens) it's far more obvious now. The original mix had a great "bounce" to it. So glad to get more outtakes of "Mississippi", one of my favorite Dylan songs of the last 40 years. He sure was on a hot streak with Time Out Of Mind / Love & Theft / Modern Times!

Best sounding Dylan's album I own is Bringing It All Back Home in Mono from Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (2016 release)

You and me both. My first was Blood on the Tracks. Memorized every word.

I think that Slow Train Coming is one of his best sounding albums. My vote for the worst is Street Legal which has some of my favorite Dylan songs. Apparently the recording process was not good during the SL sessions so there's not much of an opportunity to remix it into a better sounding album.

Slow Train Coming ... stands alone at the pinnacle of Dylan for me. It's stunningly deep with detail and soundstage dimensionality, bass, drums. The audio, the sound ... so different from other Dylan releases, hifi sounding. It's the overall production approach, it's killer.

It was a digital lp pressing, Steve!

Is that a Schiit Jotenhiem back there? Looking at buying one of those...review?

Listening to Dylan has been a big part of my life. He's almost exactly 20 years older than me. I started listening to him as a teenager and later in life I realized that I seemed to "really get" every album when I became the age that Dylan was when he recorded it. Time Out of Mine was a lot easier to appreciate in my mid-50's than it was in my mid-30's when it was released. The same with Oh Mercy. You have to have gone through certain things in life to appreciate these albums. I actually think that this says something good about Dylan's art. I'm also one of the few people who absolutely love Street Legal. I would love to see the out-takes released from this one.

I was very excited when I heard about this (I just bought the 2 cd version), because it's such a great album but I've always disliked the murky production. The first time I played Fragments I was blown away-- it sounded so much more vivid and impactful, like I was actually hearing the musicians rather than the producer's idiosyncratic "vison" of how the music should sound. I posted a thread on audiogon expressing my enthusiasm and most guys who responded said they didn't hear much of a difference or that they even preferred the original mix. It's therefore very gratifying to know that you enjoy this as much as I do.

My 10 lp set is enroute! ✌🏻👍🏻

I love Dylan’s music, thanks for this episode

On one Dylans on going tours he employed services of the Great Richard Thompson.I guess he dosent mind the competion!

In rock ‘n roll terms, the 1966 Albert Hall performance of Baby Let Me Follow You Down stands out as a turning point in a year that brought us Revolver, Pet Sounds and Aftermath, among other canonical works. Dylan puts all the chips on the table. Loud. Raw. Real. In your face (a face most likely, at that time, blithely beaming in hopes of something a bit more cozy and campfire-friendly). Leaves the others, for all their enduring brilliance, seeming for a moment a bit undergraduate. A bit lingering too long by the punch bowl. A bit tame. Leaves your date wondering whether there will ever be real passion, not just smirky, smarmy games. I wasn’t even born then, but I still haven’t recovered.

Bringing It All Back Home was the album just before Highway 61 and began his change to amplified sound. With classics like "Maggie's Farm", "Mr. Tamborine Man" , and "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue". Of his later albums I really liked Infidels.

Of all the “official’” Dylan bootleg albums this set of studio recordings (I didn’t care for the live stuff) is the most transformative from the original material. It is really like getting a new Dylan masterpiece in 2023. I have also converted most of the studio tracks into a 5.1 mix for an even more amazing experience. I am always amazed at people deriding Dylan’s voice - since he has so many voices throughout his career. I think the voice he uses on most of his albums could not be surpassed by any other singer. Who for example could have sung the songs on HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED, INFIDELS, FREEWHEELING or BLOOD ON THE TRACKS better than Dylan?

IMO nothing Dylan did afterwards will come close to the magnificent clarity of the early Columbia recordings, soundwise. It was utterly enchanting. Hats off to the engineers there.

Nashville Skyline, especially the MoFi version (yes, with the DSD 256l stage) is also a fabulous sounding album. Generally, I agree that Bob's recordings aren't special in an audiophile sense. Still, they sound like Bob Dylan should sound.

Interesting "title card" it's backwards for me. I was very young, but I heard "Blowin In the Wind" before I'd heard of the Beatles who came out with "I Want to Hold Your Hand" the year following. Then I only wanted to hear British groups.

Been a long time Dylan fan and agree with all of what you said. For me Blood on the Tracks is hands down one of his best. Not just for the SQ but for the content. It's a brilliant recording. Lost track of how many times I've seen him live at the Beacon And MSG when this came out - I believe he opened with Cold Iron Bond - Joni Mitchell opened the show - she was great but the scale of the space was to big for her voice. Other than that is was a hysterical event. Hadn't been to the Garden in many years and hadn't realized how "civilized" it had become. LOL. Ah well. Streaming Fragments as I write this from Qobuz and yes!!!! It is much better than the original production.

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Love the 2022 mix. I also love the sound of Modern Times.

Just played the Tidal version. Night and day!

Excellent!

The sound of his voice at the time of Lay Lady Lay was very good.

I love the remixed version of Love Sick.

l kinda like the early rap phase of It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding).

I whole heartedly agree with you about the remix.

I bought Blonde on Blonde because of a KZfaq that you did. So this is much more clear of what you and he said. That's cool, so I got what Bob likes. I bought that live recorded that's way better.

It would have been great to have HEARD side by side comparisons of some of the songs you discussed, even 15 second clips, which would surely be covered under fair rights usage.

Thanks - great

Nothing wrong with bob dylans sound

I’m right there with you Steve. But you’re in the wrong city to see him at his best. You should fly down here to Nashville and see him play the Ryman Auditorium, (the mother church and cradle of great music)! I have lost count of how many times I’ve seen him play over the decades. But THAT album was a hugely different path! It’s another feather in his peacock of works! I’ve never had any complaints about the sound of it and thought it sounded better than most everything he’d done since “Infidels”! But yeah, now I’ve got to go get the box set. It just never ends! I recommend you hook some of those Cornwalls up to some McIntosh tubes and try another listen to the original!

Always have suspected that Steve’s real passion is talking about and writing about music

Could be interesting to see Bob Dylans stereo system 😊 Mr. Guttenberg ? - if he is into that - musicians often dont care about hi-fi .

I loved that album as much as any he's done. Do you mean that this set includes the original, just remixed?

I am digging the 1970 George Harrison copywrite dump, 3 cds mostly odds and sods from JWH, New Morning, etc., but I love that Woodstock NY Big Pink period.

Almost never do you mention Dylan, Steve!

never been a big fan of daniel lanois and his "swampy sound" also love "fragments". saw dylan in 2001 and still remains one of the best shows i ever saw. dylan is the only artist who only has re released his music in alternate form and in many cases better versions!

Steve definitely tasted some Orange Sunshine