BOB DYLAN - BBC In Concert 1965.
This is a major upgrade to any recording circulating earlier. If you're a big Dylan collector, you might have downloaded this already last fall, when it first appeared on the Brand X torrent tracker (you know, that really big one). If you got that version, this is the same thing. But I'm posting it again here for those who may have missed it. If you like acoustic Dylan, I highly recommend this. This is among his last full-acoustic performances before he "went electric" later in 1965. Although the sound is excellent, it's not perfect. There is some fairly minor distortion on some songs. But this is a true line recording -- all earlier tapes originated from a recording made by holding a microphone in front of a TV speaker. If you have the "At the Beeb" boot on the Main Stream label, that one's quite good, but this one is better.
Full artwork scans are included. They feature photos of Dylan at this TV filming, on June 1, 1965.
I took the following information from the original torrent posted elsewhere. Thanks very much to the person who did the work on this and made it available.
Enjoy,
Clyde the Camel
Bob Dylan
BBC Studios
London
Recorded on June 1, 1965, for later BBC television broadcasts.
First show
1 Ballad Of Hollis Brown
2 Mr Tambourine Man
3 Gates Of Eden
4 If You Gotta Go, Go Now
5 Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll
6 It Ain't Me Babe
Second show
7 Love Minus Zero/No Limit
8 One Too Many Mornings
9 Boots Of Spanish Leather
10 It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
11 She Belongs to Me
12 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Tracks 1-6: First show, broadcast June 19, 1965
Tracks 7-12: Second show, broadcast June 26, 1965
(The broadcast dates on the artwork are reversed)
Recorded from TV broadcasts in Hull, Yorkshire, U.K., using a KB domestic 1/4-inch recorder with a BSR tape deck, running at a speed of 3.75 ips via a line connection to a Rediffusion wired system junction box. The recording is in mono.
Transferred from original master tape to miniDisc, then to CDR.
This tape, while in great quality, came in the wrong speed and needed some work before it was listenable.
Volume, speed and pitch corrected in London on Sept. 10- 12, 2005, using CoolEdit Pro 2.0. Some additional
remastering, including fade-in and fade-outs at start and end of the disc, were done. Noise or hiss reduction has not been performed, in order to best preserve the atmosphere and feel of the original tape, which this can sometimes take away.
The video portions of these TV broadcasts are not known to have survived.