oldbrownshoe here.
No problem Old Brown Shoe.
In fact it means that I might be able to put forward some less than appreciated views, and then pass them off as yours!
Here's one:
Have the recent 'Basement Tapes' elevated Bob Dylan to the position of the most important recording artist ever?
Above Elvis, above Hendrix, above The Stones, and, whisper it, even above The Beatles?
I suggest this because, with the best will in the world, the various Beatles' out-takes that appeared on 'Anthology' showed that the group released the best versions of their takes 99% of the time, and had little else in the can apart from run-throughs, stutters, etc.
Dylan, however, appears to have bucket-loads of unreleased stuff, some every bit as good as the material that got released, and, just the other day, another cache of 150 (150!) songs were apparently discovered from 1969!
Quite apart from anything else, if we just look at the 60s (i.e. the time when both acts were active), in 30/40 years time Dylan may be seen to have record four or five times more material than The Beatles, and it will probably all be available.
Erm.....Old Brown Shoe said all of the above.....
