Dylan's bootlegs are great. Bootleg series volume 4- the version of visions of johanna is soooo awesome. I like volume six but I think the song choice could have been improved. I love dylan more than anything and all my friends just don't understand.

Oh yes. Every bootleg I hear..They're all so amazing.
My father always told me the Basement Tapes were horrible..
..I think they are pleasant as can be! :]

The Basement Tapes are about the loosest and unself-counscious you can ever hear Dylan.  Garth's organ is pretty cool throughout.  Too bad these two couldn't get together to make a record for old times.  "Crash on the Levee" is a perfect example: the version on Greatest Hits II is very respectable, if not austere, but the version on Basement Tapes is goofy and downright spooky at the same time.  Some blues phantoms were visiting Big Pink.

I think I must be one of the only people in the world who likes the Dylan album from 1973. I think his version of Big Yellow Taxi is great.

Dylan has so many Bootlegs around, is quite amazing at times!

What do you guys think of his 1978 release Street Legal?

I like his version of "If Not For You"  

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What do you guys think of his 1978 release Street Legal?

I like "Senor" and "Changing Of The Guard." I think it was first record after 1975's Desire and his marriage had ended in the interim, which perhaps explains the record's mood. It's a patchy album, but more good than bad.

My gf has gotten me into Dylan since she sent me all of her favorite songs by him  

I just bought the new 'Dylan' box set. Very nice. My only Dylan album!

Live version of "Hurricane", my favorite Dylan song  

I just got "Modern Times" from the library and bunged it on my walkman (how 21st century am I.) It's ok, funny in places, but my initial thoughts are that it's dissapointing. But then again I suppose he has the same dilema (sp) as Macca - he's already changed the course of popular culture once and nothing is going to match that.

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But then again I suppose he has the same dilema (sp) as Macca - he's already changed the course of popular culture once and nothing is going to match that.

Bloody good point. It's late, and I shall respond more tomorrow, but that's possibly a thread in the making!

OMG!!!!!! I'm going to see Dylan in May! I waited in line for four hours to get tickets, but it was worth it!!! They are great tickets, too- sixth row!

Sorry for my over-use of exclamation points but I'm just soooooo excited!

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But then again I suppose he has the same dilema (sp) as Macca - he's already changed the course of popular culture once and nothing is going to match that.

Yeah, and he's trapped by now long preconceived notions of what a "Dylan" record is supposed to be like. Everybody thinks "Blonde On Blonde" or "Freewheelin'." He's stuck with the public image he had at the time he made his biggest impact, and the same is true of The Beatles of course: whenever newspapers over here do a story about them, it's the 1964 image, complete with "moptop" cliche that's most likely to be rolled out.